African Students Association Presents
A cultural exploration of Africa
Free Event
Friday, April 23, 2004
Dinner at 6:00pm
Event at 7:30pm
Venue: DO, EMU Ballroom
Donations are welcome
University of Oregon
Athletic Department
O R1EE G O n Marketing and Promotions
Internships Available
Apply now for a volunteer
undergraduate internship for the
2004-05 academic year and
gain valuable experience in:
* Sports Marketing
* Event Management
* Advertising & Promotions
* Athletic Administration
* Special Event Coordination
* Sports Sponsorship
Applications and job descriptions available
now at the following locations:
Career Resource Center - 220 Hendricks
Business School Career Services - 240 Lillis
Warsaw Sports Marketing Center - 445 Lillis
Duniway Resource Center - 134 Allen
Len Casanova Athletic Center
Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 28
For more informationf call 346-5417.
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Find fun stuff in the ODE Classifieds: Comics, your daily horoscope, and, of course, the crossword.
Library's used book sale
feeds buyer's addiction
The annual Friends of the
Eugene Public Library’s
used book sale produces
odd finds for only $1
By Ryan Nyburg
Senior Pulse Reporter
Used-book shopping has to be one
of the most satisfying addictions any
one can engage in. Sure, heroin may
have its high points as well, but book
shopping is cheaper and lasts longer.
More bang for your buck, if you will.
Sure, heroin addicts will break into
your home to steal money to support
their addic
tion, but is
that any
worse than
dealing with
someone
who has
read too much? For example, at the
Friends of the Eugene Public Library
book sale last weekend, I picked up a
tome entitled "The Complete Guide
to Flypnosis," by Leslie M. LeCron.
Soon you will all bow before me.
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The annual Friends book sale has
become a sort of pilgrimage for me.
Taking place in the Wheeler Pavilion
at the Lane County Fairgrounds, the
sale consists of table after table of
used books, filling up the entire build
ing. The books are arranged by vague
genre description and not much else.
If the Dewey Decimal Classification
system had been designed by an anar
chist, this might be the result. This sys
tem might make it hard to find what
you're looking for, but going into the
sale looking for something specific is
a fool's errand anyway.
You shop at the book sale using the
old carpet bombing approach, which
states that if you bomb enough territo
ry you'll eventually hit something im
portant. Cover enough ground at the
book sale and eventually, you will find
something you want — even if you
didn't know you wanted it before you
found it. And at $ 1 per book, you can
probably afford anything you find.
This year's sale was pretty much the
same as all the others I've attended in
my long and sordid life as a biblio
phile. I spent about an hour happily
shuffling through the aisles, filling my
complimentary cardboard box with
books I would never pay decent mon
ey for ("Totalitarian Dictatorship and
Autocracy" by Carl J. Friedrich and
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski! Cool!). A few
other bits of interesting literature I
picked up: "The Complete Warren
Commission Report on the Assassina
tion of President John F. Kennedy"
and "Totem and Taboo" by Sigmund
Freud. I have some interesting hob
bies, as you can probably tell.
Eventually, I found a quiet spot in
the government and politics section
and took some notes on the crowd.
It's amazing how well the stereotypes
fit into actual experiences. Middle
aged women with graying hair and
glasses flipping through the mystery
novels, science fiction is full of quiet
looking young men who don't
shower very often; the biography
section is full of old people. Some
times, a section will draw an odd ar
ray of people, such as the high num
ber of freaks rummaging through the
children's book section, looking for
kitsch items. Everyone makes a pass
through the general fiction section
and the more discerning shoppers
scour the literature and verse tables.
This is where I spent most of my
time, since it has the highest yield of
oddball items and necessary classics. I
keep a long list of books 1 want to own,
and I usually find a couple every time
I pass through. In fact, the whole sale
is a great way to find comball pieces of
literary obscurity, while at the same
time filling the holes in any collection
of classic literature. Where else can you
find a copy of "Wuthering Heights"
right next to 'The Works of Plato" right
next to a collection of plays by Henrick
Ibsen? Until the University's English
department finally goes broke and has
a garage sale, this is about it.
Contact the senior Pulse reporter
at ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com.
Tim Kupsick Freelance Photographer
Seattle resident Seth Davis (bottom) researches the value of the books he found at the
26th Annual Friends of the Eugene Public Library Book Sale on Saturday at the Lane
County Fairgrounds. Davis will try to resell the books online.
MARRIAGE
continued from page 1
marriages of same-sex couples wed in other states. That also is
the view of Democratic Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
Beyond the legislative debate, gay marriage is also the sub
ject of legal challenges. Lockyer has asked state courts to
coordinate five cases over the constitutionality of same-sex
marriages. In June, the state Supreme Court is expected to
hear arguments on whether Newsom had the authority to
grant same-sex marriage licenses.
(c) 2004, San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.).
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
Mercury News Staff writer Dion Nissenbaum contributed to
this report.
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