Oregon Daily
MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1994
EUGENE. OREGON
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 82
Freshmen start career planning
COUNSELING: Service
sees more first-year students
trying to map out the future
By Jade Chan
fty Oregon / m^rata
Typical freshmen have enough to
deal with — living on their own for
the first time, balancing school with
work and play, and tolerating obnox
ious roommates in Yugo-sized living
spaces.
Add to those trials the question of
what exactly they will do upon grad
uation, and the result can be fresh
men running around and tearing their
hair out over how to use this higher
education that they've just started
Instead of building a mental insti
tution for freshmen on the verge of a
nervous breakdown, the University's
Career Planning and Placement Ser
vice (CPPS) in Room 244 Hendricks
provides these hapless souls with
information about c areer choir «*s and
job opportunities
Lately, CPPS staff have noticed
more and more freshman walking in
and familiarizing themselves with the
resources that it has to offer so that
they know where to go and what to
do when the time comes to change
from student to job seeker.
It's not as though we re getting our
doors btwten down by freshmen." said
Uirry Smith, director of (TPS. "But I
believe there's more interest in stu
dents to start their career search ear
ly.
"Typically, freshmen don't lose
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bers Street under the guidance ot Craig O’Neil Three houses were moved from the corner of Broadway and Alder.
UNIVERSITY
New call-in show
on KWVA radio
airs on Sundays
PROGRAMS: Campus station otters
students chances to be involved
by Daniel West
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KVVVA. < nmpus radio, has added new programs
to tin* Iirump
One now show, "Campus Id Ik.” airs Sundays
from 14 p m It's a call-in show with a panel of
campus leaders The show features Hobby las*, for
mer AM !() President, lake Herg. editor of the f iller
a Id. and Owen Itrennan Rounds, chairman of the
Commentator.
The panel discusses issues facing students and
the state and federal government in a way that
applies to University interests
Some past topics for programs have lieon How
Incidental Fee Committee oporates. and wlm h state
government officials and programs support stu
dents
"The purpose for u call-in show is for direct
input.' saui James Pierson, general manager of
KVVVA "People who have questions cull in and
can get an immediate, direc t response
Pierson said this form of programming is more
interactive than other media, such as print "It's
spontaneous and challenging." he said
Although KVVVA is a small, noncommercial radio
station, they don't fear the competition of larger,
commercial stations They believe that the audi
ence comes from two completely different Fields
"I think that KIH IK is garbage radio and 1 don't
see them as competition." Pierson said. "Fverv sta
lion except this one is run hv middle t lass older,
white men They don't know what's going on. on
campus We're a part of it (campus)
The main feature that makes KVVVA unique is
the many wavs students i an take advantage of the
station Pierson said that KVVVA is a non-com
inert nil station that doesn't have to please the
advertisers
The campus station is trying to stay in tune with
what student listeners want to hear and is offering
the opportunity for all student groups to get
involved and to learn how to run a radio program
Ya Hasta is a program that airs Sundays from
noon to t p in "Ya Hasta means 'enough.' kick track
and relax." saitl Flvia Aguilar, a disc jockey for the
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Amazon housing’s fate
to be decided in spring
DECISIONS: Fix old or
start building fresh
By Heatherie Himes
- vegon Daily tiiMXakJ
The KVAL television news
crew shined several hundred
vvutts of light on Dan Williams,
pointed a camera at him and
asked if he could explain in 15
seconds the conclusions and
recommendations page of the
Amazon engineering study
released Friday afternoon.
Williams, who as Vice Presi
dent of Administration will
soon decide the future of Ama
zon Family Housing, took a
deep breath and tried to explain
the study in 15 seconds.
He discovered that a thorough
explanation can t be contained
in a sound bite
There are loo many issues
involved.
Similarly, Amazon residents
who are part of the board that
commissioned the report say
that they don't think that the
entire findings of the survey can
be summarized adequately in a
page of conclusions.
Endex Engineering Inc. c on
cluded that extensive renova
tion of existing Amazon
buildings or constructing new
buildings will cost the Universi
ty about the same per unit, and
recommended that the Universi
ty build new units.
But the conclusions don't
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^ SALEM (AP) — Nobody
won the $1.25 million jackpot
Saturday night in the Oregon
Lottery's Megabucks lotto
game, pushing the estimated
jackpot to $1.5 million for
Wednesday's drawing.
Spokeswoman Judy Trebel
hom said 15 tickets bearing five
of the six winning numbers wen*
sold, worth $1,187 apiece when
redeemed at the lottery's office
in Salem in person or by mail.
She said 614 tickets bearing
four winning numbers were
sold, good for $25.90 each at any
Megabucks dealer.
»• LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
AIDS drama Philadelphia
stayed atop the t>ox office
heap, barely nudging out the
cross-dressing comedy Mrs.
Douhtfire in a surprisingly
busy movie going weekend.
Both movies earned about
$<t.l million, with Philadelphia
taking in a few thousand dollars
more than Mrs Douhtfire.
according to early industry esti
mates. Final figures will be
available Monday.
The weekend's overall turn
stile tally was I letter than oxfMst
ed.
"Business is surprisingly gixnl
considering the theaters are
closed (localise of the cold in the
Fast and the earthquakes here."
said John Krier of Exhibitor
Relations Co. Inc., which tracks
(>ox office performance.
In third was the Richard Gere
Sharon Stone film Intersection
with $H.2 million, followed l>v
Grumpy Old Men in fourth with
Sfi.l million and Iron Will in
fifth with S4.1 million
The Pelican Uriel was sixth
with S3.9 million.
Schindler's Ijst. the gripping
Holocaust film that got the laist
drama picture award at Satur
day night's Golden Globe
awards, was seventh with $3.4
million on just 343 screens
A few thousand dollars sep
arated the rest of the top 10.
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Jen
nie Garth hopes Beverly Hills.
90210 co-star Shannon Doher
ty's bad-girl image doesn’t rub
off on her.
“1 don't live Shannon’s
lifestyle,” Garth says in the Jan.
20 TV Guide.