Editorial
Student votes needed in elections
An important election is coming up in
November. Unfortunately it’s not a
presidential election so most people in
cluding students tend to brush it aside as
inconsequential.
Most students have always looked upon
state and local elections as irrelevant. The
students who participated in the campaigns
of Eugene McCarthy and Bob Kennedy in
1968 have, for the most part, dropped out of
politics. The alienated youth of America are
hopefully waiting for the election of 1972 and
a new “messiah” who will save America and
the world. But the “messiahs” are never
elected and will never be elected until their
supporters establish a firm political base.
A new America cannot be built from the
top. The work must be started at the local
level. Campaigning may not be as exciting
nor the issues as fascinating on the local
level, but the results of hundreds of local and
state elections can be just as important as a
national election.
The students throughout the country so
far have not used their powerful political
potential effectively. There are thousands of
students from the University who are eligible
to vote in the upcoming city, county, and
state elctions. That’s enough votes to decide
the outcome of almost any election in Lane
County.
Now would be a good time for students to
come out of political hibernation. There are
some real differences between candidates at
every level. The influence student voters can
exert should be used, to support those can
didates committed to a more just society and
a more responsive society.
Letters
Where were the women?
We would like to present an aspect of
the Racism Symposium which was
neglected. WOMEN! Are there no Black,
Chicano, or Indian women allowed to
speak in the ranks of men? The oppression
of women transends racial and social
boundaries, yet where were the Kathleen
Cleavers, Dolores Huertas and Buffy
Sainte-Maries? Were they invited or
forgotten?
At this racism symposium none of the
main speakers were women and few panel
members were women. Furthermore, at
least one of the main speakers made sexist
slurs about women. When a woman called
that particular speaker on his sexist
remarks he responded, “Any woman who
has problems with this has got sex
problems.” That’s like saying that any
black upset by racism has skin problems.
One’s sexual relations or skin color have
nothing to do with wanting to be treated as
a human being.
Isn’t this what the symposium was all
about?—How some groups of people are
not treated as human beings because of
their skin color, and how they feel about
this discrimination?
Why were there no women to speak
about our feelings in relation to the
discrimination we experience because of
our sex? We too are an oppressed group.
The Women’s Press
Liz Dance, Lachi Gilbert
Robbie Hanna, Margarita
Husted, Ann Nett
ROTC To Infiltrate
It is high time to commend you for
your excellent editorial of Oct. 14, namely,
“R.O.T.C. doesn’t belond in University.”
Your precocity in heralding the
vanguard of the future is most gratifying.
You bluntly pointed out the dangers of
R.O.T.C. on campus. It is definitely a
threat to free inquiry. It is well known that
Col. Elbert R. Curtis and his band of
ruffians are secretly plotting to infiltrate
every progressive department and
organization in this University. When
infiltration is accomplished the Col. will
sound the bugle and his rabble will take up
arms to destroy the remaining vestiges of
freedom.
This type of plotting is not unusual for
the R.O.T.C. In past years we have seen
the members of the “rat pack” provoke
violence against members of the Radical
Collectives Union. Indeed, their hope to
destroy this institution of right thinking
was so extreme that they attempted to
bum the headquarters of the R.C.U. Such
opposition to free thought cannot be
tolerated, to tolerate such outbursts would
jeopardize the existence of toleration it
self.
Oh oracles of the Emerald, we thank
you. You have pointed out a danger in our
midst. Yet your proposal to cut this cancer
out was most magnanimous. You did not
advocate violence, you did not propose
that we shoot these deranged creatures,
indeed no! You asked that we only outlaw
their philosophy, their hideous beliefs.
Those of us who believe in diversity of
ideas are forever indebted to you. The
students of the University of Oregon praise
you for your clear logic and perceptive
policies.
Frank B. Inglis
Prelaw
Financial conscription
I agree with your October 13th
editorial entitled, “O.P.I.R.G. has the
right idea,” except for one significant
point, mandatory financial conscription of
one dollar per student per term to support
this organization. I will gladly donate one
dollar each term, perhaps even more as I
see results of this organizations en
deavors, but cannot in good conscience
support any referendum ballot that would
eliminate my right to choose what
organizations are worthwhile and which
ones are not.
It would seem to me that you who are
so much against a military conscription,
which in fact takes a freedom of choice
from those whose number is called could
advocate a petition to take this same
freedom of choice from those students that
may feel differently about OPIRG.
Jeffrey M. Gates
Senior, Business
Wanna Bet?
The following is directed to John M. Dolan,
who sez:
1) the Ducks will lose to USC
2) the Ducks will lose to Air Force
3) the Ducks will lose to Oregon State
4) the Ducks will not go to the Rose Bowl
1) Wanna bet?
2) Wanna bet?
3) I’ll give you 7 points; wanna bet?
4) ‘You givin’ odds, fella?
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