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Don't use the rules,
They're not for you
They're for the fools.
And you’re a fool if you don’t know that
So hit the road, you stupid fool.
Clash
As soon as I walked into the Bijou Wednesday and saw
some kid wearing wraparound “shades" I knew I’d dressed
wrong. Being in a jacket, jeans, shirt and running shoes was
definitely declassS amongst the sharkskin jackets, chino
pants sans knees and scuffed-up engineer boots. The
women weren’t dressed that much differently.
All I wanted to see was the Sex Pistols’ D O.A., I hadn’t
any idea it was a cult and costume event in the vein of The
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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sidelong glances
There are occasions when the movie crowd is as enter
taining as the movie itself So I sat back and sopped up the
Eugene Punk ambience.
“Sex Pistols,” someone was yelling from the back.
A woman — well actually she was barely 16, which
made her a girl — rushed by where I was sitting I noticed her
because she nearly stepped on my toe with her spike heel
She blended in with the crowd, looking as if she’d gone up to
the attic and raided Mom's old clothes Mom was always a
tacky dresser. Other than that she had the obligatory multi
hued hair, dark eyes and crimson lips
The theatre went dark and they started running trailers
for upcoming movies. Led Zepplin's Song Remains the Same
was roundly booed. Woodstock elicited anti-hippie shouts,
which I enthusiastically joined “Kill Hippie Fascists.” That's
my favorite Eugene Punk non sequitur. Oddly enough, all the
Woodstock bands except Jimi Hendrix and The Who were
booed. What would Eddie Cochran say?
D.O.A. was allegedly intended to debunk the Sex Pistols'
myth. It roughly chronicled their one and only American tour
The opposite was taking place in the Bijou The mystification
of the band that in 1977 brought “punk” before the om
nipresent media eye of the world seemed complete. "Sex
Pistols,” they shouted.
The movie opened, quite typically, with a birth scene and
a heartbeat “Kill it,” a voice growled as the baby squalled
The rest of the movie was a compilation of different
bands and an attempt at a plot involving Terry-the-punk
forming a band. Terry was either Chad-the-Mod "all groad
up", or just bloody stupid, I couldn’t figure which He had no
musical talent at all — and no talent is not enough
A Clash track played and I heard someone behind me
say doubtfully, “sounds like them ”
The Pistols’ concert footage was quite good It gave me
different perspective on that band musically instead of
sociologically. Vicious and Rotten were the celebrities
carried by the musical abilities of Cook and Jones
My favorite sequence was Sid and Nancy at home — the
Chelsea Hotel in New York. They were just your average
punk couple Sid was dressed in a red tee shirt replete with
swastika Nancy was more sedately attired in black Spandex.
It was a classic domestic scene except for Sid, who was
nodding-out from smack and kept setting the bed on fire with
his cigarette
It was quite a costume party for the Eugene Punks. As I
walked out I looked around at them, knowing they'd drive
home in Dad’s car, open the refrigerator hoping Mom did the
shopping that afternoon, then push that chrome button
marked "power” and tuck the headphones over their spiky
hair
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Frugality
It is refreshing to observe our
first family 's concern for the well
being of struggling American
industries in these hard times It
is especially nice that Nancy has
found a way to help them and
save money at the same time
Frugality and saving are among
the finest American pioneer vir
tues, in danger of being lost in
these days of mega-waste
Contrast for example the
wastefulness of our navy,
reported in the Register-Guard
A few years ago, at staggering
cost to all of us, they built 100
nuclear submarines which they
now propose to sink to the bot
tom of the Pacific, without ever
having used them for anything
except to sail around in and
bump into Japanese freighters
But we digress — back to Nancy
She has "saved thousands of
dollars” by accepting fancy
clothes free in order to assist
the foundering American
fashion industry. Why didn't I
ever think of this way to help
them before9 My clothes are
mostly old and hopelessly out of
fashion I hereby make an offer
to help the Bon Marche If they
will give me one of their most
expensive Herringbone Twill
suits I will gladly wear it when
ever I go out socially, and will
donate it the the OMSI museum
when it is worn out so that
students may study it
Jackson Walter, director of
the government ethics office
says "there are not a lot of
precedents in this area One
that comes to mind is the case
of Sherman Adams, in the
Eisenhower administration,
whose wife received a fine mink
(or was it chinchilla?) coat from
industrialist Goldfine People
got so excited about it that he
had to leave government ser
vice What a pity that they didn't
have a government ethics office
in those days to protect him and
explain to the public how ethical
it all really was It is heartening
to realize how much progress
we have made since then
Bayard H. McConnaughey
1653 Emerald
Fiscal crisis
The problems of fiscal crisis
and cutback management at the
University are compounding
Academic unit budgets are cut
and courses are cancelled
Studenis can't get into courses
they need Faculty are forced to
take pay cuts and lose motiva
tion New faculty either can't be
hired or are hired and then ter
minated Remaining faculty
work harder on instruction and
research, but fewer courses are
offered and less research is ac
complished The prestige of the
University as a place where high
quality instruction and research
is engaged is decimated
As students find the Universi
ty less attractive due to dimin
ished access and quality, en
rollments fall and the University
loses entitlement-based finan
cial support from the State As
sponsors of research witness
the decline in performance, they
become more reluctant to
provide grant and contract sup
port to income, students lose
valuable graduate teaching fel
lowship and other financial
support. Further, federal
student financial aid is cut so
that poorer students are even
less able to attend college than
before Parental income is
squeezed by inflation, or
reduced by job threatening
recession, making it more dif
ficult to send children to the
University
On top of all of this the State
System of Higher Education,
yielding to pressure from the
Governor and Legislature,
raises tuition drastically, indir
ect conflict with the notion that
in a time of decreasing demand
the market would respond best
to price stability (a reduction
under conditions of rapid infla
tion) or differential reductions
rather than price increases As
students demonstrate their
price elasticity of demand in
response to higher tuition
charges, fewer students are en
rolled, further reducing state
budgetary support More facul
ty, research and student em
ployment is lost, quality declines
more rapidly and the downward
spiral continues
Is this the way to stimulate
economic development and
diversification in Oregon7 Is this
the way we want to prepare
ourselves as a society for the
technological, environmental,
ethical and human service
challenges of the 1980s and
beyond? Is this how we
stimulate economic and social
productivity and innovation?
Is ignorance, aggrandizement
of the welfare of disadvantaged
social group, and preservation
of opportunity only for the
wealthy and powerful to be
preferred over support for the
search for new knowledge as a
means of enabling social prob
lem solving, adaptation and
survival for life on earth? Is this
our brave new world? I hope
not
L.R. Jonea
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of Public Management
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