Program offers chance to study here or abroad
Students can take classes
that are not available at
the University through
a national exchange
By Tammy Salman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Jasmina Gradistanac, a senior
linguistics and anthropology ma
jor, spent fall term at Northern Ari
zona University in Flagstaff study
ing Native-American cultures,
learning to cook Navajo dishes,
writing in her diary and reflecting
on life.
Gradistanac became interested
in Native-American cultures
through anthropology classes and
wanted to visit actual reservations
and learn about them first-hand in
stead of strictly from books. She
found out about Northern Arizona
University through National Stu
dent Exchange, a 29-year-old pro
gram that sends more than 3,000
students a year to other colleges
and universities across the United
States.
Students participating in the
program have their choice of 148
campuses, including schools in 48
states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto
Rit:o and Guam.
Joe Wade. National Student Ex
change coordinator and director of
Academic Advising and Student
Services, said students use the ex
change program for a variety of rea
sons.
“The NSE program should be
looked upon as an opportunity to
expand the University’s curricu
lum,” Wade said. “Academic pro
grams available at some of these
schools simply are not available on
our campus.”
Some students use the program
to find internships or overseas pro
grams not found at the University.
For example, Wade said students
in broadcast journalism often find
internships with television and ra
dio stations through schools on the
East Coast.
Gradistanac considers her expe
rience at Northern Arizona one of
the most enlightening in her life.
“It was very much an experience
learning about myself,” she said.
Gradistanac, who is originally
from Belgrade, Serbia, wanted to
“taste another side of the United
States” before she graduated and
put her knowledge to a more prac
tical use.
“So many students finish their
senior year and have nowhere to
go,” she said. “You stop with this
vast horizon in front of you, and
you don't know what to do."
Brynn Mclnturff, a junior ma
joring in accounting, wanted to
come to the University of Oregon
after her senior year in high school,
but ended up attending Western
Washington University because
out-of-state tuition was too high.
Then, Mclnturff discovered the
National Student Exchange pro
gram, which gives students the op
tion of paying tuition to their home
institution or paying tuition to the
host school, depending on which
is more cost efficient.
Financial aid is still available to
students who opt to go on national
exchanges, Wade said. However, if
the cost of living and tuition are
higher than the University’s, stu
dents should apply for financial
aid at the host school.
Along with tuition worries,
Wade said students are sometimes
reluctant to join the program for
fear credits from another school
will not transfer.
According to Wade, the ex
change program is a consortium of
institutions, and the University re
news its commitment to the ex
change agreement every year.
“Part of that agreement is that
[schools] will accept whatever
credit hours students have
earned.”
The intrigue of attending anoth
er university is the little differences
students encounter in their travels.
Mclnturff discovered the world
of screaming Duck fans and large
crowds at sporting events soon af
ter arriving in Eugene, something
she never experienced at Western
Washington.
Gradistanac found out she liked
the 15-week semester system bet
ter than the quarter system and is
having trouble readjusting to the
fast pace.
“During midterms and finals
students, don’t have the air of frus
tration because ofsleepless nights.
People were much more enthusi
astic at the end of the semester.”
Gradistanac hopes to visit Ari
zona again and recommends stu
dents go on a national exchange.
Movie theater construction to begin soon
Cine mark plans to build
a state-of-the-art film
complex at Gateway
ByJimSeckler
Freelance Reporter
Construction on the new 17
screen theater complex at Gate
way Mall is due to begin in 15 to
30 days, said Bob Buchanan, gen
eral manager of General Growth
Management Inc., the Chicago
based company who owns the
mall.
“The construction will take
about a year to complete,”
Buchanan said. Once completed,
the 3,952-seat, 78,000-square-foot
theater will be the largest and most
advanced in the Eugene-Spring
field area. The new complex adds
to the existing 2,000-seat, 38,000
square-foot Movies 12 facility al
ready at the mall.
Cinemark, a Texas-based chain,
and the nation's fifth largest the
ater chain with over 17,000
screens in the U.S. and overseas,
will run the new theater complex
as well as continue to operate the
Movies 12 facility.
The complex is called Tinsel
town, Cinemark’s name for its the
aters featuring state-of-the-art
movie technology, including a
wall-to-wall curved screen, the
most up-to-date sound system and
“stadium-style seating.”
Standard theaters have a gentle
slope front to back, whereas the
stadium-style seating in the new
theater will have a 16-inch height
difference between each row, al
lowing for greater visibi lity and an
unobstructed view of the screen.
The distance between rows will
also allow for extra leg room.
A new 15-screen Tinseltown
theater opened in Medford last De
cember. When the new Gateway
theater opens, they will be the
only two Tinseltown theaters in
Oregon. Cinemark currently oper
ates 18 theaters nationwide with
stadium-style seating.
The new theater complex will
show first-run movies, while the
existing Movies 12 theater will
show second-run movies, said
John Tamulonis, Springfield’s
economic development manager.
"Our biggest concern [about the
new cinema] was the traffic,”
Tamulonis said. However, with
further review, the city decided
that there shouldn’t be any major
traffic problems. “With peak
movie times being Friday and Sat
urday nights, the theater's traffic
flow will be at a different time
than with the mall’s main shop
ping traffic,"Tamulonis said.
The theater will be built off the
mall’s west entrance facing Inter
state 5 and in what is now the
parking lot between Emporium
and Sears. No additional parking
will be added because the site was
reserved for a future tenant.
Most of the theater’s construc
tion will take place outside, allow
ing for a minimum of interference
with normal operation inside the
mall.
An information kiosk will be
placed in front of the theater,
working with Springfield’s Cham
ber of Commerce to promote the
city and attract tourist dollars,
Tamulonis said.
Campus Briefs
Harvard professor
to discuss race
Cornel West, Harvard
University professor of
African-American studies
and philosophy, will
speak about “Restoring
Hope” at the University to
day.
West is the author of 13
books, including the 1993
bestseller “Race Matters”
about the future of race re
lations and social change.
The Oregon Humanities
Center is sponsoring the
speech, which is the final
event recognizing Martin
Luther King Jr. West is the
1998 Robert and Beverly
Lewis Lecturer in Human
ities, which was created to
bring national leaders in
the humanities to the Uni
versity.
West will speak at 4
p.m. in the EMU Ballroom.
Admission is free.
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