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Lost, but not found, items for sale The recreation center is selling an assortment of unclaimed items for $2.50 and under By Doug Irving Student Activities Reporter A ceramic coffee mug. A crate of lone gloves at a quarter each. A typewriter. And The Super Chick en Cookbook. These are the lost but not found: items left in the library, the EMU or a classroom and nev er claimed. They’re for sale now — all $2.50 or less. The University runs a lost and found through the EMU Recre ation Center. It holds a sale twice a year, in fall and spring, to clear space for recently lost items. The most expensive item Mon day cost $5. But everything is half off today. The sale is in the EMU Fir Room and will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “It’s kind of one of those blue plate specials,” recreation man ager Stephanie Dixon said. The recreation center keeps lost items for at least 30 days be fore putting them up for sale. It also won’t sell items that per sonally identify the former own er. And some things just should Lost and found hours The University’s lost and found is located in Cedar Room D during EMU construction. Its hours are limited now, but it will be open and staffed after it moves into the renovated recreation center. ■ MONDAY, WEDNESDAY: 10 a.m.to3p.m. ■ TUESDAY, THURSDAY: 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. ■ FRIDAY: noon to 2 p.m. not — or cannot — be sold. Corrie Heselius, office assis tant with the recreation center, has seen retainers and false teeth come through the lost and found. One man came looking for his girlfriend in the lost and found. "And everybody loses umbrel las,” she said. “Those are the hardest because people don’t leave good descriptions. They’ll say, ‘A black umbrella,’ and we’ll have 30 of them.” The sale helps the recreation center pay for the lost and found service, Dixon said. It generally brings in about $500. Together, the fall and spring sales just about cover the expenses of staffing the service. Most other college campuses hold a similar sale, Dixon said. The University’s sale has been a tradition on campus for years. The lost and found usually gets between five and 10 reports of lost items each day, Heselius said. It’s fielded 1,327 such re ports this school year and has re ceived 1,333 lost items. Every item the lost and found gets will be numbered, dated, cat egorized and described. The recreation center enters that in formation into a computer data base to help it find the owners. It has a "high success rate” of returning lost items that are turned in quickly, Dixon said, al though actual numbers aren’t available. Some departments, though, tend to hold onto boxes of lost items for too long. The recreation center has received boxes of things lost a year before. By then, Dixon said, it’s often too iate. The items will likely end up on the clothes racks or tables for the bi-annual sale. They will join old scarves, coats, text books and jewelry. Those items that don’t make it to the cash register will be donat ed to the Salvation Army or oth er charities. News Briefs Executive coordinator position up in the air The ASUO executive coor dinator position has been in flux throughout much of the school year. Former ASUO President Bill Miner considered writing the position out of the budget. Then he chose to fund it as a half-time position. He recently recommended funding it as three-fourths of a full-time position. President Geneva Wortman said she also plans recom mending more funding for the position. The ASUO’s budget for next year funds a student organizer who Miner assumed would take over many of the manag ing and organizing duties of the executive coordinator. Next year’s budget also eliminated the training- coor dinator who helps train the two executive staffs. “There just hasn’t bean enough time in the day,” Wortman said. Wortman and Cowling took office just five days ago and have been working at organiz ing their office and hiring staff. They hope to have a full staff by this week. “In the end, once they get everyone shuffled around and in their groove, the ASUO is just going to soar above all the rest,” Miner said. Training coordinator funded temporarily One of the summer Student Senate’s first orders of business Monday was to fund the ASUO training coordinator through Oct. 31. The Senate allocated a trans fer of $3,686 from the computer support specialist and execu tive coordinator positions to pay for the training coordinator position. The position was defunded in the ASUO's budget, with the idea that the fund-raising coor dinator could take over many of the same responsibilities. But the ASUO decided to keep the training coordinator through the Fall Street Faire to walk the fund-raising coordi nator through the process and ease that transition. The Senate passed a resolu tion saying it would approve the line-item budget transfers. March: Activists endorse the non-violent approach ^ Continued from Page 1 Taylor, who had been at the site during the incident, said she re fused to leave even after police in formed her that pepper spray was going to be used. “Don’t ever forget,” she said. “We need to watch the police and the government.” The event also included a silent march of mourning around the site where the trees once stood. The march aroused attention from some local business people, who watched from inside their build ings. The area is now a construction site, *vnere workers mo mentarily stopped their hammering to look at the pro ceedings from the top of a sev en-foot-high wall. Some marchers, who wore green arm bands, kept the crowd under control and monitored traffic to keep disrup tions to a minimum. At least 200 people showed up, with signs, banners and flags re vealing their feelings about the day. “Long live the trees, remember ing 40 trees and their defenders,” was written on the main banner. Other people held signs, masks and pictures in memory of the day. Another woman carried a maple sapling in the basket on her bike. Next to the Eugene City Council chambers, women and men wear ing black pants and white T-shirts and donning black-painted faces mourned through interpretive act ing and dance. Painted on their T-shirts were the words: suffering, love, fiction, empathy, apathy, fear and power. One performer said after the act that she felt the silent march ((I do remember those 40 trees. But we have to remember it’s not just a problem in Eugene, but that it affects the whole planet. » Frank Urysdale Community activist through the city was powerful and well-received. She said she be lieved it would attract more posi tive attention than any act of vio lence. “It was very powerful,” she said. “We are known for being vio lent and loud, but this was a place ofhealing.” Throughout the next hour, speakers lectured on how things had changed since June 1, 1997. Speakers also voiced concerns on what more could be done. “I do remember those 40 trees,” said Frank Drysdale, a community activist. “But we have to remem ber it s not just a problem in Eu gene, but that it affects the whole planet.” D r y s d a 1 e asked the crowd to work on communica tion skills and to further dia logue on con flict resolution. The crowd was also encour aged to initiate conversation im mediately by taking part in a pub lic forum at a City Council meeting later that evening. Charles Dalton, a recent Human Rights Commission appointee, said he agreed with the non-vio lent approach. “We have allies globally; we also have opponents globally,” he said. “Dialogue is key. It is the only rational approach; there are not enough guns and hatred in your hearts to win a violent struggle.” On May 31, there was also a picnic in remembrance of the in cident that was more of a celebra tion than a memorial. The event included speakers, music and in formation about the June 1 inci dent. One person who was explaining why she and other people felt it is important to remember the inci dent said: “I believe in the trees. It is that simple.” for your BOOKS! For books we need for the upcoming SUMMER & FALL terms we'll pay you 60% of the current student price. And... YOU Cdn win $20 Cash (Donated by MBS Textbook Exchange) If you're selling books where the alarm clock rings. 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