Pasadena
awaits influx
of football
enthusiasts
Entertainment: Many activi
ties await Duck fans and stu
dents prior to the Rose Bowl
Amy Columbo
Oregon 0#*jy IrrwaKt
Pasadena can smell the greenbnt ks.
With more than 100.000 seats to fill for
the Penn state vs. University of Oregon
showdown on January l, the city will
have an influx of fans with money to
bum.
The Rose Him! is one ot the biggest
tourism events for the city of more than
110,000 people.
I lit? city has
2.275 motel
rooms. 530 restau
rants, shopping
areas galore,
movie theaters,
art galleries and
night life enter
tainment. Pasade
na is gearing up
for the big gome.
Kate Dolan,
office manager of
the Pasadena
Convention & Vis
itors minimi, rocommenueci a visit to utu
Town Pasadena, what she describes as
"the core of the city." A fourteen block
historic area located in the western sec
tion of the city. Old Town has a plethora
of shopping, art galleries, restaurants and
bars to attract tourists.
"It's the fiest place to go for students.”
she said. "That's probably where they
will spend most of their time,'*
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Student charges
football player
with assault
Violence: Student claims he
was harassed by defensive end
A University student is charging Ore
gon defensive etui Mark Schmidt with
SCHMIDT
QbMiuii unu Harass*
ment following an
incident at East nth
Avenue early Satur
day morning
According to
police reports, the
student received a
broken nose from
the suspect shortly
after midnight Both
the alleged victim
and the suspect.
who injured his hand during the inci
dent, wore taken to Sacred Heart lamer
al Hospital
A hospital spokeswoman said Schmidt
was treated and released at Sacred
Heart's emergency room.
The student said he was walking with
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Stephen Onaciea, coordinator ot the library'* copy center, has been asked to reduce hla collection or plastic toys.
Out in the cold
Figurines: A Knight Library
employee has been ordered
to reduce size of his exhibit
Amy Columbo
Qrvgan Oarfy t'motM
Stephen Onaclea is never lonely He
is joined by somewhere in the ballpark
of 400 plastic figures • the like* of
which can lie purchased at toy stores
or received as happy meal prizes • in
his office at the Knight Library Copy
Service,
Onaclea, coordinator of the copy
service, has all kinds of figurines- From
an Incredible Hulk with green bulging
muscle* to a blue Cupid Smurf,
complete with an arrow and a ruby red
heart. Onaclea has a variety of familiar
faces. He even ha* Mac Tonight on a
surfboard and the Disney character*
Beauty and the Beast.
These toy* have spilled from behind
the partitions surrounding his desk to
the tops of file cabinets, cupboards and
This plastic
figurine la ona
of mora than
400 toys
Stephan Ons
ets# has been
ashed by
library officials
to remove.
bulletin boards. Onaclea decorated the
copy service for customers; he said he
wanted to make it a fun. less business
like environment.
But library officials have given
Dnadea until today to scale back on
the size of the public display. Andrew
Bonatuici, assistant University
librarian, said it is a matter of
maintaining consistent decoration
throughout the building
Onacloa's hobby started out as a way
to keep himself occupied while talking
on the telephone. He used to have just
a few figurines that sat on his desk.
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■ GOOD MORNING
► BELLEVUE. Wash jAP) — Sometimes when Helen Tay
lor's students at Bellevue Community College suck up, they are
so blatant she laughs out loud
But later, alter they’re gone and she has time to think about
it, she leels a certain warm feeling toward them CM course, she
knows they sucked up And of course, she would never con
sciously let that influence their grades But the warm leelmg
remains
Taylor even has invented a name for it "subtle residual
favorable response ”
And that, according to Taylor and others who study such
things, is (ust the point
Sucking up always works
It may be bad for business, it may make people hate you, but
it will work, they say. It's just a question ot how well it works
And how well you do it As Taylor has learned, no one is
immune to its charms.
Sucking up is nothing new And while it may tool the suckee,
it rarely tools anybody else Machiavelli hit the nail on the head
way back in 1513: "Flatterers are scourges ot the court. Bad
counselors make the prince despised because the tirst impres
sion one gets ot him comes trom the evaluation ot the men
around him "
So why, m view of all that, does sucking up always work?
We all know it when we see it Or like to think we do. Alter
all. sucking up would NEVER work on us
Which is why it always does