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Mozart and money
Eugene’s major provider of classical music needs our
help.
KWAX, the University radio station, is in the middle
of its March fundraiser, “Our Rite of Spring.” The station
needs another $13,000 in funds to quit pestering its au
dience with solicitations.
Fundraising efforts have increased in the last few
years, as the radio station tries to become independent of
state funding.
A year ago, KWAX was given four years to become
completely independent of state financing.
If they cannot maintain a certain level of funding,
KWAX will lose its ability to obtain federal aid and na
tional programming. The station must maintain a $115,000
budget and five full-time staff to qualify for federal aid.
This year, KWAX received $82,000 of its $180,000
budget from the state. Next year they will receive approx
imately $50,000. In I984-85 the state will fund them approx
imately $25,000.
The funding difference must be made up with private
donations and underwriting — non-commercial an
nouncements of program sponsorship.
Without a minimum of $115,000 budget and five full
time staff the station would lose federal funding and Na
tional Public Radio.
KWAX at 91.1 FM supplies Eugene with an alternative
to the rock 'n' roll stations. “Matinee Performance,” “Pot
pourri” and other jazz and classical shows are produced
locally. KWAX’s public affairs programming addresses
issues that effect the University, Eugene and the state.
University students make up most of KWAX’s staff.
The station has six full-time employees and between 50
and 60 student volunteers. The University’s radio station
gives professional training in broadcasting, journalism,
promotions and fundraising.
Nation programming with such programs as “All
Things Considered” and the New York Philharmonic
make KWAX well worth preserving.
It is regretful that the University has slated KWAX as
a program to be cut. Let’s hope they reconsider their deci
sion when times are better.
Meanwhile or perhaps, best of all, let’s help KWAX go
independent and stay in the business of supplying us
classical music and pledge some support.
Holy spirits
Sine© the Emerald has given
so much free advertising to
our main competition,
(Maranatha Ministries), we of
McNaughton Ministries feel
we should get equal time.
it may seem strange that
those of us in the religion
business are so competitive,
but, God Knows, It's a tight
economy, and free souls are
getting scarce.
McNaughton Ministries and
Maranatha Ministries have
similar goals, but differ in the
method. Maranatha Ministries
demands that its clients un
questionably and en
thusiastically accept any
nonsense they are told. We at
McNaughton’s Ministries,
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however, believe that the only
thing that should be unques
tionably accepted is another
drink, thank you.
We are dedicated to the wor
ship of holy spirits. Jack
Daniels is our patron saint.
Baptisms are held regularly in
a bathtub of whiskey. In such
circumstances, talking in
tongues come naturally.
Both of our organizations
have the same sacred goal:
paralysis of the mind. After all,
if the good Lord had wanted
you to think for yourself, he
wouldn't have created fun
damentalist religion, would
he?
We'll drink to that at
McNaughton Ministries.
Mark Maffatt
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|| letters
One viewpoint
I read with dismay John Bar
ton’s March 3 letter to the
editor.
As director of the Jewish
Student Union, I would like to
say that John Barton is a non
Jewish member of the Jewish
Student Union who — entirely
on his own initiative and
without any other JSU
member’s knowledge — ex
pressed his own personal o
pinior, about the current
display case in the EMU. Bar
ton had no right to indicate
that he represented the
Jewish Student Union and his
comments reflect his in
dividual viewpoint atone, and
not that of the Jewish Student
Union.
This does not imply that the
Jewish Student Union con
dones what the Muslim
Students Assocation asserts.
A. Emmett Adler
director,
Jewleh Student Union
Mockery
“Merde, Diz Iz not zee
Zeine,” your title of the recent
Associated Press article con
cerning Jacques Cousteau,
was appallingly insensitive.
This oceanographer has con
tributed invaluable research to
our knowledge of the earth's
waterlife and ecosystems. He
has done this not without cost
and risk to himself and his
crew members.
So that we, the great un
washed, can benefit from this
research, Cousteau, a
Frenchman, communicates to
us In English. He deserves our
respect and admiration. The
Emerald thanks him with
mockery and profanity, doing
a B movie imitation of his ac
cent and putting non-existent
words in his mouth. Shall your
copy-editor be fed to the
sharks at Le Centre de la Met
et des Ealix? Oui.
Alice Boso
graduate
Expression
I accidentally attempted to
express the following opinion
last week at an assembly in
150 Geology, unaware that on
ly delegates were free to ex
press their thoughts there.
Since the topic of discussion
was about whether to change
over to a semester system, I
felt I had some valuble in
sights to offer, but I was
silenced for lack of creden
tials. What I had to say I will
say in this letter.
Having attended the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh in Penn
sylvania which operates 15
week courses, I would like to
express two important ideas
which relate to the semester
system debate:
1) Fifteen week courses are
tedious. While I have not had
the misfortune to have any
boring or inept instruction
here at the University, I have
endured 15 week courses
which were nothing short of
unbearable. The thought of
having to spend five more
weeks in a class which is
already at the frontiers of my
tolerance would be frightening
indeed.
2) Many of the faculty
members who spoke in favor
of the semester system said
that the major reason for such
a change would be that it
would permit more in-depth
study. Well, I have nothing but
respect for the faculty here at
the University, but I certainly
do not expect them to force
feed me more in-depth infor
mation, nor do I believe that
adding five more weeks of
classes to any given course
will necessarily increase how
much students leam.
It is up to me how much i
learn in class. There will
always be students who will
get everything they can out of
every class, and there will
always be students who will
slip by with the bare minimum.
This is the case with both 10
and 15 week courses.
I’ve engaged in more in
depth study here at the Univer
sity in 10 week courses than
I did at the University of
Pittsburgh in 15 week courses.
The amount of depth attained
in a class is not a function of
the length of the class. It is a
funtion of the structure of the
class and the attitude of the
students and the instructor.
This seems sepecially true of
cluster courses, where
students spend a full 30 weeks
studying in the cluster, and it
realy doesn’t matter whether it
is broken into two or three
sub-units. t
I find the quarter system to
be an asset to the University.
To switch to a semester
system just because other ma
jor institutions use semester
systems seems foolish. As a
past victim of the drudgery of
semester education, I feei I
must express how lucky we
are not to be operating under
that system. It would be a loss
to the Unviersity if we gave up
our quarter system. It would
be a change for the worse. I’m
glad to say that I will have
graduated before such a
change can be instituted, and
for once, I will be grateful that
bureaucratic red tape has
prevented the University from
making a rapid transition. I will
be saddened, however, if the
change occurs in the face of
overwhelming student
opposition.
Roy Creek
senior, science
secondary education
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