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Sour season’s end
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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 149
University of Oregon
www.dailyemerald.com
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Drummers play “Steiger Butte” at the 31st Spring Pow Wow held in McArthur Court Sunday. Drumming and singing accompanied eveiy dance at the Pow Wow.
PowWow spotlights drums and dance
This
weekend’s
event
reunited
friends
and was
fun for
newcomers
as well
By G. Jaros
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eagle and hawk feathers lift
and swirl through the air as the
dancers move with trance-like
grace to the sounds of the drum
ming and singing. Watching them
is like seeing forest spirits come
alive.
The high-pitched singing com
ing from the drum circles tingles
down the spine, awakening some
thing ancient and familiar. Specta
tors cannot help but bounce their
legs and feet to the deep pulse of
the drums. The singing and drum
ming is a way of expressing what
can’t be expressed in words.
“My absolute favorite part is to
feel the drum and hear the
singing,” said Rae Ann Crane, the
head woman dancer for the 31st
Annual Spring Pow Wow on Sat
urday and Sunday.
This is Crane's last Pow Wow as
a University student.
“I love Pow Wows because
whenever I attend a Pow Wow I
am reunited with people, friends
and family,” Crane said. “It’s like
a reunion of people you don’t al
ways get to see.”
Crane started dancing when she
was 3 years old. Her mother
would send her out wrapped in a
shawl to follow the adults.
Her mother Ronnie RedCrane,
who brought the salmon for the
Saturday night dinner, said she is
very proud of her daughter.
“I’m glad she made it,” Red
Crane said.
During the Pow Wow Crane
danced in a dress handed down
by Y >r grandmother.
“It is encouraged to have the
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City lacks
housing
code funding
Despite not having a city
housing code, students have
resources if problems crop up
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
The last time the city of Eugene had a
housing code, moonwalking was hip.
In 1983, the Oregon economy was in bad
shape and funding cuts took place in state
and local government. One of the Eugene
programs to get tossed away in the shuffle
was Eugene’s housing code. It cost money
because it required an agency staff to enforce
it, and city councilors felt it was inadequate
because it did not deal with safety issues.
The city has yet to replace the old code
with a new one, despite some attempts with
committee hearings and citizens’ task forces.
From a city standpoint, replacing the code
brought up certain questions.
“How do you enforce [the code]?” said
Scott Meisner, Eugene city councilor. “Who
enforces it? What penalties do you give?”
But the real issue in most cases was mon
ey. State-mandated hand-me-down cuts like
Measures 5,47 and 50 — and most recently
an expanded public employee benefits pro
gram — have made it hard for the city to
squeeze enough money out of the city bud
get to create an enforced housing code.
“Every time we get ahead of the curve, the
state throws us another curve ball,” Meisner
said.
John Vanlandingham, an attorney with
Lane County Law and Advocacy, said the
city uses state law to establish minimum
housing standards — but the state code is
not really a replacement for a city code.
“The state code is more general than a city
code would be,” he said.
As an example, Vanlandingham said the
state code would require a residence to be
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’60s started out slow, but quickly picked up speed as years went by
The deaths of JFK and
Martin Luther King Jr.
overshadowed the ’60s
By G. Jaros
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dennis Hopper once told David
Letterman, “the ’90s are going to
make the ’60s look like the ’50s.”
He was wrong.
Something unique happened
during the ’60s. Things got radical,
and America went through a cul
tural puberty. But the ’60s didn’t
start out wearing a headband and
no underwear. They started out
more like... well, milk-toast.
The early’60s
“Coed Football Causes Ruckus”
was cause for coverage in the early
’60s. The Emerald reported that
those involved were so muddy
“you couldn’t tell who was in
volved.” The men’s dean was sent
to break up the game, supposedly
to “protect the turf. ” But the Emer
ald reported, “The rumors of disci
plinary action stemmed from the
fact that tackle football between
men and women students had
been declared ‘out of bounds’ ear
lier in the year. ” The women were
told “it was not the thing to do.”
Letters and Editorials
Then there was the letter to the
editor by a student who was upset
he couldn’t bring a date to the stu
dent union. He said it was “because
of the profanity and elementary and
secondary school kids smoking. ”
An editorial titled, “Legislation
of Morality,” questioned why men
and women were not allowed to
visit each other’s dorm rooms,
while another titled “The College
Girl,” jabbed at women in search
of a husband.
“A disconcerting number of fe
males seem bent on shouting their
matrimonial inclinations from the
housetops —
especially un
engaged girls
who buy
bridal maga
zines,” the ed
itorial read.
And, of
course, no
decade would
be complete
without the
ever present
letters ques
tioning the skills of the Emerald’s
editorial writing staff. The early
’60s were no exception.
News
The major campus news during
the early part of the ’60s focused
on cleaning up the Eugene Mill
race so it could be used for recre
ation, wondering about why the
Russians were such a “drab yet
friendly people” and then there
was the endless stream of “dad’s
day,” “dad’s weekend” and “let
ters to dad” filling out the paper.
In sports reporting, the Ducks
were called the Webfoots. And the
bowling team got more ink than
any sport, save track. The rugby
team got started, and in football
Len Casanova began his 11th year
as head coach. Casanova was quot
ed as saying “I’m not particularly
optimistic” when asked about his
19 returning lettermen who had
gotten “massacred” in the Liberty
Bowl the previous year.
Protests
However, the early ’60s weren’t
without some dissension. There was
a protest in 1961. It was a demonstra
tion against the practice of dormitoiy
counselors keeping records of resi
dents habits and behaviors.
“A spontaneous demonstration
that was about as spontaneous as a
Russian rocket-launching oc
curred...” is how the “Emergency
Staff Writer” at the Emerald re
ported the event. He was sent to
cover the demonstration after
“Five Editors Quit Emerald.”
They quit because University ad
ministration pulled an editorial
criticizing the University’s prac
tice of maintaining records of per
sonal habits of students.
Despite this bold stand by the
Emerald editors, the newsroom
continued on with business as
usual. This was demonstrated best
by an article called “Emerald
Breakfast set for Saturday.” It be
gins, “An Emerald awards break
fast (if you’re a light eater)....”
One of the major turning points
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