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Oregon Daily TUESDAY, JUNE 21. 1994 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 96, ISSUE 1 A Spinner" dervishes about to the sound of the Grateful Dead concert at AuUen Stadium on Friday UOWl SHMSti MmmW This Could Be the Last Time’ Fans: Dead-heads may piss off some of the locals, but they do make 'The Scene' By lla Salciccla Oregon Gaay (meteta I was a teen-age “touchhead." A Id-year-old "dead head” living with Mom and Pop in th*i Boy Area, I hopped on iho bandwagon after the Grateful Dead released their 'HOs hit "Touch of Grey." 1 even got grounded once for lying about going to a Dead show. REPORTERS NOTEBOOK But passing time and new friends change people, espe cially in the college years After spending enough time with people who heckled hippies and listened to bands with names like Spit ting Midgets, 1 grew the same way. 1 laughed at the KVVVA common ial that claimed they would "teach your kid to start fires with nothing but a blow torch — power-wash offull that patchouli and make them stop spare-changing " After all. it's annoying to walk through town and tie inundated with people wearing patchouli and spare-changing. But I always kept a soft spot for the Dead Scene. And I have an obligation to fill in what happened to those who spent the weekend out of town or hiding at home Last weekend allowed me to figure out just why I had let the Eugene cynics strip me of my pseu do-hippiedom, and why 1 voluntarily stopped hang ing with The Scene. I think I figured it out. Talk to a ''hardcore" dead head (one who has been around since at least the '80s) and they will bemoan that The Scene Ain't the Way It Used To Be. Heather, 22, remembers hailing safe and sound in her parents' logging trm k-turned Deudmnbile in the '70s. Maybe it's "too much diversity," as Heather said, that's changing The St one. Too many tourists and sales people What used to he countercultural is now so mainstream that lorry Garcia has ice cron in named after him. The Scene just keeps getting bigger; lust weekend's three-dav extravaganza proved that. Now the kills Turn ' DEAD, Page 3A UNIVERSITY Summer law course to focus on violence Lectures: Topics include child abuse, political protests, hate speech, non-law students welcome By Joe Harwood for the third conset alive year, ihr t Inlversity law S< fund will open its tii>rv in .ill itudtnli interested in an in depth journey through the legal system t his year's course, "Violnni «• and the law explores the wav the legal system responds to different levels of violent twhavior. The five week course is presented In a diverse group of 1 1 Wk turers, rovering subjet ts from state sponsored violent e ami child abuse to violent politu al protest ami hale spent li t odifi cation. The law st fiool develops a theme tint h year based on t nr rent events within the legal sv stem tfiat hold broad implications for society. We lotik at the things lliat have tnien of concern to people, topics that an' relevant and contemporary," said Jane Cordon, associate dean for student affairs at the law school Previous topir s im luded t tvil rights and rai ml justii e The three t red it t ourse mixes lectures, tlist ussions and read Ing assignments I he lei turers include law and sot iologv pro fessors and a former federal publit defender Bin nuse the course ts open to all students and community memliers. the class represents a broad t russ set turn of society, and law students are actually a minority, at t ortimg to Cordon It is designed to lie "layperson friendly." " 1 fie range of students anil the range of print loners make the series very exciting," said Cordon David Schuman. a course lecturer, said the class is aimed at non-law students and community memlmrs. "Other people, undergraduates anti t ommunity members, bring different viewpoints and rich perspet lives to the discus sion," he saitl "If people aren't sure whether they want to register for the course, they are welcome to t ome to the first or second class Indore registering." said Cordon "We approach the subjut ts at a different level than usual law classes," St human, a lInlversity assot iote prufessor of law said, 1 liertt is a lot of interest in these topic s It does not make sense to restrict tfie sub|et t matter to law students " St human will lecture tin tfit* right of free speet It anti violent e ant) where those subjects infurset t "I'll look at sjM'et h that incites violent e and situations where free spetH h may cause violent e. such as hate speech," he said. I tie course will not only cover the consequences and poten Turn to LAW. Page 5A Amphitheater to host Motown, Cajun, more Music: Beausoleil and The Temptations among headliners By Anne Moser-Komfeld ft* Itv Oregon Oattf £ mtn.ikl Big Concerts...Little Cov er! Compreno/.? The sum mer lineup and concert tickets for the Cuthbert Amphitheater at Alton Bilk er Park are on sale now Comedy, folk. reggae and dance music an; all includ ed m this summer's lineup The season opens Wednes day. June li with the Cajun rhythms of Beausoleil {bo so-lay). Heausoioii, with David C.rismun, has lieeti dublxid "the lx-st dunce hand you'll ever hear." by Rolling Stonv. Thu (Kind's mil sit minus Cajun arid /yduco with blues, country, Tex Mux and (*irihl>ean stylus Crismon ploys tliu man dolin and is known for liis inflictions "davvg music a sound that ranges from bliiegrass to l>«-bop, Heau soluil's music is duscrilMtd as joyous and danceahle The Cuthburt Amphithe atur is easily accussiblti, located near Aul/.en Stadi um, VVIS I KC and the plan etarium. Parking is west of Atitzen. those walking or tiikiug should follow tIn* paths toward that end of tin park The western fun of Kill ers in the Sky comedy Turn to MUSIC, Page 5A
