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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
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