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2 for 1 Buy one ad Get one free in Emerald Classifieds Emerald Classifieds is offering you a FREE 20 word ad when you buy another classified. Use that free ad for anything you want — sell your waterbed, or send a personal to a friend. Here's how to get your free ad: •When you buv an ad in one category you get a FREE 20 word ad in a different category. •Both ads must be placed at the Emerald office (300 EMU). •Don’t delay. This offer good January 10 through January 30, 1081. 1 Meditation Classes For seven years the Sri Chinmoy Center of Eugene has offered classes in meditation. Winter Term Classes will be held in the EMU Forum Room. All classes are free and open to the public. Tuesday, January 20 ¥ 7:oo PM — EMU Forum Room Topic: “The inner world and the outer world." »,% Tuesday, January 27 * * 7:00 PM - EMU Forum Room Topic: “Reincarnation" (The meaning of a life time) All Welcome No Fee McDonald^ Presents: The Campus Crisis Collection Free poster with purchase of any large sandwich and medium or large size Coke he Coca-Cola Company, tamed purveyors of good taste, commissioned Gregory and Timothy Hildehrandt, tamed illustrators of the "Lord of the Rings" calendars, to produce an unprecedented series of five posters. Lach is j tull colored, IN" x 24” studv of one of the traumas of college life. Together they comprise The Campus Crisis Collection How, you wonder, can you obtain these wonders5 We re glad we asked. Just go to a participating McDonald's, purchase any large sandwich* and a medium or large size Coke, and request the poster ot the week "Nome Game," "Freshman Counseling," "Chemistry 101," "Cramming," or "Blind Date." At no charge. We re confident you will be pleased with your Campus Crisis posters It you're not, write to the Nildehrandt brothers You'll still enjoy the artfulness of vour McDonald's sanduu h and Coke 0*FER GOOD Af PARTlOPATiNC, M< DONALDS RESTAURANTS 1417 Villard St. F.ugenc, Or. jLumimmjjj vpryTXyrTTPT^TTTTTT^ Nobody can do it like McDonalds can Offer g»xxl while supplies last - through February 1st U»IUMUMUMU»IU»*W yy^j^TPTHPTTPTTTT^TTTT Liberalism survives Progressive Alliance assembles in city By STEPHEN KNIGHT Of tha Emerald The Progressive Alliance met last weekend at City Hall to an nounce that liberalism isn't ob solete in these conservative times and to map ways to get progressive issues passed through local and county governments. One Alliance member, City Counselor Cindy Wooten, told about 50 people it is time for progressives to remind the pub lic that "we're not going to roll over for the next four years" just because "Republicans are swarming around Washington like bees, and Ronald Reagan believes he is governing the country from a mandate by God." Ron Eachus, steering com mittee chairer of the Alliance, said the organization was formed to create a network that would actively support progres sive issues as well as can didates of Wooten's political stripe "We re a citizen group work ing on controlling our own des tiny," he said. Eachus said most decisions on critical issues like inflation and unemployment are made at the federal level where special interests have the money and connections to influence policies for their own financial benefit. The focus of policy-making needs to be at the local level where decisions can be made in the public interest, he added One local issue discussed at the gathering was weatheriza tion Alliance member Sam Sa dler said most new homes are being built with no regard for future use of solar energy, and homes with solar collectors have no clear right to direct sunlight. He also said a solar access law is needed to encourage solar-responsive building orien tation and give assurance that a solar homeowner has the right to unobstructed sunlight. Sa dler said this proposal is being opposed by the Southwest chapter of the American Insti tute of Architecture as "re stricting their creativity." Other issues on the proges sive agenda included: • Free speech. Attorney Jill Heiman said free speech in Eugene is being undermined by the city’s parade ordinance which restricts demonstrations through the imposition of high permit costs. Before a demon stration can be held, police pro tection and liability insurance must be provided for. "The parade ordinance dis criminates against poor peo ple,” Heiman said. The ordinance also gives local government the power to penalize unpopular groups and ideas by refusing to issue a per mit, she added. Heiman proposed that the Progressive Alliance support legislation to overturn the pa rade permit ordinance. • Mandatory weatherization. The Alliance passed a motion to fight for the mandatory weatherization of all homes in Eugene built before 1974, which Alliance member Don Corson said is essential to stave off fu ture projected energy shor tages. Mandatory weatheriza tion, currently opposed by the Homebuilders Association and private utilities, benefits tenants and low-income persons who are hit hardest by energy infla tion, he said. • Housing preservation. Al liance member John Van Lan dingham said low-income housing is being rapidly re placed in the city by expensive upper-income homes. Lan dingham said the city council has suggested measures that would subsidize only the build ing of upper-income housing The progressives agreed to push for legislation that would provide housing for low- and moderate-income housing. • Plant closures. Attorney Kathy Tasanari of Lane Coali tion to Save Jobs said plant closures are becoming a na tional epidemic, with more than 3,000 workers losing their jobs in Lane County over the last few years, 500 from West Fir alone. Tasanari said industries should be made to re-invest in the modernization of existing plants instead of running off to some other region where labor is cheaper. She advocated measures whereby the Bureau of Labor would investigate and determine if the closure is really necessary and a policy that a moving corporation would have to make a good-faith sale to the community or organization of employees. The Progressive Alliance plans to have another general meeting in two months. Other local politicians affiliated with this organization include City Councilors Mark Lindberg and Gretchen Miller and County Commissioners Jerry Rust and Scott Lieuallen. Prize-winning poet to appear Internationally-known American poet W.S. Merwin will read from his poems, prose-poems and translations Thursday at 8 p m in 150 Geology Admission is free Earlier in the day Merwin will read on the Lane Community College Campus at 11:30 a m in Room 308 of the Forum An informal question and-answer discussion will follow the free read ing. Merwin is recognized for his influence on American poetry as well as his own work, which includes 12 books of poetry, 12 books of transla tions and one book of prose. His translations include the work of French, Portuguese and Spanish, and Latin American poets such as Pablo Neruda Merwin’s most recent book of poems is "The Compass Flower,” published in 1977 by Athen eum His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the Yale Younger Poets Award and Guggenheim Fellowships. A rarity among American poets, Merwin earns a living strictly from literary work — book and magazine publications, translations and read ings. The poet Adrienne Rich says Merwin "has been developing a language and a poetic land scape which are both severe and sensuous, in which the silences — as in human intercourse — are as essential as the speech." In a poem from "The Moving Target" (1963 Atheneum) Merwin briefly explores his relation ship to the writing process: Coming late, as always, I try to remember what I almost heard. The light avoids my eye. How many times have I heard the locks close And the lark take the keys And hang them in heaven. Educational Center TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 Eugene: 485-5699 Course Beg. Jan. 31 Portland: 222-5556 Course Beg. Jan. 24 For Information About Other Centers In More Than 80 Maior US Cities & Abroad Outside NY State CALL TOLL FREE: 800-223 1782 ’S 4c Self Service COPIES • Binding • Two-sided copies • Reductions 344-7894 764 E. 13th
