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Emerald Editor: (Continued from f>ape tfl) name to the bottom of the list and delete the name at the top of the list and send a 98 check to that person. What eventually happens is this: it comes to a point where no one can sell the letters any more. The last person in the chain has paid out $10 for the letter and $5 to the person whose name he deleted to get that $5 check, and he is out $10. But, backing up the chain a little bit, there are people who have paid out the $15 and got ten $5 from the letter they bought, and $10 from the let tors they sold, and nothing from the people who were supposed to send them $5 checks because the letter did not get far enough to where their name would be deleted and checks sent to them. The people at the top of the chain are making money while the people at the bottom are losing. And another thing to note: there are just about as many people in the last link of the chain as there are total before them in the chain. This is because at each step, the number of people in the previ ous step is doubled in going to the next step. Besides bcing*financially dan gerous, chain letters are illegal safe from losing money and and classified as fraud. To keep maybe a run-in with the police, don't buy chain letters. Gerald Sanders Freshman, Mathematics Volunteer for Cause Emerald Editor: In their respective articles in today’s Emerald, Nomi Boren stein and Dave McC'loskey and Bob Holmes have made it beau tifully clear that, in relation to academic matters, the students ran seek from the faculty and its administration autonomy in stead of power. I want to vol unteer to work for that cause. Bob James Associate Professor, Pine and Applied Arts • • * Tripe written Kmoraid Editor: (The following is an excerpt from a torn pamphlet discovered in the garbage cans behind Fogg Hall, while looking for my tripe writer, which my roommate had carried away as useless junk.) "Good Morning Children, and wielcome to Babble U. My name is Uncle Maxie, and I'll be your spiritual leader until you start serving your first sentence. You boys and girls are a bunch of wonderful, freethinking in dividualists, I know, because even I can’t tell some of you apart. I hope you all brought money. "Now sit up slouched, watch for opportunities, and maintain your solidarity. Aren’t you glad the draft board has such rigid restrictions? Yesss! Just think, if you study real hard, and mem orize your ‘spontaneity’ and ob structionism, you’ll be all ready for action when the times comes. r GRAPE V BEVERAGES * BAR SUPPLIES PARTY SUPPLIES Beans Basket Grocery ' 34 10th Ave. E "Now eat your little sugar cubes which were passed out at the door, while I tell you all about the wonderful absolute freedom we have here at Rabble U. First of all, feel free to ex press any opinion here, but re member, if you don’t conform to our ideas of the true free thinking individualist, you’re obviously either a revisionist or an FBI agent, probably both. And you’re absolutely free to take any koarse you want, just so It's one of our mandatory koarses. “These are necessary to make you a true frecthinking indivi dualist, and will teach you all about civil disobedience, social disobedience, legal disobedi ence, disobedient disobedience, manufacturing martyrs, contriv ing crises, evasion, fabrication, prevarication, and all kinds of fun and games. “And you simply have to take our wayout koarses, “the evils of capitalism,” “the virtues of. communism,” and "the absolute infallibility of Uncle Maxic” — that’s me. So run along now to the Coke room, and remember when you. use the Coke room to clean your j hypo, every time we lose a stu dent to infection, it cuts down our profits— TWEEEEE! Whoops! It’s the cops! The brutal, imperialistic tool-of-wall street gangster goons! Stop, don't run away! Defend your beloved Uncle Maxie! Police brutality! Help! — ” (Unfortu nately, the pamphlet was torn j off at this point so I was unable to ascertain the location of Rab dle U. However, I confidently an ticipate that more material per taining to this institution will soon be forthcoming.) Walter J. Wentz Sophomore, Anthropology • * * Return the Responsibility Emerald Editor: I don't want my grades to be used to send someone else to Viet Nam. I can’t see how any one’s obligation to his country can be based on a grade. Each male student must rea lize by letting the university use his grades to rank students, each is responsible for anyone draft ed tinder that system. I as a student do not want to be re sponsible for someone else’s death. 1 want the faculty to adopt Mr. Aberle’s resolution and re turn the responsibility back to those who must make the deci sion. William Meyer Senior, Political Science * * * Reply to Meyer Emerald Editor: This is an intended reply to Mr. William Meyer's letter in the October 17 Emerald. I think you are confused on the use of the word “perpetrate." In order that the University “perpetrate” the Selective Serv ice System, it would have been necessary for the University to have instituted the system also. And such is not the case. You are asking that the Uni versity cease to help in the con tinuance of this system; i.e., by not “perpetuating” it. Which brings me to the point of my letter. There is, indeed, no reason why the Selective Service Sys tem should be allowed to dictate the criteria of your continued education in terms of what is considered necessary in the na tional interest; any more than it should be allowed to send the kid down the street, who hasn’t fot the coins or the glue be-; tween his ears to get to col lege, to Viet Nam. Think about it. Richard Frampton Senior, Russian ♦ * * Adequate Appraisal Emerald Editor: Mr. Bruce E. Combs, I won dcr whether you might agree j that, under the circumstances, j being partially effective is at. least better than having no ef-' feet at all? I refer to your reply to Pro-1 fessor Klonoski’s letter. And. * too, Mr. Combs is your phrase- j ology, “. . . sell out on grounds i of political expediency . . .” J really an adequate, accurate ap- J praisal of what Mr. Klonoski j said? It depends, I suppose, upon what you think and speak with, j your heart or your head. Larry Tripplett Sophomore, Journalism Parking ■ ■ ■ (Continued from pa<ie 1) One definite problem with this proposal is that 13th Street is! the only through street from the J downtown area to east Eugene within five blocks in either di- j rection. In order to close 13th to through traffic, the University I must provide an easily accessible, alternate route around the cam-1 pus. The sub-committee on parking was asked to broaden its study to include cost, administrative problems, and alternate programs for accommodating automobiles on campus and for reducing the j traffic flo wthrough campus. | The planning committee receiv ed the report of the sub-commit-1 tee on bicycle and motorcycle ac commodations. The number of bi cycles on campus has been stead- ■ ily increasing in recent years. At j the same time the number of 1 pedestrians has increased to the i point where it is becoming un-1 safe for both groups to use the i same paths. Also the accommodations for bicycles is neither sufficient nor convenient at this time. The pro-1 posals for relieving the situation —which will be discussed at a later time—are that: • The riding and parking of! bicycles shall be allowed only in ' areas specified. • Bicycle facilities shall be made an essential consideration in all new construction. • Bicycle facilities shall be! professionally designed and con- [ structed by an architect or land scape architect. H is the hope of the sub-corn-1 mittee that bicycle facilities can become a pleasing part “of the architecture of campus openj spaces and buildings.” according 1 to the report. At the same time, | the facilities should be more con-1 venientiy placed so they will bring bike riders closer to their destination and not obstruct the flow of pedestrian traffic, con tinued the report. The preliminary report on the Science III building was that the building is in the architectural planning stage. It is now on the list of recommended action to the 1967 legislature by the Ore gon System of Higher Education. THE NEW FOLK are coming BLAST OFF IN A Triumph Spitfire Mk 2 No other sports car turns tighter or maneuvers better! Only $2429, delivered HANSEN BROS. MOTORS 245 E. 6th ■> i > > 1 ' 1 Viet Nam Future_ <Continued front pane 1) speak at 7:30 p.m. He took part in a nationally-televised debate on Viet Nam, defending the admin istration’s involvement there, re placing former administration foreign policy consultant Mc George Bundy. Bundy had been unable to attend. A five-minute break will follow each speech, and a panel dis cussion among the three men will be held following Scalapino’s speech and the answering of ques tions. “There has been . . . consider able debate on the American in volvement in Southeast Asia,” said Drummonds in previewing the conference. “I encourage that debate. “It is the business of a univer sity and of every student to come to grips with the complexities of the American involvement in Viet Nam and to grapple with the is sues of war and peace. 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