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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1972)
Workshop to teach peaceful resistance Satyagraha (saat - YA - gra - ha) is a means of achieving social and political reform through friendly, vigorous, peaceful resistance. This summer in Eugene two types of satyagraha training will be available for those interested. Peter Bergel, whose past ex perience includes instructor in Non-violence and Revolutionary Change at the University of California, Berkeley, will be teaching people how to play the “peace game” and, if interest is high enough, will be instructing ten weekly training sessions. The first of four mandatory training sessions for the peace game will be 7:30 p.m., Thurs day, at 1948 Olive St. The actual game will take place at Gull Haven, 13 miles north of Florence, on the weekend of August 4, 5, 6. Charge will be less than $10 for food and rent. Satyagraha was developed in India by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi, famous for applying principles of non-violence in his own life, used this tool very ef fectively in the Indians struggle for independence against the British. Martin Luther King taught his followers the power of such non violent procedure and used the method in everything he organized. Last May, Bergel, co Gerontology center loses grant, Dellenback investigates mixup The University’s Center for Gerontology will probably not get the almost $100,000 federal grant promised to them, according to Francis Scott, director of the center. The Gerontology Center was notified that the announcement of the grant two weeks ago through Oregon Fourth District Republican Congresman John Dellenback’s office was an error apparently originating in the f'ants management section of le Department of Health, ducation and Welfare, uellenback is personally in vestigating the matter, according to his office. A Dellenback aide told University officials that more definite information would be available today. The proposed grant would allow the University’s Center for Gerontology to continue to train people to conduct classes for pre retirees, to follow up their work with research into its results and to test different ways of presenting programs to those about ready to retire. Scott said no one was surprised when the grant came through. “We had been expecting a grant for quite some time,” she said. “We had even contacted the Washington Regional Office to see what was holding it up.” In losing the grant, Francis Scott said, the center would lose its project director, Vincent Manion. The training program can probably be kept, she said, but not the research. “Fortunately,” Scott said, “we had not started spending money. The only things we had started were talks with students who were to be placed in the jobs of three research assistants. We McCall to participate ui billboard razing, erection Gov. Tom McCall will par ticipate Thursday in razing of one billboard along Interstate-5 and erection of one of the first six motorist information logo rds. So far 83 billboards along in terstate highways throughout Oregon have been taken down under the provisions of the new law. All had been erected since passage of the Federal Highway eautification Act in 1965. wners had signed waivers agreeing that they could be taken down without compensation when the Act was implemented. McCall will participate in taking down the 84th sign, which is owned by Standard Oil Co. The company is to be paid for the sign under the terms of the state and federal laws, and has agreed to accept whatever compensation is later determined. McCall is in Washington, D.C. for a meeting with federal highway officials to seek ap proval of a compensation for mula worked out by highway officials and outdoor advertising representatives in Oregon. The Standard sign is along the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 just north of the Wc-odbum in terchange. Logo boards erected under the new state law provide space for company insignia to advise motorists of the types of services available at the next freeway exit. McCall will tack up the last of five gasoline company insignia that will be placed on a logo board ju3t north of the Champoeg exit of Interstate 5, listing ser vices at the Wilsonville in terchange. Similar motorist information signs identifying lodging and food service locations also are to be erected in the months ahead. The Wilsonville logo board is one of six being erected this month. The others are at the Corvallis-Lebanon, Murder Creek, Sunnyside-Tumer, Brooks and Stafford Road interchanges on Interstate 5. The logo boards are placed under the direction of the new Travel Information Council, headed by Portland attorney A1 Hampon. Companies pay a yearly fee to the council for space on the signs. Part of that money will be used to create sign plazas in rest areas under another part of the high way beautification law. Billboard removal is under the direction of the State Highway Commission. The commission is ready to take down additional signs just as soon as a com pensation formula is approved. 180 PLC 7 and 9:15 Tues. and Wed. July 11 and 12 $1.00 Sharpen your Bowie Knife. Load your Magnums. Come to the Rain Tree in beautiful downtown Springfield and hear the MUSIC WEST BAND Rock and Roll t were also organizing materials to make a film for Gerontology.” Scott called the mixup “very irresponsible behavior on the part of government agencies.” Apparently, she said, the grant had been intended for another state group, the Oregon State Legislative Interim Committee on Social Service Evaluation of Programs for the Aging and Development of a Recommended Legislative Response. founder of the Berkeley Peace Brigade, used the principles of Satyagraha to help cool the People’s Park crisis. One method of teaching Satyagraha, the peace game, uses a continuous two day exercise in which a team of satyagraha trainees is con fronted by a team of violent aggressors within the context of a previously agreed upon “scenario.” The game's rules are enforced by a team of umpires who are also responsible for starting and stopping the game. They also remove anyone who, in their opinion, is suffering a serious adverse reaction to the experience. This training for both the aggressors and the resisters will begin Thursday evening. Terms such as “Soul force” and “Truth force” have been used to explain the practice of satyagraha. The theory is that by appealing to the good in your adversary without threat of violence, you force him to communicate with you on a higher level. In this way violence is avoided. The 10 weekly training sessions will also be held if a minimum of seven people commit themselves. These sessions will focus on application of satyagraha principles to the participant's daily lives. Participants will explore the nature of their own need for violence, and emphasis will be placed on reconditioning their reactions to constructive solutions to conflict situations. Cost will be $10 with $3 refun dable at the end if attendance is perfect. Besides his experience with the Berkeley Peace Brigade, and his post at Berkeley. Bergel’s ex perience includes being a par ticipant and director of peace games at the Mid-Peninsula Free University near San Fransisco. This summer he has been living at a commune near Alsea with his wife and son. The entire program is being sponsored by the World Without War Council of Eugene. If in terest is sufficient a Eugene Peace Brigade will be formed to continue training programs and provide a group of trained volunteers to help avoid demonstrator-police clashes in situations of civil disturbance. S & ; Smoked Hams Full Shank Half or Whole Salmon Oregon cut up Nestles Everready Cocoa 69e 28 oz. Family Scott Bath Room 4 Roll Pack Nalley's Banquet Cucumber Dills or Chips 69e 48 oz. Nalley's 3 Bag Box Potato Chips 49c V/7 01. Spreckel's Sugar $119 10 lb. bag Nalley's Whole Egg Mayonnaise 79e 48 OZ. B & M New England Style Baked Beans 2/69e 28 oz. News Laundry Detergent 59c 49 oz. pkg. 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