Ellis v. Employment Division

This appeal again presents the issue of the eligibility of a college student to receive unemployment benefits.

Claimant appeals from a decision of the Employment Appeals Board (EAB), which reversed the referee’s decision that had allowed him benefits.

The essential facts are as follows:

Claimant has lived in Corvallis since 1963, except for a year and a half spent working in California at Stanford Research Institute as a computer programmer. He resigned his position in California in 1970 and returned to Corvallis. Later he enrolled at Oregon State University (OSU), where he subsequently obtained…