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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13,1997
INDEX
Opinion 2
News Digest 4
News 8
Sports 11
Classifieds 14
Crossword 15
TODAY
Don’t forget to correct your
Mortar Board calendar to
say that classes will he in
session on Monday, Feb.
17, President’s Day.
INSIDE
The Oregon women’s basketball team takes on
California tonight at McArthur Court at 7
Knight Library receives a grant to catalogue
Oregon’s newspaper archives on the Internet
6
WEATHER
Kinda wet and cold.
High 50. Low 35.
Footnotes may have to relocate
■ MEETING: The organization’s
lease expires in August, and the
demand for space in the EMU may
force it to move to a new location
By Angie Suchy
Student Activities Editor
The House members of the EMU
Board of Directors made two things clear
at a meeting on Wednesday: the validity
of Footnotes is not the center of debate
THE DECISION
■ WHEN: Wed,
Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.
■ WHERE: EMU
Board Room
■ WHAT:
EMU Board of Di
rectors will review i
the recommenda
tions from this
Wednesday’s meet- j
ing and make a final j
decision
and the House
recommenda
tion is that Foot
notes be guaran
teed a renewal of
its EMU lease,
just not in its
current location.
The House
unanimously
voted to recom
mend to the
EMU Board of
Directors a posi
tion stating:
“Footnotes de
serves to be in
the EMU. The
EMU Board will look to find other space
in the EMU for Footnotes to exist. When
the EMU Board does find space, the
terms and conditions of a new lease will
be negotiated—by the end of the school
year.”
This recommendation will be re
viewed next Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the
EMU Board Room by the EMU Board of
Directors, and a final decision concern
ing Footnotes will be made. The Foot
notes lease expires in August 1997, but
deliberations are currently being made at
the request of Footnotes.
At the Wednesday meeting, Footnotes
representatives spoke about the impor
tance of the University housing the non
profit corporation on campus in order for
the rent to stay relatively low and to pro
vide accessibility for students.
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WENDY FULLER/Emerald
Junior Jenna Bayley sells Footnotes to sophomore Carolyn Struchen. The EMU Board
of Directors met Wednesday to discuss the future of Footnotes’ location.
Kitzhaber
addresses
OSA forum
■ SPEECH: The governors proposed
budget includes a tuition freeze and
increased health care for students
By Chris Kenning
Freelance Reporter
On Wednesday afternoon Governor
Kitzhaber addressed an open forum spon
sored by the Oregon Students Association
lobby. If the governor has his way, tuition
costs will be frozen
at their current level,
something Kitz
haber emphasized
in his speech.
The OSA, a
statewide coalition
of student govern
ment heads which
lobbies for student
advocacy issues, put
on the forum to dis
cuss the Kitzhaber
SDonsored tuition
KITZHABER
freeze. The freeze is part of his proposed
budget, which is currently being debated in
the Legislature.
Kitzhaber called University-level educa
tion “a necessity” for competing in today’s
job market. “We should strive for the ability
to provide every Oregon high school grad
uate an opportunity to attend college,” he
said.
Leslie Grey, a member of the ASUO, said
she welcomed Kitzhaber’s supportive
stance toward the OSA. “He is our
strongest and most vocal ally and puts his
money where his mouth is,” she said.
Governor Kitzhaber said his budget also
includes allocations for a “faculty fund,”
which would universities keep their quality
professors. The budget would also help
more students become eligible for the Ore
gon Health Plan.
In 1995, 4,600 students were removed
Turn to SPEECH, Page 10
Job searchers may want to network outside the Internet
■ WEDNESDAY:
Job searching and
the Internet
■ TODAY:
The traditional job
search
■ FRIDAY:
Businesses and
the job search
■ CAREER: Many counselors suggest
the most effective way to find a job is
still face-to-face communication
By Ben Kwasney
Higher Education Reporter
Using new technology may have made
searching for a job easier, but Career Center
counselors suggest that by no means should
it be the only tool.
Not all companies and industries are In
ternet savvy, so that’s why it’s important to
look at traditional job search strategies in
conjunction with the Internet, said
Lawrence Smith, director of the University
Career Center.
Finding a job through traditional meth
ods can become more personalized than a
computer search, Smith said.
“If I’m interested in an industry that’s not
using this stuff, then the traditional meth
ods are the ones to use,” Smith said.
One strategy often talked about is the
shotgun-letter approach, which he said
doesn’t always work. This approach is sim
ply sending cover letters and resumes to
several companies, and waiting for them to
call you.
“The shotgun letter approach tends to be
pretty ineffective,” he said.
This approach is similar to placing a re
sume in 100 databases on the Internet,
Smith said.
“I discourage students from mass mail
ings,” said Stephanie Paramore, a career
counselor at the career center.
Paramore said a focused and planned job
search strategy will benefit students.
The targeted job search is more valuable
and productive than sending resumes to
numerous potential employers, Smith said.
This still uses methods of the shotgun ap
proach, but it narrows the companies down
by geography and size.
There’s still a better strategy than a tar
geted job search — it’s called networking.
"The most powerful job getting strategy
is networking,” Smith said.
Networking consists of meeting face-to
face with representatives of companies a
student is interested in working for.
Through informational interviews, the per
son can learn more about the company and
become acquainted with employers.
This method is extraordinarily powerful,
he said. Another example of this method
would be to meet someone on an airplane
and start talking to the person and possibly
form a connection for later on.
“One of the best strategies is to network
with people you already know,” Paramore
Turn to CAREER, Page 10
fifi
If I’m interested in
an industry that’s
not using this stuff,
then the
traditional
methods are the
ones to use.
— Lawrence Smith
Career-Center Director