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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1982)
Theaters offer cheap flicks Tickets as low as 99 cents By Dave Rodewald Of Dm Emerald It’s Friday night. You are bored and broke A movie sounds good, but spending $4 sounds ridiculous What do you do? You go to an economy movie Several campus groups, the Erb Memorial Union Cultural Forum, and a few theaters in the Eugene-Springfield area show movies for under $2 Most of the movies are on their second and third runs and were re-released from film producers at a lower cost to theaters Ananda Marga and the Sufi Circle are two campus religious groups that, along with several fraternities and other campus groups, show movies to fund their various activities The movies are usually shown in Room 150, Geology, or in Room 180, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall The Ananda Marga society is an international religious group that combines yoga with per sonal development According to Shyam Logan, a local Ananda Marga member, the group uses the funds to help with "food recycling" and their various other local activities Star Wars, Reds, On Golden Pond The local society also dona tes some of the profits to the international Ananda Marga, which uses the money tor social concerns like sheltering the children that were orphaned in the 1977 Guatamalan earth quake According to Logan, the society has some good quali ty” movies lined up for this year. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Excalibur. Reds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and On Golden Pond are a few of the movies students can ex — pect to see for the $1 50 Ananda Marga admission price Logan says that the group picks the films on several criter ia, including quality and whether the film has an uplifting or a progressive political mes sage He also says that while they do look for films that will bring a profit, the group also sponsors quality films even if they don't make a profit "We are conscientiously op timistic that we will make a profit," Logan says, but he ad ded that because of commercial theaters that offer a discount night and the increase of groups that show movies on campus he thinks the profits will be down Monday of new student week will start a brand new season for the EMU Cultural Forum's movie series That week the EMU will present a whole week of movies that will include Animal House, Airplane and the Kentucky Fried Movie, along with several other films Jan Warren, program advisor for the EMU. said that 89 films in all had been selected for this upcoming year by a student film selector, John Nafsirjger After New Student Week, the films will be shown on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the more commercial films shown on Friday and Saturday, and for eign films and classics shown on Sunday, Warren says Nafsinger has also scheduled some double-features, and some theme weekends that show movies around a specific theme Halloween weekend (Oct 30-31) will feature Wait Until Dark and The Innocence, she says The price of admis sion for the EMU movies is $1 50 There are several theaters in town that show more recent movies, and still offer attractive prices. The Oakway Cinema, in the Oakway Mall, and the Fine Arts Theater, 630 Main St., Springfield, are two such theaters. The theaters, run by LeRoy Hulsey, a resident manager for Western Amusement, both CAMPUS INTERFAITH MINISTRY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND SEPTEMBER 22nd OPEN HOUSE time: 3-5 p.m. £ 11 i i i Of at: Koinunia Center, 1414 Kincaid St. (across from PLC) Wesley Center, 1236 Kincaid St. (next to UO Bookstore) Newman Center, 1850 Emerald St. (S. of athletic fields) FREE DINNER at: Wesley Center, 1236 Kincaid time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. ALL NEW AND RETURNING STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND The following denominations work together cooperatively in Campus Interfaith Ministry. Lutheran, United Presbyterian, Episcopal, United Methodist, Roman Catholic, Restoration, So. Baptist, American Baptist, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Jewish. 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