Oregon great
nears finish
Senior Marie Davis has
put last season's upsets
behind her and is ready
for the NCAA Indoor
meet, the last for the
Ducks ’fi ve-time All
American. PAGE 7
The Flash
State Supreme Court
visiting University
The Oregon Supreme
Court will visit the Univer
sity today to hear cases on
search and seizure, over
time pay and new sen
tencing guidelines.
University students are in
vited to attend the pro
ceedings, which will be
held from 9 a.m. to noon
and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
This is an annual event
founded by the University
School of Law’s Legal
Research and Writing
Program.
The court will convene in
Room 175 at the William
W. Knight Law Center,
1515 Agate St. Call 346
3848 for more details.
First of EgyptAir 990
victims identified
PROVIDENCE, R.l. (AP) —
The remains of the first
victims of EgyptAir Flight
990 have been identified,
four months after the
plane plunged into the
ocean.
Medical, dental and fin
gerprint records were
used to determine the
identities of the 14 vic
tims— all U.S. residents
— paving the way for
families to bury their
relatives.
The EgyptAir flight
crashed Oct. 31 off the
Massachusetts island of
Nantucket, killing the 217
people on board. A sal
vage ship worked for a
week in December, rais
ing the wreckage and re
mains off the ocean floor.
Weather
Today Wednesday
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March 7,2000
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State university faculty underpaid
This is the
second of a
two-part
series about
faculty
salaries.
Monday:
Many Univer
sity faculty are
leaving for
better-paying
jobs at other
universities.
Today: Ore
gon universi
ties pay
among the
lowest faculty
salaries in the
country,
which could
be detrimen- i
taltothe
quality of e j
duration.
■ Faculty at Oregon
universities are making
up to $18,000 less than
the national average
By Jessica Blanchard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Faculty within the Oregon
University System, armed with
statistics to back up their com
plaints, have become increas
ingly vocal in recent months on
the topic of faculty salaries,
which they believe are too low.
Most recently, about 80 facul
ty, staff and students, many
from Western Oregon University
in Monmouth, rallied for higher
faculty salaries at the Feb. 18
meeting of the Board of Higher
Education at the University.
Holding signs with slogans
such as “University Professor
with Ph.D. — will teach 4
food,” instructors and students
relayed their message that
when faculty are underpaid,
morale falls, productivity goes
down and faculty recruitment
and retention become more dif
ficult.
Some board members have
responded positively to faculty
pleas for higher salaries. Geri
Richmond, a board member
and chemistry professor at the
University, responded to facul
Turn to Faculty pay, page 6
Dean Braa, a sociology professor and faculty union president at Western Oregon University, speaks
about low salaries, which he says do not adequately reflect the faculty’s high workloads.
Internship experience a must for graduates
Employment in Oregon
Professional and technical jobs are projected to account for
nearly 30 percent of employment growth in the next 8 years.
| percent of growth 1998-2008
m percent of employment in 1998
SOURCE: Oregon Employment Department
Katie Nesse Emerald
■ Even in a thriving job
market, a college degree
does not guarantee a job
after graduation
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
Even in Oregon’s strong econ
omy, which boasts its lowest
unemployment rate in four
years, the most sought after jobs
aren’t just handed to any college
graduate who walks in the door.
Just ask Suzanne Stainbrook,
a planning analyst for Adidas in
Beaverton. Stainbrook graduat
ed from the University in 1998
with a degree in business ad
ministration and her eye on a
career in the competitive fields
of finance and sports marketing.
“It’s pretty fortunate,” Stain
brook said of landing her post
right out of college, but it was
what she did while still in
school that gave her a competi
tive advantage.
“I did a lot of internships and
had a feel for what I wanted,”
she said.
Internships and other prepa
rations outside of the classroom
are exactly what graduates need
to be doing, said James Chang,
assistant director of undergrad
uate career services for the
Lundquist College of Business.
“The job market is good, but
it’s not a time for students to let
their guard down,” he said.
Turn to Internships, page 4
Its not a
time for stu
dents to let
theirguard
down.
James Chang
assistant director
undergraduate
career services
New Website offers
computer guidance
In a computer
age, local
organizations
make it
possible for
low-income
computer
novices to get
connected
I
By Brian Goodeli
Oregon Daily Emerald
In his most recent State of the Union address,
President Clinton said information is the princi
pal measure of wealth. In an age when dot-coms
dominate the flow of information, many are blam
ing a lack of access to Internet technology on the
increase in the gap between the rich and the poor.
In Lane County, computer savvy volunteers
and social service workers are trying to reduce
this poverty gap through education and making
information available to everyone.
A Web site called TheLane opened in No
vember to help Lane County residents find local
Turn to Web site, page 6
Groups set thier sights
on housing concerns
■ Pinpointing the problem of renters'
rights is the easy part, although fixing
them will be more difficult
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Help is on the way for students who find their
living situations to be less than satisfactory.
Since fall term of last year, the ASUO, along
with the Oregon Student Public Interest Re
search Group, has been spearheading a cam
paign for renters’ rights. The action seeks to dis
cover the problems students meet when renting a
Turn to Renters* rights, page 6