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HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR ADVISOR TODAY? 90-HOUR ACADEMIC ADVISING REVIEW Monday, November 8 — Friday, November 12 Students close to junior status: / Have you completed University and general education requirements? / Have you mapped a clear path to graduation? / Do you understand your major requvements? /When do you expect to graduate? /Are you getting to know your advisor? Check with the peer advisers In your department, If they are available, or check with your faculty adviser. Premajor/undeclared students check In with the Office of Academic Advising A Student Services, 164 Oregon Hall. Dogs 8 pm ’til ? Tuesdays 50* wine Ladies 5 - close Fridays Remember Bea’s Famous Hamburgers Come and enjoy live sporting events on our BIG SCREEN TV via satellite 3355 E. Amazon Dr. Eugana • 342-3575 Hot President in year 2000? By Hank Trotter OfttwEnwraM Last October, while most candidates were stumping for the Nov. 2 electior, one man was campaigning for an election 18 years in the future. The man is Dr. Larry Holden and he wants to be president of the United States in the year 2000. The 39-year-old former psy chology professor drove into Eugene this October in his Dodge Dart for an anything but-whirlwind campaign stop. His "Campaign for Human Understanding” has carried him from his base city of Asheville, North Carolina, through more than ten cities on the way to Eugene. The trek, which began May 20, is a two-year "figure eight” of the country. Currently, there is no party backing him. But with his campaign, Holden hopes by the year 2000 to not only have formed a party to nominate him — the Human Party — but also to have transformed the con sciousness of the American citizenry. This change in the human psyche is necessary to bring about the needed change in the operation of government. Holden says. “Anyone with wide open eyes can see there is a crisis” in the world, he says, adding that he belives the source of the crisis is within our consciousness. "The Human Party, unlike other political parties in American history, will be based Larry Holden on a perceived need for an inward psychological trans formation," Holden says. "This transformation shall be manifested, in its outward form, by concerned individuals coming together to accomplish (humanitarian) objectives.” How does one go about transforming the conscious ness of an entire nation? “One of the easiest ways is by putting questions to people,” he says. "I am asking people to look at their own life. Can you go past your own ambition and end the competition within yourself? Can you live life more simply and stop being self-centered and start thinking in terms of us?” Holden attacks the “fatalism, apathy and complacency” that he says he sees in this country. Holden is serious in his attempt at the presidency, but admits that the campaign is also an arresting way to present ms ideas to an audience who otherwise might not be receptive. He officially kicked off his campaign on Jan. 26,1982, with an announcement at the Soup Stone restaurant in Asheville. In the speech he called for a new spiritual-humanitarian political base and asked individuals to once again become involved in the political process. In the 1960s, Americans turned outward to change soci ety without first understanding themselves, Holden says. In the 1970s, people turned "fatalis tically" into themselves and were indifferent to the outside world. Holden says we must move outward again in the 1980s, but with an understand ing of what we learned from our inward look. The 1990s will be a time of political action for the newly formed Human Party and the decade will see the party take the "reins of government" thus bringing "human beings" into office, he says. "The current political system emphasizes things like charisma and popularity," Holden points out. "I’m emphasizing more qualities like wisdom, integrity, vision and the capacity to see broadly and deeply.” "We don't have government now. We have political conflict," he says "I think the right poli tical system would not be competitive Government im plies cooperation between Continued on Page 6 RCYB scolds Register-Guard Demonstrators gathered out side the Eugene Register-Guard office Monday to protest what they called an anti-communist attitude a the daily newspaper. According to James McComb, Register-Guard advertising director, six to eight members of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade gathered outside the building for about an hour, talking with reporters and passers-by The group's unsuccessful attempt to publish an advertisement in the newspaper apparently prompted the demonstration The rejected ad lists supporters of two RCYB members convicted of burning a yellow ribbon at a speech given by former Iranian hostage Victor Tomseth Feb 9, 1981 The RCYB is trying to over turn the ribbon burners' arson conviction, which Brigade members say is "clearly intend ed as a message of warning to all those who dare to oppose the national unity' and blind loyalty for the U S government's RCYB members protested at the Register-Guard building Monday crimes against the people ot the world " According to a press release from the Committee to Free the Yellow Ribbon Burners, "It Is no accident that the Register Guard has now refused to print the support statement and ad as written and floated out policy' counter to their practice McComb says the Register Guard agreed to run the text of the ad but claimed that the list of endorsements was not valid and shouldn't be used He says the ad listed organizations which had signed an endorsement petition, then added names of individuals affiliated with these organiza tions He said these people hadn't signed the petition The RCYB claimed to be using the names for "identifica tion purposes only," McComb says Oregon daily emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through t oday escept during enam week and vacation* by |h>- Dragon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. at the University of Oregon Eugene OR. 97403 The Emerald operate# independently ol the University with otfices on the third floor ot the Erb Memorial Union and Mr a member ot the Assoc iated Press New# and Editorial MS SMI Display Advertising end Butsnee* aasjrtj Classified Advertising MW 4343 Production sat 4jet Circulation UAIItt Editor Marry I slave Managing Editor New* f drlor Assistant Nous t dltoi f ditorial Page Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Associate Sport* Editor Entertainment Editor Night E tutor Associate Editor* Higher Education Department* and School* Student Government t ealure* Politic* Community General Start Advertising Managei Claswtied Advertising Production Manager Controller John Healy Margin Green Cort Fernald joan Nyland Bob Baker Mike Riplmger Paul Danger Jonathan Single Dane Clauuen Debbie Howletl Sandy Johnstone Richard Burr Sean Meyer* Michele Matassa David Brown Darlene Gore Sally Oljar Victoria Koch Jean Ownbey
