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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1977)
Wilderness slides planned The Wilderness Committee of the Many Rivers Group, Sierra Club, will present a wilderness slide program Saturday at Harris Hall, located at eighth Avenue and Oak Street in downtown Eugene. Shows on French Pete and other proposed Oregon i wilderness areas will begin at 10 a.m. and continue all afternoon. The public is cordially invited and admission is free. The slide program will take place down stairs from the Congressional field hearing on the Endangered American Wilderness Bill. ah-h-h music Kick back and dig K-SOUND, FM Stereo 93. K-SOUND gives you ALL the music you want without the noise, 24-hours a day. TONIGHT HUcfjarti At South Eugene High School Information 342-2616 LAW SCHOOL INTERVIEWS Counselors are available daily at the UNIVERSITY OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY COLLEGE OF LAW to offer guidance and career planning Call or write USFV, 8353 Sepulveda Blvd. Sepulveda, California 91343. Tel. 213-894-5711 The College of Law offers a full-time 3 year day program as well as part-time day and evening programs. The school is fully accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. PiatfA 6 EMU’s salad prices won’t lettuce munch those vegies for less By MARTHA BUSS Of the Emerald Dear Beef Box, Why does the Skylight cafeteria charge $1.50 for a trip to the salad bar and $1.96 for salad bar and a six ounce cup of soup? This food is prepared with substantial subsidies and is non profit. Why then can Retro’s Rzza (as just one example) offer the equivalent, if not better salad bar for 75 cents — half of the price we students pay? Even the most expensive restaurants in Portland offer soup and salad bar combinations for $2.50; why then do we pay $1.96 for the product the EMU-Skylight is offering? Salad is one of the most healthful and refreshing lunches any of us could eat. The Salad Bar is an economical approach to a variety in the salad lunch and is a far cry from those miserable bowls of lettuce available in the EMU cafeteria. Is this place so poorly managed that they must be subsidized, non-profit and still demand a price of $1.50 for what Retro’s can make a profit on at a price of 75 cents?? Signed, Consumer, taxpayer Dear Consumer, The EMU cafeteria employes beg to differ with you. First of all Jim Covington, EMU food service director, rejects your assumption that the EMU food is prepared with “substantial subsidies.” He contends that the food program operates solely on revenues and receives no other financial help. Covington also defends the price of the EMU salad bar by comparing it to Retro’s salad bar (as just an example). While Retro’s salad bar costs 75 cents and offers croutons, a choioe of three dressings and an unlimited number of seconds, the EMU's bar offers a whole slew of ingredients: cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, cauliflower, green pepper, chopped celery, croutons, garbonzo beans and red beets. Granted, the EMU prices may be high, and Covington advises ail who don't get enough to eat there: "If we can’t feed you at our prices, go someplace else. We just do our best.” . .Editor’s note: The Beef Box Is open to anyone who has a beef against the University. The Emerald will answer and publish any legitimate beef submitted to its offices in Room 300, EMU. Please include your name and telephone number in case we have questions. Group backs restaurant labor By BILL LUTZ Of the Emerald Members of the Asia Gardens Support Committee (AGSQ leafleted and talked with customers outside the Asia Gardens restaurant, 44 East seventh Ave. fa eight hours at the height of the Mot has' Day rush Sunday. Canoe fete, banquets key Parents’ Weekend jubilee A “U of O experience,” in cluding a tug-of-war, a canoe fete and an awards banquet, is on tap for parents attending Parents’ Weekend on campus Friday through Sunday. The idea is to show parents what students are doing and to “showcase the University,” according to Randy Ohlendorf, president of the junior class, which is sponsoring the event. He said about 500 people are expected to attend. Parents’ Weekend has been mainly a fraternity and sorority activity in the past, but this year Ohlendorf is urging other students to get their parents involved. This year the canoe fete, a parade of floats on the Millrace, will include entries from dor mitories as well as greek organizations. The parade’s theme is “between the bookends.” Prizes will be awarded for most humorous float, best theme and most ar tistic float. The fete will be at 8 p.m. Friday following the tug-of war at 7 p.m., also at the Millraoe. Parents’ dubs meetings and campus tours are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, and an awards banquet is scheduled for Saturday evening at 6 p.m. at the EMU. Awards for scholarship and leadership will be presented at the $4.50-a-plate dinner. Tickets are available in the Office of University Relations in Susan Campbell Hall (ext. 3021). Whale backers win Senate bill WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Commerce Committee has adopted an amendment introduced by Sen. Bob Pack wood, R-Ore., that would prohibit whaling within the 200-mile coastal fishing zone. The committee also adopted amendments to make claim money immediately available to Oregon fishermen for gear lost or damaged by foreign fishing vessels violating the zone, to boost funds for enforcement of the bill establishing the zone, and to make money available for fishery losses suffered because of the drought. The action was in support of the employes of the restaurant who are trying to organize as part of the Hotel, Restaurant Em ployes and Bartenders Union (AFL-CIO). However, both the AG SC and the Asia Gardens workers em phasize Sunday’s action is not a boycott, picket or strike. “It’s simply an educational action to let Asia Gardens’ patrons know the kind of working conditions the employes Inside must endure,” said Larry Hill, a supporter of the workers. According to the leaflet, employes at the Asia Gardens are “overworked, understaffed and rushed; they have no regular breaks and they are foroed to work overtime. Split shifts, inadequate supplies and cramped working conditions make work miserable and exhausting.” The leaflet also claims the Lees (owners of the Asia Gardens as well as the House of Lee, 165 West 11th Ave.), are stalling the union drive in order to break the workers’ morale. The leaflet claims the Lees have hired a professional union-busting team to advise them. Some workers at the restaurant say the Lees fire people in discriminately, and point out poor working conditions create poor service to customers. Because of fear of reprisals, the employes of the Asia Gardens say they wish to remain anonymous. For this reason the support committee is made up of friends in the community and not Asia Gardens employee. The Lees had no comment on the situation Wednesday. According to the AGSC, more actions such as the Mothers’ Day leafleting are being planned for the future. "These workers need the support of this community in order to win the fight for their rights as working people,” said Hill. Fridav. Mav 13. 1977
