II letters
Cover baseball
The University club baseball
team lost a tough 11-8 deci
sion to rival OSU on Wednes
day, May 4. A conservative
estimate put the crowd at ap
proximately 250 who stayed
the entire game with others
periodically catching the
action.
The Eugene Register
Guard's sports section on
Thursday, May 5, had a front
page color photo, and a fairly
long story detailing the game
and the future of Oregon
baseball. A linescore also ac
companied the story and
photo.
The University school
newspaper, the Emerald, on
Thursday, May 5, never ran a
story about the game, and
didn't run a photo or even a
simple linescore. To the
Emerald's sports staff, the
game didn’t exist.
What did the staff think was
considered newsworthy for
the Thursday, May 5 edition?
The University community
found a story detailing the Los
Angeles Lakers’ attempt to
capture the NBA crown for a
second consecutive year.
Maybe there are more Laker
fans on campus than Duck
baseball aficionados, but the
University’s newspaper is
distributed in Eugene — not
West Los Angeles.
How many fans must attend
a Duck baseball game, and
who must they play (pre
sumably a game with OSU
is a big event), before the
school newspaper will divert
its precious column inches
away from Kareem Abdui
Jabbar?
Ted Kapnick
graduate, journalism
Individuals
I am responding to the letter
by Neill McAuliffe on May 10
who was “surprised at the
stance” of Dean Derrick Bell,
“as a black man.” Your sur
prise shows youf ignorance of
black people as individuals.
I do not know how Dean Boll
voted on the ROTC issue, I do
know he has every right to vote
the way he pleased and his
color should not have been
pointed out as having anytlvng
to do with his choice.
Furthermore, there is no
way you can equate homosex
uality discrimination with
racial or sexual discrimina
tion. Show me a homosexual
who has to let a potential
employer or landlord know his
or her sexual preference.
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Blacks and/or females, are
visual qualifications for
discriminatory practices; but
there is nothing that sets a
homosexual apart, from any
other man or woman. You
can't “see” a sexual prefer
ence.
Will you also tell me, why is
it when some white people see
a successful black person
they expect that one black per
son to represent the thinking
of the whole black race? Why
do you look at blacks and ex
pect us to conform to your
pseudo-liberal ideas of
blackness? Black people
come in many colors, from
many backgrounds and we
have just as many back
grounds and we have just as
many mores that govern our
“personal" lives.
A person who would rubber
stamp any race or culture will
continue to have problems
understanding the rights of
individuals.
Johnnie Parks
senior
Who decides
After four years here at the
University, I have finally found
myself compelled to write a
letter to the editor.
The issue I address is the
matter of ROTC compliance
(or lack thereof) to University
discrimination policy.
Many people have tried to
make this recently publicized
debate into a “fag scare" by
telling us that for some
reason, gay men and women
are less capable of fitting into
society and yet, they want
equal control. Although I feel
that this notion is erroneous, it
is also not the issue. The real
issue is whether we as a stu
dent body want to be
manipulated by the ROTC, or
whether we want to make our
own decisions.
In refusing to comply with
University policy, the ROTC is
enforcing their standards on
us. It is taking the values we
hold and making a mockery of
them. By purposefully
disregarding University policy,
the ROTC is putting its
authority over that of the
University.
Fifty years ago in Nazi Ger
many, Hitler began to decide
what was right and wrong tor
society. Furthermore, he set
the limits of society’s freedom
and eventually, he monopoliz
ed that freedom until he was
able to take it away. The result;
the loss of millions of lives.
Part of belonging to a free
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society is the freedom to make
our own decisions without let
ting others impose on us their
own personal interpretation of
how we should live and who
we should live with. The
University’s antidiscrim
ination policy exists for this
very reason.
Certainly, sexuality should
not be the issue at hand. What
we must decide is who it is we
would like to make decisions
concerning our lives, the
ROTC or we the people.
Tom Edwards
international studies
Fairy tale
Once upon a time two great
assemblies met in different
locations in a great land. One
assembly, by its action on an r
important moral question,
brought honor to itself. The
other also faced with a moral
question of significance,
however, brought shame by its
performance. The first dealt
with the immorality of nuclear
war and minced no words in
its resolution of condemna
tion. The second dealt with the
immorality of arbitrary
discrimination against
members of a minority group.
In this second assembly a mo
tion was made to postpone
consideraton of the resolution
indefinitely. And that’s exactly
what they did; they postponed
indefinitely the right of the
minority. Now the first
assembly’s action, of course,
didn’t stop the threat of
nuclear war and the second
assembly’s didn’t destroy the
minority, but just as in any
good fairy tale, there’s a moral
here someplace.
Dominick Votri
professor, law
Conduct
At first I was appalled to
learn of the amputation ex
periments conducted on some
two dozen animals at the 1
university. I felt much better,
however, when psychology
professor/researcher Marvin
Gordon-Lickey pointed out
that the ‘‘very respected”
Science Magazine published
the results. That certainly
made all the difference in the
world for me.
After all, when it comes to
studying the urgently, crucial
ly significant whisker and face
cleaning behavior of mice,
what better method than chop
ping off their feet?
Peter Deshpande
senior, psychology
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