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Calendar Tuesday, Jan. 11 The Solar Information Center pres ents “Diet for a New America,” a video on the environmental im pact of the meat industry. 7:30 p.m. 177 Lawrence Half. For more information call 346-3696. Programs Finance Committee hearing. 5-9 p.m. EMU Board Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave. For more information call 346-0623. National Student Exchange Pro gram sponsors the last orientation meeting for students seeking placement for the 2000-2001 school year. All students welcome. 3:30-4:30 fim. EMU Umpqua room. For more information call Jessica Nelson at Academic Advis ing & Student Services center at 346-3211. ALL DAY TUESDAY ALL YOU CAN EAT EVERY TUES! includes Garlic Bread 11:30 am-10pm $025 with student ID PIZZA ?E.T£j g>673 Willamette • 484-0996 “this location only* Wet weather characterizes The Emerald City ■ The rain is once again upon us, or rather, all over us, soaking us to the core By Sara Lieberth Oregon Daily Emerald It’s relentless. Stubborn. Crafty. It gets in your shoes, on your clothes, sneaks into your back pack unnoticed and onto the floors of classrooms and hallways throughout campus. And after days on end of waking and falling asleep to its pitter-patter on win dows and roofs, it becomes ubiq uitous. Yes, the rainy season is upon us in Eugene, made only slightly bearable by the consequence of the city’s emblematic title of The Emerald City. To appreciate our excessively green surroundings, residents live with gray skies and precipitation downfall more months of the year than not. “It’s miserable,” said senior Bi ology major and Eugene native Brian Greenough. He said al though living in one of the wettest areas of the country his entire life might have helped him get used to it, sloshing through campus on a day like Monday never gets any easier. “After a workout it’s pretty nice, but that’s about it,” he said. More complicit in his response, Jason Amis said the incessant wet § CRIME WATCH (Reported Jan. 2 through Jan. 9) Jan. 2, Burglary t, 1800 block of Alder Street, apartment burglar ized, window broken. Jan. 6, Burglary!, 1800 biock of Harris Street, items stolen. Jan. 7, Assault IV/Attempted Rape, 1400 block University Street, fe male assaulted. Jan. 8, Criminal Mischief II, 700 block of East 16th Avenue, tires slashed. Jan. 8, Burglary 1,3100 block of Kinsrow Avenue, items stolen. Jan. 9, Disorderly Conduct/Crimi nal Mischief II, 700 block of East 16th Avenue, residents threatened with axe handle. weather conditions are par for the course in choosing to live in the Northwest. “It’s just the way it is,” he said. “I’ve been here for over four years and you get used to it. It’s no big deal.” George Taylor, the state’s offi cial climatologist since 1991, said residents of the Willamette Valley should take comfort in the fact that the area actually does not necessarily get more rain than an average East Coast or Midwest city. The difference, though, is that west of the Cascade Moun tains we experience a lot of rainy days each with a little bit of rain, relatively, as opposed to huge thunderstorms that characterize other parts of the country. “Certainly we live in a wet val ley,” he said, “but Eugene is actu ally below normal in rainfall for the year to date.” Taylor referenced the average to be 22.7 inches of rainfall meas ured from Oct. 1 through Mon day. So far, a mere 15.96 inches have graced the city since last fall. The long-term average for Eugene is 49.36 inches per year of rain fall. Decreasing temperatures often result in the valley of green being transformed into a valley of white, as snow dusted the tops of South Eugene and Coburg hills Students hurry to class under a sea Scott Barnett Emerald of umbrellas outside of Knight Library. around the city Monday. Oyer the last few days snowfall has in creased dramatically, according to Taylor, and numerous traffic advisories are in effect through out the state. ASUO voting continued from page 1 open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Duck Web is open all hours and stu dents can access it from the com puter lab or from their dorm room at midnight if they want,” Best said. Best also thinks Duck Web will make the elections more fair and make sure voting remains accu rate, which has caused problems in previous years. “With paper ballots, we could swipe students’ cards to see if they can vote. But with Duck Web we can also make sure that sci ence majors don’t vote for the law school [Student] Senate seat, for example,” Best said. 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I’liccN coot) ihoutih 01 1 5 00. AMI). k(>. k*. AMI) lojKi anti 3I)No\v! arc trademarks of AMI). Inc. Prices subject to change. Go I >ucks! crowds for those who want to vote on-line and those who want polling booths as part of the vot ing experience,” Best said. As a trial of the system, students were able to vote on Duck Web for last year’s primary election only. Although Best said the computer option didn’t increase voting ex cessively, he thinks the conven ience of and confidence in the sys tem will boost voter turnout this year. Junior journalism major Brian Boone agreed. He said he used Duck Web to vote in last year’s pri mary for tho convenience and will definitely use it this year as well. “It’s a good way to get those who don’t ordinarily vote, vote. What ever it takes to increase voting,” Boone said. However, sophomore sociolog}' major Erika Oreskovich said she worries about the problems that could arise by using a computer system and said she’d rather have a paper ballot system, which she feels would be less impersonal. “I didn’t vote last year, but be ing able to vote on-line isn’t going to get me out there. I’d rather see more information about the can didates and what they stand for,” Oreskovich said. Best said he thinks students will have increased confidence in Duck Web once they see how it works this year. “I liken it to absentee voting, which has become more and more popular in the state. A huge amount vote absentee now be cause they don’t want to go to the polls,” Best said. The deadline to file as a candi date for office is Friday, Jan. 21. Students interested in running for office need to pick up an elections packet in the ASUO office or call the ASUO Elections Board for more information at 346-3724. Scholarships continued from page 1 pie who don’t bother to spell check,” he said. The deadline for most Universi ty scholarships is Feb. 1, 2000, a date Buch said is not negotiable. Buch stressed the need for stu dents to apply immediately for scholarships, as well as for federal financial aid. “I would do it today,” he said. “There is nothing to be gained by waiting.” Jim Gilmour, the associate di rector of student financial aid, echoed Buch’s statements, noting that the majority of University stu dents receive federal and state fir nancial aid. “It’s important for them to apply right now for those,” Gilmour said. Deadlines are strict, and stu dents who wait until the last minute are likely to be left without any options, he said. * “There’s always a small group of people who put a great deal of ener gy into trying to get us to accept a late application,” he said. “They could have spent that [energy] working on getting it in on time. ” To simplify the scholarship search process for students this year, the University created an on line database of scholarships, which is accessible through die University’s home page, Buch said. Malfunction continued from page 1 to those messages, but I can’t. “Communication is vital to what we do. That’s why we make such a big investment in the Au dix system,” be said. “Once in a while when the sys tem goes down we realize how im portant it is.” The failure was “absolutely not” related to any kind of Y2K problem, Tarlton said. There was no clear reason for the failure of the two computer chips. “It’s a mechanical device subject to failure,” he said. This was the first problem of its kind in the entire history of the OUS use of Audix systems. Audix systems are in use at seven univer sities across the state.
