I i A Better Concept * Spring Special 20 1st room (re* MO) additional nmtm JH/rm Offer cuplm 3/31/93 i Carpet Cleaners • 688-2703 t l_I «M>ai«M t* 344-2691 ☆ II ofO Spring Softball Tourney tournament weekend: April 2-4 j Deadline to register: friday, Man ti 14 Intry fee: ISO per team Division*: Men's I • Men's 2 • Coed All proceeds benefit the travel and equipment expenses for the ( I oh Ha serial I Program. for further information tall Jack at the Club Sports office at 346-1711 or 34S 4472 Sponsored by the U of O Club tUuebull fc LIFE IS PRECIOUS i Z PROTECT IT! * MPappw w Cttamicai Datanaa * tdanttfytng BEYOND AIDS 101 NOT JUST ANOTHER WORKSHOP What can you do that wilt make a difference? topics include: • Navigating Your Way To A Healthy Relationship • Living With HIV/AIDS • Safer Sex - What's Practical, What's Not • Grief and Loss • and more! Friday - April 2,1993 6 pm - 9 pm Saturday - April 3,1993 9 am - 5 pm 302 Gerlinger EDPM 407 and EDPM 507 CRN 2127 and 6309 1 credit P/NP only LIMITED ENROLLMENT Conference fee - $20 payable day of workshop Catered lunch provided on Saturday Sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Lane County and U of O Student Health Services Break means ‘bum, bum, bum’ By Martina Jotle Errxxatd ContnOutOf "The only people for me are the mail ones. the ones who are mad In live, mad to talk, mad to he saved the onrs who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, hut bum. hum. hum. hum. like famous yellow Homan can dles "— Jack Kerouac, On the Road It's lima for spring break Enough is enough It's time to heat! out. Time to leave problems behind Time to see something new. Some will bike among the Saguaro cactus in the desert bloom of the Sonoran desert Some will flagrantly violate Son ny Bono's "no-thong" bikini ordi nance in Palm Springs. Some will stay in Eugene, wishing they were somewhere else University students will be enjoying themselves during spring break in lots of different ways. Nationally, more than 35 percent of students report a trip on spring break. Teresa C j»rd. of All Ways Trav el in the EMU, said many stu dents have bonked flights to well known party places like Puerto Vallarta or San Padre Island. Texas. Card is going to combine spring break with marriage in Puerto Vallarta. "All I know is we're going to wear Hawaiian shirts and shorts in the wedding,” Card said. Many of the corporate-spon sored tieach bacchanals, or beach side bashes, thrown by MTV, Budweiser or Coca-Cola, will draw almost half a million row dy revelers. Thu bashes have come under lire in the past few years for par ticipant's drunken.sexual and Tm going crazy, that’s whore I’m going.’ Mark Scwier, history major sometimes violent behavior. Mary Moody, a 21-year-old recreation and leisure studies major, is going to Puerto Vnllar ta to stay in a friend's time-share condo for eight days. When asked what she was going to do in a party place like Puerto Vallarta. Moody said, “Oh. just hang out." She also will final ly put her four years of Spanish to use Many students have chosen vacations that will give them peace of mind and a healthy Itody. Damon Valla, 22. a geology major, is going to t amp in the Opal Creek old growth with friends. "I'm ready for spring." Valla said, adding that he'll come back when his dehydrated refried beans run out. Oregon Club Sports teams are also looking forward to spring break. Club sports’ crew team is going to go to its annual training ses sion at Lake Natoma in Sacra mento. There, the team will train for three hours a day in the sun and will culminate its training with a regatta against California uni versities. Participants in the University's Outdoor Program are going all over the Western states in search of adventure and pristine wilder ness. One group has already left for a backpacking adventure through Mexico's remote Copper Canyon — four times the size of the Grand Canyon. „ Another group will be visiting the "desert bloom” of Death Val ley. where the whole desert comes alive with colors from cac ti blooms. The group will con tinue its journey to the Grand Canyon. Still, other students are look ing forward to winter sports. Chris Van Alyea. 20. a psy chology major, will go snow boarding in Squaw Valley. Calif. "I'm going to crash at an old drinking buddy's cabin." Alyea said. “He works on the moun tain." The Outdoor Program has a group that will circumnavigate, or follow the circumference of Crater Lake, via cross country ski ing and ice camping. Still, some students are head ed for the great indoors. David Erbes, a general science major, is going to stay indoors and see a different sort of wildlife. He's heading to the crap tables and poker tables in Reno. Many students will catch up on rest and personal business they didn't have time for during the term. Others will look for jobs or work, and many will enjoy the local scene. "I'm going to go crazy, that's where I’m going." said Mark Schwier, a history major. Schwier will be spending his one day of break in Portland at Powell's bookstore and Spartacus. a leather and sex-toy store. Not everyone is happy about spring break in Eugene, though. Sean Sloane, a 20-year-old Asian Studies/Chinese language major, will "be stuck here, eating oat meal, wishing I were in San Fran cisco." iiLTmirerari Student to speak on oral traditions A University graduate student will deliver a speech today titled "Old Man Ckiyote: Then and Today as Always." George Wasson, an anthropology student and a member of the Coquille Indian tribe, will dis cuss Native American oral traditions including the character of Cioyotu. Wasson said Coyote is a multi-sided charac ter who does Icolh wise and ridic ulous things “I hope students sen; culture is not static:," he said. "It's always changing. Coyote is not a sta tic: test but a way of expressing life. Contempo rary |>eople are still keeping the stories alive." The free lecture is part of t7»e Department of Anthropology's Colloquium Series. It will take place in Room 201 Condon Hall at 3:30 p in. Chilean slide show scheduled An Amunutn photographer whose photos are featured in Today is Not Like Yesterday — A Chilean Journey will lecture today on Chile and present slides from the book. Ted Polumbaum and his wife. Nina Polum baum. published the book. The book covers more than 20 years of Chilean history and doc uments the lives of people before and after the military coup that removed former Chilean President .Salvador Allende from power. Polumbaum first traveled to Chile for the inauguration of former president Salvador Allende. Year after year, he returned to the country and saw the people hope Allende's Marxist government would succeed. He later witnessed their fear when a military regime took over the country. The free lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in the EMU Ben hinder Room. ‘Charge it’ and help the hungry American Express has teamed up with Share Our Strength, a non-profit hunger relief orga nization. to conduct a "Million Meals" hunger relief campaign for college students who want to help feed needy men, women and children. From March 15 to April 30, American Express will donate, through SOS. Ihu equiva lent of a meal every!into a student card member makes a purchase with an American Express Card. The credit card company will donate up to a million meals. |im Blann of American Express said he believes college students take an active inter est in the world around them. "We developed the "Million Meals" program so students tan easily contribute to a cause in which they strongly believe." Blann said. A student card member is an American Express card member currently enrolled in col lege who applied through the company’s stu dent card program. College students who are not i.ard members, can call 1-800*385-2639 to apply. We re developing some new ideas The Oregon Daily Emerald is accepting applications for an energetic and creative student with an eye for capturing news, a sports and feature assignments to fill a photographer position. ® I! you possess these skills and you're interested m gaining valuable experience on a daily news paper, the photo department s interested m you lor its Spring S3 stall Pk* up an application aid submit a portfolio to the Graphics Editor, ODE, Suite 300, EMU by Friday. April 2,1993,5 p.m