Gabriel Boehmer
editor’s note
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in’t.
Lord Byron
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
By now, almost everybody who wants one has
a new University student directory. And if you’re
anything like me, when you pick up a directory for
the first time you look for your own name — just to
verify its spelling and to make sure your current
phone number is listed. Then your friends can call
and offer to buy you a beer
But my routine was broken this winter when I
cracked the directory and saw a list of emergency
numbers Now that's not so unusual What
grabbed my attention was a number for chemical
and radiation emergencies, wedged right between
listings for the Crisis Center and Maintenance.
I didn't even know there was radiation on
campus — let alone enough to warrant its own
phone number That worried me.
I finally pulled myself together and started
leafing through the directory to see who I knew
But I discovered a lot of names I wasn't familiar
with, too.
For example, do you know who holds the
honor of being the first name in the directory?
Douglass Scott Aalseth is his name. And the last is
Stephanie M. Zylewitz I wonder if Doug and Steph
have ever met, and if they have, I wonder if they
know the honors they share?
The longest surname, according to my sur
vey, belongs to Tania Bassingthwaighte. And
although I’m not sure how to pronounce that, I’m
sure she has lots of friends who do and are very
good at it.
Honors for the shortest surname, at two
characters apiece, are shared by: Yuk Hong Au;
Hans Go; Ellen, Hung, Kam, Kar, Kong and
Leighton Ou; Sammy, Su-Hua and Wendy Ho;
Peter Ko; Hoa Huy and Hoa Thi Le; Bobbie and On
Lo; Chan-Chou and Jennifer Lu; Sandra Ol; Rick
On; Oai Qouc Vu; Ding Ping Xi; and Allen, Cheng
Liang, Jas Chung-Min, Josephine, Kwok King
David, Vincente Sapida and Yuangting Yu.
Can you guess what the most common sur
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mane among students is? Pretend you’re betting
five dollars on it. Smith is the correct answer.
Space permitting, I would have done all the Smiths
the honor of listing your first names. So to Alice
Smith and William Smith and all the Smiths in
between — congratulations. There are 133 of you.
Johnson, numbering 113, finished a distant
second.
Other surnames of great popularity among
students include: Alexander, there were 9 of you;
Allen, 24; Anderson, 71; Baker 26; Barnes, 13;
Bell; 12; Black, 11; Brown, 76; Carter, 29; Clark,
31; Davis, 44; Jones, 52; Larson, 36; Lee, 50;
Moore, 43 — the list goes on and on.
Mine must have finished close to the bottom.
How many Boehmers do you know? Besides my
cousin George, the only other is a law student
named Colette Boehmer. In fact, her home ad
dress is only a few blocks from mine in Portland.
If Colette’s name is spelled correctly, and her
current phone number is listed, maybe I’ll call and
offer to buy her a beer.
Outraged
I am appalled and outraged by
the smug self-righteousness of
Matt Meyer in his review of the
movie. “Making Love ” For a
good many of us. sexuality has
nothing to do with the idea of
god Personally, I consider my
self and the other person How
dare Meyer imply that his
religious notions should apply
to me and others aside from
himself We live in a society that
gives a medal to a man for killing
another man and condemns
him for loving one Homosex
uality is not a moral issue and it
is a valid way of life
I'm not gay, I'm just a hetero
sexual who thinks logically
Jesse Ledgerwood
Counseling
Dismissal
Jim Haney's actions last week
have gone too far The dismis
sal of senior Barry Walker from
the Oregon men's basketball
team is yet another example of
Haney’s confusing attempt to
establish himself as a "man of
discipline.” Many of us still
remember young Haney's last
rash decision to remove star
Dan Hartshorne from the
1979-80 basketball squad for
disciplinary reasons’’ before
the season had barely started
That controversy helped lead
the Ducks to another losing
year
Haney may believe that these
harsh off court decisions
project himself as a strong, dis
ciplined coach on the court, but
I disagree On the contrary,
unfair decisions such as his with
Walker make Haney appear
confused and irrational
Walker had good reason to
speak out after the recent UO
OSU basketball game Noted for
his adept ball-handling skills,
Walker couldn't understand
why he wasn’t used at all in his
last game against our intra-state
rivals when the Ducks had so
much trouble breaking the OSU
press Even Walker's team
mates were in disbelief at his
absence Is that the kind of
thanks Haney gives seniors who
have contributed four solid
years into his program? The
Oregon Dally Emerald
Register-Guard mentioned
Walker's reluctance to talk
about the situation. The
reporters in a sense force the
responses because of their
genuine curiosity.
Haney is frustrated, and
rightly so He’s had four years
here to put together a winning
program and he has failed. His
run and gun style of basketball
has proven to be a flop Haney
apparently lacks the coaching
skills and personality needed to
teach the Ducks to play a disci
plined style of defense that is
key to success in the Pac 10
His off court theatrics cannot
make up for these shortcom
ings
Haney is leading our basket
ball program right to the bottom.
I don't think that the Athletic
Director can sit back and let this
poor excuse for a coach further
destroy the once proud
reputation of Oregon basketball
here in Eugene
Bob Poletti
senior, marketing
Disparity
In recent weeks I have taken
notice of the marked disparity
between what Pres. Ronald
Reagan has said and what he
has in fact done For example,
in his State of the Union ad
dress, he asserted that "Amer
ica will not conduct business
as-usual with the forces of op
pression.” and less than two
weeks later he requested an
additional $55 million from
Congress to continue propping
up the murderous regime in El
Salvador
After remarking that he had
seen "24 full pages" of help
wanted ads in the Sunday Wa
shington Post and promising
that his administration is "going
to do everything we can to
make more people qualified to
go and apply for those jobs,” he
turned around and proposed a
1983 budget that will virtually
close down most of the nation’s
Centers for Employment and
Training Assistance
On another occasion Reagan
was quoted as saying that he
opposes racial discrimination
"at every fiber” of his being, yet
he still had the audacity to
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provided tax exemptions
segregated private schools.
To top it all off, Reagan has
continued to assure us of his
commitment to "getting govern
ment off our backs" although in
December he signed into law an
executive order that will allow
CIA infiltration into American
political organizations and per
mit domestic spying.
Not surprisingly however,
opinion polls still seem to in
dicate that Americans find their
President to be a likeable char
acter I suppose that as an actor
and a fine rhetorician he has
been able to maintain their faith
I can only hope that sooner or
later they will turn their eyes
from their televisions and out
into the real world where the
realities of international rebel
lion, excessive unemployment,
racism and state-sponsored
hassles are, unlike Reagan,
speaking the truth
Christian Gunther
junior, sociology
Koinonia
As a campus minister and as a
staff person at the Koinonia
Center, I would like to respond
to David Thomas' letter of Feb
5
Apparently Thomas did not
verify his facts before compos
ing his letter. The University
does indeed fund GPA through
the ASUO and provides them
with one office in the EMU. The
University does not own the
Koinonia Center nor does it
fund GPA an office there The
Koinonia Center is privately
owned by the Lutheran's and
Presbyterians and is not
University property The Univer
sity is not financially connected
with Koinonia in any way. Con
trary to Thomas' statements,
GPA does not have an office nor
office space in Koinonia. The
GPA is one of many groups who
have a contracted agreement
with Koinonia for specific and
limited building use
I call into question Thomas’
reasoning that "gay people
have chosen to become a mi
nority." It amazes me that u
niversity educated people ("4
years as a university student
which spans over 8 years”) and
someone who uses "yech" as
an adjective to describe a group
in a letter, would make such a
statement Being a minority is
not something one chooses, it is
a status thrust upon an in
dividual or group or sex or race
by a society which lacks social
justice Societal institutions
which perpetuate such injustice
enslave more than "the minori
ties.” For none of us is truly
represented until every one is
represented.
The University has made a
commitment to be sensitive to
diverse groups and to the ac
tualization of many peoples.
GPA has been an officially
recognized University organiza
tion since at least 1969 and has
been receiving funding for ap
proximately 10 years. Therefore
it is incorrect to assume as
Thomas does that University
fees are increasing because of
the University’s funding of
groups like GPA Just because
certain individuals are bigoted
is a not valid reason to call
ASUO's funding into question.
Futhermore, I would like
Thomas to define what it is that
he thinks homosexuals “do and
what they believe in." I am al
ways slightly distrustful when
members of the ‘‘majority"
define for me "minority” con
cerns and issues Quite frankly,
I am not sure that gays and les
bians have issued a statement
illuminating what it is they “do
and what they believe.”
This letter of response in now
way represents the entire Koin
onia staff, though it does reflect
the sentiments of individual staff
members.
Lois E. Van Leer
United Campus Ministry
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