Letters
The P.C.O.E.
I would like to extend an invitation to the
people of Eugene to join the secret, non
profit, un-organized organization P.C.O.E.
(Plant Conspiracy of Eugene).
IT IS OUR sworn duty to zap Eugene
with color this spring so as to completely
boogie the minds of some of our asphalt
eyed fellow citizens.
The membership fee is twenty cents for
a bulb or a package of seeds.
Any bare or ugly spot is fair game as
long as you don’t get caught.
Use your imagination. Try something
like sweet peas in front of an Andy Gump
chemical toilet, or com between the rocks
in the planting strip across the street from
Eugene’s favorite newspaper.
BECAUSE IT IS an election year, fer
tilizer shouldn’t be necessary. Just keep
your eyes open until they run across
something that bothers them and early
this spring plant some seed there.
W. Carl Linderman
Junior. Landscape Architecture
A cracker mind?
The Emerald editor has once again
showed her callousness and disregard for
the lives of oppressed people in her most
recent editorial of Monday. February 18,
1974 In her editorial she claimed sym
pathy with the cause of farmworkers, and
yet she had the audacity to be eating scab
lettuce and grapes at the luncheon where
the demonstration occurred. A less ef
fective way of showing sympathy cannot
be imagined
SHE TALKS about articulate and ef
fective presentation. Both the Emerald
and the University administration have
been presented with thousands of ar
ticulate requests over the past four years
and continue to serve scab lettuce and
grapes They have consistently refused to
change their policy. It is obvious who they
are allied with in the struggle between
farmworkers and growers.
To portray Clark as a martyr who buys
scab graDes and scab lettuce while farm
workers are dying in the fields is as absurd
as portraying American POWs in Viet
Nam as heroes for slaughtering millions of
Vietnamese.
THE EXAMPLE of the University
Singers continuing their song in the face of
this protest is nothing to be proud of. It is
the same mentality which the University
administration exemplifies in the face of
'he clear and obvious injustices being
perpetrated against the farmworkers.
We agree that no honest person would be
against the UFW struggle if they knew the
issues, but this University continues to try
to misinform and cloud the issues to
protect their support of the growers by
selling only scab lettuce and grapes.
THERE ARE NO managers in the
revolution. The managerial concept is an
exploitative and oppressive one that can
exist only in a cracker mind like Torrie
McAllister’s.
People who understand the conditions
and demands of the farmworkers should
be enraged by the University’s policies.
Any action taken in support of these
demands and this boycott are the direct
result of the non-compliance of the
University, and are justified.
Robert Starr
Business
It is ridiculous...
In past times I have noticed several UPI
round-ups in the Emerald on General
Amin and with the one in yesterday’s
paper, I think it about time I said
something. There’s a common theme to all
these news items, namely they are all so
shockingly ridiculous, as to be very ap
parent to all RATIONAL MINDS as
nothing but propaganda items against this
African head of state. What purpose this is
supposed to serve, I don’t really know,
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Western attitude of putting down third
world people, as it continues to feed the
contemporary American with very
distorted concepts of other people and
culture. This kind of gravely misinforming
feedback is to be seen in all media of
communication in this country from an
thropology textbooks to television. It’s so
shameful that a people is left so
abysamally ignorant as to the state of
things in the world outside of theirs due to
the irrationality and absolute lack in
empathy of their news media.
O’Mide
Architecture
No one spoke up
The story on the front page of Friday’s
Emerald suggests that the General Social
Science program may be phased out
because of a lack of financial support
Finances are a problem for this and many
other programs. The immediate difficulty,
however, is that the faculty of the social
science departments have preferred not to
continue this program. In a meeting of the
Committee with the heads of these de
partments in January no one spoke for the?
continuation of the program
THE GENERAL Social Science
program is run by a committee. Members
of this committee, and especially the
chairman, certainly do spend a great deal
of time working for the program. When
faculty members are no longer willing to
give such support — in large part because
of other heavy commitments — the ter
mination of the program must be con
sidered None of the programs under
committee control has the financial
resources of a department, and only
faculty support permits their continuation.
The remarkable aspect of the present
General Social Science situation is the
unanimous lack of support from faculty
and students.
Robert C. Albrecht
Associate Dean
Liberal Arts
Obnoxious policy
I find it obnoxious that the Emerald
keeps printing full-page ads for Hiron’s
Drugs, a store whose employees have been
on strike since October. Most students are
going to enter the working force when they
graduate. The Emerald should look after
the interests of students by supporting the
struggles of working people for better
conditions. Instead the Emerald follows
the simpler principle that money talks.
I SUPPOSE THE EMERALD justifies
its actions on the grounds that they don’t
discriminate in advertising, everyone has
the right to place an ad. That very neat
principle allows the rich and powerful to
plaster the mass media with their ideas
and ideology, and leaves the poor to find
solace quietly reading the first amend
ment. Just as the law makes it equally
illegal for the rich and the poor to sleep
under a bridge, so does Emerald policy
make it equally possible for rich and poor
to buy full page ads. If the Emerald really
believes in free expression of ideas, then it
should offer to the Hiron strikers a free full
page ad to explain why they can’t work for
$1.80 an hour and why students should
boycott Hirons Of course the £merald
might be afraid that if they did so, they
would annoy John Hiron and lose a fat
advertising contract.
Wendel Brunner
Chemistry ex. 5275
Likes W. Morse
In 1964 I attended a legislative con
ference in Washington, D.C. I suddenly
found myself a minor celebrity of sorts
among the 100 conferees — not because of
anything I had done, but simply because I
was from Oregon.
“How do you manage to elect such
wonderful people from Oregon — like
Senator Morse and Senator Maureen
Neuberger’’” they asked
“OH, IT’S NOT hard,” I replied. “They
are such capable people that Oregonians
just naturally recognize their qualities.”
I remember when Morse and Neuberger
stood together (and alone among all
Senators) in a filibuster against our
government’s giving away Telstar to ITT
— the same ITT that has won for its
monopolistic self so many favors and
special privileges direct from the public
treasury.
Do you remember when Morse single
handedly began to lecture and inveigh
against our getting involved in a war in
lndo-China’’ People did not understand the
implications of this matter at the time —
but how right his judgments proved to be!
PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY and vision
and deep understanding are too rare in
Washington today. So, if Wayne Morse
decides to run for his old seat in the Senate,
I shall wholeheartedly work for his elec
tion with all the resources at my com
mand
If there is anything our government
needs today, it is integrity and clear
thinking. With these qualities Morse is
richly blessed — in the same way that
Irving Brant, Justice William 0. Douglas
and Archibald Cox are. We need their
counsel, their advice, their rare sagacity.
Dorothy Leeper
Temporary Address: 36 Brooks St.
Concord, Massachusetts
Jerks on the lawn
When I was freshman I did not walk on
the lawns. I did not have waterproof shoes
- not stylish you know. And besides, if a
lowly freshman were caught walking on
soggy grass some big sophomore might
spank his behind with a large wooden
paddle. “Hacking” it was called, and it
was a barbaric custom. We are above that
sort of thing today. And it also seems to be
stylish to wear big, high-topped, water
proof boots to school. So today we are
FREE to walk on the grass, which is neat
for us, and bad for the lawns.
I STILL DO not usually walk on the
lawns. I can afford good shoes, and I am
not afraid of sadistic sophomores with
paddles. I stay off the grass in this
weather because I like grass better than
mud. Most members of the campus
community behave as I do, probably for
similar reasons. There are some,
however, that are too lazy, too stupid, or
too unconscious to stay on the walks. Some
are even riding their hard-tired bicycles on
the grass. The lawns are in trouble, in
many places the mud is here. See for an
example the northeast corner of 13th and
Kincaid
In the past when I have noticed some
jerk on the grass I have said - to myself -
“That jerk is spoiling the lawn.” Such
silent behavior has never had any effect
So today I am changing. I am reforming
myself. The next time I see someone cut
across the soggy lawn I am going to say -
loudly - “Get off of the grass.” I may even
add some appropriate term of endearment
such as “jerk” or “stupid.”
I INVITE OTHER members of the
community to join me in this effort
Perhaps if enough of us yell at the lazy
idiots who are killing our lawns they will
yield to social pressure and stay on the
walks. Let us hope so. I hate to see our
lawns going the way of the hack-paddle. I
will miss the lawns.
Peter R. Sherman
Math
All you commuters
This is to all you commuters who pass
me on 13th Ave. every morning Being the
energy-conscious owner of both a
Volkswagen and a small motorcycle, I
could cruise through the current energy
crunch as easily as anyone. However,
because of the crying pleas coming from
everybody this side of Saudi Arabia
begging people not to drive unnecessarily,
I don’t use my vehicles very much,
especially going to and from the univer
sity. Trying to do my share in alleviating
the gas shortage, I have become a hitch
hiker - another neglected minority.
Every morning, in the spirit of the short
age, I oscillate my thumb at the passing
motorists, 99.9 percent pigishly unwilling
to give me a lift.
THE CONSCIOUSNESS most of these
people possess escapes me. It seems
illogical to me that drivers streak by me
knowing that I, who am not driving myself,
represent a little bit more gas for them. I
realize that not every driver is going near
campus, but I’d venture to say many are.
So why should a driver, who is going to the
university and who sees a person in typical
university garb politely saluting for a ride,
whiz by him as if he had the plague9
So, to all of you who travel down 13th
Ave. early in the morning and see a guy in
a black parka and white muffler, pick him
up (or he might throw a rock at you).
Stephen Russell
5th yr. architecture
Emerald ad policy
I would like to protest the Emerald’s
policy of accepting advertisement’s for
Hiron’s in the face of a strike and boycott
at the Franklin Blvd. store. By running
these ads, you explicity support the
position of Hiron’s management against
its workers and cary on “business-as
usual” despite the strike. The strike is
supported by a large number of students
and members of the larger community
who have honored the picket lines at
Hiron's. The Emerald should not support
the interests of employers in this fashion
(leave that to the RegMer-Gasrd) and
should run no more Hiron’s ads.
Paul Goldman