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what happened to his voter regis
tration card, Barden said, but he
hypothesized that it got lost some
where between the ASUO and the
elections office.
Koleszar said she followed up on
Barden’s complaint and contacted
the office.
“Someone went down there and
talked to Annette Newingham and
got it squared,” she said.
But Newingham said she hadn’t
heard of any such incidents, but if
such an incident occurred it was
probably because the students did
n’t know what to ask for.
“We’re trying to be really sensi
tive and figure out what people are
after,” she said.
Newingham said if a student
moved and did not update their ad
dress on their voter registration
card, they can come in, get a ballot
and update their voter registration
information.
“By law, we cannot forward bal
lots,” she said.
Lane County registered 25,000
voters this year and there are cur
rently a record 211,000 registered
voters in the county, Newingham
said. She added that it was possible
that errors arose from this year’s
surge of voter registration.
"When you register 25,000 cards
the reality is errors can occur,” she
said. “We’ve been working around
the clock; we’re very tired.”
Patty Wentz, a spokeswoman for
the Count Every Vote Project, said
there have been instances in which
voter registration cards may have
been thrown away. Sproul and As
sociates, an agency that was sub
contracted by the Republican Na
tional Committee for voter
outreach efforts, has recently been
accused of throwing away cards of
people who registered as Democ
rats because workers only get paid
for the number of people they reg
ister as Republicans.
“We were concerned that they
didn’t have a whole lot of motiva
tion to turn in (Democrats’ voter
registration cards),” she said.
Though official complaints have
only been registered in Portland,
Wentz said college campuses may
be especially vulnerable.
“If it could happen (in Portland),
it could happen anywhere,” she
said. Students who think they have
been a victim of this fraud should
call the Count Every Vote Project
Portland office at 503-236-605.
Barden said he won’t go try and
request another provisional ballot
and will likely just vote with his ab
sentee ballot from his registration
in Washington state.
“It’s too bad because the race in
Oregon’s a lot closer,” he said. “I’ve
lived here for a year and a half and
I figured I should start voting here.”
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share digital photos.”
In addition, the store offers student
prices on software like Adobe prod
ucts and Mac Operating System up
dates. The Digital Duck also reminds
students that if they receive financial
aid, they can get an extra disburse
ment for the purchase of a computer.
University senior Susan Horton,
who is majoring in family and hu
man services, recently got her laptop
with wireless access, which she says
she uses in the library. Horton said
she uses programs commonly uti
lized by students, such as word
processors, an Internet browser to
read e-mail and CD-burning software
to make mix CDs.
“I like wireless because I can take
my laptop to group meetings or to do
group work,” Horton said.
However, mobile technology is ad
vancing well past notebook comput
ers'. Microsoft recently came to the
University to showcase its Tablet PC,
a more interactive line of mobile com
puters that looks and is used like most
regular notebooks. A stylus connected
to the Tablet PC lets users write notes
directly on the screen or use it as a
mouse to navigate software. When
typing is preferred, a detachable key
board mounts to the computer.
“We come here to introduce note
taking software that changes how stu
dents take notes in class,” Microsoft
Market Manager David Saracino said.
Saracino demonstrated that a
Tablet PC in a classroom could con
nect wirelessly so students could
share notes together or record a lec
ture on a sound file and attach that to
any handwritten notes. The price tag
for this technology is around $2,000,
Saracino said.
More affordable mobile technolo
gies are Personal Digital Assistants
(PDA), such as those offered by Palm,
and Microsoft Pocket PC handhelds
that range in price from $99 to more
than $500. The low-end handhelds,
such as the Palm Zire, are equipped
with to-do lists and address books and
can be updated with different soft
ware, such as dictionaries or games.
Students who want an effective or
ganizer often go for a PocketPC or high
er-end Palm handheld that has a more
powerful processor and larger capacity.
Also, “smartphones,” or cell phones
with PDA functions, sell for around
$600 and combine great organizer
functions with a cellphone network for
making calls and using the Internet.
Students frequently employ simple
technological tools as well. Senior
Yuka Kono , an international student,
said she always carries a portable Ca
sio dictionary with her.
“Sometimes it’s hard to understand
what a teacher is saying in class and a
book dictionary just takes too long to
find the word,” Kono said.
Technology, however, isn’t the only
way to help students learn. Students
who are not getting the material pre
sented in class have another alterna
tive — the Academic Learning Services
department. ALS Instructor Amy Nuet
zman said students often come in if
they need help on an exam or essay.
“Throughout the year, we offer
classes, workshops, tutoring — more
interpersonal ways of helping students
that may need help with a foreign lan
guage class, for example,” Nuetzman
said. “Students often come in and ask
how they can learn to read faster or
tell me that they never had to take
notes in high school and so need help
now that they’re in college.”
The Student Disabilities depart
ment also helps students who need
assistance managing lectures and get
ting notes.
“We hire students already in the
class or we hire a professional typist for
lectures,” said Jackie Snider, an Office
Specialist at Disabilities Services. “We
also have technology so students can
scan in books and then have a comput
er read the book back to them. ”
The department has software pro
grams such as Wynn Reader and
Read & Write Gold 7, which are inter
active and help students improve
their reading or writing, said James
Bailey, the Disabilities Services Adap
tive Tech Access Adviser.
Bailey said the Read and Write
software gives students with specifi
cally diagnosed problems writing
support by using a synthetic screen
reader to echo back what a student
has written.
“This helps for dyslexic students
who may not always form sensible
sentences, but when they have Read
& Write Gold read their writing back
to them, they can say, ‘Hey, this does
n’t work,’ and fix the error,” he said.
Both Read & Write Gold 7 and
Wynn Reader can also have any text
saved as an mp3 so students can hear
their work read back to them and ad
just essays or notes, along with other
specially developed features that help
students get better comprehension,
Bailey said.
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