—Letters
Frozen beer
As the sun rose over the
Emerald Kingdom this morning, I
awoke in the munificent splendor
of my dorm room. From beneath
my pilow I spied the wreckage
and carnage of the prior right AN
three varities of the Colonels’
chicken were represented on tie
floor, and both regular Cheeto s
and tie quick fried to a craddy
crunch lay See snow over the clo
thing, books and records.
But what sirred me most as I lay
in my UO sheets was the keg.
Now 54 hours since its' loss of vir
ginity, tie ice I had so carefully
banked in the comer of the room
bad not melted.
Now fuNy roaring in my alcoholic
stupor, I scream Ibn Sharmuta!!
What swill is this, this Oly that will
not met?”
In excitement I reach for my
shorts, but putt away only a hem
as they are frozen to the desk top.
I inadvertantly knock my chafice of
nasr or me oog (mug 10 me wner
ate) from the desk top to the floor.
But as the chalice bounces
among the Cheetos. does beer
spiB forth? NO!!! The beer lay on
the carpet, solid as the ice, solid
as my chances at grad school. A
curse on ye, H.P. Barnhart of the
University Housing Office, a curse
on ye for freezing my beer!!!
ft is now three hours since I last
tried mefling the door open with
my BIC butane. I am now burning
the last chapter of my last text
book, Organic Chemistry for Fun
and Profit. How Strange, text
books are quicker and easier to
bum than read.
As I munch down the beer
cubes — much better than
Breakfast Squares — I pray that
the OLCC will forgive my sins as I
have forgiven theirs.
And may H.P. Barnhart be
locked in the fast floor Carson Ha*
men's room till he truly repents of
his grevious sin of leaving the heat
turned off in over 1200 dorm
rooms.
c-c-c-cofdfy,
Dusty
Junior-Accounting
Bartel for IFC
I was shocked to read in the
OOE the other day that the posi
tions on the Incidental Fee Com
mittee and the SUAB are receiv
ing as little interest as they are.
The University of Oregon is one of
the most open to student input of
any in the Oregon System and the
nation. We have the direct re
sponsibility for allocating over
$1.3 million in incidental Fees
while other campuses don't OSU,
for example, allocates theirs on
the whim of the University Presi
dent We must be jealous of what
power we have or it wiN be taken
away it i uw xuiic ool/io* iuyc uiat
stole Mac Court from the students.
I have chosen to run for the IFC
because I am a firm believer to
popular control of the environ
ment, in this case the University
community. Students must be
come involved. How can we get
them off our backs (to borrow a
phrase from a local rhetorical
goup) if we don 't get off our butts?
Paul Bartel
Sr. Political Science
Uzbek is Uzbek
A headline in Thursday’s
Emerald proclaims: “Russian art
at public fibrary. " And if you go to
the library, you wil find a poster
identifying the exhibition as “Rus
sian graphics from Uzbekistan.’'
However, it appears that these
works are Uzbek graphics by
Uzbek artists. The Uzbeks are ut
terly distinct from the Russians to
language, refegion, and culture —
inducing their artistic traditions.
Apathy and democracy
The ctaim of the Democrats and Repubfccans to bang majority
parties is being called onto question by events.
Accordng to the Associated Press, “Jimmy Carter, President
Ford and Ronald Reagan each won primary election votes from
42 per cent of the country’s voting age population.
AP said that “based on official returns from earfier primaries
and unofficial totals from the later races, 16.1 mSfion Americans
voted in Democratic presidential primaries this year and 9.7 mil
lion in Republican contests.
‘"That amounts to 17.6 per cent of the 146.573,000 Ameri
cans of voting age in this country...”
According to AP, Carter received the highest percentage, 42
per cent of efigible voters. Ford received 3.4 per cent It means the
combined primary vote for the majority candidates was less than
8 per cent of efigible voters.
This week an extremely revealing poll conducted by Peter D.
Hart Research Associates was released in Washington. Rege
tered voters were interviewed in order to determine whether toey
planned to vote in November. The pollsters predicted that a ma
jority of efigible voters may not vote.
This poll confirmed that a downward trend that has been ap
parent in American politics in toe last decade is continuing. Fewer
ana rewer registerea voters vote »i uie fjiestuoiooi
fewer Americans actually register to vote.
In recent elections the following percentages of registered
American voters voted: 64.0 in 1960; 61.8 in 1964; 60.6 in 1968;
and 55.6 in 1972.
Almost two-thirds of the nonvoting people that were wter
viewed in the new poll said ' it doesn't make any difference who is
elected because things never seem to work out right”
“Non voters, who are approaching majority status in the adult
population, seem to know better than ever just why they want no
thing to do with potties,” the New York Times states September 5.
“‘Two thirds of them in a new national sampfing made public
this weekend agree on the tieme candklates say one thing and
do another* as reason enough to stand off from the presidential
election."
One of the pollsters told the New York Times, “the strangest
thing we learned is that nonvoters aren’t that strange. Demo
graphically and in their attitudes, they’re pretty much like the rest
of us — cynical about Washington and about politicians in gen
GfStl."
Reprinted from The Militant
s~r,7',97V
Eating at the dorms: Onoda’s view
Both the Emerald and the
Statewide Services office have
made a mistake comparable, to let
us say, referring to works by
Bengal artists as “English art”
back in the days of the British Em
pire.
Of course, tiis is confusing to
most Americans, and our news
media generally commit errors of
this sort at every opportunity,
spreading and perpetuating the
confusion. This year, however,
you can cut through aM the non
sense and misinformation simply
by signing up for Geography
410G, “Soviet Nationalities,”
taught by Ronald Wixman (Geog
raphy) and Stephen Reynolds
(Relgious Studies). It's some
thing a little drtferent on Tuesday
afternoons, and we think you'll like
a
Stephen Reynolds
Religious Studies
RSB misguided
As could be expected, the Re
volutionary Student Brigade failed
miserably in their planned protest
at Philadelphia on July fourth. I
pity them in their misguided
ideafism, but the flame of liberty
continues to bum brightly across
this nation. That flame would not
survive in the so-called ‘'working
class" revolution. We’ve seen the
results before. No, America isn’t
perfect, but our imperfections only
serve to illustrate that our task as a
nation is yet unfinished. Certainly
some reforms have been slow in
coming, but change is beginning
to accelerate as we enter a new
era; not an era of limits, but an era
of growth in the cultural rather
than the physical sense.
The new and now proven elec
tion reform laws signify the first
step in “cleaning up" government
Here at the University we must fol
low suit by overhauling our own
election rules. Some improve
ments have been made, however,
the rules must be completely
overhauled as the first step in
reaching the vast number of stu
dents who, judging from the voting
turnout feel disenfranchised from
the ASUO. The ASUO is the
greatest tool we as a student body
have to provide relevant educa
tional opportunities. Let's work to
make it effective.
David Tyler
Sophomore, Economics
Defender of rights
Your editorial. Politics of Al
truism, although "tongue in
cheek," was a good estimate of
my thinking on the matter, with
one exception. I haven't found it
necessary to place "your in
terests'' above my own. since I fail
to see any difference.
My interests as a candidate are
the same as yours — I want better
government, if the other three
candidates shared my view, they
would withdraw tomorrow since I
do not think any of them is as qual
ified as I am to produce the de
sired change. Obviously, they do
not agree with me and that is what
makes an election race.
i would MKe to point out that, m
fact, I can represent the interests
of every person in the fourth dis
trict because I am a consistent de
fender of individual rights, (the
right of every person to live his/her
life in any manner, as long as
he/she doesn't violate the equal
rights of others.) Since each of us
has an "unalienable' right to exist,
regardless of whether the law
chooses to recognize it or not, I
oppose the Washington power
lusters who try to regulate, restrict,
harass, control and destroy our
rights because my rights depend
on yours.
A recent editorial comment de
scribed me erroneously as being
“on the right" of my opponents. I
would Ike to know where freedom
is on the left-right spectrum. And I
would like to know where my op
ponents stand on the issues of
abortion, pornography, drug use,
compulsory schooling, prostitu
tion, homosexuality, taxes and the
draft. For or against individual
rights, gentlemen?
Well, you know where I stand.
Tonle Nathan
Independent Candidate
for Congress
4th Congressional District
Wrong race
Please note that Jerry Rust is
running for County Commissioner
Position No. 3. and is opposing
Frank Eliot and Andy Max on
Jerry Rust is not running for the
position contested by Archie
Weinstein and John Parkhurst.
These two races were somehow
contused in your Oct. I article on
the benefit dance for Jerry Rust.
I might add that besides enjoy
ing a good party, Rust is a founder
of the Hoedads; he supports land
use planning with emphasis on his
committment to make the county
government more accessible to
citizen input. He supports nuclear
safeguards (Measure No. 9). re
cycling, and lower Commissioner
salaries.
In fact. Rust is so good you may
want to dance on down to 1740
Willamette and volunteer to help
the campaign.
Kitty Tattarsal
Junior, History
Twisted logic
I am amazed at some of the
logic being used in opposition to
Ballot Measure 9, (Nuclear safety
legislation).
An excellent example of the
nearsightedness is prompted by
Gary Wright, (Republican candi
date for Oregon's 39th District
legislative seat) who stated, "We
have the most stringent laws on
safety in nuclear power plants in
the United States."
Is this to mean then, that be
cause we have the most stringent
laws of nuclear safety, that alt is
well and safe? Hardly!
I think it folly to measure safety
by “the most stringent law in the
U.S.”, as it is much more practical
to measure safety by "a safe law
concerning nuclear power."
Let's just hope our voters and
administrators can someday
recognize this difference.
Bruce Berg
Freshman, Public Affairs
Wednesday, October S, 1076
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