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! LESBOP ALOOZA
★ The Murmurs ★ Alix Dobkin ★ Sarah Dougher
★ Madigan Shive ★ Deb Cleveland Band
★ The Culottes ★ Stephan
★ Tracy + the Plastics
AGATE HALL, APRIL 29, 2000
Gates open at 1:00. Show 1:30 to midnight
Tickets available at EMU ticket office;
Mother Kali's Books, 720 E. 13th; Students Si 5, General $20
For more information call 346-3360 or e-mail lgba@gladstone
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ous businesses abroad.
“What we’re really trying to do
is create something that is totally
unique,” Bleakney said.
After traveling throughout Eu
rope, Bleakney became frustrated
with the outdated information in
his guidebooks. As an avid Web
surfer, he made a connection be
tween his need for current infor
mation and the ability of the In
ternet to do just that.
A year and a half later and a lot
of hard work have found
Bleakney and the other eight full
time staff members at
Wherenext.com watching their
project take off.
“I think it’s pretty cool that
we’re jumping right in and trying
to do something,” Knudson said.
“It’s a great opportunity to do
something like this right now.
We’re full of enthusiasm ...
[about] adding a new category to
the possibilities that are out
there.”
Wherenext.corn’s primary goal
is to simplify the traveling
process for young travelers.
“We’re trying to be different
with our content,” Bleakney said.
“It’s fun to read. It’s funner to
read than just the standard guide
book.”
All this is in “real time,”
which means that the informa
tion is updated continually. Cy
ber cafes — restaurants that pro
vide Internet access — are more
popular in Europe than in the
United States. These make the
method of seeking travel infor
mation on-line even more con
venient for travelers, Bleakney
said.
Also, the information comes
directly from city representatives
who are living abroad and know
the hot spots young travelers
would want to see. They act both
as guides and marketing repre
sentatives with local businesses.
“The real advantage is just get
ting the inside ... [on] the other
side of the street,” French said.
Six cities are currently being
covered, including Paris; Flo
rence, Italy; Amsterdam, the
Netherlands; Prague, Czechoslo
vakia; Dublin, Ireland; and Bern
er Oberland, Switzerland. Every
two weeks, Wherenext.com will
launch a new one, with Vienna,
Austria, the next to arrive. Even
tually the number of cities will
grow to 50.
The city representatives are
not the only ones checking out
{ ( It’s a resource that I
think a lot of people have
been looking for for a
while.
Kaarin Knudson
Wherenext.com
editor in chief
n
the world; Wherenext.com has
hundreds of intern contributors
around the globe who offer their
perspectives as well. Traveling
students who choose to partici
pate in Wherenext.com in this re
spect have the opportunity to
earn intern credit through their
universities, Bleakney said.
In addition, people may be
come members of
Wherenext.com and receive spe
cial benefits such as a discount
card that provides deals at busi
nesses in the represented cities.
The card offers discounts for
things such as car rentals and ski
ing
The Web site is also trying to
build a network of communica
tion through which travelers may
connect with each other abroad.
What this mea,ns for college stu
dents destined abroad is that
they now have a wealth of infor
mation at their fingertips. They
can pick and choose which infor
mation is relevant to their trips,
place it in a “shopping cart,” and
print out their own personalized
guidebooks, Bleakney said.
“I think what the Internet al
lows people to do is really build
a community,” Bleakney said. It
will “allow someone to meet oth
er people while they’re traveling
... Experience individually but
travel communally.”
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tend the meetings, which happen
twice a year and have been going
on for three to four years, said Linda
King, director of human resources.
Cox was invited on this occasion
because much of the contract nego
tiations that affect classified em
ployees, who are members of the
((/ was embarrassed
for the chancellor, and I
was offended for my
brother.
Debi Baker
Knight Library staff
Oregon Public Employees Union,
take place at the system level.
Other audience members were
also offended by Cox’s remarks.
Jane Poe, a management analyst
in the office of resource manage
ment, said that she thought Cox
was comparing himself to a wagon
train leader to explain his role and
duties as chancellor.
“I thought it was in poor taste,”
she said.
Debi Baker, an Orbis technician
in the Knight Library, said Cox’s
comments may have represented
a lack of understanding of classi
fied employees.
“It appears that our chancellor
has maybe not thought through
what classified employees mean
and the array of people we repre
sent on this campus,” Baker said.
“I understand where the chancel
lor was coming from, being raised
white.”
Baker is part North Carolina
Cherokee Indian, though she only
discovered her heritage when her
mother died, she said.
“I was embarrassed for the
chancellor, and I was offended for
my brother,” she said.
Not everyone in the audience
shared these views.
Cox’s comments “certainly did
not offend me,” said Jean Picker
ing, a secretary in the admissions
office. “I personally didn’t read
into it what [Clark] did.”
Clark, who walked out of the
meeting in disgust, said if his
grievance was not successful he
would seek redress of his com
plaint through other labor agen
cies or legal recourse.
“I am shaken,” he said. “It’s going
to take me a long time to recover. ”
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