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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1978)
emerald Vo». 80, No. 63 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Friday, December 1, 1978 Wiotos by EricH Boetwfrwde No, he's not taking a toke; Ken Kesey’s blowing on a siren-whistle, connected by hose to the horn under the flag at the front of the musical vehicle he and the Merry Pranksters built for Groundswell,' a benefit supporting growth management. Kesey and company stage zoning benefit Several entertainers, including fam ous author Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters are getting together at the Olde Dexter Theater this weekend to help local residents in a bitter zoning battle. The show, which runs through Satur day, will raise funds to pay the legal ex penses for fighting the rezoning of the Cone-Breeden property, a 390 acre par cel of land approved for primarily com mercial and industrial use last year by the Eugene Planning Commission. Since then, a local citizens' group, People to Preserve Agricultural Land (PPAL), has been able to modify the plan somewhat, but ran up almost $20,000 in legal fees in the process. Most of the proceeds from the $5-per-ticket show will oo toward those expenses. Each show will start at 8 p.m. Friday's show wHI include Kesey’s readings of works in progress and satin* cal music by a guitar and fiddle group, and Jazz By the Steve Woffe group. Randi Douglas will perform “Molly Bloom ’ Saturday, followed by an Irish Music Workshop and dancing to the Party Kings, a blues band. “We see Cone-Breeden as a particu lar battle and not the war," says PPAL spokeswoman Cynthia Wooten. “The war is the whole question of growth.” ‘‘A lot of artists have volunteered their time because they’re living in Eugene and they like the rural area outside the city. They could probably make more money in other cities on the West Coast but they want to stay here." “Fatigued” Gamer resigns OSL post after two years By MIKE HOPKINS Of the Emerald Dan Gamer, who for the past two years has served as administrator and sometime lobbyist for the Oregon Student Lobby, resigned Ns position as executive coordinator of the OSL effective today. Garner, 24, was one of the OSL’s three full time staff members. He came to the OSL in Nov. 1976 as administrative assistant follow ing a two-month stint as ASUO executive as sistant under then-ASUO president Jan Oliver. OSL is governed by a seven member board made up of student government representa tives from each of Oregon's four-year institu tions of higher education. The three-person staff handles administrative, research and lobbying dutied from OSL's Salem office. Garner cited fatigue as his reason for leav ing. He said he has worked an average of 60 hours per week during the past two years and 80 hours per week during the 1977 legislative session. In his letter of resignation to the OSL Board of Directors, Gamer said: “I devoted my entire heart, mind and soul to the OSL in the two years I have been here, and i sacrificed more than any of you will ever know. Now it is time for me to pay attention once more to my personal needs and to find new outlets for my restless energies.” Far from leaving the OSL without an ad ministrator just before the 1977 legislative session begins in January, Garner thinks the OSL is “stronger than ever before" and can function adequately while the board searches for a replacement. “If I thought the OSL would fold, I wouldn't leave,” Garner said. "The OSL has an excel lent legislatice coordinator in Molly Smith.” Gamer tried to resign in July, 1977. How ever, at that time personnel problems threatened to weaken the organization, Gamer said, so he decided to remain out of enthusiasm for the OSL s purpose as advo cate for the interests of Oregon students. “I've had a love affair with the OSL for the past two years," he said. Garner added that he expects the Board of Directors to find a new administrative officer before the next legislative session begins.
