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Kudos
Timely, accurate, insightful,
extremely useful are words that
apply to the Emerald’s April 23,
special report Careers '82: Jobs
and Uncertainty.” Congratula
tions Ann Portal, Marian Green,
and Harry Esteve for an excellent
job
Larry Smith
Director, Career Planning
and Placamant Sarvlce
Another OSU?
During the 1960s and '70s, the
University and its students
became known for their concern
with national and international
issues Their activism indicated a
belief that the student's world
does not end at the edge of cam
pus This contrasted sharply with
the behavior of the students of
Oregon State University during
those years I have always felt that
the state of Oregon was privileged
to have such diversity among its
two major universities: that
somewhere there lies a balanced
perspective when one compares
the attitudes prevalent at both
schools
C.J Balfe's recent election as
ASUO president over Kevin
Kouns would seem to indicate a
change in perspective among the
University student body.
Apparently, recent budget cuts
have caused a majority of the
students to be concerned with the
University’s finances and little
else If this is true. I am saddened
by the state's loss Are we
becoming another OSU?
Store Schmlck
M B A., marketing
No respect
It is spring time again and
everybody is getting active
People are playing softball,
tennis, basketball and a game that
n
is getting no respect. This game is
frisbee goif
Fnsbee golf is a game played all
over the campus grounds. One
problem this game is encounter
ing is that people are lying all over
the fairways, the many open grass
areas around our university.
People picking up the frisbees
after they have been thrown is
another mounting concern of the
frisbee golfers.
Does this happen on golf
courses? No People don’t pick
golf balls and toss them back to
the players and also people don't
lie all over the courses These
problems can be solved If people
would just stay off the fairways
and keep their paws off the
frisbees, the frisbee association of
golfers will be able to play their
sport with the respect other sports
get
Don Walden
F.A.G.
Biker racers
Shaved legs are practically
enough to cause an inferiority
complex in any University bike
racer If this complex doesn't
drive them to the mental hospital,
lack of student support surely will
Your incidental fee is not enough
to save them, but your body is.
They cry out for cheers, and
applause at their races
This Sunday you will have a
chance to yell for twenty young
and impressionable University
cyclists during their annual cam
pus race Besides them, there will
be over a hundred other shaved
legged competitors racing for
glory and two hundred dollars in
prizes. They will risk life and limb
reaching speeds of forty miles an
hour around the turn from
University St. to 13th only inches
from other bikes The course is
eight-tenths of a mile long
(starting and ending on 15th a
cross from the covered tennis
courts), and is completed by the
racers in less than two minutes
The first race is sixteen miles
which begins at eleven o'clock.
The eight mile novice race starts
at twelve (anyone can enter), fol
lowed by the thirty-two mile main
event at one. Please come, sit
anywhere around the course, and
experience the fast and colorful
sport of bike racing. If this isn’t
enough, come to save twenty
young Ducks from straight jackets
and padded cells.
Doug Rappoport
captain, University cycling club
Distorted view
The portrait painted by the
Register-Guard in "Portland, the
Law, and Dean Bell" (April 17)
was distorted, incomplete,
biased, and racist.
It was incomplete because it
failed to print or adequately
summarize Dean Bell's remarks
which appeared in the Oregonian
(April 15). Dean Bell merely said
that the problem which exists in
Portland is similar to the problem
which has always existed when
Black children and parents seek
quality education — they are ig
nored and disregarded. Black
parents had worked closely with
the Portland school district and
had agreed on a course of action
which was responsive to Black
children. The unresponsiveness
of the board, according to Dean
Bell, led the parents to engage in
protest which many find uncom
fortable
The portrait painted in the
Register-Guard did not contribute
to respect and equality among the
races in Oregon. Nor did it con
tribute to a heightened
understanding of the racial and
educational problems which exist
in our fair state Instead, the edi
torial distorted the controversy
and urged Oregonians to
disregard the legitimate
grievances of its Black citizens
Edwin L. Coleman II
Assoc. Prof. English
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