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Housing: Summer rates are higher ■ Continued from Page 1A ing’s guests, Inouye said. Though there are no studies that accurate ly trace prospective students and their response to summer pro grams, he said, campers often re turn to become counselors. In addition to the full-time em ployees, the housing department employs more than 200 students in cleaning and maintenance crews. "For the times we don’t have camps, we’re doing upkeep and maintenance,” Inouye said. “Our best advertising has been word of mouth.” Housing has advertised in a quarterly newsletter and promot ed camps and conferences at a re cent open house. Summer conferences are one of Housing’s major sources of rev enue, said Allen Gidley, Housing business affairs director. "We’ve got 2,900 beds sitting there,” Gidley said. “The concept of having rooms sit empty is not efficient.” Housing does not keep records of its summer income in propor tion to the rest of the year, Gidley said. “The rates (for room and board) are significantly higher for conferences, “ he said. Majors: Students’ interest important ■ Continued from Page 1A Schnitzers, along with their son Jordan, are well known Portland philanthropists. “There was tremendous support from the com munity, faculty and students," said Stein. “We needed our donors, but we also needed that enthu siasm and momentum.” The new program will offer both a major and a minor. The major will require two years of modern Hebrew instruction and interdisciplinary courses that focus on Jewish history, culture and philoso phy. Stein said he expects many students will take advantage of an existing study abroad arrangement with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. One major task ahead of the new program is find ing a director who will serve as a catalyst for devel oping a strong program. Stein said a nationwide search has already started. Raiskin, who also is a faculty member of the Juda ic Studies Steering Committee, said she is excited about the two new degree approvals as well as last year’s approval of the ethnic studies major, sched uled to begin this fall. She said she considers stnr._ dent and faculty interest in interdisciplinary pro grams a strength of the campus. “My hope is that these three programs will work collaboratively together by sharing resources, cur riculum and faculty,” Raiskin said. Leads sought in bomb-threat incident The Secret Service considers the bombs found June 12 to be a threat on Clinton’s life EUGENE — The caller went straight to the point: “The bombs have been distrib uted,” he hastily told a 911 dis patcher the morning of June 12, the day before President Bill Clin ton’s visit to Eugene and Spring field. He continued for another 15 seconds, disjointed sentences that were clear enough to impress on authorities that explosive devices might be found at the Eugene Air port, Springfield City Hall and a bus depot. Two devices were found in a culvert near the airport that after noon. They were detonated by the Eugene police explosives disposal team, which also searched the other sites the caller mentioned. No other bombs were found. The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI took over the case. In addition to the bomb and the phone call, there was a threat on Clinton’s life a day earlier. The federal agencies are offer ing a $10,000 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest and con viction of the person responsible. According to a news release, the anonymous caller phoned Eu gene’s 911 center twice. The call made public Tuesday was placed at 11:09 a.m. Friday, June 12. Authorities wouldn’t say what time on June 11 the first call was made. Secret Service Agent Thomas Meyer, who led the news confer ence, wouldn’t comment on the nature of the devices found at the airport. Police said last week that the devices had been placed in a cul vert behind the Air and Space Museum, near the Lane Commu nity College flight training school. The incident didn’t interfere with the president’s visit June 13. Clinton landed at the Eugene Air port and spent three hours visit ing victims, families and students affected by the May 21 shootings in the Thurston High School cafe teria. The caller said: “The bombs have been distrib uted. The only one I know about are the two at the airport by the old red Russian fighter in a pipe and all the others are downtown tonight and tomorrow and going around. There's somebody pick them up in Springfield, uh, City Hall pretty soon and two more bus station right now there to be picked up in a locker. Bye.” The University of Oregon Bookstore will be CLOSED FOR INVENTORY Sunday June 28th. 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