Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Friday. October 12. I‘NO
Eugene. Oregon
Volume *>2. Issue 33
Briefly
Lane County Waste
Management is sponsor
ing its second Household
Hazardous Waste Round
up of the year and organ
izers expect the biggest
turnout ever at Saturday s
event.
People with toxic
waste, ranging from paint
and paint thinner to pes
ticides and insecticides,
are encouraged to bring it
to the Glenwood Dump.
3100 E. 17th Ave
See story, Page 5
Kandy MacDonald and
Dick Briggs are two high
ly qualified political new
comers vying for the
Ward I seat on the Eugene
City Council.
See story. Page 8
Almanac
REMEMBER: Tomor
row is the last day to drop
a class without a recorded
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L
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Bill Muagrav*
In the last 50 years.
Oregon has beaten Wash
ington only six times in
Seattle and the last time
the Ducks beat the Hus
kies in Husky Stadium
was 1980.
Given those odds, it
would seem that Wash
ington has a huge advan
tage going into Satur
day's Pacific- to Confer
ence gam
See Story. Page 13
Their original name
has been slammed as abu
sive sexual innuendo and
their music has been
branded as sexist.
But Eugene’s own Bad
Daddies have ignored the
controversy, in which,
they say. they are inno
cent victims, and contin
ue to perform to a huge
following of fans in sell
out concerts.
See story. Page 11
Protesters disrupt Burger King filming
By Chris Bouneff
Emerald News Editor
About 30 University students
Thursday night disrupted film
ing of a Burner king comranr
rial outside the knight Library
Production crews were film
ing in the library's special ml
lection area on the third floor
late Thursday afternoon when
about a dozen students tried to
disrupt filming A dialogue
with administrators ensued
while filming continued. a<
cording to several protesters
A coalition of stude n t
groups, including members of
the Survival Center and Stu
dents for the Kthical Treatment
of Animals were on hand to
protest Burger king's use of
beef and the use of public lands
for grazing cattle.
The number of protesters
swelled to about It) as i rews
moved outside the library for
filming The crowd chanted
and displayed signs condemn
ing Burger king.
After evaluating the situa
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Nearly 50 people turned out in front of the Knight Library Thursday to protest the filming of a
Burner kinn commercial.
Rally celebrates Coming Out Day
By Catherine Hawley
Emeiaid Associate Editor
(Jay and lesbian University students urged
each other to "break down the closets" and
openly acknowledge then sexuality at a rally
held in the KMU Courtyard on Thursday to
commemorate the second annual National
Coming Out Day
Sui* Dockstader. new co-director of the (Jay
and Lesbian Alliance, stressed the important e
of coming out to "put a fat e on gays and leshi
ans” and break stereotyped ideas held by
members of the straight community
She also urged gays ami lesbians to take part
in campus activities, to be more visible and to
work with other campus student groups, sut h
as MKUhA. the |ewish Student Union and and
the Hlack Student Union, as a united front
against prejudice and discrimination of all
types.
"Traditionally, we’ve held apart from other
student groups on campus.” Dockstader said
“But we can't be a single-issue group. With
the rise in hate crimes, we can’t ignore people
in other groups being harassed
About 50 students and a steady stream of
pussersby listened to Dockstader and others
who volunteered to come to the microphone
and talk about their own coming-out experi
ences or about their pride as gays or lesbians
Some, such as Betsy Brown of Kugene. said
they had long ago acknowledged to friends,
family and employers that they were gay or
lesbian.
“Anyone who knows me and doesn’t know
I'm a lesbian isn’t paying attention." said
Brown. 34. who told the crowd she has iieen
out since 197B.
Others said they were only "part way out of
the closet" and talked about the difficulty of
telling family members some with strict re
ligious backgrounds - that they are gay or les
bian.
Brown, who called herself a lesbian sep
aratist. also affirmed the right of gays and les
hians to be different and to question the "fami
ly” values of mainstream soi ietv .1 soi ietv
that Brown said often discriminates on the ba
sis of race, sex and class
"When gays and lesbians s.iv that we're iiist
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(iu\s and lesbians /fathered in the TMt 1
Courtyard Thursday to urfie a untied front
against prejudice and dist.rimination.
like evervlxidv else. we need In ask. who is ev
erybody «*ls«* ,ni(l do we want to ho just like
thorn?" sho said
Mil hael I’ooior. formor (.ALA co-director,
said ovorv gay and loshian who ( onios out real
(irms tii.it sexualitv is "no longer a dirtv little
soi rot
"Closets arc for clothes." I’ooior said "And
I've never really thought of myself as a suit
Brand labels
Measure 5
as harmful
By Bob Waite
Emerald Reponei
Efforts In provide .1 "world
i hiss" university .ire in progress,
lint It.allot Measure r> could dam
age hope for the aradomii envi
ronment. University President
Myles Brand said at an informal
press conferem e Thursday.
Brand held the press conference
to disi uss the stale of the Univer
sity now that the acadcmit year is
in progress
If passed. Ballot Measure 5
would limit state property taxes,
whit h would greatly reduce fund
ing for the state's puhlii si hool
system.
Uov Neil Uoldsihmidt has pro
posed a $fitl million Budget that
would help increase faculty sala
ries at the University. Brand said,
hut there are threats to this budg
et
"The financial impact (if Meas
ure 5 passes) on the University of
Oregon would be very severe,"
Brand said
Kven if voters approved a state
sales tax. Brand said there would
still lie a one to two year time lag
in whir h funds would he limited
and academe service would suf
fer
In a worst 1 ase si enario of vot
ers approving the measure and not
approving a sales tax. Brand said
there would he an immediate
freeze of fat ulty salaries, followed
by cuts of H percent over the next
Turn to BRAND Page 4