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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Volume 98, Issue 4 TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1996 INDEX Editorial News Digest Sports Classifieds Horoscope Crossword cm « w » <o fv TODAY Individual Duck football game tickets are now available at the Casanova Center. INSIDE Over the years, women have gained increasing re spect at the Olympic Games Hurricane Bertha slams into the Virgin Islands with winds that gusted to 103 mph WEATHER Sunny and warm. High 75. Low 55. mm Expanded bottle bill reaches the November ballot ■ MEASURE: Opposition comes primarily from grocers who deal with recyclable materials By Andrea De Young Associate Editor People who make ends meet from month to month by taking in empty cans may be getting a Little bit richer in the future. An ex panded bottle-refund bill is officially on the November ballot, much to the satisfaction of some people and to the chagrin of others. Twenty-five years ago, Oregon became the first state to make a law requiring cans and bottles from carbonated drinks such as beer and soda to be worth a five-cent re fund. But since then, the beverage market has seen new products such as juice boxes and non-carbonated drinks in bottles such as Snapple. The Oregon State Public Inter est Research Group wants to see these prod ucts be part of the law. The group collected 105,000 signatures in order to put the bill on the ballot. So now the issue is up to the voters. But as simple as the issue may seem, there are people who believe that the expansion of the bot tle bill may be too much of a hassle. Sue McGwire, owner of the Alder Street Market, has dealt with taking dirty, sticky cans and bottles, boxing them up and keep ing them until a recycling truck takes them away. Although she says she supports recy cling, she thinks there should be a better way to do it. “The bottle bill shouldn’t have been in the markets in the first place,” McGwire said. “We should have set it up in recycling centers. We process them, take them in and clean them up. We get nothing for it.” Small markets like Alder Street say they have little room for the storage of the bottles and cans they are currently receiving, and Turn to MEASURE, Page 4 Lost upright recovered .•■•:■• ••• . s "Ji-.:.■:/.■/„■■.■: .. .. .,. ., . . I. . . .. ■ .. .. /. ... :> •/'■:■ J/. ■■■;■■ .{»: VKi&VM, ANDREW BRACKENSICK/Emerald After years of mystery, the missing upright is found. Pieces of an old Autzen stadium upright are shown here after being recovered Monday afternoon. It was found on top of the Collier House and had to be cut in three pieces to be removed from the roof. Carved into the upright are the initials of those who removed it and numbers 28-23. The upright was taken from Autzen stadium after the 1990 football game against UCLA which Oregon actually won by a score of 28-24. IntroDUCKtion primed for new students ■ ORIENTATION: Student staffers are gearing up for the influx of freshman at the summer registration sessions By Kristin Bailey Associate Editor It’s that time of year again — a time when incoming freshman flock to the University for academic advising and class registration, and established University students try to help them out. IntroDUCKtion 1996 kicks off Thursday, and organizers say they’re ready for the on slaught of 2,600 students and 1,700 parents who will make their way to Eugene during the seven registration sessions. “I had such a great IntroDUCKtion experi ence," said David Mathews of the Student Orientation Staff. “I wanted to give some thing back. Hopefully the new students won’t be as scared when they leave Intro DUCKtion. I’m hoping this helps put people on the right foot at the University.” The 14-member SOS team and their three student orientation directors have been planning the annual sessions, six for fresh men and one for transfer students, since win ter term. Their job descriptions include ac quainting the new students with the University community and helping parents Turn to ORIENTATION, Page 4 Quirky college scholarships provide funding for those in the know ■ ENDOWMENTS: Untapped billions are available for the right university candidates By Helen O’Neill Associated Press Writer Growing up in Michigan, Michele Schimento’s right-handed brothers loved to tease their kid sis ter about her squiggly, upside down writing and the funny way she clutched a baseball bat. But “little lefty” sis had the last laugh when her scorned hand turned golden. It won her a scholarship to a pri vate Pennsylvania college she could never have afforded as a run of-the-mill “righty” and pointed the way to a post-graduate degree and career. Juniata’s gem is one of thousands of oddball endowments scattered around the country. Many of these billions of dollars in private funds go untapped because people sim ply don’t know the money is there — for the right candidate. No wonder. The right candidate for one scholarship could be an overweight high school senior from New England, for another a teetotal ing, non-smoker from Pennsylvania who loathes sports. For a time, it was a “lady of the night ” from Seattle. That short lived educational adventure stemmed from a judge’s efforts to clear Seattle’s streets by providing prostitutes with the financial incen tive to trade night work for college courses. To be eligible, however, the women had to have been convicted and acknowledge it on their appli cation — one likely reason the scholarship bombed. But other weird and wonderful routes to higher education abound. Of course, to get the money you must abide by the rules, which can be specific. Take the Gertrude J. Deppen scholarship at Bucknell University Turn to ENDOWMENTS, Page 4 WACKY SCHOLARSHIPS ■ The Francis Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Fund: $500-$5,00Q to a stu dent who has caddied three years for a Massachusetts golf dub. ■ The International Boar Semen Scholarship: $500 to Future Farmers of America who want to study swine management ■ The New England chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: $500 to college-bound high school seniors who are fat ■ The John Gatling Scholarship, named for the inventor of the Gatling gun, an early machine gun: full scholarship to North Carolina State Uni versity to students named Ga“>ng or Gatlin. ■ The Joseph Bulova School in the New York City borough of Queens offers a $15,000 scholarship to disabled foreign students who want to study watchmaking. ■ The Billy Barty Foundation, established by the 3-foot, 9-inch actor whose movie credits include “Willow" and “Rumpelstiltskin,’' gives $2,000 scholarships to “students of short stature.”
