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Project Safe Place
begins fund raising
■Coffee, chocolate and
cookieswillbesoldto raise
money for chi Id renin
crisis situations
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Caffeine is the key to surviving
finals week. At least, that’s what a
local charity is betting on.
Project Safe Place, which pro
vides information and support to
teenagers in crisis, will be selling
gift boxes filled with coffee,
chocolate and cookies today and
Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
outside the University bookstore.
At $5 per box, the packages will
be white boxes with yellow rib
bons and tags reading, “Good luck
on your finals.”
“They’re for students to enjoy or
buy for friends during dead week,
and the proceeds will go to chil
dren in need,” said Project Safe
Place coordinator Jill Bishop.
A national program founded in
1983 by the YMCA Center in
Louisville, Ky., Project Safe Place
is a network of businesses and or
ganizations that help 11- to 17
year-olds who Eure runaways,
homeless or in crisis.
The contents of the boxes were
donated by Starbucks, Fenton &
Lee and Chocolate Decadence.
Investment
continued from page 1
The group has to give the first 5
percent of any earnings to DA
Davidson but gets to keep half of
the remaining 95 percent. The oth
er half goes to DA Davidson as well.
“We treat it like it’s our own
money,” said George Kosovich, a
senior finance business major and
director of investments for the
group. “It gives us incentives, and
it gives [DA Davidson] some re
turn too.”
Senior finance business major
and the group’s director of opera
tions Steve Zogas, said he often
stumbles to his computer after get
ting up in the mornings to check
how the group’s stocks are doing,
and other members come into the
office to see how the market is do
ing every day.
Together with Zogas and Adam
Barycza, director of information
and a senior business finance ma
jor, Kosovich started the group in
the fall of 1998. However, their
dream of investing real money did
not become a reality until this fall.
“I think what motivated a lot of
us was an interest in real world ap
plication,” Kosovich said.
Zogas said students spend
about 20 hours a week analyzing
different industries and stocks
and preparing recommendations
on which stocks to invest. After
presentations on stocks and in
dustries, the group, which cur
rently has about 20 members,
takes a vote. The majority decides
how the money is invested.
Barycza said working with the
Starbucks store manager Steven
Traffas said the coffee shop donat
ed about $200 worth of coffee.
“Normally, we don’t give so
much,” he said. “The store had a
surplus, and it was a good oppor
tunity to get rid of it and to have
the benefit go to somebody else. ”
Fenton & Lee owner Janele
Smith said her company donated
about 30 chocolate replicas of the
University seal.
“Our emphasis has been deal
ing with youth,” Smith said. “This
seemed like it was along that same
vein.”
Project Safe Place has partici
pating businesses in Springfield
and the Bethel neighborhood in
Eugene, and Bishop hopes to ex
pand the program throughout Eu
gene during the next two years.
“We try to intervene before
youths take things into their own
hands,” Bishop said.
When a child seeks help at a Pro
ject Safe Place business, identified
by a diamond-shaped yellow and
black sign, an employee calls a lo
cal emergency center, which sends
a volunteer to the scene to offer the
youth food, shelter or advice.
Last year, Project Safe Place
helped 32 youths deal with prob
lems ranging from rape to family
disputes, Bishop said.
Bishop said she hopes to sell
200 gift boxes.
investment group takes up as much
time as part-time employment.
“It’s like having a job,” Barycza
said.
But then again, it’s not.
“You are surrounded by people
who have the same interests as
you and like doing the same
things, and we really are a cohe
sive group. It’s one for all and all
for one,” Barycza said. “You don’t
think of it as work. ”
The group is currently investing
in such companies as Lucent
Technologies, American Eagle
Outfitters and InFocus System.
Zogas said the group refuses to fol
low the current trend of putting all
ihonies into brand new startup In
ternet “dot-com” companies but
tries to invest mostly into compa
nies in the Northwest.
“That kind of gives us a niche
market,” he said.
Zogas said active membership
in the investment group has given
students an edge in the job market.
He said he and three other stu
dents have signed contracts with
investment banks on Wall Street,
which he attributes to his work
with the investment group.
“Oregon isn’t exactly on the map
for investment banking,” he said.
Working with the group has
complemented their classroom
experience at the University with
some experience investing real
money. The group hopes to be able
to manage some of the Universi
ty’s endowment soon. Kosovich
said being able to invest Universi
ty funds would show that the Uni
versity trusts its students and its
classroom education.
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