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I ROTC should march to University’s tune The University’s ROTC department has gone public with its policy of denying scholarships to homosexuals. Rules are rules, after all, and everyone knows the Army can’t allow gays into its ranks. They could be “compromis ed,” according to Col. Steve Wolfgram, head of the ROTC here If anything is being ‘compromised,’’ it’s the University, which apparently has turned its back on this blatant double standard of equal opportunity Let’s put the University’s ROTC department in perspective. “ROTC — whatever else you might think about it — is an academic program,” University Pres. Paul Olum told an Emerald reporter last year Then why isn’t it treated as one? If the University’s English department refused to give scholarships to homosexuals, heads would roll and law suits would fly fast and furious. If a campus fraternity had a written regulation banning gays from joining, its charter probably would be revoked Yet the ROTC discriminates with impunity. By definintion, the ROTC is a University department, fall ing under the control of the faculty senate and subject to University regulations One of those regulations states: “The University of Oregon affirms the right of all individuals to equal opportunity in education and employment without regard to . .. any other extraneous consideration not directly related to effective performance (Emphasis ours.) By singling out gays, the ROTC is clearly violating University rules. It gets away with it because it is the military that really controls the ROTC, not the University. The University faculty, with a few notable exceptions such as biology Prof. Bayard McConnaughey and philosophy Prof Cheyney Ryan, has quietly relinquished its control over ROTC policy and contented itself with collecting tuition from the 80 or so students enrolled in the program The current discrimination problem is allowed to exist because the University has allowed a government-run establishment to remain on its campus for 66 years If the ROTC wants to remain welcome on this campus it should play by the University's rules, not the military’s. am r— 1 1,1 - " —. — -1 opinion letters IFC cuts I was disturbed by Jeff Nudelman's statement regar ding the prospects of future IFC program cuts. He stated that he may favor budget cuts for "political organizations" such as the Survival Center and Students for a Nuclear Free Future. I feel that it is unfair for him to label these groups as "political," for, in effect, he is questioning their validity and threatening their survivability as valuable student organiza tions. The legitimacy of these groups deserves fair evalua tion and should not be confus ed by the use of a misrepresentative term In the future I would hope that Jeff Nudelman use some discretion in his selection of terms used for labeling these r organizations and that he keep any personal biases separate from his duties as an IFC board member Adam Schultz Austerity In this time of austerity, ASUO programs are being ask ed to cut back their budgets. This is reasonable given the fiscal state of events today Yet, those who are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks are the small and middle-sized pro grams while the large and inef ficient programs continue uneffected We are being reduced disproportionately in relation to the EMU, the ODE, and the Athletic Department. The EMU is requesting another large seven-percent Increase In employees salaries; the ODE Oregon daily _ _ emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday except during exam week and vacations by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co at the University ot Oregon Eugene OR 97403 The Emerald operates independently of the University with offices on the third floor of the Frb Memorial Union and is a member of the Associated Press New* and Editorial AM *511 Display Advertising and Business AAA 3712 Classified Advertising ASA 4343 Production AAA 4.1*1 Circulation AAA 5511 Editor Managing Editor Nows Editor Assistant News Editor Editorial Page Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Entertainment Editor Night Editor Associate Editors Higher E ducation Departments and Sc hoi Student Government Features Politics Politics'Education Rep General Staff Advertising Manager Classified Advertising Production Manager Controller w;th its inflated budget of $80,000 and mostly non student administration (which daily over-prints by 2,000 Emeralds and in which most stories are from the Associated Press wire and not student reporters) is again raising its fees for ads; and the mal managed Athletic Depart ment which was bailed-out last year by the IFC to the tune of $130,000 dollars, is re questing large increases to of fset similar losses next year. The budgets of The Big Three just seem to inflate and inflate while program budgets similar to ours diminish more and more. This funding practice is une qual and contrary to student needs We propose, therefore, a freeze in reductions to pro grams similar to ours, a 10-percent reduction in the budgets of The Big Three, and a general reconsideration of which programs are actually fulfilling student needs Anthony Sweet, Elizabeth Hallmah, Hftrty f ntnvn John M*Aly Manan Green Corf £ prnalri Joan Nyland Boh Dakar Mihr* ihplthyor Paul Darvm Jonathan Sintjln Mike Hlptinyar Sandy Johnston* t rank Shaw Hit'hard Huri Saan Meyer* Mit hpi* Malaga Ai*»t* /Ak Dalian* (lore Sally OljAf Victor *a Koch Joan Ownt>*»y i liter Robert Manning, Jim Garcia MECHa Bernelta Schadewald, Bonnie Petersen, DeAnn Brown Native American Student Union James Britt Black Student Union Dave Maeda, Patricia Akiyama, Glenda Ahn Asian American Student Union Fire Healy Why doesn't sports reporter John Healy change his at titude about Ducks basketball and stop demoralizing the team, the coach and the fans? In last Monday's Emerald, after Saturday's tremendously exciting game that was lost in the very last two minutes of play. Coach Haney was made to sound like a flustered emo tional wreck. "The result left Haney glum and shaken — seemingly on the verge of tears “ Damn It, the guy cares! That’s one of the most Impor tant qualities any human being can have — to care pas sionately about what he's do Ing! How much more ad mirable were Haney's tears than Washington coach Merv Harsh man's sour grapes romark after losing to the Ducks Monday night: “It look ed like Oregon wanted to win the game more than we did at the end." Does Harshman tor Healy) think feigned indifference is a more manly virtue than an honest admission that the Ducks played better ball than the Huskies that night? Why the complaint that the attendace at games is down ("a sparse crowd of 3,684' )? Con sidering the downbeat, dispar aging, almost contemptous tone of the coverage the games get in the Emerald, it's amazing that anybody shows up at all But 3,684 loyal fans did come to that Monday night game, despite the fact that Emerald sports "reporting” suggests they were fools to waste their time and money when they could probably have been better entertained by staying home watching television, going to a movie or playing video games Let's start giving credit where credit is due! The Ducks are being damned if they do and damned if they don't Monday's victory was made out to be some sort of freak of Fate Healy made it sound like the Ducks are almost willfully losing “This was a win that appeared head ed for the great basketball void tht Oregon seems to chuck all of its potential wins Into." Let's have more objective reporting of games — and if we must have "commentary,” let 's have it by someone who’s on our side Enough of this cynical, pseudo-sophisticated banter that is so nauseatingly common among local TV sportscasters with the blow-dry hairstyles Mary Ann Martin Eugene
