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Editorial Packwood horse trade??? Oregon’s junior Sen. Bob Packwood appears infuriated over reports that he has made an about face and now plans to vote for the Strom Thurmond backed Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth of South Carolina. Portland’s Oregon Journal ran a banner headline Wednesday: “Angry Packwood Denies Vote Trade.” Rumor has it that Packwood has agreed to vote for the Dixie judge in exchange for political concessions from the Nixon administration. Not true says Packwood. Although unable to identify the ‘horse-trade’ exponents, Packwood has blasted the rumor as “an ex ample of treachery of the lowest form from men without conscience.” The rumor is said is to have originated at a recent Pacific Logging Con ference in British Columbia. Has Packwood swapped Haynsworth for the French Pete drainage area? Only time will tell. Events are puzzling. Some of the pieces: While Packwood has been leaning against Hayns worth, he has been the target of a White House drive to woo him over to Nixon’s position. There has been a 45 minute pow wow, and he was re cently wined and dined on the Presidential yacht down the Potomac. Now the Register-Guard’s A. Robert Smith reports that the White House has followed through on a Packwood request for a stay in timber bid for French Pete. Coming as it did during the same week as the Haynsworth vote, some political analysts view Packwood’s support of the conservative South Caro linan as a foregone conclusion. Some feel the Oregon Republican is eager to build up political capital with Nixon, feel he profited from his support for the Pentagon’s ABM, and feel he is jockeying for a key committee assignment, perhaps the prestigeous Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Has Packwood now decided Haynsworth is a good bet for the country? Is the ‘horse trade’ as baseless and treacherous as he claims? Wait and see how he votes. Letters Treasure chests During registration, most of us signed our names to the reverse side of an IBM card indicating our submission to a pompous lit tle credo stating what a privilege it is for students to park their cars in University lots. After having paid a thirty dol lar lot fee, parking our cars three blocks from our residence, and losing tape decks, gasoline, ra dios, batteries, and other parts of ours cars’ anatomies, I fail to see any privilege at all. Parking Lot “D” is a veritable storehouse of automotive treas ure, open to all in need. Those with the authority to do so would reassure us of our privi leged position if they would see that suitable measures are taken to protect our property. The lighting in Lot “D” is barely existent, and the only time many of us have seen police patrolling the area has been at high noon, definitely not a peak hour for pilfering. The situation is serious and de mands immediate action, spe cificially in providing sufficient lighting and effective patrolling of the parking areas. Bob Edwards President Carson Men’s Unit A question of morality We talk about our freedom of expression. We say that we have a right to lawful dissent. The very fundamentals on which our coun try is based stress the impor tance of freedom, that life may be prosperous, that we may strive for equality of opportunity, that we may seek happiness in our own ways. We do our best to protect the rights of the individual as well as the safety of the majority, or we say we do. And yet some how these things or rather ideals are expressed and not adhered to. It has been said that a man may be judged by the actions he performs and not, necessarily, by the things he says. If we look to ourselves and our own Univer sity environment, we find that people consistently demonstrate decadence. The uncalled-for van dalism through which some un known person reeked his ven - geance upon the supporters of peace, points up the corruption of our present society. That the ma terials of Harry Gross’ center - Pag* 4 piece Nixon Collage in the EMU upstairs corridor was defaced is of little importance—paper and photographs are of insignificant intrinsic value. That someone or some group of people has chosen to express himself or themselves in such an infantile way is of vastly larger significance. Op - position to the point-of-view rep resented by Gross’ photos is com pletely legitimate, but the ex - pression of that opposition has its place in the forum of affairs and not in the uncaring destruction of pictorial art. Perhaps, a generalization can be made about our present social condition through an examina - tion of this incident. If each in dividual would look to himself and assess his effectiveness as a moral agent, correcting any flaws he finds within himself, then it is possible that this society can show itself to be the moral organi zation it claims to be! Roger Brudno Freshman, Education Congratulations As a substitute for my more customary denunciatory style, I wish to congratulate the Emer ald and its staff on its issues dur ing the past few weeks. Possibly the editorial board were exhausted after the full-page diatribe against President Clark but, whatever the reason, the com paratively moderate, well-balanc ed style has been a welcome re lief. The series on the admittedly serious housing situation could easily have been a rabble-rous ing, “Hang the Landlords,” per formance. Instead it was judicious and thoughtful, recognizing more than one side to the problem. The innovation of the pictorial, sometimes artistic, front page also deserves acclaim. Members of the University com munity who have become accus tomed to say, “Oh, I never read the Emerald!” might take another look. Kenneth Porter Prof, of History * * * In Apology After analyzing the facts of the incident that took place at the Intramural football field Sunday, Nov. 16. in our soccer match be tween ETM (Latinos) and Africa Star, we can't help but feel dis gusted and sad about our un mendable behavior we exposed against Referee Mike Hawes. What we have done is beyond the limits of the spectations of a body of students that have bound together to play soccer for fun and enjoyment only. Mike, we the members of ETM (Latinos) sincerely and humbly apologize for our irrevocable be havior of that Sunday afternoon. As a group we would like to promise and give the assurance that such incidents will not be repeated. We do also hope that in the future while in a contest of a game where we become victims of blindness and despair, and cap tives of the agony or defeat, we know how to control our emo tions and behavior and thus, ac cept a given decision by the offi cials of the game, whether it be a sound or unsound decision. Carlos Gonzalez Elfidio Cano Francisco Loera other names on file. A Partial Agreement I would like to express at least partial agreement with your editorial, “Only Time Will Tell.” You state that dogma is not worth anything, and I’ll agree with that. However, I would like to add that neither rhetoric or in tellectual revolutionaries are worth the time you spend on them. To be involved in some thing, anything you want to be in volved in is far better than talk ing. Today a non-demonstration cel ebration took place toward the Marine Recruiter here on campus. The Marine’s up tight reaction— one of restraining panic—to a group of happy, smiling people singing “Happy Birthday” to them was worth more than any revolutionary thesis ever written. The fact that the Marines re fused police protection, one of them told me so, and yet had a couple of short haired men hang ing around again shows us that the Marines, who had heard in advance that something was com ing, were afraid. But the non-demonstrators — a whole crowd of leaders — were too busy having fun to jeer or heckle. The recruiter, by step ping out and offering to discuss issues, made himself appear ridi culously serious. But all the fun stopped them, because some of the people be gan discussing the war in Viet nam with the captain (I hope they finally settled it, I went home). About 80 people, most of them chance passersby, made up the celebrating people. What were they celebrating? Ask them, I really don’t know. “You are the revolution’’ — Abbie FREE “We can do better.” — Rob ert FREE “Be politics.”—Jerry FREE .... .. .“When sheep walk into the den of wolves . . —Jesus FREE “The only way to support a revolution is to start one.”—Irma FREE “The Revolution is your head.” —Tym FREE Tim Travis Freshman, Life Major Praises of SALT Your recent edition of SALT was praiseworthy, indeed, deal ing as it did with mankind’s worst problem — overpopulation and resultant pollution and des truction of earth’s natural envir onment. Too many of us in the immedi ate post World War II generation, misled by one another and the washing machine advertisers, failed to recognize that many children per couple plus a grow ing material standard of living for the many and a war economy equals disappearing forests and farm land, depletion of renew able resources, pollution of air, land and water, decimation of ani mal species, rising land prices, crowding and depersonalization, and inadequate capital and time for reasonable planning and or derly development (with pollu - tion control, for example). Many still don’t see the con nection between their families of from three to eight children and the need for more electrical pow All letters to the editor must be type written and triple spaced. Letters must not exceed 300 words and must be signed in ink, giving the class and major of the writer. Those dealing with one subject and pertaining to the Uni versity or Eugene community will be given preference. The Emerald re serves the right to edit letters for style, grammar, punctuation and potentially libelous content. Letters not meeting these criteria and those which are mimeographed or otherwise obvious duplicates will be returned. er generating plants—nuclear or otherwise—more highways, more shopping centers, more schools, more office buildings, more paper towels, tin cans, and more every thing man produced for human consumption. (And I know of no one who stopped using his car for a week or month or forever because of the Santa Barbara oil leak. No one is willing to give up gasoline for the Grebes.) Measures stopping pesticide use, saving French Pete, or pro hibiting Weyerhaeuser pollution will only be stop gap if your gen eration is not wise enough to stop population growth (more births than deaths) by having two or fewer babies per couple. The more people we have the more some of our leaders will work to enlarge our war machine to “save” our citizens, save our “way of life,” and save our trade position so we can maintain our material standards so we can continue to “grew.” Because of well-meaningly - in stituted public health measures without concurrent effective birth control, present skyrocketing pop ulation growth in undeveloped countries will bring on massive famines, world-wide social uphea val, alternative political chaos and repression, and war such as will make the Vietnam mess in retrospect look like a tea party. Lots of luck! Mrs. Flora Spencer U O class of ’47 Quacks, booms ‘disgusting’ I, as a member of the vanguard of Collier Hall, feel the great need to express my disgust at the lack of consideration of the rally squad (quack, quack) and the pep band (boom, boom) who chose the un godly hour of 10:30 Saturday morning to come pepping by and serenade us. How can a true revolutionary expect to be in a complete state of mind when pseudo-revolution aries come trooping by at this inappropriate hour? How can a insurectionist have pleasant dreams of molatov cocktails when those inconsiderate mem bers of the "silent majority” fi nally decide to express them - selves. Duck power to those quacks; all other power to t h e people. Matt Motchkavitz Sociology Oregon Daily Emerald
