"HOP THi NEEDY WE'LL DONAT! YOUR OtDCOATT CLEANED BY QUALITY PIUS CLEANERS ] l»y t t LIMITED TIME OffER SAVE 10% OFF ANY RIGUIAR SALE PRI([ COAT OR JACKET AT McKEN/liS WKENZIE DOWN I OWN 79 W BROADWAY f UG€NE VALID WVH CIMTII tUGLNL 4*5-594* 343-2300 l4uWO(ly TA**I*Q CKNTt" FLAVOmt fg*ce* N«0flW0MMflr£? i^oS^o^GOWDA(iy ASUO registers 3,000 students By Edward Klopfenstein Oregon l'fM> fmvrakl The ASUO’s voter registration drive (nil 1,0(M) voters short of its 4,000 student goal, the student official organizing the drive said Wednesday Phil Bentley, ASUO slate affairs coordinator, said the dri ve i tainted more than 2.400 stu dents registering through the A.SI IQ offi< e and another 500 to 700 students who registered directly with the Lane County Kim tion ()ffi< e The ASUO requested results onh from the polling districts near tiie University and near Westmoreland Family Housing on West IKth Avenue and Arthur St r**et The next highest voter regis tration drive results < umii from Oregon State t Jnivnrsity The stu dent government there registered 1,200 students Other figures include. Eastern ()n>goil State ( ci! lege 250. W es! ern Oregon Stole College — .150; and Southern Oregon State Col lege - 325. “Compared with what other schools aid, this school did real grout," Bentley said. Ijist year, the ASt >0 surpassed its registration goal of more than 4.000 students. But this year's final number of aftout 3.000 was still respectable. Bentley said, because the ASUO was the only organization on (ampus request - ingthat students register Most student organizations pushed voter registration last year because passionate issues like state Ballot Measure 9 presented a compelling reason to register, he said This year's central issue, state Ballot Measure 1, the state sales tax measure, is still vital to stu dent interests, he said, because it could provide a new funding sourt e for the state's education system. The outcome will depend on whether registered voters for the measure actually vote. ■'This is an election where the outcome is w ith the people who vote." he said "If the yes people vote, then this will pass. But if the yes people sn at nome ano () for University students • Twenty-five of the North west's top high si hool marching bands will compete in the 15th annual "Festival of Bands” com petition at Aut7.cn Stadium Sat urday. Tickets for the prelimi nary rounds, which will last until about 5 pm. are $4 for adults and S3 for students and senior citizens Tickets for the finals, whii h will start about r p m . an? $6 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. An all-day ticket costs SB. For more infor mation. call 346-5670. • The Children's Concert Series will host "Fun at the Opera Mouse” this Saturday at Beall Concert Mall, 961 K. 18th Ave Tickets for the concert, which will feature University Opera Workshop Director Frank Graf feo. cost S3 for adults. Slf for chil dren and students and $5 for fam ilies. For more information, call 346-5678. • A statewide workshop to pre pare for the 1995 U.N. World Conference for women in Beijing, China, will he Sunday, Nov. 7, from 10 a in to 6 p m. in the EMU F'tr Room. The free workshop. “Priorities '95 Forum: Women in Oregon and the World," will explore themes and prepare a document for the conferetu e For more information, contact Ada Cheng at 346-2545. • Mark O'Connor, an Aus tralian poet and writer, will pre sent a lecture titled "Bringing the Environment into I.iteroture" at 4 p.m. Monday. Nov. H. in the KMl I Cumwood Room O'Connor is a visiting research scholar in the Oregon Humanities Center For more information, call 346 3934. • A documentary filmed in Germany titled The Truth Shall Make Vs Free Inside the Neo Nazi Network, will be shown Tuesday at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive St. Following the showing, a panel discussion will address the pre sent situation in Germany and its connections to developments in the U S. For more information, call Communities Against Hate at 4HTi-42H6. 1 PILLOWS. COMFORTERS. COVERS. SHEETS. AND MORE! ROCK SOFT FUTON 1231 ALDER ST. (503) 686-5069