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TIAA-CREF invites you to the Eugene-Corvallis Financial
Education Seminar, an event designed to help you become
more savvy about your finances. By attending the complimen
tary session, you will gain the knowledge you need to reach
your financial goals.
Topic I: Saving For Your Financial Goals
• Mutual Funds
• Roth IRAs, Classic IRAs, and SRAs
• Tuition Savings Programs and the Education IRA
Topic II: Choosing Income Options
• Lifetime Annuity Income
• Cash Withdrawal and Interest-Only Options
• Tax and Estate Planning
Mark your calendar!
Monday, November 1,1999
Oregon State University, Corvallis
The LaSells Stewart Center, Ag Science Room
Topic I: Saving for Your Financial Goals, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Topic II: Choosing Income Options, 7:45 - 8:45 pm
Tuesday, November 2,1999
Valley River Inn
1000 Valley River Way, Eugene
Topic I: Saving for Your Financial Goals, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Topic II: Choosing Income Options, 7:45 - 8:45 pm
Light refreshments will be served. Guests are welcome.
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Students retreat
to learn languages
The class requirement fora
passing grade is not
speaking English
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University offers a class in
which students can sing, dance
and enjoy themselves for two days
in the seclusion of nature, and the
only requirement is no speaking
and dancing cultural dances give
students the chance to relieve
pressure and become involved
physically while “experiencing
language in its most beautiful
form,” Plant said.
Serina Leedy, a junior majoring
in education studies, said the re
treat helped her improve her
Spanish skills.
“I thought it was really great,
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- uugiiau,
that is.
The class is
an interna
tional lan
guage retreat
designed for
students who
have complet
ed a minimum
of one term of
11 / thought it was really great,
very fun and made me much
more comfortable with the lan
guage.
Serina Leedy
junior
made me much
more comfort
able with the
language,”
Leedy said.
Plant said
the solitude of
the Girl Scouts
facility in
lasper is essen
Spanish, Italian, French or Ger
man and is coordinated by the De
partment of Germanic Languages
and Literatures. The course is
worth one upper-division German
credit, and speaking English is the
only conduct that guarantees fail
ure.
Associate Professor of German
Emeritus Helmut Plant launched
the program in 1982 with a retreat
exclusively for German students.
By 1997, the enrollment of Ger
man students had declined and
students studying other languages
showed interest in the retreats,
which are worth one upper-divi
sion German credit.
Now there is an international
language retreat once a term, a
Spanish language retreat once
every winter term and a German
language retreat every spring.
Last weekend, Plant took 32
students to Jasper for an interna
tional retreat. To break the ice im
mediately, Plant thought of a
game where students were forced
to ask each other questions and
engage in foreign language con
versations.
Students disclosed a secret
about themselves ahead of time
and then had to decipher fellow
students’ secrets without speaking
English.
Plant said students get involved
in the game right away and quick
ly forget about their apprehen
sions. Singing traditional songs
tial to the success of the retreat.
The isolation makes students feel
separated from an English-speak
ing world and is more productive
than simply sitting in a classroom
for 50 minutes.
“I love being forced to use my
German,” said Brian Jennaro, a se
nior majoring in economics and
business and a former participant
of the retreat. Many students are
surprised when they realize how
much of the foreign language they
know, Plant said.
As the only chaperone, Plant
said he relies on students’ honesty
about only speaking foreign lan
guages during the retreat.
After one retreat, a participant
complained that the experience
was ruined for her when she
heard some of her peers speaking
English. Plant said the student felt
as if she was in a smoke-free envi
ronment and someone lit a ciga
rette and contaminated her lungs.
Plant is interested in finding in
ternational students whose native
languages are Spanish, French,
German and Italian to help partici- .
pants during the retreat. He said
students love to talk to native
speakers and learn more first
hand information about their cul
tures.
Students interested in the re
treat can contact Plant at 346-4062
for more information.
Hearing
Continued from Pagel
as proof of their status.
Both Brient and Warhol said
the criteria hold same-sex part
ners to a higher standard.
“If you want to apply reason
able tests, apply them to every
one, and that will show how rea
sonable they are,” Warhol said.
Documenting a same-sex part
nership is not an easy thing to do,
but the University is doing its best
to establish the criteria, said Jim
Arnold, policy associate at the
University who helped draft the
amendment.
“There is a difference between
marriage and domestic partner
ship,” he said. With marriage
there is a legal document they can
produce.”
Calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 20
Steven Shankman will lecture and the Phi Beta Kappa Thespians will
present scenes from the play “The Idea of Europe, Levinas and ShaKe
speare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’” from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the Alumni
Lounge, Gerlinger Hall. The event is free. For information, call Nan Cop
pock-Bland at 346-2221. An information session about Phi Beta Kappa
membership qualifications and a reception follow.
Author Leonard Schlain will read from and sign copies of his book
“The Alphabet vs. The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Im
age” at 7:30 p.m. in the Browsing Room of the Knight Library. For more
information, call Tom Gerald at 346-4331.
The Koinonia Center will offer “Sensing Beauty: Art, Imagination and
God-talk” a conversation with the Rev. Tiare Mathison-Bowie at 4 p.m.
The center is located at the comer of 14th Avenue and Kincaid Street.
For more information call 484-1707.