Commentary—
Bureaucracy hinders drug center
By MARK MILLER
Editor's note: Miller is director of the
Drug Information Center at the Univer
sity.
Introduction: I am required by the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare to file quarterly reports on this
agency's progress for funding purposes.
One section of the report asks me for
comments, and after almost a year of the
Drug Information Center’s existence, I
have something to say. Below my com
Letters
For Leiber
I urge students that are interested in the
election for Senior class office (if such 2
creature exists) to vote for Harley Leiber
for Senior class President because he
wants to get rid of Senior class govern
ment.
Class government is worthless anyway,
and Harley Leiber will help to hasten its
demise so that it cannot be used by student
politicians that like to run for phone of
fices. Harley Leiber will give Senior class
government all the attention it deserves.
Kip De Shazo
For Parrish — Vernon
A very important student body election
is coming up on the 17th and 18th of this
month. The people that are chosen for
president and vice president will have to
be people that will hold out for a 50 per cent
representation for students in any kind of a
co-governance arrangement with the
faculty.
The Parrish — Vernon ticket ranks this
task to be of highest importance in the
upcoming year and have vowed not to bow
to President Clark’s 10 per cent scheme.
Vote for Parrish and Vernon to insure
equal representation on any co
govemance with the faculty.
Ross M. Lien hart
Jr. Business
For Neal — Andrews
Dan Neal and I are running for Senior
Class President and Vice-president
because we feel there is a need for active
and responsible class officers. Alumni
relations have been the only activities the
Senior class officers have taken on for the
past few years. We believe that we could
do that job very well.
We also feel that the class debt should be
paid off and not left for the university to
pay after we graduate. The past cabinets
have left us in substantial debt and we are
willing to hold car ralleys, dances or
anything it takes to pay it off.
We further would like to continue the old
tradition of the Senior class leaving the
school a gift. This would mean earning
even more money and possibly asking for
donations from members of the class.
Some other of our ideas include a class
project such as cleaning up the mill race, a
good old fashioned “Senior Skip Day” with
a few kegs out in the country on fomr fine
spring day, and anything else that sounds
like a good idea.
Please give Dan and I (Scott Andrews)
the chance to put some life into the Senior
Class offices. I promise you won’t be
disappointed.
Scott Andrews
Junior, Business
For Travis— Kirkpatrick
I’ve learned quite a bit from my in
volvement in ASUO politics. I’ve come to
realize that we have been getting ripped
ments which were included in the report.
“We find that our acceptance in the
community continues to grow. We have
established a solid base not only in the
university, but in the general community
as well. Our inclusion in local media
channels and county committees as well as
our pending inclusion in state-wide
comprehensive drug planning is a further
indication of our progress and expertise.
However, receiving partial funding from
student incidental fees creates many
problems due to inexperienced and in
competent student government. Fur
off. We each give the ASUO, or should I
say they take, $60 each year ($800,000
total), to play their games.
Not only do our ‘student bureaucrats’
waste our money on sometimes worthless
ventures, but they even take part of it
themselves, up to $165.00 per month, as
salaries.
Tim Travis and Jack Kirkpatrick are the
only candidates who talk about the real
problems of the ASUO, greed, waste and
government. They are the only candidates
who promise to cut the salaries in the
ASUO. to make those getting paid to work
lor it, and they are the only team that
deserves our votes.
Take the time to make a wise investment
in the ASUO’s future. On your way to
class, stop for a few seconds and cast your
ballot, and please, cast it for Travis —
Kirkpatrick!
Gene Pronovost
Political Science
Boybton-Hamilton
Rm 105 —ext . 5324
Zappa
My colleagues and I feel it necessary to
dispell the falsehoods and blasphemies
being spread about the True God. As
written in the book of Meat, the True
Saviour was born of Suzy Creamcheese
and is, in fact, the one, the only.Frank
Zappa!
For those infidels and pagans who still
refuse to see the light, drop some acid and
catch one of his concerts. That should
dispell any doubt.
John Harnagel
member of Heathens for the
Eradication of Stupidity
1230 Ferry St.
Eugene
thermore inflexible university ad
ministrative procedures continue to be the
only obstacle to smooth day-to-day
operations of the center. This comes from
being viewed as a student service by the
university administrators charged with
insuring the smooth functioning of student
government programs and facilities, when
in-fact, our current service ratio is 50 per
cent university related, and 50 per cent
community related.
These same administrators, while
issuing directive notes, are too involved in
the daily routine of administration to
realize the repetitive and inflexible nature
of their directives.
The Drug Information Center is a unique
organization that provides services unlike
that of any other organization in the U.S.
Because of its novel nature and services, it
does not fit into the existing university
student government concepts of what
programs should be and do.
The mere nature of the university
student government bureaucracy does not
allow the full flexibility the Drug In
formation Center requires to be better
than just a good program.”
A Poem
THE BUNGLING BUGGERS
Mr. Fisher beat the Russian Champ.
Mr. Nixon won the Presidential election,
because loyal friends had bugged the Watergate
almost to perfection.
But the bugging game is for experts.
A game that with exposure is often fraught.
And disgrace falls upon any stupid Buggers
who allow themselves to be caught.
Somehow the Buggers bungled
which, prosaically, meant, that’s all she wrote.
A mere matter now of drawing straws to see
who would volunteer to be the goat.
The Big man had to be protected,
or they’d catch Hell a plenty.
Maybe he'd be safe in White House number three
away out there in sunny San Clemente.
The couldn’t afford a real Red Herring
to foul up the path of fate,
so they promoted a Headline feud between
the I.T.&T. and the fateful bugging of Watergate.
The Solons back there in Washington
need neither rhyme nor reason,
for in the game of politics
there's no such thing as a closed season.
fortheO.D.E
by
Lynn Bond
4-3-73
Often known as
THE PUTTERING POET OF POTTER STREET
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