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Sell your books & magazines for Cash Buyers at two locations No appointment needed 768 East 13th 345 1651 525 Willamette 343 4717 Smith Family B o okst o r e Schedule: Teachers train others ■ Continued from Page 1 training teachers to use the Web effectively, and then having them teach others, their program would reach much more than the original 150 participants. “Otherwise, it would be a mas sive number of people to train,” he said. In order to receive the training, the notebook computer and the software, each teacher must com plete an eight-lesson on-line computer course by next spring, submit a final project, complete an outreach training session and train 10 people for a minimum of eight hours. Some of the participants of last year’s teacher computer camp will serve as mentors for this year’s camp. They will grade this year’s participants’ work and make sure they meet require ments. CHAD PATTESON/Emerald Lynn Lary gives Internet hints to Crane Elementary School teacher Lois Lines during the teacher computer camp. UPS: Textbook orders will arrive ■ Continued from Page 1 Federal Express and the Postal Service are shipping a large volume of packages. “Fed-X is telling me to expect up to a 24-hour de lay,” Longworth said. “So far, they’re not too far off schedule.” The University is a regular customer of Federal Express, so packages are being picked up on time, Longworth said. Mail Services sends and receives all U.S. mail for the University. All of the packages are sent through Mail Services, as well. Most Federal Express pack ages are delivered directly to their destinations, but some go through Mail Services. The strike is during a slow time of the year for shipping. Longworth said that for now Mail Ser vices is not overloaded, but that has the potential to change quickly. The University Bookstore is not affected much by the strike, either. “In our situation our major concern is getting the textbooks in,” Coursebook Division Manager Chris Standish said. However, most of the textbook orders are so large that they are shipped by truck to the store, Standish said. Also, the Bookstore primarily uses Roadway Package Service (RPS), a carrier that deals only with commercial accounts. The only orders impacted by the lack of UPS ser vice are from small publishing houses and small or ders, which might not have access to RPS. Problems may arise closer to the beginning of the term, when small reorders are necessary when classes do not order enough books. “The biggest thing is we are far enough away from classes starting that it is not an issue for us,” Williams said. “We’re in hopes that it will solve it self soon.” Schedule: Recreation area will be renovated ■ Continued from Page 1 lion by the Oregon Legislature through the Oregon State System of Higher Education and has tak en a $1 million loan. The project target for total costs is $4.85 mil lion, Miller said. The money is going toward a major remodel of the EMU dining areas, Fishbowl and lower level. A variety of restaurants will be added near the Fishbowl. Construction of the amphithe ater in the courtyard is a separate project through the ASUO. The amphitheater has a budget of $385,000, which came from the Student Senate and the EMU Board. ASUO President Bill Miner said the amphitheater may have higher bids than expected, so alternative funding is being sought. Miner said raising student fees will not be an option. Completion of the amphitheater is scheduled for the coming fall term. “The ASUO is doing everything possible to find out if we’re on track,” Miner said. The ASUO is cooperating with the EMU on construction projects. Miner said he hopes the EMU Breezeway will be open by winter 1998. Other costs with the main EMU project will include the remodel ing of the recreation area on the first floor and renovation of old building utilities. “I’m excited,” Miller said. “1 wish we had more money. We’ve had to cut some significant parts of our project out to meet our bud get.” An entrance on the southeast side of the building into the din ing area was cut, along with a sec ond entrance renovation on the east side toward the residence halls. Renovations of the Cedar Rooms and the Fountain Court open-air area were also cut. £(We’ve had to cut some significant parts of our project out to meet our budget Dusty Miller EMU Director Miller said he is hoping the con struction will finish on schedule. The Nike World Masters Games will be in Eugene August 9,1998, which will bring about 5,000 world-class masters athletes. In turn, families, friends, fans and the press will be in Eugene. This would present a good oppor tunity for the EMU to make mon ey, making it less dependent on student funding. It will also pre pare the EMU for the fall term ar rival of students the following month. Police rescue injured man caught in river ■ RESCUE: The man had a broken arm and was therefore not able to swim to shore By Carl Yeh Associate Editor At around 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, fire and EMS workers were called to help a man who was un able to swim to shore from the middle of the Willamette River near the Autzen Footbridge. “He was basically sitting in the middle of the river on a rock. Had he moved two feet, he would have been completely in the water,” said Sarah Horn brook, a senior majoring in psychology and business who was walking by when the incident occurred. “The man had a broken arm and couldn’t swim ashore safely,” said Jan Power, Eugene public infor mation officer, who read from the public record. “It wasn’t safe for him to swim across, and he was scared to,” she said. “There wasn't an easy way to get him out because the current was too strong,” Hornbrook said. Because of the current, rescue officials used a boat to get the man to shore. “They used an air[-propelled] craft like the ones you see on the Louisiana Bayous,” Hornbrook said, referring to boats that use large air fans to propel themselves. Hornbrook also noted that there were many peo ple in the area who ignored the man’s plea for help. “When we first walked by, we heard this guy cry ing and wailing ‘somebody help me, somebody please help me,”' Hornbrook said. “But people wouldn’t help him,” she said. “Rafts were going by, but they wouldn’t help him. People would ride by on the bridge and ignore him.” Because the incident was a medical emergency, the name of the man was not released.
