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V.*.V.V.V.W.W.SW | Bike Week tours set Have you eyed your ten-speed with :• dreams of a pastoral ride but been :■ disillusioried when you found it stuck in \ third gear? Have you wanted to take a 40-mile l Sunday ride but not had the initiative or : the nerve to try it alone? The Outdoor Program’s Bike Touring : Workshop, wheeling off its Bike Week : of activities today, may be what you’re i looking for. Starting off the program Monday was : a multi-media slide show to give a • general overview of cycling according ■ to Outdoor Program cyclist Peter : Fromm, organizer of the workshop. For the rest of the week, maintenance sessions in bike repair will be offered. “After these maintenance sessions today, Wednesday and Thursday, we’ll be having four or five mile bike trips to get people familiar with touring techniques,” said Fromm. Saturday, the Workshop will have a 40-mile tour oriented for the beginner with a 50-mile tour Sunday. The workshop will continue all term, said Fromm, with two or three five hour trips a week and several longer overnight weekend trips. Beginners and experienced cyclists are welcome. For further information check out the Outdoor Program in Room 23 EMU or call 686-4365. Fromm and other resource people will be in the Outdoor Program’s basement union room every day this week giving instruction and aid in how to dismantle and reassemble and get to know your bike. Earthweek celebrations planned By DEEX HEIKES Of the Emerald This week is Earthweek in Oregon and BRING (Begin Recycling In Natural Groups) is planning a celebration. BRING is a member of Oregon Recyders, a non-profit organization created to educate the public in recyding. The events scheduled locally are similar to events that will be held throughout the state. Celebration events scheduled in the Eugene-Springfield area include an Ear thweek celebration party, a Department of Environmental Quality hearing on the proposed Lane County Solid Waste Management Plan and the first annual BRING Cyd-a-thon. The celebration party will be held this Sunday at the Sheldon Community Center from noon to 6 p.m. The party will feature kite flying, music and games. Everyone is invited to attend. The BRING fund raising Cycl-a-thon will be held on Earthday (this Saturday) and ac cording to BRING director Peter Thurston, “everyone who can safely ride a bicycle is encouraged to pariticpate.” Cyclists planning to participate should ask someone to pledge money to BRING for each mile cycled and bring a bag lunch and a bike to Alton-Baker Park at 9 a.m. Saturday. Cyclists will ride as far as possible toward Harrisburg (on Coburg Road) and back to Eugene. The route will be marked with green Cycl-a-thon markers so participants can keep track of their mileage. Transportation will be provided for broken bikes and weary cyclists along the route. Following the Cyd-a-thon, cyclists should inform their sponsors as to the number of miles they cycled and collect the money. The donations should be mailed to BRING, P.O. Box 885, Eugene, 97401. The public hearing mi the Lane County Solid Waste Management Plan will be held in Harris Hall at 8 p..m. on Tuesday, April 17. According to Thurston, the overall ob jective of BRING during Earthweek is to offer people in the Eugene-Springfield area the opportunity to begin recycling cans, bottles, aluminum, paper and other by products from their homes. To do this BRING will mobilize its Bringmobiles—trucks used for collecting recyclable materials. On Saturday the Bringmobile will be at North Eugene High School and Edgewood Elementary School from 10 a.m.-noon; at Springfield High School and Oakridge High School from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.; and at Monroe Jr. High and Jefferson Jr. High from 2 - 4 p.m. On Sunday from 1-3 p.m. Bringmobiles will be at 13th ave. and University, Churchill High School, Edwards Flower Shop in Junction City and at Harold’s Market in Ven - eta. Council okays auditorium election By CORA GANGWARE Of the Emerald Eugene citizens will be allowed to vote on whether they want a civic auditorium. The Eugene City Council passed a motion Monday night that allows for an election to be held May 24 on the proposal. The council also passed a request for the clarification of the freeway charter amendment at its regular meeting. The Lane County Auditorium Association made a request to the Council that a special election be held May 24. Supporting the association were the signatures of over 7,000 registered Eugene voters. The election would ask the voters if they want an auditorium and if so, if they want it in the downtown area or in the new Alton Baker Park development. The motion was defeated four to three the first time around but Councihvoman Beth Campbell pleaded that the council should reconsider the issue. Reconsideration calls for a two-third majority vote which was not met. Councilwoman Wickes Beal, feeling that the issue should go before the public tried another technique to pass the motion. She moved that the Council amend the motion to read that the election be held but that it should not be a special election. That is, if there could be another election held at the same time, say the budget election, then they should be run together. If there is not another coinciding election the auditorium election should still be held separately. Beal’s motion passed four to three which will commit the city to hold an election but it doesn’t have to hold a special election. A freeway charter amendment passed in November allows the public to vote on whether they want a new freeway to be built in the Eugene area. The Council feels that there is a problem with the wording of the amendment and it needs clarification. The Council passed a motion which requires that the definition of what a freeway is must be spelled out. The motion requires that the amendment be researched and worked out so that there are no ambiguities. SOMETIMES THE SMALLEST MOUSE HAS THE MIGHTIEST ROAR. Last year, in New York City alone, 7 nursing nuns made 6,322 patient visits. Not in hos pitals, but in the patients' own homes. Fantastic? Not at all. Not for the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor. Ever since they were founded in 1876, the Sisters have been doing the impossible daily. Long before there were relief agencies or visiting nurses, the Dominican Sisters were dedicated to nursing the poor in their own homes thus keeping the families together. Today, the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor are still on the job. Although their primary work is still in nursing, it has been ex panded to include social work, physiotherapy, dietetics, and al most all health related profes sions. Each woman has her own skill, her own special ability to offer. In this Order, which is small in size, there is both free dom and flexibility. Yet the Sisters are not merely visiting nuTses but religious nurses who think of their patients, not as cases, but suffering mem bers of the Mystical Body of Christ who need, even beyond material and physical help, the healing unction of Christ's love. To learn bow you can serve as a Dominican Sister of the Sick Poor write to: Sister Margaerite Mitchell, Vocation Director Room 104 Mariandale,Ossinlng,N. Y. 10562 DOMINICAN SKTIXS OF IIP* «VVRi Auditions set Auditions for ten one-act plays being directed by University students will continue at 7 p.m. tonight in Villard Hall’s Pocket Playhouse. The plays will all be performed in Villard Hall May 1 and 2 as class projects for the students in a University directing class. There are a total of 45 roles available in the plays. No ex perience is necessary in order to audition. Auditions will conclude between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pocket Playhouse. [ Briefs (Continued from Page 2) There will be an organizational "Rush" meeting from 7-8 p.m. Wednesday at 1021 Hilyard for Phi Chi Theta, women in business and economics. This is an op. portunity to get together with other women in business and economics to find a place in a competitive world For additional in formation, contact Jane Raapke at 486-5278 or Catherine Jones, Room 1, Cmm , 686-3332. Eugene Gay Peoples Alliance meets at 8 p.m tonight 1236 Kincaid St. Come watch videotape of local gays and physicians rapping together (Continued on Page 11) MOUNTAIN SYSTEMS 1712 WILLAMETTE STREET, EUGENE, OREGON Spring Sale April 9-13 Save 30% to 40% on all our Down Jackets and Sleeping Bags
