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harry esteve editor's note We felt strangely guiltless, sitting in a vegetarian restaurant in Victoria, drinking Old Stock, the Canadian equivalent of Coots. Later, in a campground on the San Juan island of Lopez, we woke up from dreams of grades, term papers and deadlines — and laughed. They were an illusion; our only concern was making the hilly three-mile bicycle ride in time to catch the 7:30 ferry to Anacortes Even trading my micro economics book for a thick paperback with a steamy cover had seemed weird at first. It took some getting U9ed to, as I kept feeling like I had to put it down to do some “real" reading. Spring break had come like an unexpected gift: we couldn’t wait to tear into it, yet we were shy to indulge. It seemed barely possible that there could be free time without the threat of unfin ished homework lurking to spoil it. Such is the beauty of the University’s hallowed quarter system. Every time I hear the possiblity raised of a switch to semesters, I will remember last week — and oppose the change to my last breath. Consider trying to enjoy an evening fire in a Canadian campground, knowing full well a week's worth of ignored homework looms ahead, then count your blessings. So we luxuriated. By the time the State Board of Higjher Education had made its final decision to remove Community Service and Public Affairs from the University, we were stuffing ourselves on pizza, sitting in a large room of Port Townsend's Palace Hotel. The Emerald was hibernating, the headlines could wait until we got back. in Victoria's public port, at least three boatloads of Univer sity students were docked. The captain of one was a friend of ours, a future law student struggling for a political science degree by this June. He recounted a harrowing journey from Seattle to Anacortes. Tossed by head winds and fighting for every knot, all he could think about was the subtle relationships between Marxism and existen tialism. But as days of sailing under clear northern skies passed, his thoughts of academia withered, replaced by the sweet trivia of friendly con versation and compass read ings. So it was with us. The mulitple choices transformed from a. b, c or all of the above, to a side trip to the Butchart Gar dens or a chance to spend more time on the San Juans. The answer was made for us — none of the above because of a bro ken down ferry engine. An essay that had forced me to produce everything I knew about the major sociological problems of religion, family education and capitalism was replaced with a calm dissertation on the feeling of bicycling unknown roads The quarter system was meant for us — students who enroll full time in school and have to work nearly full time to pay for It. After nine weeks the wick is burnt to the bottom and we are left floating in murky tallow. Spring break is a requi site. Returning to Eugene was like being bom by the Le Boyer method. No pain, no shock of neglected school work, just welcome back and slide on into spring term. We felt rested, strengthened and ready to re sume the cycle. letters 1984 Well. I don't know, but 1984 is closer than I thought Reagan hopes to stop virtually all finan cial aid for higher education, and we are being told that the insurrection in El Salvador is part of the global plot for com munist take-over. The only difference between us and Orwell's nightmare is that, for a little while yet. we still have the power of speech We must write our represen tatives In the big house while it still stands. Robin Koity Nuke freeze What do Jim Weaver, the State Legislature of Oregon, the National Council of Churches plus a huge number of other individuals and organizations have in common? Answer: They all endorse a nuclear-weapons freeze. A nuclear-weapon freeze would — if adopted by the USSR and the US as proposed - stop the ".. testing production and deployment of nuclear weapons "In other words, the generals could keep their precious 50,000 atom bombs which exist already; but it would not be allowed to develop or to build new nuclear weapons. These new weapons which are now about to go in production (MX. cruise missiles, Pershing II, on the American side) would not simply add to me quantity of the arsenals but add also a new quality: They’re highly accurate — a cruise missile misses its target by not more than a hundred feet — after a flight of thousands of miles A ‘ freeze’’ is urgently needed to stop me new weapons now. It's also a first step to get rid of me old ones. Since me “freeze" prohibits me testing of nuclear weapons after some time you can't be sure how reliable they are still You cannot be sure mat they would work well enough for a first strike (They would be still good enough for a second strike where you don't need high accuracy and where even 10 percent of each side's ar senal would be enough to des troy me cities of me enemy — if you want to rely on mis "securi ty" by "deterrence ") To speak with me science adviser of Pres Eisenhower, Geroge Kistia owsky, another endorser of me freeze'. "Let mem rot." Joehon Pmulua For a Nuclear Free Future Dancewear & Theatrical Introducing • • • Eugene's Own 100% Cotton Actionwear now on sale for 25% OFF 3 days only April 1, 2, 3 ... X'Handmade” Beer The Pad Presents A CELEBRATION OF THE Henry Weinhard’s BERTHDAY Wednesday Mar. 31 2 till ? 60 oz. Buckets of Henry’s for $2.50 You Keep The Bucket Refills only $2.25 yCC 3355 EL Amazon Dr. Paddock Tavern 342-3575 Tha Oregon Dotty Emaratd t* pubHshaO Monday through Friday exempt during finals meek and vacation* by dm Oragon Dally Emerald Publishing Co Naan 696-5511 Advardalng/Bualnaaa 696-3712 ClassMads 696-4343 696-4391 Editor Sally Hodgkinson managing Editor Gabriel Boetimer Newt Editor Harry Esteve Assistant Newt Editor John Healy Photo Editor Bob Baker Graphic* Editor Wax DeRungs Editorial Page Editor Cort Fematd Sports Editor Stare Spatz Associate Sport* Editor Jett Dickerson Entertainment Editor Matt Meyer Might Editor Harry Estate Ataoclata Editor*: ASUO Dane Oausaen Community Marian Green Feature* Caroline Petnch Higher Education Ann Portal Department* and School* Politic* / Environment Debbie Howlett Ron Hunt G Mtnf Staff Adverdaing Director Darlene Gore ClaaaMed Adeordalng SaHy Oliar Production manager Ann Peterson Jean Ownbey
