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Swing into
summer with
CARNIVAL THEATRE!
| University Theatre’s fun-filled season of plays will fill
your summer evenings with music and laughter!
I'm Getting My Act Together and
Taking It On The Road
The critically acclaimed musical starring
PRISCILLA LAURIS
July 5, 6, 7, 19, 25, 26; August 3, 4, 10
Side by Side by SeKdkeiw
A musical revue of
Broadway show tunes by the
master songwriter, Stephen
Sondheim
July 12, 13, 14, 20, 21
August 2, 11
Mass Appeal
A heartwarming comic
drama starring TOM
LASSWELL and DENNIS
SMITH
July 17, 18, 27, 28
August 1, 8, 9
Robinson Theatre • 8 p.m.
$5.00 - Any Friday or Saturday
$3.50 - Any other performance day
Call 686-4191 for ticket reservations and information.
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Paee 2
Relaxation of camping a farce
Ahhh. . . the good life. Back to nature.
Getting away from it all. A weekend in the
woods. But most of all, two days of guaranteed
rest and relaxation.
Since childhood, I’ve viewed camping as
the purest form of living and the best way to
restore one’s sanity. And as my family and I
headed for Waldo Lake Friday, with tents and
bug repellent in hand, I figured I was in for yet
another mentally uplifting experience. What I
got, however, was a surprise.
First we had to set up camp, a ceremony
which has always started with the erection of
the tents. This time, instead of going for a
swim or hike as 1 had done in earlier days, I
was now required to lend my adult hands.
Hmmm. “Attach spanner to joint connec
tions. Run rods through joint ends, and secure
spike ring clips in bottom opening. Then at
tach rain flap clips to side loops. Secure
spikes; wrap tension ropes around joints, and
tie back front zippered window opening
sections.”
This mumbo-jumbo went on for nearly
two pages. “A person needs a degree in
engineering and architecture to get this
ridiculous piece of plastic up,” I thought to
myself. With lower lip stuck out, 1 shot an en
vious look at my brother's handiwork on my
right and my father’s snap-together con
dominium to my left, both of which had been
put up in minutes.
Meanwhile the wilderness's mosquito
population had banded together around our
site, and the nasty little bugs were making a
meal out of us fast. Even the strongest
repellent, available at $6 per ounce, wasn’t
enough to keep them from swarming around
our coated hands and faces. One extra-hungry
varmint found the only spot left open for
biting, and it wasn’t long until my lip was red
and puffy.
Then the wind picked up, taking most of
the flying pests away but freezing our butts off
in the process. We stared at the pit of cold.
gray ashes waiting for my dad to build a roar
ing fire there. Nothing happened — he was
busy in the warmth of his portable palace pum
ping up an air mattress.
Rats. Our effort was more smoke than
flame, and it didn’t take long before we smell
ed like the bottom of an ashtray. And of course
the wind always blew the smoke in my direc
tion, but it didn’t make me feel very beautiful
like the old saying goes.
Bedtime at last. But just about as we were
all asleep, some metallic caravan drove up full
of boisterous brats. The pre-pubescent pains
spent the next hour exploring the area with
flashlights, letting us know all the way of their
progress. Their parents were no better, either.
The next day three of us decided to go
fishing at a nearby lake. We loaded up the car
with rubber boats and headed up the longest,
roughest quarter-mile of boulders the forest
service ever called “road.”
The trip only lasted an hour, though, as
the bigger raft was decorated with a mean
gash. Besides, my brother and a friend reason
ed, beer would be just as enjoyable back at
camp.
But as one of the few beer haters alive, the
only thing left for me to do was take the canoe
out for a spin on the lake. And a spin it was.
The inflatable idiocy paid no attention to the
direction my useless paddling asked it to go.
“Give me the oars,” my friend command
ed. “I got a merit badge in Boy Scouts for
canoe-paddling.” But even his qualified
strokes did no good and, much to my satisfac
tion, the boat just flailed around — his ego
with it.
An inch of dirt, a sunburn and a few hun
dred bug-bites later, we were home. A shower
and a real bed never felt better. Even the phone
and the pile of mail and newspapers couldn’t
prevent me from relishing my homecoming.
And to hear the neighbors’ car engines and
lawn mowers again — what joy!
Commentary by Julie Shippen
Biomechanics -i--ueJ from Fage 1
according to their shock
absorbing ability, ^ut Bates’
tests on the performance of run
ning shoes demonstrated that
| shock absorption was only one
indicator of quality in a shoe.
“We published information
that showed that the two
primary functions of a shoe
were shock absorption and con
trol or stability, and that the two
functions were inversely related
— the more padding, the less
control,” Bates says. “During
this time a lot of runners got
hurt. Since then in 1980 Run
ner’s World has three control
tests in their program.”
Olympic athletes and
weekend athletes alike have
benefitted from the understand
ing of human movement gained
ed through the relatively new
discipline. Bates says. But as
biology and machinery mesh,
questions have been raised
about where to draw the line
between man the human and
man the machine, he adds.
Biomechanics also can be a
tool for identifying athletes who
may have potential for ex
cellence in a given event.
Oregon doily _ _
emerald
The summer edition of the Oregon Daily Emerald is
published Tuesdays and Thursdays, except during ex
am week and vacations, by the Oregon Daily Emerald
Publishing Co. at the University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon, 97403.
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ty with offices on the third floor of the Erb Memorial
Union and is a member of the Associated Press.
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Night Editor
Reporters: Diana Elliott, !
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