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I Pump your own gas Pumping gas for your car is not exactly a constitutional right, but it sure might save time and money Ballot Measure 4 would permit non-service station personnel — car drivers — to pump gas in retail sales gas stations Excluding New Jersey and Oregon, all other 48 states have self-service gas stations The other states don't com plain, in fact, out-of-state visitors pull into Oregon gas stations, jump out of their car and begin pumping their own gas — only to find they are breaking the law Oregon — that state with only one professional sport and no self-service gas stations Self-serve stations have no higher number of accidents Insurance companies rates are exactly the same for self-serve or gas-jockey stations The options of full-service and mini-service should remain for elderly, handicapped and other drivers who prefer not to pump their own gas The self-service option is a good one and it is an option in 48 states, where still only 40 percent of gasoline stations are self-service Will the measure eliminate jobs? Perhaps, if low profit stations decide to turn to self-service rather than shut down Will the measure lower gas prices7 Opponents say no, the savings in personnel will be made up in profits The propon ents say yes, consumers will save from one to four cents a gallon Yes on Ballot Measure 4 means voting for an increased convenience opinion Ijoan nyland suitable for comment This is the story of Jane Q Student, an imaginary returning music major at the University Jane arrived on campus Sept 26 to register tor classes she knew would cost her $460, plus $45 in fees and $20 for P E Like a good student Jane paid her deferred tuition (at a cost of $6) and bought her books — all $80 worth Then the trouble began During the second day of registration. Jane drove her car to campus to attend a choir meeting Parking in front of PLC, Jane plugged in a dime and presumed she'd be back in two hours Wrong, Jane The city meters that used to be 5 cents per hour are now 25 cents per 75 minutes Jane re turned to her car two hours later to find a $6 ticket on her car Jane also found out while at the music school that her flute lessons would cost her an extra $140 a year and her practice room $5 for the year The arts are expensive, Jane But no matter, Jane, like Eugene, knows her priorities She merely checked out a novel to read the first homeworkless weekend of school Jane solidified her schedule after a few days in class and realized that 18 hours would be academic suicide, especially with her lucrative job raking r leaves So Jane dropped Imaginar lology 301 and returned her books to the bookstore Lo and behold, a 50-cent charge for ■processing" each returned book What more could they charge her for? Jane returned to her car, parked in student parking, to find a S5 ticket upon her unper mitted vehicle She's a dutiful student, really So Jane marched up to campus security and bought her $27 car permit and $2 bike permit Jane phoned home Mom of Jane said don't worry we ll mortgage the house Jane foregoes monster cookies at 55 cents a munch Right now Jane s getting up set and developing a rash So she goes to the Health Center where a doctor prescribes her medicine, but Jane won t know until November the cost of that prescription Jane doesn t care anymore What will she do when she realizes her novel so nicety mis placed in her apartment for the last 10 days is costing her 25 cents a day? So far. Jane s spent $709 this term on campus, not counting school supplies or food Consult the counseling center Jane It's still free THE NOT-SO-GOOD SAMARITAN Reflection Debbie Howlett's editorial concerning the high school journalists' clash with the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade last Wednesday is worthy of additional reflec tion Four years ago I attended the same conference as a high school journalist myself Coin cidentally. a similar scenario took place — similar, but far from identical The RCYB was out in full force that day, too The faces were different, but the rhetoric was the same What wasn t the same, however was the atmos phere Rather than throwing garbage and yelling meaning less insults, my peers and I par took m what Debbie has called the free evaluation and ex change of ideas " We believed then, as I still believe now. that the free ex change of ideas is what jour nalism, or for that matter democracy in general, is all about The RCYB didn't win any more support with their presentation four years ago than they did last Wednesday But they did learn that American democracy, and the freedom of expression that goes along with it. was alive and well It would be nice if last Wed nesday s confrontation could be explained away as just an isolated incident egged on by a few immature high school students But the extremely conservative movements of our country today seem to indicate that the confrontation was more of a sign of the times " Rather than grasping the opportunity to constructively discuss the merits and faults of two contrasting ideas the crowd chose to close its ears and raise its voice in intoler ance What s the term those ac tivists use for that? Oh yes — ‘ American fascism " Randy Cook junior, journalism Pragmatist Gunther s letter in the Oct 12 Emerald contains several mis statements about congressional candidate Ross Anthony to which I would like to respond First, Gunther erroneously claims that Anthony is a supply-side economist who un equivocally supports Reagan Nothing could be further from the truth Time and again, Anthony has publicly explained that he is a pragmatist who, unlike Reagan, supports eliminating taxes on savings who, unlike Reagan, supports reducing military ex penditures by a least $35 billion and who, unlike Reagan, sup ports changing our tax system to eliminate loopholes and sub sidies for special interest groups Second Gunther asks how Anthony will balance the bud get and third, trim federal pro grams and maintain our obliga tion to the truly needy Obviously, Gunther has not been listening' Again, Anthony has publicly stated that we must choose a target date for balancing the budget and con sistently move towards that goal by greatly reducing our defense spending collecting taxes and debts which are currently un paid changing our tax system to eliminate loopholes and promoting environmentally sound growth so that unem ployment will tall He publtcaliy supports adequate funding for education, health care and ba r sic research which provide for long-range solutions to our problems. Anyone who wants further clarification of Anthony's posi tions should join the public demand, so far ignored by Mr Weaver, for public debates between the incumbent Weaver and his challenger Anthony James Anderson Being booed I am troubled that our Univer sity athletes are being booed I think it is important to remind the student body that these are not professionals, but fellow students. Theodore Roosevelt ex pressed beautifully a phil osophy that applies not only to the larger arena of life He stat ed ' In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or the doer of the deed could have done better The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort with out error and shortcomings, who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devo tions who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph ot high achievement, and who at the worst, if he tails, at least tails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who have never tasted neither victory nor deteat Alan Schlosser Lake Oswego emerald The 0*9on Daily Emerald is pobiishad Monday through Today mept duong esam meet and vacations by the Oagon Oafy Emerald Publishing Co at the University of Oregon Eugene Oft 97403 The EmeraSd operates mdependentty of the University with offices on the third floor of the Ert> Memooai Union and is a member of the Assoc iated Press wees and Editorial St* 5511 MMHJ •M-3712 Nttltl Editor Harm Esaeve Managing Editor News Edaor Assistant Nm Editor Editorial Pag* Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Assoc iat* Soon* Edttor Entertainment Editor High! 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