Page 8—The Portland Observer •November 7, 1990
TAKING CARE OF
YOUR BABY
The A m erican Red Cross is spon
soring a Baby Care class al the Red Cross
building, 3131 N. V ancouver Avenue,
from 7 p.m. lo 9 :3 0 p .m .o n the following
W ednesday evenings: November 28,
D ecem ber 5, 12, and the 19th.
T his 10-hour course is for expec
tant, new and adopting parents and/or
grandparents. It gives a base for under
standing and fulfilling the special needs
o f a new baby through the first year.
Taught by the Red Cross volunteer in
structors, the subjects covered include
beginning life as a family, baby care and
safety. M olhers-to-be are encouraged to
bring their partner or care giver.
Pre-registration is necessary since
class size is limited. There is a charge of
$30 per couple or $25 per individual.
Call The Red Cross at 284-1234, ext.
176, to register.
BOY SCOUTS HOLD
FOOD CANVAS
On Saturday, November 17, local
boy Scouts will go door to door to collect
food. D onations will be taken to all
W ashington County fire stations.
V olunteers are needed at each o f the
10 fire stations during the event and at
the end o f the event to transport the food
to the W ashington County food bank,
Tualatin valley Food Center. Interested
people should con tac t Denise at the Food
Center to volunteer (642-3236).
C ommunity C are
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Here is a program that meets
human need with no funding.
W here is your pocket book
to help.
They serve over 2,000 per
Help!!!
month.
Tips for Inspecting
Home Heating
OSU Offers Program for
Graduate School
Once the fall rains begin in
A program to acquaint m inor
Portland, winter is never far behind.
ity undergraduate students with thechal-
Pacific Power Pordand Area M anager
lengcs, rewards and career advantages
Carl Talton says now is the time to make
of graduate school has been initiated by
an energy efficiency inspection o f you
the Graduate School o f Oregon State
home that can save you money and
University (OSU).
improve your com fort this winter.
“ We want to ‘demystify’ gradu
Ainoni! T alton's suggestions:
ate school for students from underrepre
•Get a check-up o f your home heating
sented m inorities,” said Carlos Ovando,
system by a qualified service contractor.
professor
o f post secondary and techno
•Make sure heating ducts in unheated ar
logical education. As program coordi
eas are properly connected, insulated
nator, he has worked to make faculty
and sealed with duct tape.
and academic adm inistrators aware of
•Clean or replace any furnace or heat
the program and solicit their help in
pum p filters. Dirty filters pul an added
identifying candidates and serving as
load on your equipm ent and decrease
mentors.
efficiency.
The Graduate Opportunities
•Assure that heat registers and base
Program for minority Students is de
board healers are dust free and are not
signed to “ help minority students de
blocked by furniture or draperies.
velop a sophisticated altitude toward
•Caulk to seal cracks around windows
graduate school and an aw areness o f
and m oldings; use weatherstripping
what it means in their career pattern, “
around doors and sliding windows.
O vando said.
•Install storm windows and doors or seal
The object is not necessarily to
w indow s and doors with inexpensive
recruit OSU undergraduates to graduate
plastic sheeting.
school at OSU, said Marliene Costa,
•Get storm windows and doors in place.
director o f minority affairs and special
•Replace missing siding or shingles.
programs with the G raduate School.
•Repair broken or cracked window panes.
“ We want to encourage them
•Insulate exposed w ater pipes in un
to apply to the graduate program most
heated spaces to prevent freezing.
appropriate to their talents and needs,”
•Check the thickness o f attic insulation.
she said. That may include OSU but not
About nine inches o f attic insulation is
to the exclusion o f other schools.
recom m ended for maximum energy
The program hopes to help
savings.
address a national problem.
•Assure that floor insulation is in place.
“ The pool of minority appli
If there is no floor insulation, consider
cants to graduate school is very small
installing it. The investm ent will assure
nationw ide,” said Ovando. “ And yet
that floors are warm er and heating costs
universities are frantically trying to recruit
lower.
minority faculty. Q ualified candidates
To ask questions about your
are the subject of recruiting w ars.”
home weatherization needs or to apply
The program will kick off Nov.
for the various weatherization loans avail
19 with a luncheon at the VIP Lounge in
able through Pacific Power, contact the
McNary Dining Hall. Sophomores and
com pany’s local custom er service of
juniors from underrepresented m inori
fice at 3535 N.E. Frem ont Ave.
ties who have shown academic achieve
A
joelta Mothers
&
ment are being invited, said Costa. She
em phasized, however, that all interested
minority undergraduates are invited to
attend.
The luncheon will serve as an
“ aw areness session and general over
view o f graduate school,” C osta said.
Students will be asked to fill out aca
demic interest cards so they can be
matched with a faculty mentor in that
area.
Graham Spanier, provost and
vice president for academic affairs; Tom
Maresh, dean o f the G raduate School;
and O vando will discuss what graduate
school is about, w hat’s required and the
resources available to facilitate the
experience.
“ M any students feel if they
do n ’t have a 3.0 grade point average
there is no way they can consider gradu
ate school,” said Ovando. “ We want to
explode some o f the myths and m isper
ceptions about it.”
Later in the year, the program
will sponsor a forum on the graduate
school experience, featuring minority
faculty mem bers and current graduate
students.
“ We hope to presen t some case
studies and look at a range of graduate
student experiences to explore the trials
and tribulations, both personal and pro
fessional, that can occur and how they
coped,” O vando said.
Panel mem bers also will out
line the kind o f career options opened by
graduate school.
A final meeting in the spring
will include practical advice on the ap
plication procedure, financial aid, the
Graduate Record Examination and other
technical aspects.
Any student wanting more in
formation on the program should con
tact O vando at 737-2501 or Costa at
737-4881.
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