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
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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
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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
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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
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