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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1975)
Switchboard: a friend in need By BRAD LEMLEY Of the Emerald Suppose for a moment that your cat has just run away, you are pregnant, you have a broken arm, your landlord has just evicted you unfairly and you need a place to crash as well as a new long-term residence, you are out of firewood, you don’t know where to recycle your pickle jars and you need a short term job. While such royal flushes of bad karma are indeed rare, chances are that the Cosmic Comptroller of Collegiate Calamity will deal you a hot hand someday. That's the time to call Switchboard. Begun in 1969, Switchboard is a multi-service organization that combines warm human concern with cold telephones to form a co-ordinating agency that is just seven finger-flexes (specifically, 686-8453) away. It is funded en tirely by private donations and staffed by 28 volunteers who man the lines seven days a week from 10 a.m. to midnight. One of the services of Switch board that University students most often use is Rides and Rid ers, according to veteran switch man Tom Ruckman. The proce dure is something like this: Horatio calls desiring a ride to Tus caloosa. The SB file is checked: if such a ride has been offered the number of the offerer is given to Horatio, tf not, H s name is put into the file until somebody— Ambrose, for example—calls to report he is Tuscaloosa-bound, Everything for the ARTISTS and ARCHITECTS DISCOUNT Please show card ■ II off our before purchase ■ /W reg. prices ON CASH PURCHASE OF ALL SUPPLIES 339 EAST ELEVENTH AVE. AMPLE PARKING - REAR OF STORE Just a few blocks from campus La Posada welcomes you to summer session. We are just across Franklin Blvd from campus La Posada 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Broadway and Hityard 344-1091 Domestic & Imported Beer and Wine There is only one Earth brand shoe. And once you wear it you’ll understand what everyone is raving about. Most people who buy Earth shoes are sent by ’ friends who wear them and love them. Available only at: KALS0 EARTH SHOES 388 Pearl 10-6, Mon. - Sat. Open Fridays till 7:30 687-8862 has space in his car and in his wallet (for gas money) and would like to find someone to help him fill both. Ambrose is given Horatio s number, and the causes of ecol ogy. economy and humanity are all served. Other Switchboard services are Lost and Found Pets, which oper ates in much '.he same manner as Rides and Riders' dual-file sys tem; a housing list, a program which, Ruckman admits, is “still developing, a health referral agency which will point you to ward the appropriate health ser vice agency after hearing out your medical problem, doctor prefer ence and financial situation; and a general referral service for sources of everything from free legal aid to fireplace fodder Though most people experi ence Switchboard from a help me-out standpoint—the projected number of calls for next year is 40,000—volunteers to man the phones are occasionally needed If you would like to offer your services—or, more likely, find out about the services that Eugene agencies offer you—the number to call is 686-8453. u UW iw Market brightens weekend siegmund’s Cleaners FAST SERVICE ON ALTERATIONS Siegmunds Cleaners 821 E 13th 345-6321 />S^V T37o W 6th s £B6-20<W Jj (r MORE THAN JUST A COFFEE HOUSE Open 11:30 for lunch Mon-Fri starting July 1 Open Wed-Sun evenings serving dinner, soups, pizza, salads and pastries By KAREN HOLT Of the Emerald Barefoot children thread their way through the grown-up crowd, shouting, demanding treats A tall woman emerges from behind a macrame display and collars one small ruffian: “H you go over be hind the yogurt stand, you’ll find a lady telling stories—over there, right behind that tree See7" Dragging a few interested com panions along behind him, the child runs off to investigate An hour later, he knows the truth about Little Red Riding Hood Meanwhile, his parents have acquired one cedar chest ($25) and a planter full of Boston Fern When lunch time arrives, they col lect their son and wander over to the crepes booth where they dine on steaming strawberry crepes and herbal tea. San Francisco, 1968? No, Eugene every Saturday and Sun day. It's the Saturday Market Every weekend from now until Christmas, the county parking lot at 8th Avenue and Oak Street be comes an open-air bazaar where hundreds of craftspersons gather to display their wares. For the price of a bus trip downtown—30 cents—the curious can treat themselves to an erfiibit of every conceivable kind of handicraft pottery, jewelry, woodwork, weav ing, macrame, leatherwork. and clothing One Saturday, custom ers carried off tangerine-scented candles, bunches of lupine and Sweet Williams, handmade mugs, hingeless myrtlewood boxes, re cycled Levis hats, organic yogurt, and even a wooden hobby-horse or two Prices are about the lowest anywhere—and the buyer has the unique opportunity of meeting the artist in person. Can Sears Roebuck top that? The Market is open each weekend 10 a m.—5 p.m. If you want to sell your wares there, you can rent a booth space for $2, $4, or $6—it depends on how much you make. You can call the market on Thursday or Friday at 686-8885 This weekend, come see Americas artisans right here in Eugene