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5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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Track I
Marketing/Sales Panel
5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
»- Sports Bus. Marketing - Adidas
>- Public Relations - KVO Pub. Rel.
>■ Consumer Prod. - Black & Decker
>- Market Research - Ragatz Assoc.
Management Panel
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
>- HR Management - Sony Disc Man.
> Sales Manage. - Enterprise RAC
Account Management - Jeld-Wen
>• Product Manage. - E&J Gallo
Track II
Accounting Panel
5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
>- Regional CPA - Grant Thornton
>■ Big 5 Accounting - Andersen
>- Corporate Acct. - Prec. Cast. Corp.
Government Accounting - IRS
Finance Panel
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Coiporate Finance - Intel
>*■ Financial Advising - Am. Express
Banking - Wells Fargo
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News briefs
Kitzhaber to announce
revised budget plan
Gov. John Kitzhaber will hold a
press conference at 10 a.m. today
to announce his plan to re-balance
the 2001-03 state budget.
The announcement will come
nearly two weeks after Kitzhaber
released a preliminary plan of cuts
to the state budget totaling $830
million, Kitzhaber said the pro
posed cuts were intended only as a
starting point for debate about re
balancing the budget, and such
drastic cuts were neither responsi
ble nor politically possible.
Kitzhaber has been gathering
support among state lawmakers for
a plan that combines program cuts
with increased revenues. A special
legislative session is expected to
begin in early February, where law
makers will work to balance a
budget thrown into chaos by a pro
jected $700 million decrease in
state revenue and a $130 million
increase in costs due to medical
cost inflation in the Department
of Corrections.
Under Krtzhaber’s first plan, the
Oregon University System would
face $84 million in cuts.
— Leon Tovey
OSPIRG prepares
winter term campaigns
OSPIRG will hold its kickoff
meeting for winter term at 6:30 p.m.
today in the EMU Ben Linder
Room. Toxics advocate Rhett
Lawrence, from OSPIRG’s Portland
office, will talk about the impor
tance of student activism and in
volvement with environmental is
sues, Campus Organizer Jo
Voss said.
OSPIRG has introduced two new
campaigns this year along with
ASUO — Youth Vote 2002 and
New Energy Future. Youth Vote
2002 is designed to re-engage 18- to
24-year-olds in the political process
by increasing the number of regis
tered voters before the May 7
primary election.
New Energy Future is a nation
wide campaign designed to save
students money on their
utility bills.
Students can also get involved
with the Hunger and Home
lessness campaign and the
statewide Students for a Clean
Willamette campaign.
Junior Erek Fristensky, an envi
ronmental studies major, is prima
rily involved in the Students for a
Clean Willamette campaign. He
said this term students are pressur
ing governor candidates in the fall
election to adopt a plan to clean up
the “disgusting” river.
But he added that there are a
variety of ways students can
get involved in all of
OSPIRG’s campaigns.
Senior Jerod Hodge just decided
to join OSPIRGthis term.
“It’s a good place to meet people
who care about the same issues
and social problems in our com
munity,” he said.
— Diane Huber
Transferring
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to leave had nothing to do with the
University itself.
“I really did love Oregon, and I
don’t regret going to school there,”
Hertzel said. “I really enjoyed my
self except for not having the peo
ple I wanted around. There’s a part
of me that wishes I was still there
— but I’m happier here.”
Students of all ages and academ
ic years decide to leave the Univer
sity for a variety of reasons, Buch
said. But he added that a study
commissioned by Enrollment Ser
vices showed some trends amid
students’ unique reasons for com
ing and going.
According to the 1999 survey,
many students who eventually left
complained about a lack of fi
nances. Those problems ranged
from inability to pay tuition, to
frustration with the University’s fi
nancial aid process, to a perceived
lack of scholarship opportunities.
Social problems such as
Hertzel’s also contributed to stu
dent attrition, the. survey said.
Some popular comments students
made on the survey referred to so
cial conditions, such as “fitting
in,” roommate problems, the effect
the rain has on morale and too
much partying.
According to Buch’s most recent
statistics, 93.4 percent of the stu
dents initially enrolled at the Uni
versity in fall, 2001 stayed for win
ter term. First-time freshmen have
had the highest fall-to-winter drop
out total, with 124 students.
Graduate students have the high
est percentage of attrition, however,
with 9.2 percent dropping out be
tween fall and winter terms.
Of undergraduate students, 58
percent of the drop-outs in 1999
were upperclassmen.
“Dropping out doesn’t necessarily
mean they have stopped going to col
lege altogether,” Buch said. “We just
don’t know where they are; they’re
Ducks who strayed from the flock.”
But as Ducks leave the flock, oth
ers waddle in to try their luck.
Nearly 500 new faces can be seen
around the University this term.
Transfer students including junior
international studies major Brady
Barksdale comprise a significant
portion of these new additions.
Barksdale initially expected to
transfer from Willamette Universi
ty in fall 2002, but he decided to act
sooner when an acceptance letter
came in the mail for winter 2002.
“It was a pretty spur of the moment
decision,” Barksdale said. “I had to
decide if I wanted to stick it out at
Willamette or try something new.”
Barksdale said he decided to
“Fora while,! just missed
my friends so much it was
distracting me. Then I’d talk
to them and think ‘What’s
the point of being here if all
I do is talk to my friends in
Arizona?”’
Emma Hertzel
freshman,
Arizona State University
come to the University because, as
a larger school, it had more to offer
than Willamette. At his former col
lege, Barksdale was an economics
major. Now, he said the University
allows him to focus on what he re
ally wants to study.
“I was always interested in inter
national studies,” Barksdale said.
“Willamette just didn’t offer any
thing like that.”
But Barksdale added that when
it comes to the social climate at the
University, winter term didn’t
seem like the best time to transfer.
“Everyone’s a little more down
beat; it’s not like people are play
ing Frisbee out on the quad,”
Barksdale said.
Since that time, Barksdale said he
has met many new friends,
including fellow new student
Greg Wallace.
Wallace is starting his college ex
perience at the University this term
as a first-time freshman. After writ
ing a letter of intent for Arizona State
University to play baseball, Wallace
tore his hamstring, ending his hopes
to play at the college level.
Wallace said the letter of intent
kept him from attending another
college fall term. For the next few
months, he worked two jobs at
home and waited to enroll at the
University.
“I was home for the whole fall
term, and I didn’t like that at all,”
Wallace said. “I’d talk to my friends
on the phone, and they were all
down here (at the University) having
a good time. If I would have had a
choice, I would have definitely start
ed fall term. I missed out on a lot.”
Wallace said his experiences
during fall term helped him realize
the value of a college education.
He said he doesn’t want to end up
working at a golf course for $9 an
hour for the rest of his life.
The most recent statistics report
that Wallace is among 42 freshmen
starting their college careers in
winter 2002.
Now, he is poised to earn a de
gree in business administration,
with an emphasis in sports market
ing. The new academic discipline
is a shock, he said, but there are
plenty of people around to lpnd
a hand.
“The best part of coming (to
the University) is joining (Car
son) hall and meeting a whole
bunch of people who have gone
through the college life,” Wallace
said. “They know what’s going
on; they know what to do. These
people are like guardians.”
Both Wallace and Barksdale *
agreed that a student population of
18,000 and complicated Universi
ty policies often make the transi
tion processes difficult.
“There are (registration) things
that I hoped to get done in the first
week,” Barksdale said. “But be
cause of the bureaucratic red tape,
it takes a long time to get things
like an academic adviser.”
However, new students said as
the year progresses, they will ad
just to University life.
“It’s a new adventure every
day,” Barksdale said.
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at marcushathcock@dailyemerald.com.
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