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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1978)
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Aas. re -aaioe nese rrooems wt east oaso'e actors to pinnate ~e~ ~~«ese a*? re ~»oj“tars tat *=r-se to ouooe aoasos: tfte so-oroes e’tyts 3ut there are srtafe' -nojrv ts ns Mountains mat oa- o-e *no*ec to -a*e Me tor A-texoans ~aocher anc ooser to re meres, y at »v*r a roe effort A-er.cans oar xve = sr~.ai moKjnearn to -rate *oo*“ -or ret' oes> ■eamdt "here exsrs ■r-a* zcns&sr = sra -noona ' o-e*or-e ?. ex A-exoa- ogost "ns -arar •as ex-oseo r *33* oh re _ S Corarsss -iso-ans nwl oe xho* to “oe ra ms aas re .ea* lor 0*rss escaowsrec ranos Soar <e» s xue ~“e Stor-9pangted Bare-' as re JS* s naiora arv re A-nerca. ser asoe »our sent -Letters— menficra moment Are you nappy wth The Star-Spanged Banner as >o- nasona a^tnem? How mam songs ac you s*ng fiat are r^er 15C years c*?'’ Vfltoy must an srmjsasec pre-gane crowd be tvcec » come down and bsten oofcterv to 3” o*d skew song? ~nese xestons 'atse many is sues but ne port here «s that Americans are grver a song to a! generates tee enthusasm The S3ar~Soang*ec Banner" destroys toe par- a* flowing enthusiasm, wnetoer r be be$ore a baigame or at toe beginning of a broadcast rttoa: ss needed is a song to at <eec$ #r the pace, generates ertousasm anc s enfcyabte to smg too The song I therefore tropcse as Americas new na bona ame- is Supertramps Gare a the bit 3est when stcnec w*to neadpnanes.) Conssoe' these points The song s a- easy flowing blend of nsr-jmenasKr and vocal estab festang a teeirng of mvofcement by rose istenng or snging atong. ~re message « simple — merely ascnc one to grve a fettle bit. . . to show you care now's the time we heec to snare A message “UCT more appropriate for our stay arc age then The Star Soangec Banner imagine Peng able to phone jfor ^avonte -ado station request ing re nafeonaf anthem. imagine 10.300 people singing 3rve a tee' before a basketball sane Anc finaAy. what better world ges&re than to accept as our na tona arthem a song written by a 3nnsr gnxp. Saart dggmg America, and give a tee pc Gregory L. Oberst Junior. Tdecommumcation Can't be convoluted •" ns 'ecerr campus lectures e*-—Kfcj priest and bom-again C"?s:.3" Rap Manaraj gave a omvocar.e response to the prev alent ~Bttg>CK3S artjCinanntsm ex pressed O* the visiting Harvard OTtessof ana Taoist Michael Sasa ne oea that mysticism is the -owes: commor denominator r>efe«een a? 'efcgons Manama -easoned against this sort of tie times saying that afl refitpons a-e nor a*xe and that tier oonoeproTS of ciety (along me accompanying moral ojnoatipns anc persona goals -ad*oaK diner 1 oamersSJC -dentrty cannot take or me cha'acte' of a re raise Greater nor can the im 4 personal Tao be equal to the Buddha s agnosticism Nlrvanic annihilation, Hindu dleallluaion (“oneness" wrth the coemos). Tao ist progressive enlightenment and eternal salvation through a personal savior incarnated once in space and time blatantly dlsa gree Renouncing the illusion of Maya is not embracing and serv ing a loving Savior Having experienced height ened psychic/mystical pheri omenon through meditation, Maharaj could not eliminate the moral guilt (unresolved in Hin duism) which separated him from God. He affirmed that man's spiritual predicament was not caused by metaphysical ignorance — ele vated through climbing the end less spiritual ladder — but by moral estrangement from a holy and all-knowing God which can only be reconciled through Christ's work on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. The challenge he raised is im portant: when inspecting spiritual realities, will one merely subsume all religious experience under the amorphous title of universal mys ticism, or will he look at the content that explains the various experiences. The content and experience of Jesus Christ has led Rabi Maharaj from far-off India to the U.S. and Europe to speak of his personal liberation. Christ’s claims cannot -Letters convoluted into merely one of many, fm claimed unique libera ting (iiivwr a* the only Son of God. flume claim* deserve honest in vestigation Douglas Groothuis Junior, Philosophy Petition for Whales Oregonians Cooperating To Protect the Whales are now work ing to prevent the continuing slaughter of whales We are going to toll the whaling nations our con cern that a small number of their citizens are killing these intelligent extra-terrestnal beings. Help us gather signatures on our initiative petition which will put a measure on the ballot on November 7. This measure, when passed by the voters of Oregon, will prohibit Oregon state and local governments from purchasing products from nations that whale for profit. We feel that this is the most effective way for the people in our state to communicate our concern to the people in foreign whaling nations. Please stop m at our office on the mall or call us (485-5144) for more information or to help. Harry Epstein for Oregonians Cooperating to Protect Whales, 873 Willamette, Eugene. opinion Redden is wrong Submitted by S. Lynn Parkinson Attorney at Law, Oregon City This letter is in response to articles concerning the opinion of Attorney General Jim Redden that the decision by the Board of Higher Education to divest itself of holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa has no force. In my opinion, Redden's opinion is wrong, moraly and legally, and in contradiction to an opinion issued by the Attorney General two years ago. Both opinions were in fact authored in large part by Ed Branchfield. First, it should be dear what the rote of Amen can corporations in South Africa is. In the April 24, 1978, "Christian Science Monitor” reporter June Goodwin wrote of continuing black protest in Port Elizabeth (the "Detroit” of South Africa—the fifth largest city and center of the auto industry). Goodwin stated that security police warned the heads of the Ford and General Motors plants, " not to employ relatives of blacks who have been detained or whom the police deem activists." She reported that the auto executives agreed to this She also reported that 1.400 persons were being held without charges or trial in Port Elizabeth. The “liberalizing" benefit of American corporations, argued by the opponents of divestiture is clearty a sham Just as ctearfy. Ford and General Motors are directly involved in the institutionalization of radsm and fasdsm in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Returning to Oregon, two years ago the Attorney General issued an opinion in which it was stated, correctly, that investments of Univer sity endowment funds were to be administered by the Oregon Invest ment Council as to day-to-day "buy-sell decisions' and that policy decisions must be made, according to statute, by the Board of Higher Education That opinion described the Investment Council as the sub-agent of the Board of Higher Education Now the Attorney Gen eral apparently believes that the Board has no policy making function, that the Council is not its sub-agent, and that the Board has no power to control the investment of its funds I and others had an opportunity to question Redden and Branch *'-ek3 about this apparent contradiction just poor to the retease of the attest opinion When pressed as to why in 1976 the Board of Higher Education had authority to make pokey decisions but in 1978 it dud not. the only answer was that in 1976 they had no idea that toe Board would make this particular policy decision The apparent rule of taw is that the Boarc has authority to make policy decisions as long as those decisions do not offend the Attorney General — or Ed BranchtieW It should be noted that Branchfield has ably served the interests of trans-national corporations in Salem through both Democratic and Republican office holders, changing his political loyalties as well as his legal opirvons to meet toe needs ot toe moment FirvaWy we should all be aware that the Attorney General s opinion siust an opinion The fight to pull the money of Higher Education in Oregon out of businesses which cooperate with and promote South Amcan racism and fascism is not over Those among us who hokJ ustice dearer than toe short term interests of Ford and General Motors need to do at in out power to see the Attorney General s cpmon does not stand tVKUv. 197*
