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LAW SCHOOL Grayson Hall A selection committee will choose the architectfirm from sixfinalists to design a renovation of the current law school PAGE 4 SPORTS Track coaching vacancy Oregon’s John Gillespie and Wisconsin's Martin Smith were interviewed by Oregon athletic director Bill Moos last week as possible successors to Bill Dellinger PAGE 5 n TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1998 TODAY A children'splay will be performed on the Robinson Amphitheater lawn at 11 a.m. WEATHER Today Sunny High 87. Low 56. Wednesday Sunny High 83. Low 57. OSPIRG plans to work toward reestablishment This summer, leaders are gauging campus support for the group By Peter Broaden Oregon Daily Emerald Student volunteers from OSPIRG will re turn to the University in September with a little more nervous anticipation than in years past. After watching their chapter of OSPIRG have its $147,390 funding request denied last spring, members are unsure what they will have to return to. The campus interest group’s main agen da is now directed toward understanding the election action and working with the Committee to Reestablish OSPIRG. “So many people were shocked,” said Michael Olson, ASUO Student Senate chair. Voters’ perceptions of the group were not in line with its objectives, he said. "The identity didn’t match the image,” said Ol son, who is also the acting vice chair of the statewide student Public Interest Research Group. For OSPIRG, getting defunded is some thing of a wake-up call, said Merriah Fairchild, OSPIRG state board chair. She attributed the vote to eliminate the OSPIRG budget to reticence among supporters rather than an overall lack of support for OSPIRG. "You get in this utopia of progressive thinking and you start taking these oppor tunities for granted,” Fairchild said. The anti-OSPIRG “Honesty Campaign” used the especially basic message that funding was being wasted on volunteer work, Fairchild said. OSPIRG’s message, on the other hand, wasn’t as simple or easy to convey, she said. “There was a sense that anti-OSPIRG had a clean, simple message,” Fairchild said. The lack of support and the strength of opposition were related, Olson said. “Negative campaigning tends to disasso ciate the electorate,” he said. In an open letter to the campus commu nity, the Committee to Reestablish OSPIRG urged support for reestablishment. "It is a tragedy for UO students to lose one of the Turn to OSPIRG, Page 3 (( You get in this utopia of progressive thinking and you start taking these opportunities for granted. » Merriah Fairchild OSPIRG state board chair LAURA GOSS/Emerald Meg Dupuis explains inductive reasoning to her Writing 121 class, Monday afternoon. Unusual freshmen get summer start Some students are admitted on the condition that they prove themselves in summer classes By Peter Broaden Oregon Daily Emerald i Call it a second chance. Select students who may have shown hidden po tential or been grouped as "late-bloomers” are being conditionally admitted to the University via the Summer Start program. Summer Start is in its third year of {preparing a small number of students for the schobl year. The eight-week program runs in conjunction with Uni versity Housing and is still in an experimental stage, said Helen Garrett, associate director of admissions. “Our mission is to offer the students a well-round ed academic experience and provide a transition from high school to college,” said Sherri Argyres, as sistant director of student academic progress. The program requires four classes, two of which are preselected. Students are enrolled in an academic skills class and Writing 121. Students choose their other two classes from regular University summer courses. A minimum C grade average is required be fore students are admitted for fall term. “Some of them don’t make it, but the majority do," Garrett said. The Summer Start program is offered to students who would not be admitted under normal circum stances, 70 to 80 percent of whom are from out of state. Since admissions standards are slightly higher for out-of-state applicants, the tendency is to offer the conditional acceptance to them, Garrett said. “It’s an awesome program because they’re giving us a second chance,” said Gretchen Wolthausen, a Summer Start student from Saratoga, Calif. The program chose 29 students for its first year in 1996 and 42 students last year. Standards were fairly Turn to CHANCE, Page 3 Study abroad more popular in summer Many students feel that a summer overseas disrupts degree progress less than term- or year-long programs By Amy Goldhammer Oregon Daily Emerald Each year, about 600 students leave be hind familiarity and choose to venture into the world. The University offers a wide range of study-abroad programs that cater to the needs and desires of students. According to the Office of International Education and Exchange, there are many advantages of going abroad to further an education. Students learn another language quickly by being exposed to it every day in other countries. Study-abroad programs also are attrac tive because they allow the student to ob tain credits toward a degree and take differ ent courses that may enrich his or her major. In addition, the opportunity to go overseas gives a student the chance to pro vide service and see and experience the as pects that have been taught in previous classes. “Going abroad was one of the most valu able experiences,” said Tom Mills, director of International Education and Exchange. “It left me with a global perspective I’ve never lost.” Students are coming and going from country to country all year long. However, most students do not want to interrupt the school year by going overseas during the regular school year, Mills said. About 30 percent of students choose to go abroad in the summer. “Students feel a great deal of pressure to keep up on their degrees and not take off a term,” Mills said. “Going abroad in the summer won’t disrupt their academic pro gram.” Even though summer is the most popu lar time to study abroad, many of the pro grams allow students to be gone all year, or just a term or semester. Fifty percent leave for only a term, compared with 20 percent who choose to study abroad for the entire year. Turn to ABROAD, Page 3
