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IN BRIEF
Student groups to rally at
Oregon state capitol
The Oregon Student Association
and the Oregon Students of Color
Coalition will join forces for a rally at
the state capitol in Salem today as part
of the 2005 OSA Lobby Day.
The two lobbyist organizations
will be joined by Sen. Vicki Walker,
D-Eugene, and Rep. Billy Dalto,
R-Salem, to support their legislative
agenda for the state legislative ses
sion currently in progress.
According to press releases, priori
ties of the two groups include fully
funding the Oregon Opportunity
Grant, freezing tuition at OUS univer
sities, expanding low-cost childcare
for students and passing a tuition eq
uity bill to help extend resident tu
ition prices to graduates of Oregon
high schools.
The rally will begin at noon on the
front steps of the capitol and will be
followed by meetings with legislators
to discuss issues affecting students.
The OSA is a lobbyist group con
sisting of representatives from all
OUS universities and the state’s com
munity colleges. The OSCC is an af
filiate of OSA.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski included a
111.1-percent increase in the Opportu
nity Grant and a $14 million overall in
crease in higher education spending in
his budget for the 2005-07 biennium.
OUS universities are estimating a
5 to 7 percent annual increase in tu
ition costs for students if the
governor’s proposal is passed.
— Adam Cherry
UO sits near top
in Peace Corps
member numbers
BY AMANDA BOLSINGER
NEWS REPORTER
Holly LeMasurier said she has al
ways known she was going to join
the Peace Corps. She didn’t know
she would become a part of an
African family or that she would
meet the man she would later marry.
She also didn’t know her experiences
in the Peace Corps would cdways af
fect the way she views world issues.
LeMasurier was in the Peace
Corps from 1997-99 and served in
Namibia, in southern Africa. She
was there working to train teach
ers in the bush who hadn’t had
the opportunity for formal training
and certification. While living in
Namibia, she lived with a matriar
chal family consisting of a
woman, her five children and
a servant.
“I got to be big sister to the kids
and daughter to the mom,” LeMa
surier said. “It was great, us three
women and our five children. ”
LeMasurier is one of the 170,000
Peace Corps members to date that
have served in more than 130 coun
tries around the world. The Univer
sity is currently ranked at No. 7
among large universities — those
with more than 15,000 undergradu
ates — for producing Peace Corps
volunteers. Currently, there are
81 University alumni in the Peace
Corps. Since Peace Corps began in
1960, 825 University alumni have
joined, ranking the University as the
31st-highest producer of Peace Corps
volunteers of all ime.
There are several contributing
factors to why so many University
graduates choose to join the
Peace Corps.
“Students here are in a climate of
conscious activism,” LeMasurier
said. “They are very involved with
their community and have often had
a taste of outreach. They are natural
candidates for the Peace Corps.”
“There is a campus commitment
to service, and it is a focus of Univer
sity students to have diversity and
culture,” said Sara Schrock, the Uni
versity’s Peace Corps representative.
“And Eugene’s climate is very open
to multicultural influences.”
The Peace Corps is a popular
choice for recent college graduates. It
offers a chance to travel, to become
a part of a community in a different
part of the world, and to help those
in need.
Peace Corps volunteers serve for
27 months three months of intensive
cultural and linguistic training and
24 months working. Often a large
part of the appeal of the Peace Corps
is the complete and lengthy immer
sion into a different culture.
“I had always wanted to live in
a different country,” Schrock said.
“I wanted to understand what
poverty meant and to throw my
self out of my comfort zone.”
Schrock served in Kenya from
2000-02 as an agricultural and
forestry volunteer.
Volunteers don’t get to select the
country they serve in, but they are
placed according to their skills and
the needs of different communities.
Possible job opportunities in
clude education and youth
CORPS, page 4
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Entries collected February 14
at 3 p.m.
One lucky winner will receive:
■ Dinner for two at Marche Restaurant
■ A one-hour rental for two at Onsen Hot Tubs & Spas
■ Two tickets to Bijou Art Cinemas
Winner announced on Monday, February 14 at 5 p.m.
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We’ll be at UO on...
January 25-27
Information Table
10:00 am - 3:00 pm (1/25 & 1/27)
EMU Lobby
Career Fair Table
10:00 am - 3:00 pm (1/26 only)
UO Winter Career Fair
EMU Ballroom (2nd floor)
Slide Show + Q&A Session
6:00 - 7:30 pm (1/26 only)
EMU - International Lounge
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