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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
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