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Volleyball needs intensity to win Page 6 An independent newspaper http://www.dailyemerald.com Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 105, Issue 34 EDUCATING THE EDUCATORS Theater GTF J. Nick Dickert discusses paper grading and editing with three other University instructors during a training workshop on Tuesday called “The Joy of Rubrics." Adam Amato Photo Editor Building better teachers The Teaching Effectiveness Program is sponsoring workshops this week to help GTFs sharpen their teaching skills By Chelsea Duncan News Reporter Graduate Teaching Fellows are an integral part of the University's teaching team, often assisting professors and leading discussion sections or their own classes. While some GTFs may have little or no teaching experience, there are campus resources to help them improve their pedagogical skills. This week, GTFs can learn more about teaching in "Get Savvy" workshops sponsored by the University's Teaching Effectiveness Program. The workshops, which began Tues day and run until Friday, are available to all faculty and staff. Topics are diverse and include sessions on how to get students to talk, how to make the class more active and how to help students with difficult texts. The Teaching Effectiveness Program, a branch of Acade mic Learning Services, also offers workshops throughout the year for teachers who want to become more adept in the classroom. "I think anyone going into the classroom ... they should know what they're doing," TEP Director Georgeanne Cooper said. The TEP workshops are just one form of training GTFs may receive before taking on the responsibility of leading a discussion or lab section. Journalism GTFTara Lohan said assisting a professor helped her prepare for leading her own lab. "Initially it was difficult because I didn't have any teach ing experience, but it got easier as it went," she said. Lohan said she did have four years of professional ex perience as a writer for magazines and newspapers, which gave her the background needed on the material she would cover in class. But she added that learning how to teach students could only come through experience in the classroom. "A lot of stuff you have to sort of learn on the go," she said. Petra Hagen, graduate secretary for the University School of Journalism and Communication, said GTFs are select ed mosdy based on their past professional experience in a media- or journalism-related field. She added that GTFs have a working knowledge of the subject matter because many of them have taken the classes for which they lead discussion, and they often assist professors in a lecture be fore they move on to leading their own lab sections. Jeff Ostler, associate professor and head of the history Turn to GTF, page 3A Students face run-in with ‘the masturbator' A string of indecent exposure reports recently has prompted an EPD investigation as well as additional safety precautions by students By Ali Shaughnessy Senior News Reporter For most of her life, University student Libby Shannon has nev er been afraid of leaving her door unlocked. That all changed Saturday at 3:30 a m. Shannon and her roommate, University student Kristi Kraus, were the latest victims in a series of unwanted exposures by the infamous campus masturbator who is rumored to have been in the campus area since 2002. Shannon and Kraus had spent their evening at a few bars be fore heading back to their house with some friends. The two Uni versity seniors normally left their blinds open and the back door unlocked, until around 3:30 a.m. when they tromped into the kitchen for a late-night snack. "We were standing in the kitchen when some guy opened up the back door, walked into the kitchen and started to mastur bate," Kraus said. She identified the man as wearing khaki pants, a plaid shirt and an imitation of the mask used in the movie "Scream." Kraus and Shan non said it took a minute for them to understand what was going on; they initially thought the person was a friend of theirs pulling a prank Turn to MASTURBATOR, page 3A Sean Hanson Senior Graphic Designer 1. Feb. 2002: Multiple sightings in Pioneer Cemetery. 2. Feb. 4, 2003: Knight Library. 3. Feb. 11, 2003: The corner of East 19th Avenue and Alder Street and the corner of East 21st Avenue and Alder Street 4 Feb 22,2003: Clark Hall. 5. Feb. 25,2003: Dunn Hall. OSPIRG creates hotline for assisting student renters with the launch of their new Renter’s Rights Campaign, OSPIRG helps educate tenants about rights and responsibilities By Chuck Slothower News Reporter University students who feel they are being mis treated by their landlords have a new ear to turn to. OSPIRG launched a free hotline on Tuesday for students who need help facing rental prob lems. Representatives of the group said they want to inform students of their rights as tenants and the legal obligations of their landlords. OSPIRG plans to operate the hotline — 346-HELP — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays year-round. "Eugene is unique in that it doesn't have a housing code," University OSPIRG Chairman Tim Johnson said. "Renting is a huge issue for students and people in Eugene." Although the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group has crusaded for a cleaner Willamette River and chemical weapons disposal, Johnson said the new Renter's Rights Campaign addresses an issue that affects more students. "More than three-quarters of students rent in the city at large," Johnson said. One community leader agreed that the hot line would help. "That's a big step," said Paul Reader, owner of Pegasus Smokehouse Pizza and a founding mem ber of the West University Task Force. "Virtually none of (the students) know their basic tenant rights. They are basically bulldozed by many of the landlords by their ignorance and apathy." Johnson said that OSPIRG sees a clear need for the hotline. "About every month, we get 10 to 20 people in the office that come in for renting services," Turn to OSPIRG, page 4A WEATHER LOW 46 HIGH 54 INSIDE Campus buzz.4A Classifieds.7A Commentary..2A Crossword.7A Nation & World.3A Sports.4A NEXT ISSUE Get to know veteran rock music critic Richard Meltzer
