Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 2005)
Nicole Barker | Photographer Chelsea Jones and Matthew Erb practice shaking hands before dining. ■ I It'ii another beautiful day in paradioe. I IRISH PUB Monday# • Free pizza with a pint § 6pm - 12am Friday# Everyday • Free pool • Large PBR Pitcher £5 GO • Hot food • 25c pool 2841 Willamette 484-1727 ^' ..a—r~i—i i Nicole Barker | Photographer The University Career Center held its fifttvannual Business Etiquette Dinner and Dress for Success Fashion Show in the Lillis Business Complex Atrium on Wednesday night. Etiquette consultants from Bums & Reed Enterprise coached students on proper behavior as they partook in a three-course meal complete with formal place settings. Dinner, fashion show give lesson in minding manners Students learned the etiquette of buttering bread and sipping water at the University Career Center function BY EVA SYLWESTER NEWS REPORTER Students got a taste of good man ners at the University’s Business Eti quette Dinner and Dress For Success Fashion Show on Wednesday night. This is the fifth year that Rose marie Burns and Linda Reed, eti quette consultants for Burns & Reed Enterprise, have given presentations at the University, sponsored by Ara mark Uniform Services. Burns and Reed met at The Protocol School of Washington, which was located in Washington, D.C., at the time, and have been business partners since 1998. Burns, based in Danville, Calif., and Reed, of Eugene, teach etiquette classes for everyone from six-year olds to business executives. “Normally we charge $190 to $350 per person for a dining tutorial,” Reed said. Wednesday’s seminar, sponsored by the University Career Center, was free and open to all University students. “Dining etiquette is important be cause, in many situations, part of your interview may be over dinner or over lunch,” said Ronnie Casanova, employer relations specialist for the University Career Center. “Dining skills really are for the benefit of the people you’re dining with,” Reed said. For example, when drinking from a glass, it is considered proper to look down into the glass rather than over the top of the glass at another person. The reason for this, Reed said, is that one might be unaware of having food caught in his or her teeth and might unknowingly inflict that sight upon others. Even experts are not immune from mistakes. As Burns instructed stu dents on the proper way to tackle a cherry tomato — hold the knife blade steady against one side of the tomato and then spear the tomato with the fork — she described an embarrass ing personal encounter she once had with an independent-minded cherry tomato in Washington, D.C. “It went bouncing down the table, so I never forgot how to do this,” she said. As people ate, Burns and Reed walked around the room, giving in structions and answering questions ranging from what to do with chew ing gum at the table — “Swallow it, that’s what I’d do,” Reed said — to how left-handed people should follow rules designed for right handed people. University Catering provided a three-course dinner for the event: sal ad with lettuce, cucumber and cherry tomatoes; garlic mashed potatoes, chicken piccata or eggplant parme san, and asparagus; and apple pie. “I found it humorous that some body had to pass the bread around the entire table to get it to one per son,” University Catering server Mandy Brice said. Brice said she of ten doesn’t notice customers’ table manners in her work with University Catering, but “sometimes the stu dents aren’t as professional.” Burns and Reed’s lessons were surprising to many dinner guests. “I didn’t know how to eat my bread,” sophomore business major Sasha Welka said. The proper method of eating a bread roll, Bums and Reed said, is to rip off a small piece from the roll on the plate, butter the piece and eat it. Burns and Reed also discussed the difference between American and Continental (European) styles of eat ing. In the Continental style, one nev er puts down the knife and frequent ly stacks food on the back of the fork. “I had friends from Denmark last year, and we always talked about it,” junior sociology major Kim Klier said. The dinner concluded with a fash ion show sponsored by Macy’s, and Casanova and Career Center GTF Heather Marshall offered pointers on business dress. “Regardless of the knowledge and expertise you have, a first impres sion is a lasting impression,” Casanova said. She suggested that students wear subtle and conserva tive clothing and accouterments for job interviews. Welka said she was recruited to be a model in the fashion show while at the Career Fair. She modeled a busi ness-formal outfit of a pinstriped jacket and black pants. Business for mal wear consisted of suits, including ties for men, and business casual wear included dress shirts without ties for men and knit tops and skirts for women. To sign up for future Career Center seminars, visit the Career Center Web site at uocareer.uoregon.edu. evm'ylwester@ daily em erald.com The University of Oregon Department of Religious Studies presents the 2004-5 Gaston Lecture in Christianity » smmw■ WSmSsCWmlaj/wi Sawhf*.* - v.' % Rah and loaves seen* from moaaic floor of tot* Ccoatantmian church at Tabgha. hear Capernaum Those Who Say That They Are Jews But Are Not Christianity’s Quest for Self-Identity in the New Testament Period 7:00 p.m. Monday, May 16,2005 Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid Street lack T. Sanders, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of Oregon UNIVERSITY OP OREGON WKSk % For more information, please contact the Department of Religious Studies at (541) 346-49? 1. An EO/AA/AOA institution committed to cultural diversity. Permission for photo usage obtained from Bibleptacee.com. ifi* ©rand Opening ©ay 14th I2p-9p Irunk Shows presented by... Danielle C elesle ( < iiluir i>>|)-<;|> ( nl ( I I ine a)-6«) li nlee Iw isled 6p-9p "Qldb'bdb *>ivedUJdU5 "D(duuife> for pte. ‘totalling OOO Hleet the ditbb 6 deibneb muMC. food. 6 dtinb Cdtenre bu ffldiche UUine tiom CentduiaUh Import* I’k 11 () lc |) 1 ( s< 111 l( (alls made lusuiits 780 Blair Blvd. 541.431.0128 Retail Boutique: Every Day 12p-7p L i ▲ 1 A i A
