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Denizens
It is appropriate that the
denizens of Oregon Hall celebrate
(i.e., "Oregon Hall makes 10th bir
thday," Emerald, Nov. 28). Those
of us who predate Oregon Hall
remember, without fondness, the
general environmental squalor of
the Emerald Hall days. It is impor
tant to realize, however, that
Emerald is still fully occupied. The
entire first floor is occupied by ar
chitecture design studios. These
studios are a step up from the
"South Bronx" studios on Colum
bia Street which we were able to
vacate with the occupation of
Condon School.
All is not really very well with
Emerald. It leaks — both water
and air. It is also something of a
biological time bomb. Those
clever imitation shingles and the
pipe insulation are asbestos and
require very precise demolition —
if the time ever comes. Each
shingle will have to be approach
ed gingerly by a "Star Wars"
suited demolition worker (to
avoid contamination) and placed
in a plastic bag. The bag will then
be sealed and removed to a
special land fill for environmental
ly hazardous material. Meanwhile,
students average 30 hours a week
at their desks — perhaps ingesting
more than air with each lung full.
That the former occupants of
Emerald Hall now have a level of
environmental accommodation
I that is appropriate, perhaps even
amenable, is a cause for celebra
tion. That the current occupants
of Emerald Hall have a level of ac
commodation that is benign, at
best, is a cause for concern.
Michael Utsey
assoc, prof, architecture
Slave bus
This is regarding the article in
the Emerald Nov. 29 on the Green
Tortoise. I feel that your readers
should know what to expect if
they choose to ride the Tortoise.
When I returned from San Fran
cisco on the Tortoise this
September, they crammed in
many more passengers than the
bus could hold. This was in spite
of knowing that they had even
more people to pick up in
Berkeley. The trip to Eugene was a
hell-ride. There wasn't room to sit
or lay, it was like being in some
kind of medieval torture device.
When I asked the driver to give up
some space in her oversized berth
to allow the passengers some
relief from the slaveship-like con
ditions, she explained that the
drivers didn't want to catch body
lice from one of the passengers as
had happened in the past.
If you want to sacrifice comfort
and personal hygiene for
monetary savings I guess the
Green Tortoise is the ride for you.
Bruce Alter
senior, biology
Equalizer
Like many others I watched The
Day After, the nationally televised
discussion following the film, and
the local panel discussion in
which Paul Olum, Aaron Novick
and others participated.
Television, that great equalizer
of all things great and small, great
ly diminished the value and im
pact of the film through the first
half, but, to their credit, not dur
ing the second, by periodic inter
ruptions for non-reiated advertis
ing. The constant year in, year out
juxtaposition of highly significant
or emotional material with trivial,
often tasteless or even revolting
advertising, announced with even
more volume and enthusiasm,
leaves us all jaded and unlikely to
react appropriately to anything.
This is why our local public sta
tions are so much better and
should be well supported at the
grassroots level — both radio and
TV.
Of the two panel discussions,
the local one was clearly superior
to the nationally televised one.
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though both were well worth
listening to.
One further thought: There is
no point in military buildup if
one's military are clearly going to
lose in any engagement in which
they are likely to be involved.
Thus any countries depending
upon this will always try to match
or exceed the build up of their
perceived opponents. In a highly
technological world this will in
evitably lead to the production of
weapons of wholly unacceptable
destructive power as we see
today.
Humanity will always be the
loser if we focus our attention on
ly on limiting and controlling
arms, or specific categories of
weapons. Our technology has
rendered the military approach to
dealing with human problems ob
solete and dangerous to all life. If
we are to survive we must aban
don all hope of achieving security
through a military approach. We
must, rather, concentrate on try
ing to understand and correct the
gross injustices and inequities of
present arrangements for concen
tration, use and distribution of the
world's resources — ar
rangements which have resulted
in the impoverishment and
degradation of more than half of
humanity, and total insecurity for
all.
Bayard McConnaughey
biology
Stage for war
Although the possibility of a
nuclear war starting in Europe is a
real one, the tense situation in the
Middle East today makes it a more
likely candidate as a first stage
"theatre" for such a catastrophic
confrontation. There are four
main factors operating together
that may produce such an
unspeakable calamity:
The U.S. Naval armada stationed
in the Eastern Mediteranean pos
ed to attack any local threat to the
strategic and economic interests
of the U.S and western-based
multinationals;
Israel, a close ally of the U.S.
government, continues to occupy
more Arab land in South Lebanon,
build settlements and depopulate
the West Bank and Gaza in
Palestine;
The increasing threat to Syrian
security and its growing alliance
with the Soviet Union.
The ongoing intra-Palestinian
conflict between what is
characterized in the West as
"moderate” and "radical"
elements of the PLO and the im
pact of this conflict on the nature
and future of the Palestinian
revolution and consequently
other Arab Liberation movements.
The possibility of open U.S. in
tervention in that area increases
as local political movements
become more militant and
organized and as more Arab
governments for reasons either of
security or ideology ally
themselves with the Eastern
block.
This main conflict between the
interests of western big business,
which does not usually coincide
with the interests of the average
American person, and the in
terests of Arab people is the main
destabilizing and dangerous
feature of the tension of the area.
Ignoring the rights of the
Palestinian people for so many
years has produced as a conse
quence, an increasing militancy of
the Palestinian political move
ment. This in turn, is matched by
an interventionist and militaristic
U.S. policy in the area. With the
presence of the Soviet Union in
the area as an ally to the Palesti
nian and other Arab nationalist
movements, the possibility of a
military confrontation between
the two giants is much more real.
Unless the American people
distinguish between what is good
for America and what is good for
Exxon and mobilize to restrain an
adventurous and dangerous U.S.
foreign policy in the Middle East,
this place which is called in the
history books the cradle of human
civilization may become the
grave of all human civilization.
Saddeh Khalil
organization of Arab Students
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