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Campus fire hazards need correction
Legislative funds must be secured for
the improvement of several campus
structures which have been singled out by
the University and will be included in a
renewed Omnibus remodeling proposal.
The campus needs that money and this
\ftork done to ensure the safety of its
students, faculty and administration as
well as to provide improvement for many
University departments with regards to
space utilization.
An in-depth article entitled ‘Several
campus buildings cited as fire hazards,’
published Nov. 14, pinpointed the plight
faced by many of these older buildings and
the critical need that exists for more
money.
Physical Plant director Harold
Babcock commented at that time, “if we
restricted every facility that has a
deficiency, I suspect we’d close down
every building on campus.” This may be
an overstatement, but it’s a good in
dication of what faces the campus and its
edifice situation.
The University made a $1.2 million
proposal this past spring on a project
which would have covered the renovation
of eight older campus structures. The plan
was designed to “provide better utilization
of existing buildings on the campus
through comprehensive remodeling to
meet current needs.” That ‘Omnibus’
proposal, however, was turned down by
the legislature.
Structures included in the original
fund request were: Commonwealth,
Condon, Fenton, Friendly, Gerlinger,
Hendricks, Johnson and the Science
Complex. Others, which need to be in
cluded in future plans, the article noted,
are: Mac Arthur Court, Deady, the Music
Building, Susan Campbell, the Faculty
Club and Villard Hall.
The University plans to resubmit the
project in an expanded form at the special
session early next year. Hopefully, more
buildings will be added to the plan for
which that body will grant more money.
While we can’t expect to have perfect
buildings which are completely fireproof
we must have the ability to keep those we
do have as close to safe and sane as
possible. The University can’t do
everything it rightfully should be able
to do and that’s where the real tragedy
lies.
Money was needed to end this problem
last spring — and for years before that —
so it remains up to the legislature to grant
these funds. It may also be up to the public
to determine how safe “safe” is but fire
safety and University organizational
space utilization is nothing to ignore or
play politics with.
These buildings must be made safe for
all, now. Someone must take that
responsibility and hopefully, both the
legislature and the University will see iit.
to do so.
Letter
Shoplifting policies
I just have to reply to a past com
mentary on shoplifting policy at the
Bookstore.
A shoplifting “bust” is as detrimental to
a student as any felon if he wants to pursue
a career in the American style.
I would rather see a policy that reads
like the University of San Francisco.
1. “USF student caught—student court.
2. Non-student-jail
3 aid offense-jail
4. This store is under surveillance.”
With the despotic, tyrannical practices
in America, the Bookstore should try to
have a little of the spirit of the “Dead.”
Michael Foley
Charge more for more
With all of the current emphasis on the
“energy crisis,” there are numerous
actions which individuals may take to copie
with—or react to it. One of these alter
natives involves not only a step towards a
sound energy-use policy; but also a
possible advantage to an individual’s
pocket book.
The Eugene Water and Electric Board is
currently considering ways in which to
compensate for their loss of revenue
brought about by current energy con
servation programs. They are considering
several alternatives, one of which happens
to be a form of inverted rate, cost increase.
Simply put, this means that the mpre
energy one uses, the more that person
pays for the energy. Currently, the rate
system is exactly opposite (for all prac
tical purposes), the more energy one uses,
the less it costs. Under this alternative,
consumers using 5,000 kw-month would
receive a 13.4 percent rate increase,
consumers using 500 kw-month would
receive a 9 percent increase, and con
sumers using below 200 kw-month would
receive no increase.
The implications of such a system are
obvious, consumers become more aware
of how they utilize energy, and would be
encouraged to use less, 'riiis system is not
the ultimate answer, but it is a step
towards an energy-conserving system.
Take a look at your last bill, and let the
board of directors know how you feel.
John Eliassen
ASUO Survival Center
Amateur psychiatry
The Holy Bible tells us of the wisdom of
Solomon. Just the other day we were
treated to some of this wisdom when
Norman Solomon psychoanalyzed Paul
Wallulis in a letter. My comments on this
analysis are certainly germane since Paul
and I are friends.
Norm, you’re amazing. Your insight was
flawless and your conclusion (that Paul is
a robot) left me breathless. You must have
peeked into the backroom where we keep
Paul. All I can say in defense of Paul is
that he was down a quart on the day he
wrote the letter on women.
Amateur psychiatry is very big these
days, so how about if I take a stab at
analyzing Norm. Let’s see...on the basis of
what he wrote I would say that he has an
anal fixation and that he has always hated
his mother. If Norm will submit another
letter I’m sure that I can uncover even
more.
Phil Nyegaard
Economics
Don’t give away tomorrow
We, the shaftees, being card-carrying,
god-fearing lovers of our minor role in life
must, in good conscience....RAG. What did
we do to deserve the “help” we are getting
from our fellow students? That underline
is important. Contrary to many people’s
beliefs, we are here; this is an institute of
learning. That should be our foremost aim.
Disgraceful as it may sound, we couldn’t
give two shits in a snowstorm if some of
the crap was cut out of student “welfare
programs.” Are you on a scholarship?
Yes? Congratulations and good luck.
Minority student organizations, public
service groups and other “programs” are
stealing from us. Not money or power but
future. Someone at the altar of University
Planning is sacrificing the students’ right
to an education. Erne raid Hall will goto the
support of some, to the detriment of most.
Architecture is sandwiched into the stacks
in Fenton. We are not some secondary
support group; we are real, live, honest-to
goodness students. Amazing, huh? There
are still a few of us left. No matter what
they do with the “Grant Programs,”
education is why We came here. Ar
chitecture needs the space. They know
that. If we had all the space in Emerald,
we would still need more. What more of an
endorsement do we need?1975 is a long way
away, but we still need an education now.
We spend a minimum of fifteen hours a
week in a glaring 4 foot by 6 foot en
vironment trying to make tomorrow’s
environment a better one. Don’t give away
our tomorrow because it is yours, too.
Jeff P. Barr
Junior, Arch.
+ 7 other students
(names on file)
Unfunny matters
I enjoyed your staffer Lee Seagull’s (sic)
piece in the Emerald about athleticosis. I
could have guessed it was funny even if
you hadn’t labelled it “Humor.” But I have
some unfunny matters to call attention to:
1. Day after day there are a couple of
dozen unused parking spaces left vacant
on the most convenient U. of O. parking lot
facing 14th Ave. between Alder and Kin
caid. These are labelled “Reserved” for
“Disabled.” There must be some better
way to show kindness to disabled persons
than such wastage of scarce parking
spaces. I mentioned the matter briefly to
O.C.S. some time ago. Since ethical
crusading journalism does get results,
would the respected apprentice journalists
of the Emerald perhaps consider this
matter worthy of their concern?
2. The original Woman’s Liberationism
Betty Friedan, said her major concern
would be to more nearly equalize longevity
for American males. As matters stand, the
U.S. census figures say American females
outlive us American males by more than 6
years to the man. Not chauvinism but
masculinism objects to so abnormal a
disparity; and must not normal feminism
strengthen our healthy maleness rather
than object to it?
3. The letter you printed from Professor
Reynolds says in part “...the Soviet Union
is in its essence the most massive,
systematic and brutal interference of one
nation in the lives of others in all history.”
Crossing 10,000 miles of “Pacific” ocean to
drop so vast a tonnage of bombs, to
defoliate forests, and to napalm peaceful
villages, destroy crops, hospitals and so
on, was that less “massive, systematic
and brutal?”
PROhuman
Educ. ’36
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