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It is also the year a new Peace Corps recruiter will begin work at the University Career Center. Richard Reece will replace for mer recruiter Laura Taylor as a Peace Corps campus liaison. “We’re real excited,” Career Center Director Larry Smith said. “Laura was terrific and she’ll be extraordinarily difficult to re place. But we’re very happy with our selection.” Reece will join the University community in September follow ing the completion of a four-year Peace Corps stint in the Philip pines. Along with his Peace Corps work, Reece will work toward at taining a masters degree in plan ning, public policy and manage ment. “Richard will be responsible for providing accurate informa tion to University students about Peace Corps opportunities,” Smith said. Other duties will in clude coaching students on ways they can improve their potential for selection and coordinating quarterly recruiting campaigns. The University boasts a strong Peace Corps program, Nancy Chartrand, Peace Corps public af fairs specialist, said. “This campus is number five of all colleges and universities in terms of producing volunteers,” she said. “Obviously we’ve gotten a lot of volunteers. It says a lot about the faculty and students here.” Smith said Peace Corps pre sents a number of opportunities to students who want to try living abroad. “The terrific thing is that 25 to 30 percent of our students would love to have an international ex perience of some kind,” he said. “Those who are very serious visit the Peace Corps recruiter. We have the tradition where fresh men are learning what they need to do to be very competitive. That’s part of the reason of our success.” Currently there are 55 Univer sity students serving in the Peace Corps. Crash: Witnesses report seeing fireball ■ Continued from Page 1 “It came down for a few seconds and all of a sud den burst into flames, a big ball of flame, and it just started to rotate around," Fehner said. Jason Fontana, a cook at John Scott’s Raw Bar in Westhampton Beach, said “it looked like a big fire ball with pieces coming off of it. You heard two big explosions, like two big firecrackers going off, just be fore sunset.” Sapp said there was a report of life rafts floating in the water after the explosion. Six helicopters, three Coast Guard cutters, a Navy P-3 rescue plane were among the units dispatched and the Navy plane was dropping additional life rafts. The National Transportation Safety Board was pulling together a team to send to the scene of the crash TWA Flight 800 off the waters of Long Island. President Clinton was briefed Wednesday night about the crash, but the White House issued no for mal statements. Brenner said the plane was a Boeing 747-100, an early model of the giant airliner, first produced in 1970. It can carry as many as 450 passengers. The crash was the second major airline disaster in slightly more than two months, following the May 11 crash in Florida of a Valujet DC-9. All 110 people aboard that plane died when it crashed into Florida’s Everglades. The deadliest air disaster in U.S. history came in 1979 when a DC-10 crashed on takeoff at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, killing 273. Funding: Supplemental grants go to some ■ Continued from Page 1 Oregon Need Grant. The grants awarded are determined by the individual’s financial need and the kind of school the student at tends. Allocations are smallest for stu dents at community colleges and are largest for students at private colleges. Schools in the Oregon State System of Higher Education, such as the University of Oregon, fall in the middle range. A Uni versity student can receive as much as $1,056. However, only students at pri vate schools are eligible for a sup plemental grant, which can in crease their total state grant amount to as high as $3,228. Thousands of public school students who apply and are eligi ble for the grant do not receive one because the basic need grant fund is so underfunded, OSL Leg islative Director Tamara Dyke man said. “It’s not an issue of private school students versus public school students,” she said. “State money should be available to all of Oregon’s students, no matter where they attend.” During the 1995-96 school year, 1,645 University students were awarded the basic need grant. However, ASUO President Matt Scotten said University students are still losing out. “When you take $3 million that could go to our students out of the pot, naturally it affects us,” he said. “I would encourage the State Scholarship Committee to roll that money back into the general fund and spread it out so it’s available to more students.” The OSL is currently working with the SSC in an effort to edu cate them about the discrepancy, Dykeman said. The SSC will vote on its budget recommendations on August 9 at Marylhurst College south of Lake Oswego. The recommendations will then be passed on to Gover nor Kitzhaber. The ASUO Student Senate has met twice during the summer term to approve three special re quests. They are as follows: ■ The Philosophy Club re ceived a line-item transfer of $54 and a transfer from surplus of $62. The money will be used to cover the club’s overspending for a speaker. ■ The ASUO Executive re ceived $520 from the surplus fund to pay for a photocopier maintenance contract. ■ The Senate granted permis sion for $11,567.66 to be removed from the Unappropriated Reserve Fund. The University owes the money to Lane Transit Depart ment for student bus passes, as the original student head count was incorrect. The next Senate hearing will take place July 31 at 5 p.m. — compiled by Kristin Bailey COCtOWL RE5F-AHCH Eugene’s Newest Gathering Place Hit DOC’S PAD SPORTS GRILL & BAR BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT DINING MICRO BREWS AND FULL BAR POOL TABLES & DARTS Satellite Sports Families Welcome! DOC’S PAD 165 W. 11TH .EUGENE ■ 683-8101
