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 Turn to FRESHMEN Page 4 Mobile home L - ANThC’NV i f City employees raise utility wires as John Bergland drives a house around the comer ot 18th Avenue and Cham 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 QfvQGti [kitty t mtvaid 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 Turn to RADIO. Page 4 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 Turn to AMAZON, Page 4 j GOOD MORNING HIGH ■O 55' l O v 40' l O w ( kO ^ 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 $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.