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.
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