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sally hodgkinson ■ editor s note The sweat crept up the entire sleeve of Andrew Paige’s tight white shirt as the woman testified about the night two years ago when Paige al legedly tried to rape her Sometimes speaking softly, sometimes indig nantly at cross-examination questions, the 20-year-old woman should have been the one to sweat. She — not Paige — was the one on trial “Don't fool yourself,” prosecuting attorney Darryl Larson cautioned the jury “The victim is always on trial on in sex case But what can she hope to gain by dragging herself through the mud again? Notoriety? Huh, some notoriety " The “alleged victim," a former University student, had little to gain from the trial Her parents sat through her testimony Although the media identified her only as “the woman,” her name was mentioned constantly in the courtroom filled with spectators and journalists And the man who she said terrified her July 21, I979, watched her testify And sweated Co-defense attorney Milton Grimes, a family friend of Paige's from Orange County, Calif., apologized constantly to the jury during his clos ing remarks: Sorry about waving my hands Sorry about saying "I think . ." Sorry about taking up too much of your time But Grimes did not apologize for his cool and well-worded attempt to smear the character of the woman "I'm not old-fashioned," said Grimes, who was wearing large tinted glasses and a tight-fitting, three-piece suit, "but I think that it's a little forward for a young woman who meets a young man at a party, to go into his bedroom and smoke a joint with him I think it's hard to believe she didn't want more "She did nothing but encourage this young man " Grimes, who often called the victim a "young lady' and a "little girl," said the entire case was the woman's imagination "This lady is looking for sympathy " He went on: The woman was trying to get a tomer boyfriend’s attention The woman was high on cocaine — known in some circles as an aph rodisiac. The woman lied The woman was willing And the woman was playing hard to get when she suggested the couple leave the bedroom and go dance, Grimes said "Every red-blooded male knows that's a proper interpretation of her actions " ’ Are we talking about some sleazy woman who is trying to have sex with Andrew Paige, quarterback?" Larson asked the |ury "Can you believe that7" As the closing arguments were phoned into the Portland United Press International office, the male UPI staff member asked the Eugene corre spondent, "Can you believe this bullshit?" It took jury members less than 90 minutes to deliberate No sweat They believed it vours Artesian folk Congratulations' Developed by Artesian-consciousness journalism," those "legendary inhabitants of the Olympia Brewery in Tumwater, Wash.," will become American folk her oes and benign symbols synon ymous with one of America's great diseases Go for it! David Erlandson junior, asian studies Perchance? It is evident that the reason for lack of response to my two previous "sexist" letters is that women's liberation people lack basic language communication skill This is evidenced in their at tempt to exchange the suffix man for person on words they consider sexist Their first prob lem is that they seem to have missed the most sexist of all this genre — wo man This word is blatantly sexist, not only in it self by even by its etymology In the world’s most popular book, (Genesis 2:23) Adam said she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man ” To reflect her newfound sta tus of existing for herself she should no longer be called Woman She should be called Wo-wo (A wo-wo is a yo-yo that didn't quite make it She just dangles and spins ) The second problem is that person itself carries a male bias in that it ends in son To remedy this, I suggest that we use some neutral ending to reflect the fact that one’s gender is determined by random chance The ideal word would be per-chance Then instead of using sexist words like mail man congress man mailperson, congressper son we wttuld say such things as "Has the mail-per-chance come yet?' Or "Did our con gress-per-chance do any good today7" If I receive no response to this third ' sexist' letter of mine. I will revise my statement about the women's liberation movement" being in left field I would then say it has struck out How about it Casey7 Earl Gosnell 1293V* Tyler Iranian repeat If it were my intention to re spond to every point and al legation made in your collection of trash which appeared in the Emerald last Thursday, I would have had to write a voluminous article Therefore, I shall con fine myself to making some general, but legitimate, remarks on what you pretend to depict about the growing opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran It is of course not at all sur prising that you and your predecessors have been systematically glorifying a re This ktr w ‘ WE The PCOR EHL YOU SHOulD HAUL YOuKSEJ UP £f YOUR OWN BOOTSWS pressive regime which came to power under false pretenses and promises of bringing democracy and freedom to Iran after 30 dark years of the shah's dictatorship Today, after only 2V? years of Islamic Republic rulership. the world has wit nessed the existence of the same Kangaroo Courts which, in the shah's era, sent thou sands of freedom fighters to the firing squads the same prisons filled with savagely tortured political prisioners and a severe censorship of the media cou pled with the publication of dis torted facts and poisionous lies, similar to what you have pre sented to the readers of the Emerald The dimensions of these ■nr-TTH-" the passing ct frep siiyerman atrocities has grown to such an extent that even Bam Sadr (pre sident-elect by 75 percent popular vote) has had to con tess to the existence of torture and suppression in Iran and as a consequence himself falling a victim to the repression of the Islamic parties More offensive and frightening than all this is that these brutalities have been committed under the guise of Islam arid thus justified as religious duties In short, the crimes that have been committed by this regime are equal to none other than those committed by the shah — yes the shah — if not worse A point of interest to many of us is that, during the shah's reign of terror, it was customary to conceal one's identity by as suming an alias in order to pro tect one's family from the shah's vengefulness What if I may ask is your excuse for doing that Mr ' All Shariati?" I challenge you Mr What ever-your-name-is, to a public debate in order to expose to the people what is really going on in your young and innocent Is lamic Republic " Amin Siadat Member of the Iranian Student Association Martyr stand The martyrdom of the 74 Muslim leaders in Iran on June AH shocked and grieved not only the Muslim nation in Iran, but the entire Muslim Unmah of 1 billion Muslims all over the world We, the Muslim Students' Association at the University, loin our brothers and sisters ail over the world in congratulating the martyrs and their families tor the blessing and victory of gaining martyrdom, in condem ing the coward terrorist hypocrites and their imperialist and Zionist masters responsible for the murderous act, and in reaffirming our total and un compromising stand behind the international Islamic revolution under the leadership of Imam Khumaini The coward act is nothing but another step in the long vicious cycle of conspirancies against Islam and the Islamic revolution This cycle which started long before the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran and included the assassination of Muslim scholars espionage against the Islamic movements, the crea tion of regional and tribal des cent the orchestration of sec tarianism and nationalism and the undertaking of direct mill tary attacks, will not end by this murderous act but will continue as long as there are enemies of humanity on this earth However, in this critical per iod of the history of our struggle against Western and Eastern imperialism Zionism and all forms of tyranny and exploita tion, we assure mankind, both friends and foes, that the determination of the Islamic revolution will never be wea keried no matter how vicious the atrocities of the enemies are, nor how big our sacrifice is Omar Al-Mukhtar Member of the Muslim Students' Asaociatlon
