opinion
ken sands
even editors get the blues
Could you help me with a few questions I can’t
find the answers to?
Like, with nine months and a lot of money to
seek applicants, how come the Unviersity's
presidential search committee could find only a
couple of deans and no women to compete
against the favored Paul Olum?
Wasn’t Olum a shoo-in from the start? Was the
search just a formality?
And how come no one from the scandal
ridden athletic department has been convicted for
the crimes that were documented? Are slush
funds and illegal phone calls really illegal, or are
the rules suspended for celebrities?
Certainly Pat Horton must be wondering if the
trials were just formalities.
I’m wondering why people are bitching and
moaning about the “losses” of the athletic
department and its after-school activities, when
we can't even buy books for the library. How come
all the noise about silly little games, when the
Legislature may cut three professional schools,
seven or eight departments and 160-200 faculty
members from the University alone?
And some of us would like to know how the
athletic department got in such sad financial
shape in the first place. Hasn't Ray Hawk, vice
president of administration and finance, always
been ultimately responsible for the budget?
How come Hawk waited so long to step in on
the shenanigans?
Speaking of shenanigans, what do members
of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade
ever accomplish except to make asses of
themselves?
Has the RCYB gotten any campus converts?
Do they ever sell any newspapers?
The traveling salvation shows seem just as
worthless, though they are more entertaining,
aren’t they?
While we’re on the subject of worthlessness,
there’s some disagreement as to whether
members of the Incidental Fee Committee are:
(you choose) A) nincompoops; B) blithering idiots;
C) mere incompetents; or D) all of the above.
Along the same line, campus fraternities have
been promising the end of hazing since (at least)
1909. Will they ever learn?
What happened to Bayard McConnaughey’s
annual tirade against the campus ROTC? Is there
still an ROTC? Is there still a Bayard
McConnaughey?
Bayard, where are you?
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J.E.R.K. writer
Re: Opinion: Even editors get the blues
May 1.
People Effectively Appealing for
Cannabis Equality (P.E.A.C.E.) chose
their name not due to the 60's but due to
the dream of attaining PEACE in the
MARIJUANA WAR (it is a war when
armed men invades one’s home!).
Another influence on our choice of name
was the 14th amendment, which gives us
"equality under the law” (tobacco and
alcohol consumers are not felons!).
Concerning Bill Manny there is a
suitable acronymn: Juvenile Editor
Radiating Knavery, better known as
J E R K ! Joe Wilson
Co-Director, P.E.A.C.E.
Supports vets
On May 12 I had the opportunity to be
present in the gallery of the Oregon
House of Representatives while the
House debated House Joint Memorial
10.
This memorial is simply a letter to the
federal government asking that they
provide certain limited services in regard
to post tramatic stress, and diozin con
tamination. Both of these issues are of
grave importance to veterans who
served their country in the time of its
crises Many of these young Americans
gave their lives, some gave their limbs,
but all gave their best.
HJM10 passed the House by a vote of
47 to 8. Those eight representatives who
voted “nay" in effect said that they did
not support the veteran who resided in
their districts. Not only do they not sup
port these veterans, but they will not
support an action that is part of these
veterans earned benefits for service to
their country which they are not
receiving.
These eight representatives are as
follows, and you will note, one or more
are from your area: Rep Anderson, R
Roseburg: Rep. Campbell, R-Eugene;
Rep Jolin, D-Cottage Grove: Rep
Kennedy, R-Klamath Falls; Rep. Ma
gruder, D-Saint Helens; Rep. Meyer, R
Springfield/Eugene: Rep. Trahen, R
Grants Pass, Rep. Van Leewen, R
Halsey.
I believe that it is well past time that we
who served our country stop burying our
heads in the sand, and instead, stood up
and make ourselves heard. We must let
our elected representatives know that we
are here, and that we do have a political
club to swing at the ballot box, and
unless they start supporting veterans
legislation, we will replace them with
people who will, at the next election, or
start a recall now
HJM10 was a basic veterans support
bill, and these people seem to have
decided that the veteran does not need
his earned rights.
T.A. Austin
Portland
Unwarranted image
The Palestinian people are portrayed
by Western media as either helpless
“refugees" or violent “terrorists.” These
stereotypes are perpetuated by Zionists
and Israeli advocates who seek to polar
ize conflict and intensify passions. Rare
ly are Palestinians presented as human
beings who suffered a devastating
tragedy; a people who yearn for peace
and tranquility.
The creation of the State of Israel is
seen by Palestinians and Arabs as a
Zionist extension of European colon
ialism. As long as the Palestinians have
no homeland and justice is not served,
there will be no peace in the Middle East
or the world.
The Palestinian question goes back to
1897 when the first Zionist Congress
met. In 1917 Palestine came under Bri
tish colonization, and in 1920, a Jewish
Agency lead by Zionists organized a
secret armed force called the Haganah
In the same year, Sir Herbert Samuel, a
well-known Zionist, was appointed the
first High Commissioner to Palestine.
Illegal immigration of Zionists was al
lowed and encouraged by the British.
In 1936, the British started arming the
Zionists against the Arabs and later the
Jewish Legion was formed as part of the
British army In 1947, the UN General
Assembly, influenced by the great
powers and especially the United States,
voted to partition Palestine into Jewish
and Arab States. This plan gave more
than 50 percent of the land to the Zion
ists who made up only 30.5 percent of the
population and owned only 6.5 percent
of the land.
When the British realized the Zionists
were ready to takeover Palestine, they
started withdrawing. As the British
withdrew, they handed strategic posi
tions and posts to the Haganah. In 1948,
Ben Gurion proclaimed the estab
lishment of the State of Israel. This led to
wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 (when the PLO
was formed as a major force
representing Palestinians) and 1973.
What the future holds for Palestine and
the Middle East lies in the hands of the
Israelis who must choose between land
and war on the one hand or justice and
peace on the other.
For more information and literature,
see the Palestine exhibit in the EMU
lobby Friday, May 15.
Abu-Zhar Ghafari
Muslim student, ASSO
U.S. cohorts
May 15 has been recognized all over
the world as a day of solidarity with the
Palestinian people On that day 33 years
ago, the processes of colonization of
Palestine have culminated in the estab
lishment of the Zionist state of Israel and
the forceful exile of 1.5 million Palestin
ians. Ever since its inception, Israel has
been waging a war of genocide against
the Palestinian people in addition to
constant territorial expansion. On the
international level, Israel forged unholy
alliances with the most oppressive
regimes in the world; apartheid South
Africa, the juntas in Chile, Guatemala
and El Salvador.
What should be pointed out, at this
point, is that the colonial (settler) project
in Palestine has been maintained largely
through the active political, military and
economic support given by the United
States to Israel. This support is given in
defiance of the majority of the world’s
community which condemned Israel’s
racist and oppressive policies. Hence
forth, far from promoting just peace and
prosperity in the area, the United Sates
has tried either directly or through its
cohorts, such as Israel, to promote
oppression and terror. The recent
developments in Lebanon are just an
other example. The Israeli daily bom
bardment of civilian centers is done with
the acquiescence if not the support of
Washington. The attempt by the media to
portray the (war) in Lebanon as a
"missile crisis" cannot but bring to mind
the infamous days of the cold war, which
the United States is trying to revive.
While the peoples of the world observe
May 15 remembering the plight of the
Palestinian people, Israel and its
apologists in the United States set the
day as an occasion for celebration. The
reactionary Zionist-oriented Jewish
Student Union on this campus organizes
festivities to celebrate the birth of the
terrorist-expansionist state of Israel
while the F-15s roam the skies of Leban
on dropping their napalms on the
refugee centers. An occaision for
celebration?
Khalid Al-Sane
Organization of Arab Students