AAA School students will meet with professionals
The students can make
contacts in their fields
and have their resumes
and portfolios reviewed
By Ben Romano
Higher Education Reporter
A joint effort between the Career
Center and the School of Architec
ture and Allied Arts will give grad
uating students a chance to have
their portfolios and r6sum6s re
viewed by professionals.
The first ever AAA Portfolio
and R<5sum<5 Review Day is sched
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uled for Saturday, May 2.
“This is a good opportunity for
students to start networking with
professionals and to make con
tacts in their fields,” said Pam
Howard, a Career Center coun
selor and an organizer of the event.
The free event is expected to
draw about 100 students in archi
tecture, landscape architecture,
fine arts, art history, historic
preservation, art administration,
and planning, public policy and
management. Twenty profession
als from various architecture firms
and art galleries in the Northwest
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are scheduled to attend the day
long event, Howard said.
The professionals will meet with
students in groups or individual re
view sessions. Students will get
feedback and advice on their work
and experience, Howard said.
“It is rare that you get that many
professionals in one place to look
at your work,” Howard said.
Fine arts students rarely have
contact with professionals in their
field, said Terri Warpinski, asso
ciate dean of the AAA School and
a coordinator of the event. This
gives students an opportunity to
meet with professionals in a com
fortable and natural environment,
and students will have an oppor
tunity to become acquainted with
the process of showing their port
folios, Warpinski said.
In addition to the review ses
sions, students will have an op
portunity to interact with profes
sionals on an informal basis
during a social lunch hour,
Howard said. The AAA School
will provide a light lunch for stu
dents.
The event will be held at the
University’s Portland Center. A
limited amount of transportation
is available through the AAA
School. Vans will depart Eugene
at 7:30 a.m. and will return around
7 p.m. Transportation will cost $8
per person.
Registration started yesterday
and will continue on a space-avail
able basis until Friday. Any AAA
student who is graduating before
spring 1999 is eligible for this event.
“Student reaction has been
enormously positive,” Warpinski
said. “Spaces are Filling quickly.”
For more information, contact
the AAA dean’s office at 346-3631.
UO professor awarded chemistry grant
Mark Lonergan plans
to use the money to
continue his research
on the tunable diode
By Teri Meeuwsen
Higher Education Editor
Imagine a computer monitor as
thick as a magazine that can bend
and mold just as easily. That im
age just might become reality in
the future.
Chemistry Professor Mark Lon
ergan received a Beckman Young
Investigator award from the Arnold
and Mabel Beckman Foundation
for his groundbreaking work with
electrically active plastics. His
work recently led him to create a
“tunable diode,” a new tool for con
trolling currents in electric circuit
ry. The plastic could be included in
computer parts and as parts of the
“Smart Card,” a credit card in the
works that could hold computer
ized information.
“The idea of the computer screen
and the Smart Card are the long
term outcomes of the work we're
woriuug on
now,” Lonergan
said. "We’re
working on the
fundamental
studies behind
those concepts
now, so we’re a
step back."
A group of
LONERGAN
graduate students and postdoctor
ate teaching fellows helping Lon
ergan will be supported with the
$200,000 for two years from the
Beckman Foundation. Laboratory
equipment will also be purchased
with the award, Lonergan said.
The program is “intended to pro
vide research support to the most
promising young faculty members
in the early stages of academic ca
reers in the chemical and life sci
ences,” according to the Beckman
Foimdation Web site. The program
is open to anyone on the tenure
track in academia or nonprofit in
stitutions that conduct fundamen
tal research in those areas.
Lonergan graduated from the
University summa cum laude
with a bachelor’s degree in chem
istry in 1990 and received his doc
torate from Northwestern Univer
sity in 1994. He joined the
University faculty in 1996.
The Beckman Foundation cre
ates grants to promote research in
chemistry and the life sciences
and to foster the invention of
methods, instruments and materi
als that will open up new venues
of research science, according to
its Website.
ASUO Ballot Measures
Measure would keep
EMU lab open longer
It's 10:30 p.m. and you’re told
the EMU’s computer lab will
close in 30 minutes, but you still
have to write four more pages
and print the paper out. As the
deadline approaches, the server
crashes. Then the printer fails.
Your paper is due tomorrow.
Stressed out yet?
Students frustrated with the
EMU’s computer lab hours will
have a chance to vote in Wednes
day’s elections to expand hours
that would keep the lab open from
7 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week.
The ballot measure, which
would cost each student 63 cents
per term, would keep the lower
level of the EMU open later by
generating $28,485 to pay for a
night manager and a janitor.
There’3 just one catch: The
University Computing Center,
which leases the space from the
EMU, has not yet said it would
agree to keep the longer hours. Its
ability to keep longer hours is
contingent on the state Legisla
ture voting to raise the educa
tional technology fee that helps
pay for personnel and hardware.
Jenna Wasson, a student senator
who placed the issue on the ballot,
said students shouldn’t vote forthe
increased fees unless a definite
promise is made by the computing
center to provide service.
But others said voting for the
measure, even though it is a pre
liminary step, is important be
cause it will send a message to
legislators and encourage ap
proval funding.
"If the students pass the mea
sure, it will send a strong mes
sage to lawmakers that access to
computers is a priority,” said
EMU board member Kim Gue
vara. She said there is a good
chance the funds will be ap
proved by the Legislature.
Currently, the lab is open
Monday through Thursday from
8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday from
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday
from l p.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun
day, noon to 10 p.m. Dining Fi
nals and Dead weeks, the lab is
open until 1 a.m. during the
week and 10 p.m. on Saturday.
Alex Rajeff, an EMU computer
lab assistant, said the computing
center has been studying how
many students are in the lab and
at what times since last fall. He
said there are often fewer than 20
people in the lab half an hour be
fore closing, and he questioned the
necessity of the extended hours.
However, peak hours could
easily change if the hours are ex
panded, he said.
Measures would fund
aid advocacy group
The United States Students As
sociation, a student-run higher ed
ucation and federal financial aid
advocacy group, will be on the bal
lot Wednesday, asking whether
students want to raise, lower or
match the amount of funding it
gets from incidental fees.
Currently, the group gets 46
cents per student per term. That
generates $22,750 a year for the
nationwide group, which goes
toward efforts to protect federal
financial aid and to fight for stu
dents’ rights issues.
Ballot Measure 5 asks whether
students want to keep funding
the program, while Measure 6
asks if students want to pay an
extra 37 cents per term to the
group, which would cost stu
dents a total of 83 cents per term.
This would give the USSA
$40,568 and would help pay for
an upgrade in services, ASUO
President Bill Miner said. Miner
is a member of the group.
If the increase is passed, most of
the funding would go to USSA rep
resentatives in Washington, D.C.,
who fight for issues such as lower
ing student-loan interest rates.
“They saved students $10 bil
lion over five years by getting
student interest rates lowered by
85 cents,” Miner said. The group
also fights for access to Pell
Grants and the Federal Direct
Loan Program, which helps keep
banks from making profits from
students who take out loans.
“We don’t live in a bubble,”
Miner said. “Things that go on in
Congress and in state legislatures
really affect us.”
Compiled by Chris Kenning
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