Freshman binges
for big bucks
( Hung to tlu- cafeteria with < )ric Ito
can Ik' quite a spectator event
\ recent dinner with the Williams
Baptist ( ollcge treshman demonstrat
cd what friends call her “very large
stomach." In a mere halt an hour, the
2 1 year old consumed halt a t hicken,
three plates of spaghetti, a howl of
( iHoa Putts mixed with Special k. a
serving ot green I leans, a salad, an ice
cream cone and a glass tit iced tea. (Ito
also mentions that an hour earlier, she
ate a large hamburger at a fast food
restaurant.)
Most people with this propensity tor
eating would he worried about the
treshman I,MX). But for this 4 foot
II inch, l()s-|x>und student, eating is
not only guiltless it’s profitable.
1
Orla Ito demonstrate* her dtfesttv* prowess
Itn's voluminous appetite has won her
more than Ss.(NM) plus prizes
Strangely, Ito doesn't think her
appetite is all that extraordmarx
"I sen.one else thinks it s a lugger ileal
(than 1 do|, she says
\t I'h ltd started entering contests
m Japan anil reigned undefeated tor
almost two tears Site eanve to
\ineru j to study in 1WI, and last
October, Ito competed m a hot dog
eating contest in Skew York Ito faced
down Mtke Devito, a JtMI p«iund New
Worker, and lost b\ a mere two hot
dogs (Slu sais the hot dog turns were
loo Idling to make tor good contest
results.) She did, however, down 10
dogs in It) minutes ami take home
SMM) tor her digestive teat
l nlortunately, Ito says that she's
retiring trout contests because she is
getting older and not able to cat as
mm h as she once did. \tter busing a
motorcycle with her winnings, she lias
se Itlcki tl own to her studies, eating tor
sustenance and recreation only
Ito did mention, however, that "It
the money was big enough, retirement
would end " ■ Warahcth I I cl)uc,
llftr lonh, W illiams Baptist ( ollcgc
Green Corps turns graduates into environmental leaders
I hree years ago, Parker Blackman
was green He was developing an
interest m the environment, hut didn’t
have a lot of ex|x.Tiencc in the field.
1 hen the I WO graduate of Stanford
l found out about Green Corps
Now, after graduating from the corps,
he's working tor the l S Public
Interest Research Croup.
(ireen < orps, an environmental field
school founded in I WO, trains recent
ecdlege graduates to work toward
improving the environment.
"What college graduates find is that
they il on i have the skills to work with
environmental groups, (ireen (dorps
tries to till that gap we are seeking
lo train the next generation of envi
ronmental leaders," savs Kellv Wark,
(ireen ( orps' lead organizer.
I aeh year, (ireen Corps receives
about 1,000 applications tor 20 one
vear positions After a month of class
room instruction, corps members arc
placet! m field training at sites across
the count rv, where thev work on van
oils environmental campaigns \s part
of the campaigns, thc\ meet with
members of Congress, work with the
media and educate the community
I ast year's campaigns focused on
such issues as preservation of the
ancient forests and the reauthori/ation
of the I ndungcred Species \i t I Ins
leal they will also work on issues of
energy efficiency and lead paint pot
soiling
-With more people educating, vou
are one step ahead in motivating and
activating the public," U ark says
Member ( *regg Small, a IWJ gradu
ate of Ifukinsnti College in
Pennsylvania, says, -(environmental
issues arc especially strong with young
people, hut there is also tremendous
concern among citizens m general."
Research, poetry, music
- all in a Day's work
In can't you Ik* more like < arolyn
Day?
U hen you were 1 I. refusing to mow the
lawn and sitting too dose to the television,
the I oilman.i State l sophomore liegan
researching a potential treatment lor an
infection that kills most cystic fibrosis
patients \t I" she found it, and scientists
arc studying her discovery in clinical tests.
“I was lucky in that I came to un
research with little background knowledge
on the subject," Day says. "So I didn't real
i/e I was moving in a direction that scien
tists, because of their previous findings, were saying would
not work."
In her spare tune she gets around to cross country run
ning, (livil War re enactments, antique book collecting,
singing professionally, playing guitar, reading a lx>ok each
night and w riting poetry.
"I absolutely detest living Ixjrcd," she savs
Carotyn Day a Und of batnf calM i tmn
i
s
X
i
Now I , Day is tired of labels
genius, imcllcct, child prodigy “I’m .1
normal person, a normal college stu
dent,” sa\s Day, a microbiology and Ins
tory major.
She has lieen interested in microbiolo
gy since her father, a microbiology pro
lessor at I Si , came to the university in
1But the early age at which she
began her research into pseuJuniunj!
arr/igi//,;.,/ brought some skepticism from
her elders
“A lot of kids are undervalued In
adults, site sa\ •> "Nohody’s going to
take you seriously In-cause of that stigma
attached. ( reativits and mitiatise are sti
lied."
Dav has opted to pursue a career in
research instead of practicing medicine, and plans to earn a
doctorate of philosophy or a medical degree, and to "broad
en out” her research pursuits.
“I have the feeling that anyone can do what they want to
do," she sa\s “It |ust dc|>cnds on whether you're interested.
\ ou have to like what you do " ■Jim Kadosta, I hr
(irapbk, Peppcrdinc l'.
(irccn < nrps helps its graduates find
M'hs hv writing letters of rev ommenda
turn and serving as a ilata base for
positions m the environmental field
Some recent graduates have found |ol>s
with (irecnpeaee, the National
W ildlifc I ederation, the Sierra ( luh
and the Western Vncicnt forest
< ampatgn
io receive a (irccn Corps applica
lion, i all (215) «2‘< ThO or (61?) 42t>
H'06 ■ Yvette Cabrera, I hr
(kculrnttfl. Occ idental ( ollcgc
Short Takes
& Updates
AND NEXT. “DOGS RUSTING POKER... ’
UNIVERSITY Ml*. PENN. - Wine and
cheese at the opening of Pennsylvania
State U's new art exhibit? Try Cheese
Whiz, Spam hois d oeuvres and red dye
punch
This was the menu for the black velvet
paintings exhibit, on display recently at
the Zoller Gallery Titled “The Art We
Love to Hate," the exhibit included ren
derings of John Wayne. Elvis, family pets
and Jesus We had people in here who
had never been to the gallery before,'
says Cmdi Morrison, gallery director
As for the exhibit opening Morrison
mentions. "We did have some fruit too
We weren't totally bad '
couch ronrocs for hire
VANCOUVER. MUTISM COUMMU The first
school of video game programming will
begin reviewing applicants in June tor its
September opening DigiPen Applied
Computer Graphics School will accept
high school graduates and/or college
students for its two year program
But the school is looking for more than
Stoner Nintendo addicts - courses will
include algebra, algorithms, probability
and statistics
DigiPen will review applicants on the
basis of an entrance exam, reference let
ters, grade transcripts and work experi
ence No mention was made of reviewing
their high scores in Mortal Kombat
BiOWN OUT OF PROPORTION
HOOTTOM. TEXAS After finding what they
believed to be a bomb in an arts building,
the U of Houston canceled classes and
called In a bomb squad But they found
that the "bomb" was nothing more than a
discarded art project created for a sculp
ture class
According to university spokesperson
Fran Howell, the creator was fulfilling an
assignment requiring the creation of a
tool. 'He decided to do tools of a revolu
tion as opposed to a hammer or some
thing,” Howell says
The student was issued a student life
referral for the incident 'He had quite a
bit of contact with people in uniform as a
result of this,” Howell says "The police
want people to realise something like this
is taken very seriously '
HERTS ONE FOR YOUR TRANSCRIPT
CMMUJL ML - Oregon State U s Food
Science and Technology department
offers an overview class titled "The
Maraschino Cherry." which will be “a
focal point for demonstrating the roles of
the many disciplines intrinsic to food sci
ence and technology " The class is worth
one credit and will meet 10 times
Professor Ron Wrolstad comments
"In the first day of class, we had two pro
fessors emeritus come and talk about the
history of the maraschino cherry and
how it developed I think the students
were fust awed to have these professors
there'
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