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ried,” Cardiff said. “Now it’s what
ever you define as a family.”
Cardiff said the previous rule,
which said couples had to be mar
ried to live together has changed
from the past, when only legally
married couples were allowed to
live in Family Housing. She said
the rule was changed about five
years ago.
“We pride ourselves in trying to
stay current with how people de
fine a family,” Cardiff said.
In order to live in Family Hous
ing, a registered University student
must be 21 or older, Cardiff said.
She said highest priority is given
to households with children, sec
ond priority is to graduate students
and then undergraduates.
Melissa Franzen’s situation is
considered in the highest priority
category with Family Housing be
cause she is a single parent work
ing towards a master’s degree in
middle-secondary special educa
tion.
“There's not enough legitimate
time in the day to spend with
kids,” Franzen said. “I’m a parent
first, but I also have to provide by
earning a degree, and it becomes a
balance.”
‘There’s not enough
legitimate time in the day
to spend with kids. I’m a
parent first, but I also have
to pro vide by earning a
degree, and it becomes
a balance.”
Melissa Franzen
student, special education
Her experiences are what Gaddi
ni calls “typical” struggles of a stu
dent trying to maintain a family.
“It’s an incredible balancing
act,” Gaddini said, “balancing
their child’s needs ... and doing
laundry and studying and going to
classes. They (single parents) real
ly have a major challenge, given
they do it all alone.”
Gaddini said 20 percent of the
parents in Family Housing are sin
gle parents such as Franzen. Uni
versity Housing tries to help these
students out — socially, financial
ly and academically.
Family Housing offers many so
cial programs and activities that en
courage families to do things to
gether, Gaddini said.
“We have activities for all ages,
from toddlers to seniors,” he said.
Cardiff said activities include
crafts, after-school sports, story
telling, movie nights and holiday
parties.
“It's more than just money and
affordability,” Cardiff said. “It's a
community of students trying to ac
complish the same things.”
Franzen said that the University
helps students with families by of
fering financial relief.
“They make education really
conducive to student parents,”
Franzen said.
She said the University was the
only school she knew of that provid
ed child care subsidies, which pays
up'to 50 percent of a parent’s child
care tuition, depending on need.
The apartments are also a bar
gain, Gaddini said, calling Family
Housing “the best deal in town.”
Grade submission receives makeover
By Marty Toohey
for the Emerald
Last year, University teachers
had to be on campus to submit their
final grades. This year, they can
submit them from anywhere in the
world because the University has
switched to grade submission via
Duck Web starting this term.
Teachers formerly submitted
grades on “bubble sheets,” similar
to the ones students use for multi
ple-choice tests. The sheets took up
massive amounts of paper, and the
“impact printers” that produce the
sheets are becoming obsolete and
difficult to maintain, according to
associate registrar Sue Eveland.
The bubble sheets will no longer be
used, according to Eveland.
“Impact printing is a thing of the
past,” she said. “We needed to
come up with a new system.”
Under the new system, teachers
submit their grades by logging onto
Duck Web and clicking on a link to
the grade submission screen. They
then select a class, the class roster
comes up and the teacher enters
each student’s grade.
After teachers have finished
entering grades for a class, they
can submit them as early as Nov.
29. Starting Dec. a, final grades
that have been submitted will be
posted on DuckWeb, and every
evening from Dec. 3 to Dec. 11
(the end of finals) the grades will
be updated.
“I think this will be convenient
for students and help them get their
grades sooner,” Eve land said, “but
I think it’ll also help teachers, be
cause this way there’s no reason for
students to bug teachers to tell
them their grades early.”
The Registrar’s Office is holding
seminars for faculty about using the
new grading technology. Schedules
of the seminars can be obtained by
contacting the Registrar’s Office.
Marty Toohey is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
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Franzen said she pays $510 a
month, which covers rent, utilities
and an ethemet connection.
Academically, University Hous
ing provides parents with resources
necessary to succeed, Gaddini said.
“Above all,” Gaddini said, “We
create an environment for house
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