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Museum hosts open house
■The Museum of Natural
History offers many volunteer
opportunities for those
interested
By Anna Seeley
for the Emerald
The Museum of Natural History
will be opening its doors after-hours
today to serve refreshments and get the
word out about its volunteer program.
The museum is hosting an open
house to give out information about
its volunteering opportunities. The
event, which will be held from 5:15
p.m. until 6:15 p.m. in the museum
lobby, will be an informal way for
people to talk to current museum
staff members and volunteers.
“This is going to be a very low
key event,” said Linda Yoder, muse
um store manager. “It’s a way for us
to talk to people that come in and
give them some preliminary infor
mation and paperwork to consider.”
People who go to the open house
will not be committing to volunteer
ing at the museum just by attending.
Museum employees want interest
ed people to consider the time com
mitment before volunteering. How
ever, the museum relies heavily on
its volunteers and is in need of
more, Yoder said.
“When I first started, we had a lot of
volunteers,” said Nancy Draper, a vol
unteer. “But now poor Linda [Yoder]
has a hard time filling the schedule.”
There are many opportunities for
people to get involved at the muse
um. The museum needs volunteers
to work in the museum gift shop,
work at the front desk greeting
guests and answering questions,
and work in the courtyard with na
tive planting, Yoder said.
For a more outgoing person, be
ing a docent is another way to aid
the museum. A docent (Latin for
“guide”) is in charge of leading tour
groups that visit the museum.
“A lot of people who do that are
teachers, but anyone interested in
learning and teaching can do it,” Yo
der said.
Denis McCarthy has volunteered
at the museum for 15 years, both as a
docent and as a front desk worker.
He said he loves being a volunteer
and would recommend it to others.
“[Being a volunteer] didn’t threat
en me, but it challenged me,” Mc
Carthy said. “I benefit more than
anyone ever taken through here be
cause we have all these interested
people coming and interested peo
ple working here. ”
The museum does not have a huge
training program, Yoder said, but it
does have some procedures to help
new volunteers get acquainted with
the museum. Most of the jobs are not
difficult to learn and can be taught by
shadowing, and museum employees
ask that volunteers attend meetings
periodically, Yoder said.
“We don’t expect people to be ex
perts when they first come in,” Yo
der said. “Part of the fun of volun
teering is learning.”
To be a docent requires more
training. There is no set script for
the docents to follow, so they start
out by doing a tag-along with the
other docents.
“Docent training is more one-on
one,” Yoder said. “They usually
start out by being comfortable with
one exhibit and I shadow them and
give them feedback on their tour.”
The museum volunteers said
they love the job and the people
they work with.
“This is the most wholesome, re
warding, relaxing thing I do,” Mc
Carthy said. “It helps you under
stand a lot about the world, and it’s a
great way to learn about Oregon. ”
EWEB
continued from page 1
would be short-sighted.
“We don’t want to be forced to en
danger our reserves,” Anderson
said.
Varner and the EWEB staff decid
ed not to propose the previously
discussed inverted rate model,
which would charge residents more
for the power that exceeded a cer
tain level of use.
Varner said a flat rate would be
more effective to enact now than an
inverted rate model.
Public opinion has been split be
tween an inverted rate and a flat rate,
and on Tuesday night, one commu
nity member said he supported the
inverted rate because it would best
promote power conservation.
“The purpose of the board should
not be to protect some people or
some businesses, but to promote
conservation, ” Bob Cassidy said.
“Save the salmon, keep the air clean
and promote conservation.”
Hugh Perrine, another Eugene
resident who came to speak about
rate increases, said the 5.4 percent
increase was good, but a 15 percent
increase was better.
“We need an increase that reflects
the economic reality of what’s hap
pening right now,” Perrine said. “If
anything, it’s important to make the
increase as soon as possible so peo
ple can prepare for them.”
Varner said some EWEB staff
members thought a 15 percent in
crease would send the best conser
vation signal, but 5.4 percent is the
minimum threshold for rate in
creases to start at.
“This rate sends a good founda
tion,” EWEB general manager
Randy Berggren said.
Despite Varner’s confidence in 5.4
percent as an appropriate increase,
EWEB Commissioner Sandra Bishop
was still hesitant to make a decision.
“It’s difficult to make a decision
when the information we are getting
keeps changing,” Bishop said. “But
I know we need to take action in this
sitting.”
EWEB Vice President Peter Bartel
agreed that a decision needed to be
made, and said the board should
The Eugene Water and Electric
Board’s rate increase in comparison
with other rate increases by
Northwest publicly owned utilities:
Snohomish Public Utility
(Snohomish County, Wash.)* raised
rates by 35 percent.
Seattle City light (Seattle, Wash.):
raised rates 18 percent.
Clark Public Utility (Clark County,
Wash.): raised rates by 20 percent.
EWEB(Eugene,Ore.): raised rates by
5.4 percent.
vote on the 5.4 percent if that was
the most beneficial to the public.
“If 5.4 percent gets us to a safe
place, then let’s do it,” Bartel said.
The board also looked at what
EWEB can do within its own busi
ness to cut back on electricity use,
and how businesses on special con
tracts could help in the conserva
tion efforts. Both of these issues will
be decided at a later date.
The board will also still be look
ing at the possibility of an inverted
rate later in the year.
Gambling
continued from page 1
Gambling Impact Study Commis
sion to report on the effects of gam
bling nationwide. In November
1998, the commission reported that
sports betting legally takes in $2.4
billion, and as much as $380 billion
is spent on illegal sports gambling.
H.R. 3575 is a direct response to
the commission’s recommendation
to eliminate legalized betting on col
lege sports. The House Judiciary
Committee favored the bill by a 19-9
vote. Congress has read the bill, but it
has been referred back to committees.
“The NCAA is very supportive of
the legislation,” said Jane Jankows
ki, the NCAA’s assistant director for
public relations. “Quite frankly,
when the bill was first introduced,
we did not think there would be
sufficient members behind it.
“Now we know the bill has a
chance to pass, and we are behind it.”
Reps. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
and Tim Roemer, D-Ind., originally
introduced the bill in February
2000. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., are
sponsors of the Senate counterpart.
Graham Spanier, president of
Pennsylvania State University and
chairman of the NCAA’s Division I
Board of Directors, has testified be
fore Congress in favor of the bill.
Several other sports figures, includ
ing Big Ten Conference Commis
sioner Jim Delany, University of
South Carolina head football coach
Lou Holtz, University of Kentucky
men’s basketball head coach Tubby
Smith and Dean Smith, former
head coach of the University of
North Carolina’s men’s basketball
team, have gone before Congress to
testify in support of the bill.
The Nevada Gaming Commission
made several counter-proposals to
the NCAA regarding collegiate sports
wagering, including a proposal to
limit all college sports bets to $550
and eliminate legal wagering on high
school and Olympic sports.
In an October 2000 press release,
the NCAA called the proposals “a
smokescreen” and rejected diem. The
press release also said that that by pro
posing a $550 limit, the Nevada Gam
ing Commission is acknowledging
that illegal bookmakers come to Neva
da to pay off large sums of money.
The Emerald attempted to reach
management at Las Vegas Sports
Consultants, a sports gambling
agency that establishes point spreads
and over-under numbers for games,
but a receptionist said that the com
pany will not allow employees to
talk to media for “the next few
months,” and that the company re
cently changed management.
The gambling impact commis
sion found that legal gambling on
sports feeds illegal gambling activi
ty. Opponents of the bill argue that
it would not address the larger is
sue of illegal college sports wager
ing and bookkeeping, or manage
ment of a gambling organization.
The bill’s proponents argue that it
is intended only as a starting point.
Jankowski said the NCAA does not
feel that the bill will lead to increased
illegal gambling on college sports.
Randy Sealby, a special agent in
the FBI’s Chicago bureau, said that
to his knowledge, the FBI has re
leased no official statement about
the bill because its effects cannot be
determined.
Sealby also said that most book
keepers rely on point spreads creat
ed at Las Vegas consulting agencies.
If sports gambling is made illegal in
Nevada, the bookkeepers would
not have access to the currently
available range of betting odds and
may decide to stop taking bets as a
result.A sports wager is legal only if
one is physically in Las Vegas, ac
cording to Sealby.
“Point spreads start in Las Ve
gas,” said Sealby. “If you didn’t
have that, you might not have the
offshoots, and it might just dry up.
We really don’t know.”