Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 14, 1997, Page 4, Image 4

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    Campus Briefs
Workshops offered
The Educational Opportuni
ties Program will offer two
workshops this month for all
students who are interested in
pursuing graduate school.
“Planning for Graduate
School" will be offered Wednes
day, Oct. 15, from 12 noon to 1
p.m. in the EMU Ben Linder
Room. This workshop will focus
on the basics: selecting a gradu
ate school, completing applica
tions, meeting deadlines and de
veloping planning strategies.
A second workshop intend
ed specifically for prospective
graduate students is “Graduate
School: Personal Statements
and Resumes." Designing per
sonal statements, selecting in
formation for rdsumds and un
derstanding the expectations
for graduate schools are among
the topics the workshop will
cover. It will be offered
Wednesday, Oct. 22, from 12
noon to 1 p.m. in EMU Centu
ry Room E.
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ASUO hopes petition will help
extend class add-drop deadline
Student leaders plan to
use the petition to lobby
tbe University Senate
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Editor
They stood on street corners
and in the EMU. They tried greek
houses and residence halls. They
visited classes and special events.
And by today, ASUO cam
paigners hope to have 2,000 sig
natures on their petitions to ex
tend the class add-drop deadline.
“That’s an immense amount,"
ASUO Head Controller Christa
Colwell said. “How many people
really want to stop and sign a peti
tion?”
Students currently have six
days to drop a class without hav
ing a “withdrawal” marked on
their transcript. They have eight
days to add a class.
That’s not enough time for stu
dents to decide whether they
want or need the class or can get
along with the professor, ASUO
Vice President Ben Unger said.
Students need more than two
classes to judge the course, he
said.
But faculty members have said
an extended deadline will allow
students to stay in classes for
weeks before dropping out and
opening up a space for someone
who wants to take the class. That
could force professors to play
“catch up” until the fourth week.
"Our message is going to be the
exact opposite,” Unger said. “But
it’ll take a little bit of effort to get
everyone on the same path.”
The ASUO originally hoped to
get 1,500 signatures by last Fri
day. It reached that goal on the
second day, said Jim Paustian,
ASUO voter education coordina
tor.
Student leaders will use the pe
tition to lobby the University Sen
ate to make the changes, Unger
said. They plan to file a motion
with the Senate to change the
deadline as soon as possible, al
though the Senate probably
couldn’t act on it until at least De
cember.
The number of signatures
should strengthen the ASUO’s
platform, Paustian said. That kind
of participation shows that stu
dents are becoming involved in
their government.
Signature gatherers made a con
scious effort not to just stop peo
ple on the street, Colwell said. In
stead, they went to classrooms
and residences, giving students a
chance to get involved on their
own time.
The ASUO will probably use
that method in future petition
drives, she said.
“People are starting to see us as
not just people out to bug them,”
Unger said. “Part of being a stu
dent should be signing petitions
and getting involved. We’re start
ing to get there.”
Proposal: Council members will make
decision on wetlands this Wednesday
■ Continued from Page 1A
agreed.
“I consider Eugene to be under
assault right now by a corrupt
company,” she said.
Spencer also encouraged ac
tivists to organize environmental
protests against the plant.
But a small segment of the au
dience said they are in favor of the
city’s proposal to let Hyundai
seek an environmental impact
statement from the Corps of Engi
neers.
Eugene resident David Hauser
said the Hyundai proposal makes
sense, and he is confident that a
reasonable decision will be made.
In an Oct. 2 letter to Lane Coun
ty officials, Hyundai requested
that its site be removed from the
West Eugene Wetlands Plan
amendment package. City and
county planning commissions are
currently considering changes to
the third phase of the Hyundai
development plan that would af
feet local wetlands. At present,
Hyundai is not authorized to
build on the wetlands under ex
(c I consider Eugene
to be under assault
right now by a corrupt
company. **
Jan Spencer
Eugene resident
isting Corps of Engineers and Ore
gon Division of State Lands per
mits, but the company hopes
things will change if the decision
is left to state and federal officials.
In the same letter, Hyundai
President James Hartman request
ed that the additional site be re
moved from the plan amendment
package. Instead, Hyundai would
submit an application for a wet
land fill operation during the
third phase of its operations to the
Corps of Engineers.
“We agree with the city that an
environmental impact study in
connection with the wetland fill
permit application offers a greater
opportunity for public review and
comment and will ultimately pro
duce a more informed and better
balanced outcome,” Hartman
wrote. “We respectfully request
that the Hyundai site be removed
in its entirety from the plan
amendment package and the
community rely instead upon the
existing state and federal wetland
permitting process to resolve wet
land issues.”
Hyundai is just now putting the
final touches on a factory that was
part of the first phase of develop
ment and has approval to fill wet
lands for phase two.
A decision on Hyundai’s pro
posal is expected to be made at
Wednesday’s City Council meet
ing.
Vote: Students must register by today
■ Continued from Page 1A
forms.
You can also download registra
tion information and forms from
the Internet through the Oregon
ian’s website at www.Oregon
ian.com/votersguide/index.html.
The registration cards must be
postmarked by today or dropped
off in voter registration boxes in
front of the ASUO by 5 p.m. to be
taken to the Lane County Elec
tions Office.
Dakota Elder, 21, a Spanish ma
jor, plans to make up for past apa
thy by voting on Nov. 4.
“I feel guilty because I didn’t
register or vote in the presidential
election,” he said. “This time it
will be nice to put my voice in.”
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