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Students host annual Casino Night ■ University marketing association members hope casino night will be a winner for recruiters as well as job-seekers By Robin Weber Oregon Daily Emerald Business leaders and business hopefuls are betting on success at this year’s American Marketing As sociation Main Event. The event — which will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednes day in Gerlinger Lounge — is a casino night designed to match up aspiring students with potential employers. Slated for the same day as the University Career Fair, the Main Event offers live jazz by the Univer sity School of Music, appetizers and casino games including black jack, craps and poker. Admission is free. “This is not just a career event,” University AMA Chapter President Mei Huang said. “It’s a good way to have fun and talk to people in a re laxed environment.” The AMA is an association de signed to familiarize students with the marketing field and with the ca reer opportunities that await them. Association members learn about careers in marketing through speak ers and workshops scheduled throughout the year. Following a five-year tradition of linking students and employers, the evening offers a chance for com panies interested in hiring to meet with students looking for a job or an internship. While in the past it has drawn mostly from a pool of junior and senior business students, the aim of this year’s activity was to reach a broader audience, AMA Main Event Coordinator Claudia Ciobanu said. “This isn’t just for business ma jors,” she said. Ciobanu said the mixer is now aimed at students in all the professional schools as well as any other students hoping to make connections that can serve them in the future. In past years, Ciobanu said the event has been a success. ‘This is not just a career event Ifs a good way to ha ve fun and talk to people in a relaxed environment ” Mei Huang president, AMA University chapter “Everyone was a winner,” she said. “Some won prizes. Some scheduled interviews.” AMA Professional Liaison Derek Weber also saw the benefits. Two of his peers made career connections through the Main Event, he said. Weber advised students attending the activity to bring a resume for wno; University chapter of the American Marketing Association What* 6ih annual Main Brent —Casino flight When: 4:30-7 p<m. Wednesday Where: Gerlmger Lounge Cost Free the recruiters and to dress profes sionally. While the event is de signed as a social, its main purpose is still for business. “(The recruiters) know they’re at the event to meet people,” Weber said. “But they also know they’re here to have fun.” Recruiters from more than a dozen companies in advertising, public re lations and management, including Main Event corporate sponsor Meier & Frank as well as American Express and Fred Meyer, are scheduled to at tend. While results vary from year to year, AMA members are optimistic about this year’s turnout. “If only a couple of people get in terviews,” junior AMA member Tim Germer said, “that’s the whole point.” E-mail reporter Robin Weber at robinweber@dailyemerald.com. ASUO drops grievance filed against PFC ■The recent grievance filed by Commentator publisher Bret Jacobson isn’t ‘ripe for review’ Kara Cogswell Oregon Daily Emerald On Tuesday, the ASUO Constitu tion Court dismissed a grievance filed by Oregon Commentator publisher Bret Jacobson against the ASUO Pro grams Finance Committee. Justice Michael Harris wrote in the opinion that the grievance is not “ripe for review” because PFC has not yet voted on whether to ap prove the Commentator’s mission statement. The PFC voted to postpone vot ing on the Commentator’s mission statement and budget during its Jan. 17 meeting because it express es a conservative philosophy. According to the mission state ment, the Commentator provides “students with an alternative to the left-wing 11BjP'.1Wtfl|lW | orthodoxy pro mo^ecj by the other student publications, professors and student groups.” PFC voted JACOBSON unanimously to strike the phrases “left-wing,” “political” and “conservatism” from the mission statement. According to PFC member Joe Streckert, the ASUO Green Tape Notebook rules prohibit groups re ceiving student fee funding from being affiliated with a political party. In the grievance, Jacobson said Streckert had not fulfilled his du ties as a committee member. The court dismissed this charge as well, again because PFC has not voted on the mission statement. The Commentator’s next PFC hear ing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 5. According to the Constitution Court, Jacobson may file another grievance after PFC makes a final decision about the Commentator’s mission statement. E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell atkaracogswell@dailyemerald.com. News brief Conflicted interests surround east campus The Fairmount Neighborhood Association met Tuesday to dis cuss its relationship with the University regarding the east campus area. Members of the association dis agreed with one another on a num ber of issues, ranging from a prop erty development agreement between the neighborhood and the University to whether association President Laura Marriott can ade quately keep association members informed under its current com munication systems. University Planning Director Chris Ramey and University As sociate Vice President Jan Oliver attended the meeting. Ramey talked briefly about the Universi ty’s plans to work with the asso ciation to update a 20-year-old agreement guiding the develop ment of University-owned prop erty in the area. Comments from the association ranged from support for updating the 20-year-old agreement to insis tence that all parties adhere to the plan as-is. Some in the association also raised objections to the Uni versity’s new childcare center, sit ed for the southeast corner of 17th Avenue and Columbia Street. Association member Christine Bradshaw, who thought the prop erty development agreement should be honored as-is, said the University violated the agreement by not informing the entire neigh borhood association. Marriott, however, said the University had not violated the agreement be cause she had met with represen tatives from the University. Many association members, including Bradshaw, then expressed concern that Marriott had not kept the neighborhood well-informed. “If somebody’s as involved in the neighborhood as I am, and I didn’t know that a childcare cen ter is going in, that’s just not right,” Bradshaw said. Oliver said the University would continue to work with the association, but hoped to hear a more unified voice from it soon. — Marty Toohey Forum continued from page 1 EMU administrators and Cultural Forum coordinators submitted one budget Wednesday night, and the Cultural Forum presented a revised mission and goal statement to the board as well. Budget committee mem bers and EMU administra tors had objected to the origi nal statement submitted by the program, which had in cluded the reinstatement of Cultural Forum program co ordinator Linda Dievendorf as a goal. The budget committee will submit the SARO and Cul tural Forum budgets to the EMU Board for approval Feb. 6. Budgets can not be final ized without a vote by the board. E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com. wivyvii wu BERG’S SKI BUS to Willamette Pass, Mt. Bachelor & Hoodoo! IM ■te Sign up at Berg’s! 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