COMMUNITY Festival to celebrate ‘shrooms By Jacqueline Woge • " <»M 5 RuporlOf Sum*' might liknn it to the hist, lug outdoor fling hidori' winter sets in Other, might consider it .1 pro winter i elebra tion hither vv,i\ . people just want to get out in the f.ill vventher iimi 1:0010 to the I'all Festival .nid Mushroom Show because it's mi pretty. Iliirhttfa Cooper Townsend, Mount fhsgah Arbo return office manager said The lltli annual festi v ill takes place Sunday from 10 a m to ■} p m at the Mount I’is gah Arboretum, located oil Sea ve> hoop Koad i lic show leatuies mushroom displays and lasting, fresh pressed i ider. nature walks. music. a M-afi'crow < unit's! ami fur (ho first timer, a show and sain of naiuti' art Retired professor i rmn.ir Rowe s.itd mushrooms fiavi- al wav- occupied a powerful and mysterious position in U. '.tern Kurope and North American mythology. associating them with rotting. decay and evil When we grew up. mothers said Ilia! it sou torn ft the mush rooms on the lawn, sour toes would shrivel up." Kowe said ()! course, this ts a really im poverished view of mush rooms Mushrooms' bad reputation in Western < ulture mas he at Intuited In part to their tsehas ior Mushrooms themselve. are vrry undopenciablr rffrrvi's K-nt : matures, appearing and disappearing suddenly Rowe said .Seeking them for food is the equivalent of an egg hunt of a fishing trip Never invite guests over for a trout dinner until vou catch the fish Hv using three pronged rakes, people really dig Up the forest looking lor valuable mushrooms like that of the Ore gon white truffle, Howe said The prat in e disturbs all tin1 or ganisms in the duff the laver of moss, leaves and branches covering the forest floor Rowe believes the practice should he prohibited He favors the l-.uropean practice of using specially trained dogs or pigs to search for the powerful aroma of mature truffles Activists explore gay-rights backlash By Kirk Powell f rneraid Contributor I he increase in hale groups prompted by Ih<• gay rights movement liiic klash is tin- greatest slnte t!i(! civil rights movements ol the l'tMis, .1 prominent g.iv rights activist said Thursday I have never encountered a ( Innate so poised by hate and shot through with four as 1 have here.' said Kevin Horrill. a training and organ!/ ing consultant for the Nutjonul (lav and f.eshian Task I on e Policy Institute Herrill was joined by Claudia Hretinor. a mem her ol the gay and lesbian delegation that recently met with presidential hojieful boss Perot The pair spoke on i urtipos in an effort to edui ate slu dents The event was sponsored lay the Offito ol [he Dean nl Students and the Lesbian, (Jav and Itlsexual Alliance Herr 111 Itcgan with the concept id maximizing progress and tninimi/ing hii< klash He said when the gay rights iiiovernent started, homosexuality was illegal in all ri(l states, hut that number has now declined to 11 A campus study showed that more than *10 courses at the college level are he mg offered including tin histotv ol the gav/lesbian movement, lie said Brenner addressed the continuing violence caused and aided h\ silence, lies, harassment vandalism and physical assault All these things culminate into one thing fe.ir, she said During tier depiction ol the traumatizing inci dent in whlrh her partner was murdered, the room Was silent Students’ well-being topic of conference By Sarah Clark Emerald Report or_ Health issues lor gay, lesbian and bisexual students and the role of Chinese medical principals in modern medic ine arc just two of the more than 30 seminars to lx- presented next week at the Pacific: Coast College Health Association's confer one e at Valley Kiver Inn. The conference, co-sponsored hv the University's and Lane Community College s student health centers, will attract about 150 physicians, health educators, administrators, phar ‘It gives us a chance to talk over problems and issues we’re facing in college health m.icjsis arid oinrrs irum western United States and Canada, Bob Petit, Student Health Center medical ad ministrator and conference planning committee chair man said. Students who want to at tend any of the conference's seminars or see its exhibits can contact Annie Dochnahl. Bob Petit, Health (.enter p MBvLSBS If you know four students (or if you are four students), sign up now to compete with other wild and crazy adventurers in College Bowl, the varsity sport of the rnindJ It's an exciting game that tests your knowledge In everything from literature to science, from music to film. 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