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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1971)
Eugene club ejects gay people Being gay in Eugene can cause a lot of difficulties. That belief was reaffirmed for about 20 gay people Tuesday night at the London Cellar in downtown Eugene. Accorindg to University student David Larson, five gay couples dancing at the Eugene Night club were told that “boys can’t dance with boys” and were asked to leave by the Cellar’s manager. This was reaffirmed by an employe of the Cellar who said to the Emerald Thursday the owner-manager of the club “told them to either go and get some girls and dance or leave.” The incident came about after a meeting of the Gay People’s Alliance, when about 20 persons who had been in attendance went into downtown Eugene to drink beer and dance, said Larson. Larson told the Emerald the group consisted of mostly gay persons. “At one time there were about five couples dancing. We were there about one and one-half hours, when a man we assumed to be the manager, came from I Choose Keepsake Guaranteed, registered and protected against loss. Both rings $300 RAMONA $225 Student Accounts Invited REGISTERED Keepsake' DIAMOND RINGS VALLEY RIVER CENTER DOWNTOWN EUGENE Mon. & Fri. til 9 Rings enlarged to show 1 -»d' M rk Reg behind the bar and asked me, ‘What are you doing?’ ” Larson said. When Larson answered “Dancing," he says the manager told him “Boys can’t dance with boys here.” Larson says when the manager asked if it were possible that boys could ever dance with boys at the Cellar he responded, “No, not at all, ever.” After talking to the manager, Larson says the entire group of 20 left the club. He says he doesn’t think that manager was aware “how many people he was an tagonizing when he said this.” Larson sees the entire incident as an example of a larger problem than gay people not being allowed to dance at one night club. “There’s no place in Eugene for anybody to go and dance with somebody of the same sex,” he explains. A Eugene attorney contacted by the Emerald Thursday night said that as far as he knew there were no state statutes or city laws which prohibited persons of the same sex from dancing with each other in Eugene. ESCAPE granted $1600 Approximately $1600 has been given to the ESCAPE program by the University Development Fund. University President Robert Clark announced this in a short speech at the end of ESCAPE’S winter term wrap-up orientation session Thursday afternoon. Clark and new dean of the college of Education Robert Gilberts were featured speakers at the session, which focused on general values of the Student Community Projects program. Consideration of requesting monetary help from the Development Fund for ESCAPE, Clark said, was given when one of ESCAPE’S steering committee members, Judy Coffey, requested funds in a meeting with Clark earlier this week. Miss Coffey told the group she felt the $1600 was the necessary amount ESCAPE would need to function for the rest of the 1970-71 school year. That amount of money would apply beginning spring term, she added. The University Development Fund consists of money contributed to the University and is used for various University programs. In his speech Clark told the group of more than 100 winter term tutors that he was “interested” in the program and that “Judy (Coffey)’s ideas are contagious.” He said he thought ESCAPE represented an effort by young people to bridge an impersonality which he said exists today in the world, as well as in education. Interior expert proposed for EMU By KAYE BONNEY Of the Emerald Loose ends were located and tied preparatory to completing the preliminary design for the proposed addition to the EMU in a meeting of the Union Planning Committee Thursday. Discussed was the possibility of hiring an interior designer who would be concerned with the atmosphere and interior details of the union. When asked about this the university’s architect, George Wallmann, explained that in academic buildings in terior designers are not hired, but for the unions, where they are needed, an exception is made. The contract does provide for a landscape architect. Also discussed was thej possibility of covering the open' court in the present building. A leakage problem has been present since it was built and creates a problem in the basement, especially over the bowling lanes. Apparently the water doesn’t just drip, but may flow and pool in one area so that, according to EMU director Dick Reynolds, “When you open a closet, say, you get a shower bath.” The court may be entirely covered by a glass or fiberglass roof, or left partly open, in which case the court could be used year round and still retain its outside atmosphere. Location and direction of storm drainage was analyzed as well as COME LISTEN TO WASH. ST. vs. OREGON GAME at the COOLER Sat. Nite 20 Centenial Loop when boring, to determine the depth of rock strata under the proposed building, would begin. llie final review of the plans for the EMU by the state board will occur, as now planned, April 27, and will probably be considered by the state legislature in June or July. If the plan is approved, George Sheldon, one of the designing architects, said he didn’t know of any case where one hadn’t been, construction would begin in March 1971, and be completed by fall quarter, 1973. COMPAHERAS AND COMPAHEROS A film about Cuba's Youth: The student, the worker, the peasant, the teacher, the soldier. A portrait of The New Third World Consciousness. A 90 minute color documentary In Spanish with English subtitles Sun., Jan. 24,3 p.m., 150 Science and Mon., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., 123 Science 75c New University Conference CHARTER FLIGHTS Hawaii Europe Asia Direct from Portland Int'l Airport —no buses to ride ROUNDTRIP June 12 - 20 8 days to Hawaii June 13 - Aug. 20 9Vj wks to London July 19 - Aug. 8 3 wks to London ONE WAY Sept. 9 Portland to London Sept. 15 Portland to London June 2 London to Vancouver. B c $125 $263 $270 $150 $135 Cl CA Further information at INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CENTERS 319 ERB UNION ext. 3721 or 3722 M _thinks everyone should see ^ John Obetz in organ concert Sunday January 24th at 4 pm Central Presbyterian Church 15th at Ferry St. EUGENE,OREGON FREEWILL OFFERING ACME BIJOU PRESENTS A BIJOU DREAM The Bijou Dream film series brings you not one, not two, but two and one half film festivals for those long winter nights. THE JACQUES TATI MICRO-FESTIVAL: The French equivalent of the early Alec Guinness-inspired clowning. Mon. Jan. 25 180 PLC MR. HULOTS HOLIDAY by Jacques Tati (France, 1954) THE BRAZILIAN CINEMA NOVOFESTIVAL In conjunction with the Film Society's showing of Glauber Rocha's BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL (Feb. 7), Bijou Dream brings you the second two parts of Rocha's mythic-realistic trilogy of social conditions in Brazil. Also, an early film from the revolutionary Cinema Novo Cooperative, BARREN LIVES. Mon. Feb. 1 180 PLC BARREN LIVES by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil, 1963) Tues. Feb. 9 150 Sci LAND IN ANGUISH (Terra em Transe) by Glauber Rocha (Brazil, 1967) Wed Feb. 10 180 PLC ANTONIO DAS MORTES by Glauber Rocha (Brazil, 1969) THE RAOUL WALSH FESTIVAL See the lives of poor ordinary people (paratroopers, pirates, cowboys, and Indians) as portrayed by rich Hollywood stars (Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland) in this series from the middle period of one of the master directors of the adventure film. Thur. Feb. 18 150 Sci OBJECTIVE BURMA by Raoul Walsh (USA, 1945) Mon Feb. 2 180 PLC CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER by Raoul Walsh (USA, 1951) Wed. Mr. 3 180 PLC PURSUEDby Raoul Walsh (USA, 1947) Mon Mr. 8 180 PLC THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON by Raoul Walsh (USA, 1941) All films will begin at 8 p.m. Admission si or by season ticket.
