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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1995)
New copy shop finds niche near University Ben Moebius Oregon t mmara The small copy *hop that hits moved in m-xt to Blue Heron Bicycles on East nth Avenue doe* not intend to fill the large shoes of the Kinko* Copies store that left months ago "We hope to provide convenient, easy copy ser vices for students." said Stephanie Talbott, the only full-time employee of Copies Too1 “We real ly don't have the space to handle the kind of high tech stuff that Kinko's did," she said pointing to the narrow interior of the store According to Talbott, the owners of the shop hope the location, right next to i am pus, will make it a popular place for students and professors to get transparent ins. bindings, resumes and t opies The shop opened Feb Hi, later than planned because of the unexpected snowfall, Talbott said Copies Too! houses seven self service t opy machines, one full service t opy machine and fax services "The fax is one of our more popular items." Talbott said, "We have very competitive international rates ' Business started out slow. but has ph ki d up in the few weeks the shop has been open. Talbott said "We are set hat k from the sidewalk." she saitl. “so it is easy !ur people to miss us We rely on word-of-mouth exposure " Talbott and the one other employ**** of the shop. Univeralty student Javier Cervantes, hnve put up r»*on pink signs to try to draw people's attention "We are having it reel wooden sign made It should !>e here soon," she said Janette Johnson, a University student who has visited the copy shop a few times, said she likes "the convenient, no-hassle atmosphere of the plm.e ” “I am usually in a hurrv." she said, "so I like to gel m* copies quick and get out " Talbott said the shop is focused on m i otnmo dating students like Johnson “We want to try to keep it simple, she vud “We are open king hours so students can come in before or after classes " Copies fool is open Monday through Friday from 7 it) am to B CM) pm It is not open weekends yet Talbott said the owners are trying to decide if there is a need for the shop to be open on week ends We are going to have a questionnaire to ask (veople what services they want," she said We are open to expanding in whatever dir** tion our cut* tomers want us to " Talbott said she likes working in the University neighborhood "This is a great people watching spot." she said "It is very entertaining down here " ItS iAC* T Kt <«**4*3 Stephanie Talbott, an employee of the newly opened Copies Too!, helps Lamece Baligh, a graduate sociology student University graduate creates twists in Superman series Natasha Shepard Or&gon Dotty t'mefOkt It's May 17, i960, and some thing's not quite right in Small villo. A rorjuit shoots across tin* Z A BEL sky and lands in a cornfield. Two local resident s. Jonathan and Martha Kent, pull over and look for the rocket, find ing a baby boy inside. In the original superman, mo Minis assume the baby thoy'vo found is an alien, sent from space with superpowers But in Bryce Zabel’s version, the Kents, living during the space race, assume Clark is an experiment, launched into space by the Russians. That's part of Zabel'a tech tuque If you < .til l do it first. do it different Zahel, University graduate and original supervising pro ducer of the AIM i series Utts and Cdark The S’t'w Adventures of Superman, said in a Tuesday news conference he enjoyed being able to put new twists into the Superman legend "If you can't be unique, you've got to at least be differ ent," Xu be I said. After graduating from the Uni versity. Zabel began his career in journalism as a reporter and anchor at KVAl.-TV in 1*176 Me returned to Kugene to speak to classes around campus about the television industry before ho loci an Oregon Film and Video Foundation woik shop in Portland on Saturday He made national news when he was fired for being a "poten tial breach of security" after he became engaged to an anchor woman at it competing station Though he and the ant hor woman never married. ht* did viiv tht< e\|Hirience fort «tl him to look for other opportunities and taught him to move on “One thing I know from Hol lywood writing is that you have to learn that things end," Zabel sanl “Shows get canceled Things clash." In addition to Lois and Clark. /.a bid's experiences have included writing scripts for other TV series, sot h <is L-t Uin. t'qual Justice and Ijfe Goes On After leaving lugene. Zabel worked briefly in Tut sou Then he bet ame the Cable News Net work's first news correspondent ill the Los Angeles News Bureau when tint new-, network went on the air in lOJiO. As tin* "original CNN news correspondent." Zahol .went from local reporting to covering the campaign trail "I got whiplash,” Zaire I saitl. I was used to Iih at reporting It was a hig transition going from lix al nows to going on the cam (Mign trail " After fatting uttve produc er on tin' lia series M . \ V I I .S', /al«i is working on a series about UFO*. I kirk Skies In addition to his now projo< i. Zabei wrote a 1993 Sci-Fi Chan ni!I movn* Official Denial, also about UFOs Zabei said hi* |ournali*in bat kground helped him in writ ing dramas Us ause he mot "sev eral thousand* of people, most of thorn in crisis situations'' Hut unlike journalism, when « reporter usually can't holp tho pooplo in need, a screenwriter can resolve the problem, he stud 'lit journalism, vou write about people but usually can't fix their problems," Zabei said. ■'Hut when you .write dramas, you can give people a terrible problem and then fix it It's sort Russian choir sing classical songs about culture Trista Noel Oregon cx&ly f metakl With a shared interest in Russian culture, a divers*) group of vocalists comes togeth er to learn folk and classical Russian songs as they participate in the Russian Choir, The Russian Choir is made up of Uni versity students and members of the com munity. the youngest member of the group is 1H and the oldest is H2 Irma Wilborn. a native of Moscow, uses enthusiasm and energy to encourage the choir members to sing even the most awk ward Russian phrases beautifully Interest in singing Russian songs is lim ited, but Wilborn knows where to look She recruits members for the choir by vis iting University Russian language classes and various church choirs Mike Johnson, a University student studying music composition, is one of her recruits Johnson's Russian teacher gave Wilborn his number Johnson has been with the choir for about a month and occa sionally plays liis guitar as accompani ment to the choir. Outside of the choir Johnson is the lead singer for The American Curls, a local band that he said plays “British indie pop.” Kristin Kjome is a University student doing her graduate work in education, she received her undergraduate degree in Russian at a Minnesota university Kjome is interested in teaching Russian and was doing some practicum in a University Russian ( lass when Wilborri visited Kjome said she liked lo sing and dts id od to give the Russian Choir a try Kjonie has been in the choir since fall term “I've seen a lot of turnover." Kjome said "There were a lot of students last term that didn't come back this term." Wilburn understands the time con straints many students face, though. "Students take precious time from school to come, she said 'And i always think. ‘Wow. thin come Wilburn is a dedicated instructor, and the members of the choir have a lot of respect for her. “Irina is a very good mush ian." choir member Tony Mulder said "She'll help you individually whenever you want Mulder and his w ife recently joined the choir His wife has wanted him to sing for a long time This being the first choir he has joined. Mulder faces the challenge of learning both to read music and pro nounce Russian. The Russian Choir rehearses each Thursday from 7 to ') p m at the Univer sity Street Christian Church The choir breaks ofter an hour for orange slices, brie and bread, and tea and coffee. You won't catch Wilbom taking a break, though, she is always rehearsing with some part of the choir, he it the women, the basses or the entire group. With each song. Williom focuses first on pronunciation and tempo. Then she emphasizes the details of the songs, like a crest undo or a < ertain phrase Promt nun lion is important to Wilborn. but so is the story liohind eat li song Although the vocalists slowly learn the meanings of the individual Russian words in the songs, questions about translations and Certain word meanings do arise John son asked what one Word meant in a song they were working on Wilborn told them tt meant "a spot ial kind of grass You understand'" she said with a grin and a wink Sometimes the difficult Russian words detract from the song's melody Wilhorn then has the choir hum their parts The humming is hoc hauling; the choir under stand the music So Wilborn has them sing the words The Russian mars the sound they had just achieved "You create a wonderful mood |with hummingl and then " she exaggerates their blunt singing This causes laughter, but VVilltom has made her point The < hoir sings again, and the beauty of the song returns The Russian Choir will l>e performing March 11) at i 10 p m in Gerlinger Lounge The choir will begin the txmeert by singing Most uw Nights," a song perhaps known better to Amerit arts as the theme song to the videogame Tetris Wilborn explained that 'Moscow Nights" is a symbol of Sovi el and American friendship. "it's our flag song." she said of a t lod i nmplox " Another of /abel's "Top 10 1 .itl" of things fir -. learned about writing in Hollywood Is "rip off your own lift* (but make il sound lietterl" For instance. an episode of tin* Canadian irrms /• N G . involvos ■i cameraman who is captured by robbers wbiltt looking for n story, a plot based loosely tin sod on /altol's real life Other similarities in /abel's life and his i harm tors include the fat I Superman was found on May 17. /.abel's birthday The main < harm ter in M S 7 I S was also "mini tdentally" born on May 17 Zalxil tied his news reporting hat kground in to writing Litis and Clark, where the plot some times revolves around various emergencies in the newsroom. “Your writing is better the closer you are to the original source," /.abet said "It's going to tie Itetter the i loser you are to the experience." STROKE Continued from Page 1 years lo get a drug on the mar ket and from start to finish, up to $10(1 million." Ktuinn said Mo said AC1.A 102 1 is three yours into tho process Mis rosonri.h began with a phono i iill from fi knrtl Wohor. thou an (Jregon lloalth and Si i one os University professor, the two have boon involved in researching on anti-stroke drug over sinc e Their resenrt h has prompted two experimental neuroprotec live agents, Iwith designed to pre vent t oll death through different proc esses Cerestat is a drug to stop the influx of c alc nun inside the neu ron* of the brain Too rnui h c al i mm in the brain c an he detrimental A< TA 1021 is a drug to bloc k glyc mo which prevents glutamate* from opening too many c bnnnels in the brain which t an also he harmful The two drugs will lie in com petition w ith one another if thnv Iwith make it to the market. Reana said Cerestat has some side effec is that A(TA 1021 tltH*s not have Currently, Cerostat is in plueie two of human research, which includes testing patients in stroke centers across the country.
