Soviets appear to be content
Historian says they can’t hope for any more
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Russian citizens fee! as free in the Soviet
Union as American citizens do in the United
States, a University Russian historian said
Thursday.
“Real freedom is often misunderstood —
heroes are those who struggle against necessi
ty, and Soviet propaganda reminds their peo
ple, subtly, that it's the same in the U.S. as it is
in Russia," Honors College director Alan Kim
ball said.
Speaking to a group of 30 as part of
Ground Zero Week.sponsored by Students for a
Nuclear Free Future, Kimball said that the
Soviet government’s message to its people is
to not try to affirm their rights.
"It’s to say that Russians cannot hope for
anything more than they have,” he said. “It’s to
reinforce timidness in them."
Soviet propaganda targets dissent in the
U.S., but the dissent is not intended to put the
U.S. in a bad light, Kimball said.
Noting several Soviet publications that
focused on black riots in the U.S. during the
1960s, Kimball said that their purpose was to
show Russian citizens that human rights are
oppressed everywhere in the world.
Kimball said that although Soviet pro
paganda can be humorous to us in its exaggera
tion, its effect is serious.
“The Russian citizens on the whole tend to
be quite content; people tend to be at home in
their environment. But societies in which peo
ple are content can often be the most
disordered,” he said.
Problems arise when the individualist
discovers that he is not in accord with the
power. Most will not express themselves, and
those that do are silenced. The result is
loneliness, Kimball said.
Our history misleads us into believing that
the struggle for freedom is a natural process,
according to Kimball. Soviet development was
quite different from that of the U.S., and the
relationship between society and state dictates
what freedom is.
"Whereas in the West society grew strong
before the state, in Russia the society was
formed by and for the state,” he said.
Kimball said that this order of develop
ment made for a very different concept of law.
“While we say ‘it’s not against the law, so we
may do it,’ they say, ‘the law does not
specifically permit this, so we had better not,’ ”
he said.
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Money also is an issue, Der
ringer says.
"If we had beaucoup bucks,
it would help" the lobby make
campaign contributions to
candidates who support
education, she says.
Student apathy also hinders
the lobby’s efforts.
Bounds says the OSL tries
to fire students up with ads in
the Oregon Daily Emerald and
a "tremendous push" for
letter-writing and phone
calling, but she throws up her
hands whn trying to figure out
why students are so passive.
"I would assume with
students being in a learning
setting, they would be more in
volved than any other popula
tion group. I don’t know if it’s
because they have too much
studying to do or if they have
too many other things to do.”
Whatever the reason, the
lobby doesn’t satisfy Rep. Ted
Calouri, R-Beaverton.
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In one instance the lob
byists “didn’t even understand
the bills being presented —
they just had general con
cerns,” he says.
Calouri also says the lobby
doesn't address the most
significant issues.
He says the issues they do
take up, such as incidental
fees and truth in testing, are
“OK.”
“All I’m saying is in the
broader scheme of things, it is
really a make or break issue,"
Calouri says.
The “general scope” is
more important than narrow
issues, he says.
The lobbyists give several
reasons for not pushing hard
and fast for more funds and
fewer cuts.
They say “bombarding"
legislators with pleas for help
and support sometimes ir
ritates some legislators.
Rep. Annette Farmer, D
Portland agrees.
Farmer says talking to
legislators every day wouldn’t
make a big difference because
the state only has “so much
money.”
Legislators know the prob
lems, and crying won’T help,
she says.
But Farmer says the lobby is
“very effective” on educa
tional interests in Salem.
"I don’t see how they could
do any better than they’re
already doing," says Farmer,
head of the House Education
Committee.
"Students are in a real gray
area because some legislators
— Carl Hosticka, Margie Hen
driksen, Mary Burrows — real
ly like that a lot,” says Debi
Lance, ASUO vice-president
for state and university affairs.
The OSL also considers
time in deciding where to fun
nel its energy.
The smaller issues and bills
the OSL deals with are usually
over before the final decisions
on the budget issues, says
Lance, who serves as one of
seven students on the lobby’s
board of directors.
“At least in this session it’s
not a problem of having a main
issue pass us by," Lance says.
The lobby should have “put
pressure on the legislators as
far as the budgets and the
revenue package,” sooner,
she says.
"It may be too late. It might
have been OK a month ago or
at the beginning of the ses
sion," she says.
She says students still have
a chance to voice their con
cerns “because the issue's
not over.”
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