—--Oregon Daily- -
Emerald
Tuesday. May 16.
Kugene. Oregon
Volume *10, Number 1 .">."■>
_Inside_
■ Soviet to visit, Page 3
■ IFC news. Page 4
■ Streetwise. Page 5
■ AIDS care fundraiser, Page 9
Blondie
December Holt lip-syncs to music while other members of the Delta Delhi Delta so
rority dance onstage during an airband competition in the KMl' ballroom Monday
night. The contest, which included members from most of the (beef houses on cam
pus. kicked off "Greek Week. ”
Photo by James Marks
News producer tells
of S. African injustice
By Mu had Drummond
f trier.ild \ssodate Iditor
l lic tori imI ini>!r.ition ol
South Afrit .i s hl.it ks to so
called honit'lituiis «.is iiIhiuI
ilir i losi'st thing to \,i/i Or
many" .is David Oilier a pro
tint er tor ( IIS s on Minutes
would ever v\.ml to gut
Hut gutting i lose to tlif real
stoiu's developing m South At
in ,i is mm .1 Urn uli1.ill task
Olhnr. who hns produced
several features tor t MS \>ms
on South Afrit.i. told .111 .null
dll i* ot .iImnit .Mil) Monthly
night lh.it press reslrit lions
have made it nearly impossible
to cover that enunlrv's soi nil
upheavals and life ot lire coin
moil hl.it k under lire repressive
Apartheid sy stem
"The interesting thing is the
South Afrii an government has
really won this (media restru
lion) war." Ollier said
"There's a very limited number
ot stories you t an get avvav
w I III
"(The government) has made
it olfi't lively impossible for for
eign reporters to cover the story
in South Africa." he said
"Now you've got to get thrown
out of the i ountrv to broadcast
a story which they're unhappy
Hiiv id (icllicr
about
Moreover South \fru aits
perhaps art' niori' uninformed
about events iu tliru own i ouii
tr\ hei ause ul press restru
lions. (ielber added
Instead of running stories on
abuses of the Apartheid svslein
(ielber said the popul.ii e is ex
posed to pap news stories, sin h
as eight-minute features on
whether to tax paperhai k
hooks
Turn lo Gclber, P.tge 7
Barber gets unique view of changing campus
By Greg Hough
Emerald Reporter
There are a million stories in the Kmerald
City — and Ed Mayars can probably tell about
half of them.
Sitting in one of three barber chairs at his
business, the kampus Barber Shop on lt.'>l E 13th
Ave . Mavars spent part of a morning reminiscing
about nearly 30 years of cutting hair in the heart
of the University area
On a mirror behind the chairs is placed a
sign that Mayors and his cutting < rew find hu
morously apt: "Cows may come and cows may
go, but the hull in this place goes on forever ."
"1 have the best clientele in the world."
Mayors said. "Very rarely do you get someone in
here who gives you trouble."
The business opened in 1022. only the set
ond to set up shop on what became known .is
Campus Row to generations ot students By the
time its founder, tile late l.eo Ileffenbai her. hand
ed over the reins of ownership to Mavars in l'H.-f
the shop had established itself as a historic el ret
erence point for generations of alumni
Twenty-eight years after Mavars began to
work for Deffenbacher. he says he's looking to
ward selling his lease ot tin- shop in the next two
or three years
"I in not planning on breaking Leo's re
cord." he said.
Mavars said the shop has cut the hair of all
Universitv presidents since 1922 lie said he
should ask incoming President Myles Brand "to
come in at least once, 'cause I'd hate to break tra
dition."
Mavars recalls giving a crew cut to then-in
terim President Charles lohnson only days before
his death in an automobile accident in June lfitifi
"He told me he was under a lot of pressure."
said Mayars, recalling the days when Johnson led
a school rife with student protest over the Viet
nam War.
The presidents who’ve come to kampus Bar
bcr Shop were "kind of quiet, most of them."
Mayars said. "Now (William) Boyd, he talked a
lot. He was from back east, but I know he liked to
gel mil <11x1 camp <imi 140 horsehai k riding
"(Arthur) Flemming yy.is also from beck
oast." hf ><1 id "I don't think ho ever got a dm
er's license lin’d always lived where there was
<i subway or taxicab So he hail someone 1 haul
four him around
Flemming served as University president
from lUtil tiH. followed by Johnson, who served
one year .is interim president Boyd succeeded
Robert ( Hark in 1070. and stayed at the I hliversilv
until 1'IHI. when he was followed by current
President Paul Olum
Mayars said he's seen many University ath
lotos comp into the shop over the years including
former Duck (piarterbar k Dan Fouls, who went on
to stardom in the National Football League.
Two famous University sportsmen whose
paths never crossed Mayars' cutting tools were
l)n k Harter and Ron Fee. hubs of the successful
"Kamikaze kids" men's tsiskeib.dl team in the
mid 1070s
I think both ol them went .11 ross the street
to get their hair cut by Pete." Mayars said, refer
ring to Pete Peterson longtime owner of the Red
Rooster Barber Shop on F filth Avenue
Mayars, who works with two other barbers,
estimated that about HO peri ent of his rei ent busi
ness has come from the University Over the
years lie's seen student hairstyles come in and
out and hack in again
"I had very little problem adapting to long
hair." Mayars said of the 1000s 70s long-hair
trend among male students I tended to leave a
little hair on anyway it was what I 1 ailed a 'busi
nessman's cut.' So when long hair < a me in. I just
cut it basically the same as I did the short hair
booking through the shop window all these
years has given Mayars a close-up view ol student
fashion trends, from paisley shirts to Dorothy
Uamill cuts to baseball ( aps Most of these trends
have involved hair or clothing, but Mayars recalls
one exception the 107:t-74 age of the streaker,
when students ran around in the hull
Mayars recalls this thrilling piece of Ameri
cana: a group of 15-20 naked students streaking
Turn to Barber, Page 7
Photo liv Hill iltfinr*
Ed Mayars has seen many people and trends in his almost 30
years at the kampus Barber Shop on E. 13th Avenue.