Dissonance
At the May 4, 1983 meeting
of the University Assembly a
motion on ROTC, proposed by
Cheyney Ryan of the
philsophy department, will be
debated and voted upon.
In brief, the Ryan motion is
based on the awareness that
1) ROTC faculty appointment
practices and 2) ROTC student
admission and scholarship
qualifications are at variance
with the University’s anti
discrimination policies.
Therefore, unless the military
science department agrees to
comply with widely publicized
University policies regarding
equal opportunity, it should be
“terminated” as structurally
incompatible with the
philosophic ambience of the
University.
As one who believes that
each department within our
campus community should
abide by this institution's
basic operational guidelines, I
intend to vote for the Ryan mo
tion. Unfortunately, however,
there are others here who sup
port the view (expressed at the
April 6 meeting of the
Assembly) that “a little in
congruity" is acceptable.
Thus, it will be interesting to
hear the full debate on this
issue.
Incidentally, in a Feb. 27 ar
ticle in the Eugene Register
Guard about a proposal to
establish an ROTC program at
Lane Community College
several statements from Lt.
fcol. Wolfgram, wbo directs
,the ROTC program at the
University, were featured pro
minently. Concerning the
military science department
here, Col. Wolfgram was
quoted as having said, “I play
by the campus rules.”
Clearly something is amiss.
The Ryan motion alleges that
the military science depart
ment’s practices represent a
violation of University policy
— but Col. Wolfgram says
“untrue.”
There is genuine disson
ance here Which side will the
Assembly support?
Ron Rousseve
professor, counseling
psychology
Undermining
Congratulations, Emerald,
on winning the election for
Mary Hotchkiss. It's nice to
know yellow journalism is
alive and strong at the Univer
sity. The Emerald, in abusing
their Constitutional right,
went beyond endorsing a loft
wing candidate to undermin
ing an election.
The Emerald felt it their duty
to tell the students of the
University that Dave Gibson is
a Greek, over and over again
In the process of making
Greek and Gibson synon
ymous, the Emerald's
theme appeared to be, "If
you’re not Greek vote for
Hotchkiss.’’
The Emerald, in praising
Hotchkiss' liberal ways, failed
to mention her real views. Our
new ASUO president is
nothing more than a warmed
over 60s protester who is sym
pathetic to the communist
cause
The Emerald chose to put in
their own views instead of the
1
overall picture making this last
election a brainwashed cam
paign for Hotchkiss.
Dan Goulet
Wood stove bill
There is currently a bill
before the House Environment
and Energy Committee of the
Oregon State Legislature con
cerning woodstoves. This bill
would require all new
woodstoves to be certified as
complying with emission per
formance standards according
to criteria and procedures
established by the Department
of Environmental Quality
(DEQ) after July 1, 1985.
Woodstove manufacturers
would pay individual testing
laboratories to do the actual
testing. Existing woodstoves
in residential homes would
not be affected.
This legislation is before the
house for the simple reason
that woodstoves have the
highest single impact on air
quality in the state of Oregon.
According to a November,
1982 study by the DEQ, a
typical airtight woodstove
emits 460 times as much par
ticulate matter as natural gas
and 260 times as much as oil
furnaces on an equivalent out
put basis.
Contribution of total
suspended particles (TSP) by
woodstoves amounts to 49
percent followed by road dust
at 20.5 percent. Industry com
poses 6 percent and autos 4
percent of TSP, according to
figures compiled by the Lane
Regional Air Pollution
Authority.
It has been further projected
by the DEQ that 3 percent of
households or 30,000 homes
per year will acquire a new
woodstove through the year
2000
While it is true that the pre
sent cost of the new clean
burning stoves would be
$300-$500 more than conven
tional stoves, there would be
substantial savings in
firewood costs Savings are
estimated to be $50-5100 per
year which would offset the
additional cost of new clean
burning stoves in two or three
years
Passage of this legislation
would bring a reduction of the
pollution levels in the state
and generate a healthier living
environment for all I urge you
to contact your legislator and
support this bill. For informa
tion on the status of this bill
(HB 2235) call toll free,
1-800-452-0290. For more
specific information on the
woodstove issued call the
DEQ, 229 6488,
Bonnie Stapleton
member, Survival Center
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Setting: A make-believe visit
to the Oval Office of the White
House. Pres. Ronald Reagan
has invited an Emerald cor
respondent to discuss the
nuclear arms race, foreign
policy, and anything else that
may wander into the
conversation.
President: So nice of you to
travel all the way from Eugene
to discuss the future of the
United States, the greatest na
tion on Earth, with the presi
dent. I’m always interested in
knowing what a young woman
like yourself has to say.
Young woman from the
Emerald: Well, Mr President,
that’s good to know because I
do have some opinions about
the course the nation is on.
President: Stay the course, I
always say, stay the course.
Young woman: Well, actual
ly, Mr President, I'd say we re
totally off course We still are
working under premises that
just don’t hold any more, if
they ever did
For instance, even Mr Kiss
inger admitted the other day
that we conduct our foreign
policy as though we still pro
duced more than half the
world’s GNP, just won a war
and could solve any problem
with enough arms sales and
food shipments.
The United States does not
have that kind of hegemony
any more. And our sales of
weaponary not to mention our
trade with certain nations,
undermine any moral hedge
we might have over the
Soviets and any other
’democratic" power
President: I understand your
concerns, young woman, But
for just that reason "t call
upon the scientific community
in our country, those who gave
us nuclear weapons, to turn
their great talents now to the
cause of mankind and world
peace: to give us the means of
rendering these nuclear
weapons impotent and
obsolete.”
Young woman: Mr. Presi
dent, you are talking about
your space defense system.
Not only are you violating the
spirit, if not the letter, of
treaties already made with the
Soviets, you are totally miss
ing the point: Any new
weaponry is escalation. Any
further deployment is escala
tion. Since both the United
States and the Soviet Union
can blow up the world, talk of
further nuclear arms — offen
sive or defensive — is
escalation.
President: You do not know
what you are saying Unless
we deploy our Pershings and
Cruise missiles in Europe, the
Soviets will have a superior
force. Unless we continue to
supply arms to such troubled
nations as El Salvador and
Israel, they will be overrun by
insulant froops backed by the
Soviet government. We need
the MX to show that we mean
business.
Did you know U N Am
bassador Kirkpatrick came
back from a recent trip to Cen
tral America and reported that
the Soviets are giving scholar
ships to young Central
American students to go study
in Moscow?
Young woman: Why should
a bright Nicaraguan student
give up the opportunity to
study Gogol in Moscow or
ballet in Leningrad?
President: Why, they could
get brainwashed.
Young woman: So why
aren’t we offering them educa
tion instead of weapons?
President: Well, as you
know Nancy and I feel strongly
about education and ballet. So
we’ve found a talented young
El Salvadoran ballerina and
we’re arranging for her to
study in New York.
Young Woman: Mr. Presi
dent, we were discussing the
nuclear arms race; we were
discussing how you insist that
the best defense is an offense,
that it is in U.S. interest to sup
port rightist regimes such as
the one in El Salvador —
because they call themselves
"elected” and call their op
position communists or
socialist. We were talking
about how you still conduct
foreign policy as if we were
the owners of half the world
markets and the purveyors of
all the greatest truths.
President: And I believe we
are. The United States is the
focus of all that is good and
free in this world and the
Soviet Union is "the focus of
evil in the modern world."
Young woman. Could you
actually tell me you'd rather
have your children live in a
world where we were depen
dent on other countries, where
we had to compromise with
our enemies — where we
would not fight for our way of
life?
Young woman: Yes, I would.
There is no other choice. The
idea of the self-sufficient little
nation just doesn’t hold. We
need those markets, we need
their products, we share the
same air. If our ideals are not
adopted by other governments
who freely elect their
representatives, so be it.
What do our ideals of
freedom and justice mean, if
they are forced on a govern
ment with U.S. troops and CIA
directives? What good is the
greatest arsenal on earth, if in
building it we lose what we
wanted to protect with it,
namely a healthy economy
and the respect of other
nations?
President: I don’t under
stand.
Young woman: I know, Mr.
President.