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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
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