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UO offers continuing-education classes The Continuing Education Program caters to people looking to update their skills By Ben Romano Higher education Reporter The University offers courses for Oregonians who never want to stop learning. The Continuing Education Program has classes and seminars as well as courses through Distance Education "to serve the educational needs of all Oregon residents.” The program is open to peo ple who are not from Oregon as well. CEP caters to profession als who are looking to update their skills, program director Curtis Lind said. Other students are preparing for a second career or learning new skills to stay competitive in their current occupations, he added. “Almost everything we do is technology based,” Lind said. The program offers classes and seminars on topics ranging from Web page authoring to multime dia presentations. The program serves approxi mately 300 people per month, Lind said. The majority of these students take 12 to 15 hours of classes, usually in the form of weekend seminars. Community colleges offer sim ilar curriculums, but “the pace in Study finds brief use of diet pill not harmful By Daniel Q. Haney The Associated Press ATLANTA — A study released Tuesday found no sign that brief use of the diet pill Redux caused dangerously leaky heart valves, as many feared when the medicine was withdrawn from the market last September. The study, conducted at George town University, appears to largely exonerate Redux, a prescription ap petite suppressant. It found the medicine is no more likely than sugar pills to seriously harm the heart during the two or three months that most people took it. However, it did not rule out the possibility that taking Redux for many months—as the drug was in tended to be used — could have harmed people. It also did not ex amine whether the chemically sim ilar phen-fen, which was pulled from drugstores at the same time as Redux, is bad for the heart valves. “These results should be reas suring for the majority of patients who have been on Redux,” said Dr. Neil J. Weissman, who direct ed the study. His study is the first large, care fully controlled experiment to see whether Redux truly caused the damage that many suspected. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, which makes Redux and fenflu ramine — the fen in phen-fen — pulled both drugs off the market at the request of the Food and Drug Administration. The government acted after a Mayo Clinic team re ported 24 cases of heart valve prob lems among people taking phen-fen. Make a DIFFERENCE... i Tftere's stilt time to apply for a ONE-YEAR Teaching degree University is currently applications for its MAT jit starting lune 22 in Forest or the Eugene program in 1 || Cat your teaching license end Masters degree in one yearl CaU ]oel Alton 541.559-2958 or TOO* FREE 800.635-0581. Ext. 2958 the classes is more rigorous" in CEP, Lind said. CEP classes also cost more than community col lege classes, averaging about $200. For students who are not near one of the continuation centers, such as the Portland and Beaver ton locations, CEP offers a variety of Distance Education courses. These courses are taught entirely online, partially online or through traditional correspon dence, Lind said. “[Distance Education) provides access to those for whom access is a problem,” Lind said. People with schedules that will not al low them to attend traditional classes can also benefit from this program. Classes offered through Dis tance Education include astrono my, economics and political sci ence. There is no one-on-one student interaction in the entirely online classes. This can be a disadvan tage for some students, Lind said. “Student learning is equiva lent, but the process is very dif ferent,” Lind said. “Distance Ed ucation isn’t for everyone.” CEP offers courses beginning spring and summer terms. For registration information, call (800) 824-2714, or visit the Con tinuing Education Web site at center.uorgeon.edu. 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