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Intership listings for students ■ A Web site offers career related opportunities for students in various University departments By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald To ease students’ searches for internships, a new program has been created that will encourage stu dents “to go out and get experience. ” The program, called Participa tory Learning Experiences, brings together most of the campus de partments by emphasizing research projects as well as traditional intern ship opportunities. Established as part Of the University’s Process for Change, the program is based on a Career Center Web site. The new Web site — uocareer.uoregon.edu/ple — is a consolidation of internships from 25 University departments that of fer more than three dozen pro grams. The PLE program guaran tees students a pass/no pass credit for their participation. PLE director Don Van Houten, former degn of the College of Art and Sciences, said the Web site will make access to internships more convenient for students. “We don’t want to spend a lot of time spinning your wheels,” he said. The hopes of the members of the PLE advisory committee, which is composed of 10 professors and di rectors, is that the difficulty of find ing job experience will diminish. Finding internships “can be a confusing process for students,” said Beth Pfeiffer, Career Center assistant internship director . “This [database] will make it easy to get involved and make it a quali ty experience for students.” Internships or research oppor tunities “must be related to depart mental educational objectives,” in order to be listed as a PLE, accord ing to the Web site. “There’s no excuse anymore,” said Pam Cytrynbaum, internship coordinator for the School of Jour nalism and Communication. “Stu dents must be good consumers of the information available [and] want to go out and get experience. ” Individual PLE research projects are required to be closely supervised by a faculty member. A contract must also be signed by the student and supervisor that covers learning objectives, a position description and employer contact information. “Students don’t have to look all over any more,” said Pfeiffer, who serves on the PLE advisory com mittee. The PLE program is attracting the attention of departments that do not have any other type of in ternship system installed. “The journalism school has al Fake ID continued from page 1 Eyster said. “Almost like a prereq uisite after graduating high school, students 'get an ID before even coming here.” Each cf the related offenses car ry fines through the local court system, but in some cases multi ple agencies get involved to assess added charges. For instance, if a fake driver’s li cense is confiscated at a bar, it is then forwarded to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission [OLCC], which can issue a citation based on ORS 165.805, terming it a Class C misdemeanor. If you are so cited, the DMV has the power to suspend driving privileges up to one year. The official charge, minor mis representation of age, has a manda tory $265 fine attached, and can be expanded under the vehicle code [if the ID is a license] for an addi tional $500. A second offense war rants an automatic $500 fee. “If you falsify a license or misuse someone else’s you will be suspend ed from driving yourself,” DMV As sistant Supervisor Bob Comstock said. “Oregon has some of the strictest enforcements on the books and we follow them very closely. ” Doc’s Pad Manager Matt Bjerke said bouncers at his bar seize an average of 20 false IDs per week, many of which come from stu dents who are only months away from turning 21. “There are some really, really good IDs being used,” Bjerke said. “But it’s just not worth it, not worth the trouble they get in.” At Rennie’s Landing, where a busy weekend turns up at least 10 illegal IDs a night, bouncers like Jon Green pride themselves on be ing particularly adept at sniffing out fake cards at the door. “I’m very good at IDs,” Green said. His techniques include asking for separate, multiple pieces of identification if a presented card is “beat up enough,” or looking for alteration clues on the dates and numbers. Also, many states have “secret” combinations of digits, like expiration dates that add up to a specified number. Bars and restaurants are re quired to have on hand an OLCC booklet with detailed depictions of the license forms from all 50 states, updated annually. Dan Geyer, bar manager at Ren nie’s, said the holograms many states are adding to their placards is helping to make falsifying IDs more difficult. “Basically it’s a big game,” he said. “But I don’t think people real ize how ridiculous it is. Most of them only have a few months be fore they’re 21. 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