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Emerald
Tuesday. October 13. 1987
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 89. Number 29
Gay rights activists' protest
to coincide with national rally
By Kelvin Wee
Emerald Reporter
The (’.ay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA)
and its supporters will rally for an hour
in front of the Federal Building in
downtown Eugene beginning at noon
today.
The rally is being held in conjunction
with the mass inarch currently being
held at the nation's capital to protest the
federal government s stand on gay rights
and to demand more funding for AIDS
research.
"The goals of this and other similar
rallies around the nation is to allow
those of us who can't afford to go to
Washington (D.C.) to show our support
for the march there.” said Tim Hughes,
director of the Gay and lesbian Alliance
at the University.
ttugnes. a sophomore in philosophy,
explained the rally is to protest the
Supreme Court stand on the Hardwick
decision of 1986 that stated that sodomy
among consenting adults, even in the
privacy of their homes, was
unconstitutional.
"They are trying to take away our right
to love whom we choose in the way we
choose," he added.
GALA also hopes to create more
awareness in the community on the
AIDS issue with this rally A flyer that
will be handed out at the rally states:
"only when AIDS becomes a major
heterosexual problem, .will our
government show its concern. .
A condom is attached to the flyer,
which is titled "Free condoms on de
mand ! !’’
Hughes fuels that local, state and
federal governments have been extreme
ly passive in their coverage of AIDS
education He said that it is not enough
for the government to provide informa
tion on AIDS and wants them to take a
stronger stand on the issue.
“They art? not doing any favors to the
heterosexual community because
statistics show that within another year
or two. it will tie primarily a heterosex
ual disease as it is with many parts of the
world already." Hughes said. "Only
when the prom queen comes back with it
will they realize that AIDS is not a gay or
junkie disease. That's why we feel that
condoms and education on how to use
them need to be provided free to
everyone."
Another issue to 1m? addressed at the
rally is House Hill 2325, which was in
troduced to the Oregon legislature and
sought to include the words "sexual
orientation" to the already existing list
of minorities.
"HB 2325 is an ongoing priority tor
GALA and several other organizations.
We want some form of institutionalized
gay civil rights and even though the hill
is now dead in Legislature, the issue is
definitely not." said Tore Johnson,
former director of the l',ay and latsbian
Alliance.
Inhnson. a senior in biology, said that
the federal government has taken the
stand that homosexuals and drug addicts
are responsible for the spread of AIDS.
She added that no federal, state or local
government has taken an active role in
the process of AIDS education and
prevention with the younger heterosex
ual community.
“The problem is kids are going to start
getting AIDS and there will be no one
around to tell them what they should or
should not do," Johnson explained
GALA also will present a brown Uig
forum with a discussion on gay civil
rights after the rally from 2:30 to 4 p in.
at the EMU Forum Room today.
"If all goes well, we will also he able
to include a live report from the march in
Washington at the brown bag forum."
said Huges
Alumni offered credit card
By Paula Green
Emerald Reporter
The University Alumni Associa
tion. in conjunction with U S. Bank of
Oregon, soon will offer a customized,
low interest VISA credit card to about
H5.000 alumni.
"We have joined with U.S. Bank to
create an innovative marketing pro
gram that benefits our alumni with,
perhaps, the best credit card package
in the state. And. we have generated a
steady new source of revenue from
U.S. Bank for our alumni associa
tion." said Phillip Super, the univer
sity Alumni Association director.
The alumni will have the oppor
tunity to choose either U.S. Bank's
Classic or Premier VISA card. The
cards carry a 14.9 annual percentage
rate of interest on the unpaid balance
as well as a 25-day grace period on
purchases before interest is charged.
"This is the lowest VISA card in
terest rate, with a 25-day grace
period, offered by any of the major
commercial banks in Oregon." Super
said. Because most people who use
credit cards carry a month -to-month
balance, the lower interest rate and
grace period can save customers "a
substantial amount of money.” Super
explained.
U S. Bank will pay the Alumni
Association a royalty based upon the
use of the card and the number of per
sons using it. The renumeration will
help the association maintain currant
alumni programs, reach out to pro
spective University students and in
crease the public's perception of the
quality of education available here
The Classic VISA will feature a full
color autumn photograph of IJeady
Hall. The Premier card will be gold,
emblazoned with the University logo
As mure than half of the University
alumni live in Oregon. Super thinks
that while they make a purchase with
the new cards, “they are really mak
ing a positive statement about the
University of Oregon."
The Alumni Association soon will
begin offering the card to non-alumni.
termed contributors, such as faculty
and staff. Furthermore, a review
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The (Calkins House, lacateti at the inlerset:tion of Patterson Street and Past I tth
Avenue, is one of the few Vitiorian-era homes.
Historic home preserved\
to open as a coffee house
By Andrew LaMar
Emerald Reporter
Eleventh Avenue was once lined with
tall trees and large, stately homes, but
ovor the years progress' brought down
most of those homes and today few
remain.
The Calkins House is one that remains.
A three-story. Victorian-era home built
in 1902 by VV. W. Calkins, the house was
saved from destruction in 1970 when
Nelly Link Macon bought the home and
restored it.
Now the house, across 11th Avenue
from the Patterson Towers at 588 Hast
11th Ave., will be turned into a cafe.
Christian Gunther, a 26-year-old Univer
sity alumnus, bought the house from
Macon this summer and plans to use it
for a cafe-style restaurant.
Gunther spent three years in Europe
where he was originally planning to buy
and run a coffee house, but last winter he
got homesick for the "hospitality and
greenery" of the Eugene area, he said.
In June he returned to Eugene and
began looking for a building to house his
cafe. One afternoon shortly after his
return. Gunther walked by the Calkins
Mouse and fell in love.
"I pictured this house being lit up at
night with people enjoying themselves
in it, and I thought what a perfect spot,”
he said "I can't think of more than three
or four other houses that have this sort of
historical character and size in Kugene
It's a remarkable structure."
Me asked people in the neighborhood
about the owner and four days later he
talked with Macon, who had been
receiving offers for the house from doc
tors, lawyers and others who wanted to
use it for offices Macon said she thought
Gunther's cafe would best serve the com
munity and preserve the house.
"I had several excellent offers on the
house, but he was what I was looking for
— someone to run it in a way for the
public, like a coffee house." Link said
"I liked him very much It was not an in
vestment for him but an attachment."
Gunther has been clearing old fur
niture and junk out of the house, and in
the coming months, he will submit an ar
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