OSPIRG: Volunteers
will poll and organize
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few effective voices we have on
crucial decisions that are made
outside the campus community,”
the letter said.
This summer, the committee’s
first plans are to gauge the sup
port for OSPIRG on campus.
“I don’t want to see a program
on campus that students don’t
support,” Olson said. “The orga
nization has definitely had to cut
back. There’s still a lot of volun
teers. It’s galvanized their sup
port.”
"It’s definitely very young,”
Fairchild said. “The two priori
ties are reaching out to people on
campus, hearing their concerns
and working with the Committee
to Reestablish OSPIRG.”
Currently, OSPIRG must rely
on volunteer work for all of its
different projects. The bulk of the
projects involve polling and orga
nization.
"The official OSPIRG budget is
gone,” Olson said.
The group is now considering
seeking ASUO recognition for
their volunteer work.
Since 1971, OSPIRG has repre
sented public interest on issues
such as the environment, con
sumer protection, student rights
and democracy. The campus
chapter emphasized that stu
dents are citizens and are able
and obligated to act on public
problems.
“OSPIRG enriches our experi
ence as students and citizens,”
Olson said.
Chance: Small group
faces rigorous term
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low for the first year but have
been adjusted accordingly, Gar
rett said.
“The idea is that it be just as
rigorous as the academic year,”
Argyres said.
Among the academic classes
offered are Ethics, Critical Rea
soning, U.S. History, Western
Civilization, Human Physiology,
and Introduction to Fiction. All
the students live in one residence
hall and have activities coordi
nated through University Hous
ing
“It’s a lot of work for a small
group of people,” Garrett said.
“The students are doing the
same as or a little bit better than
the general population in terms
of retention,” Argyres said.
The preliminary success of the
program can be credited to re
sponsiveness to student needs,
Garrett explained.
“We’ve paid really close atten
tion to what they liked and what
they didn’t like,” she said. "So far
it’s been pretty successful.”
Abroad: Italy and Mexico
are perennial favorites
■ Continued from Page 1
“You can learn a lot in a term,”
Mills said. “It’s a good way of get
ting started.”
According to the OIEE, Italy,
Mexico and France are the most
popular countries students ven
ture to. The less-chosen countries
include Indonesia, Vietnam and
Ghana. In total, 60 programs are
offered.
“Not many other universities
offer as many opportunities as
we do, and our programs really
accommodate students,” Mills
said.
Mills said that with all the cur
rent events occurring throughout
the world, “it behooves all to take
advantage of the international ex
perience.”
The OIEE coordinates most of
the overseas study programs of
the University. Most students go
through OIEE because all pro
grams offered have been ap
proved by the Foreign Study Pro
grams Committee. Credits earned
overseas transfer directly to stu
dents’ transcripts, and University
financial aid can be used toward
overseas study. Eligibility to
study abroad varies with each
program, but a GPA of 2.5 to 3.0
is generally required. Mills said
students who return from study
ing abroad have gained a greater
perspective of the world.
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French territory may
gain independence
1 VERSAILLES, France —
French lawmakers on Monday
ratified an agreement that could
lead to independence for the
South Pacific territory of New
Caledonia.
Deputies and senators meeting
in Versailles, south of Paris, voted
827-31 in favor of the so-called
Noumea agreement, signed in
May.
The agreement, named after the
French territory’s capital, pro
vides for a 20-year transition peri
od toward independence. It comes
after years of violence and negotia
tions over the status of New Cale
donia, which holds about 30 per
cent of the world’s nickel reserves.
The accord calls for a December
referendum on a transition period
of “shared sovereignty” for the
archipelago, to be followed in
2018 by a second referendum on
self-determination.
Monk donates gold
to help Thai economy
2 NEW DELHI, India — Buddhist
monk donated $1.2 million to
help the government overcome an
economic downturn Monday, a
day after he handed over 400
poundsofgold forthe same cause.
The 87-year-old Phra Maha Bua
Yanasampanno collected the do
nations from Thais abroad and fol
lowers throughout the country.
The monk might have had suc
cess in his campaign because of a
widespread belief among Thai
Buddhists that making donations
to a monk or temple will bring
them rewards in another life.
Thailand has been plagued by a
financial crisis that has spread to
neighboring Southeast Asian na
tions.
Central bank Governor Chatu
Mongkol Sonakul said the $1.2
million would be held in Thai
land’s foreign exchange reserve
account in New York.
Tycoon’s movie taste
not welcome in India
3BANGKOK, Thailand — An In
dian court has issued arrest
warrants against Rupert Murdoch
for refusing to appear to face
charges that his STAR TV network
was showing allegedly obscene
movies in India, domestic news
agencies reported Monday.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Prem Kumar said three summons
es had been sent to the media ty
coon at his addresses in the United
States and Austral ia. But they had
returned unserved because Mur
doch refused to accept them, the
United News of India reported.
The judge has ordered India's
Foreign Ministry to serve the sum
monses through diplomatic chan
nels, but there is little the courts
can do if Murdoch refuses to ac
cept them.
A New York-based spokesman
for News Corp. had no comment
on the reports.
War buddies remember slain aee
By Jeff Barnard
The Associated Press
WINCHESTER—Honor guards
fired a 21-gun salute and vintage
planes roared overhead in a
memorial service Monday for a
Marine Corps’ fighter ace who sur
vived wars abroad only to die in
violence in his own home.
Maj. Gen. Marion Carl, 82, who
shot down 18 enemy aircraft in
World War II and won two Navy
crosses, was killed by a shotgun
blast to the head June 28 while
lunging to protect his wife from a
robber who kicked down the door
to their southern Oregon home.
“When we speak of heroes, he
was one,” said retired Gen. Joe
Foss, the Marine Corps’ greatest
ace with 26 kills during World
War II. “If young folk would just
set their eyes on people like that,
we wouldn’t have punks like the
one that ended Marion’s life.”
More than 800 people, many of
them veterans, attended the ser
vice at Umpqua Community Col
lege, which like Carl’s home is
perched on a bluff overlooking the
spectacular North Umpqua River.
Black-and-white images of Carl
flashed over the flag-draped coffin
to chronicle his rise from Hub
bard, Ore., farmboy, to fighter ace
over Guadalcanal and Midway, to
test pilot and finally squadron
commander in Vietnam.
Joe Rees, a friend, neighbor and
fellow test pilot, recalled how Carl
at one time held world speed and
altitude records, but remained
humble and gentle and had read
the Bible all the way through three
times.
"Marion knew where fear be
longed,” Rees said. “But he didn’t
let it get in the way. We saw that
just a few nights ago up the river. ”
While the service was going on,
a sheriffs detective flew to South
ern California to question the sus
pect in the slaying.
Jesse Stuart Fanus, 19, was ar
rested in a Pasadena, Calif., phone
booth on Sunday after police
traced calls he was making to a
friend back in Oregon.
Carl’s 75-year-old widow, Edna,
who was grazed in the shooting,
last week picked Fanus’ picture
out of a photo lineup as the man
who kicked in the door, opened
fire with a sawed-off shotgun and
left with about $400 cash and the
couple’s car. The car was later
abandoned about 10 miles away,
and the gun and the keys were
found in the brush nearby.
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