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Living legend
Corf Fernald’s article on the
Chuck Berry concert was far too
kind I saw the same show as the
writer, but left feeling disap
pointed I went as everyone did,
expecting to see a "living
legend" but Berry did not live up
to his name.
Fernald claimed that the
audience didn't care that Chuck
mixes up songs and "skewed
verses" (not to mention consis
tently hit the wrong key). At
$9.50 a ticket we cared! But
what were we supposed to do?
Boo him off the stage?
I think Fernald just couldn't
admit to himself that Chuck
Berry is only a shadow of his
former self I don’t know how
the writer could possibly claim
that Berry's age (54) was "only
slightly evident "
Following the dazzling stage
show of "Johnny Limbo and the
Lugnuts," with its wild young
guitar player, the Chuck Berry
show seemed like rock n' roll at
the wax museum
My biggest complaint about
the article is that the writer
made no mention that Chuck
Berry was stoned out of his mind
while on stage and that’s why he
played so incredibly bad
If this concert didn't tell
Chuck Berry to quit, nothing
will
Greg Davis
sophomore
Parking mess
It was one of those typical
Mondays and I was late tor my
9:30 class I decided to park at a
mete. close to my class
rather than a 10-minute walk
away at the student-designed
parking lot across from Bean
complex. After about 10 min
utes of driving around, I found
an empty 24-minute parking
place Then I put a quarter in the
meter and dashed off to class,
praying that the meter maid
wouldn't come by while I was
away As fate would have it, I
ended up with a two-dollar tick
et written just before I arrived at
my car
Sound familiar?
Street parking at the Univer
sity is ridiculous. Twenty-four
minutes is hardly enough time to
run into the bookstore! Richard
Tanner, Head of Campus
Security, says that the reason
for the 24-minute spots is to
keep the street parking lots
flowing
Every year the University and
the City of Eugene bring in
thousands of dollars collected
from parking violations Last
year the University made
$307,000 in parking permit
sales, tickets and meter reven
ue The city's University-area
total was $157,910
There are many possible
solutions to this problem The
24-minute meters could be
changed to one hour A large
multi-level parkade could be
built on or near campus Faculty
parking could be made to in
clude some student parking
Something definitely must be
done about this problem Ac
ceptable solutions must be
found
Linda Chace
Obfuscation
After listening to Pres Ronald
Reagan's speech on arms con
trol, I am deeply disturbed at his
misrepresentation of the facts,
as well as his obfuscation of the
issues He made a number of
points which were erroneous at
best; I would like to clarify them
First, Reagan claims that we
are trailing the Russians in nu
clear capability This is simply
untrue Nearly every weapons
expert, including the joint chiefs
of staff, agree that the two
superpowers are roughly equal,
and that, if anything, the United
States is slightly ahead due to its
advanced technology
Secondly, Reagan points to
the size of the Soviet arms
build-up While he notes that the
Soviets spend over twice as
much of their Gross National
Product on the military as we
do, he fails to mention that our
GNP is over twice theirs — in
actual dollar amounts we are
roughly equal.
Furthermore, the expenditure
of Russian rubles cost no Rus
sian jobs, while the expense of
one billion dollars on United
States arms leaves the Amer
ican public with 20,000 fewer
jobs
Reagan also talks of the great
size of the Soviet conventional
forces. He fails to acknowledge
their 3000-mile border with a
hostile China, where many
troops are stationed, as well as
a hostile Western European
front
When Reagan speaks of the
Soviet advantage in nuclear
missiles, he talks only of the
Soviet edge in intercontinental
ballistic missiles He does not
mention, however, that ICBMs
make up 80 percent of the
Soviets' total strategic warhead
arsenal, while they makeup only
20 percent of ours In total stra
tegic nuclear warheads, includ
ing those on bombers and sub
marines, the United States is
actually ahead by over 3,000
warheads
I hope that the American
people have the sense and in
telligence not to be taken in by
the president's warmongering
His plan to deploy first strike
weapons such as the MX is one
more long step on the road to
nuclear annihilation
Clifford J. Baker
Eugene
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free speech, no joke
It was hard deciding which
was more provocative during
L L "Stubb" Stewart's speech
on Saturday — his comments on
higher education or his sexist
jokes
An elementary school teacher
asked her students to find
three-syllable words to use in
sentences. Johnny offered
“urinate" and. for his sentence,
told the teacher "Yer an eight
but if you had bigger boobs
you'd be a 10.''
The crowd of about 80 faculty
members from around the state
tittered and shifted in their
seats It was an unusual open
ing for the keynote speaker at
the monthly meeting of the
American Association of
University Professors.
Stewart, a former state legis
lator, former State Board of
Higher Education member, past
president of Bohemia lumber
company, OSU trustee and
donator to both OSU and the
University, moved quickly onto
even rockier ground.
He attacked faculty members
for identifying themselves with
their schools when they take
controversial stands. Bad pub
licity makes the public lose faith,
and the Legislature is merely a
reflection of the public, he said
He mentioned comments by
former University Pres Arthur
Flemming's that upset the
coastal cranberry industry, and
"trouble" caused by University
law school faculty
Earlier in his speech, Stewart
praised the University business
school for its efforts to find out
what the business community
needed and then provide those
services. Stewart himself has
refurbished a classroom at the
school, and even before he
stated it. his message was clear
"If they like what you're doing,
they're going to turn right
around and help you "
The implication was just as
clear Stewart wasn't objecting
to professors speaking out on
all controversial topics He was
warning them to keep silent
when their opinions could have
financial repercussions — or
r
when they disagree with his
own
Tying financial considera
tions to academic freedom has
become a frightening — if
somewhat understandable —
trend in Oregon. The reasons
why state funding of higher
education has slipped during
the past decade to among the
worst in the nation are varied
and complex Yet it's easy to
feel a chill when someone sug
gests, as Stewart did, that
Oregon legislators underfunded
higher ed partially because they
didn't like anti-war protests and
an outspoken University pres
ident
Stewart commented at the
meeting that he wasn't sure
what "academic freedom" ac
tually meant. Luckily, University
administrators do Robert Ber
dahl, dean of the arts and
sciences college, said the policy
here is that faculty members
cannot speak as representa
tives of the University unless
they’ve checked it out with the
administration. They also can't
use University letterhead to
state their positions on political
or other controversial matters.
But that doesn’t restrict in any
way what faculty members can
say during their off-hours — or
whether they present their
credentials as faculty members,
Berdahl said The administra
tion's involvement is like that of
a solicitous parent. "We pre
sume and hope that faculty are
going to take positions that are
well reasoned, well thought out
and defensible," he said, and
they usually do
At the end of his speech,
Stewart rather ironically sug
gested that the colleges and
universities need to organize
Speaker's Bureaus (like one al
ready started at the University)
to get faculty members out to
the public
Those public audiences
should remember that profes
sors — just like lumberman —
may occasionally say things
they don't agree with Hopefully,
their audiences will be as polite
as the AAUP
letters
Thoughtless
It is indeed the reviewer's
perogative to intelligently cri
tique a play and to be honest
regarding what he or she teels
are the show s strengths and or
weaknesses However. Jonath
an Siegle's review of "Fifth of
July' was appalling in its con
cluding paragraph which sets at
odds "Fifth of July and Oh,
r
What a Lovely War,"
Although the shows are
separate, in a sense the casts
are not We are all members of
the University Theatre We sup
port each other and work as a
team To set us in opposition to
each other is an unnecessary
and thoughtless insult
Deltra Ferguson
Shell Maida
Cast Members
Oh, What a Lovely War
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