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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.
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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
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last year by the IFC to the tune
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fset similar losses next year.
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to ours diminish more and
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a freeze in reductions to pro
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a general reconsideration of
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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