Most of the chairs were full when I reached the lecture room at the Baker Center in downtown Eugene. Parking had delayed me. For several years, I pulled into an assigned parking space outside this building when it housed The Register-Guard newspaper. I climbed the back stairs to my desk in the second-floor newsroom. I knew where I was going. But now I fumbled for parking-meter quarters and fretted about arriving late for the first day of school! I was heading back to the clas