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
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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
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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
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