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A minority
I was greatly relieved when I
read in this morning's paper
that Mary Hotchkiss had decid
ed to veto the funding that the
IFC gave to the Oregon Com
r— ===
mentator. Yes, Hotchkiss, I
agree with you: I don't think we
should fund a group that direct
ly benefits only one-third of the
student population. It is clearly
not in the interest of the general
student population to cater to
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such a minority. Instead, we
should give more money to Off
the Record and other such
papers that a whopping 10 per
cent of the people read.
I also agree with you in that
we shouldn't give any money to
anything that has "a particular
political viewpoint." This is an
institute of learning, we are here
to learn about calculus and
Chaucer, and not conservatives
(although we can learn about
Central America, as long as we
avoid the conservative aspect).
As you so aptly put it, "the
purpose of the Commentator is
to expound a conservative view
point on a liberal campus."
Goodness. If that's what they're
doing, then good riddance. The
University should strive to sup
press these wicked people that
make us choose what to think. It
only makes education
confusing.
Thank you, Hotchkiss, for
making the world safe for us.
Brian Moore
Watch in the clock
Well golly, can you believe
those Commie dogs having the
audacity to point more nukes at
us? Geez, and after all our il
lustrious leader has done to per
suade the Soviets to negotiate
arms control. I mean during
Pres. Ronald Reagan's tenure he
has tried to persuade them by
deploying six Trident subs with
their 2,448 warheads. He's tried
to persuade them with 572
cruise and Pershing II missiles.
He's tried to persuade them
with 210 MX warheads from
Hanford. Now he wants to per
suade them with another batch
of MX's.
It seems to me that our per
suasion methods only persuade
the further escalation of nuclear
weapons. It is time to analyze
our methods of establishing
trust necessary for successful
negotiations. Threatening the
lives of the people we wish to
reach agreements with is ab
surd. In order to establish any
substantial negotiations, we
must stop building and deploy
ing more and more
sophisticated weapons.
Reagan's "bargaining-chip"
diplomacy has obviously con
tinually failed. In spite of this
obvious failure we are constant
ly asked to repeat our mistakes.
When I run into a wall I
sometimes get up and run into
it again; but usually I try another
direction. It is time to try
another direction in arms
control.
As I contemplate the recent
increase in Soviet sub deploy
ment, I am forced to realize that
they can reach ME in 5-7
minutes. Given the 2-3 minutes
to verify a launch and contact
the president, I find that our il
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lustrious leader will have about
180 seconds to react with full
knowledge that he's going for
sure. This enforces my position
to develop another stance on
arms control — now.
Dave Zauner
Show of hands
How many of us here in
readerland believe in non
violence? Let's see a show of
hands. I certainly do. Non
violence is a very powerful tool
for getting rid of ugliness. I try
to use non-violence and
pacifism whenever I can when I
feel I'm being assaulted.
It really takes a lot of strength,
though, to step back and say,
"Hey, go ahead and hit me. I'm
not going to fight."
Now, another show of hands
— how many of us pacifists were
shocked and embarrassed by
Ross Wests's letter in the May 21
Emerald? Good letter. A little
hateful, though. I don't really
know what defacing of the
budget graph on 13th Street he
was so "incensed, nauseated,
disgusted, and epithet-hurling"
about, but it must have been
pretty severe.
Ross is the kind of person who
makes me afraid to be non
violent. If I'm a pacifist, and if I
have a moderate to conservative
viewpoint, what am I going to
do if he pops off and calls me a
brown shirt with a CIA-supplied
cattle prod, as he called the in
stigator of the previously men
tioned defacing?
Ross is the kind of dangerous
person that makes me feel that
all radicals should be put away,
particularly those of Ross's
camp — the left wing.
Rob Young
Bible lesson
The more through 10 years
I've come to know the Bible, the
greater my confidence has
become in its being factual and
trustworthy by God's sovereign
ty. Those who scoff at its claims
are pursuing a "subjective"
faith, too; that conditions are
not as it declares. Most of those
who taunt Christianity know the
least about it. Every movement
has hypocrites, that doesn't
measure the movement, only
that God doesn't program
believers like robots.
)esus Christ is the Bible's con
sistent theme compiled over
many centuries. In the Old
Testament He is the promised
Messiah, the need for shown
and trademarks abundantly pro
phesied (not general "predic
tions"). The living personal God
is revealed — far better than any
impersonal force or unprincipl
ed, indiscriminate benevolent
invented by man.
The Bible is starkly contrary to
all religious ideas of men. It's
not about your attempting to
impress God. His judgement for
your wrongs and failings has,
from his love, been applied to
his son, executed in your place.
If you trust in Jesus to be your
savior and Lord over your life,
God will acquit you. Any
"changes" needed will come if
the relationship is real.
Predominant in our day is the
manmade idol of himself. We
should have confidence in our
potential. But when we leave
our rightful Lord out, we
become like the flashlight that
has no maker to maintain its
batteries.
God is not just for the bye
and-bye. He wants the ideal
world too. But he won't for now
force his will. Problems,
whether between nations or in
dividuals, boil down to the
character of those involved,
regardless of the system they
work under. Cod's way: to
transform persons, from the in
side out, one step at a time, into
all they can rightfully be.
Robert Nordahl
At the bar
Recently the Communists
held a talent show on 13th
Street, the product of which is
an impressive, multi-colored bar
graph. Their graph portrays a
misleading, if not totally er
roneous, breakdown of the
federal budget.
At the Willamette World Af
fairs conference this past
weekend, the National Strategy
Information Center booth had
quite a different story. They
distributed a bar graph (in black
and white, not yellow and pur
ple) that was copied from a
packet of information that Sen.
Robert Packwood distributed at
his last speech in Springfield.
This analysis (by Ken
Wullschleger) of the 1983
budget shows that National
Defense accounts for only 26.5
percent of the budget, while
Human Resources accounts for
51.8 percent — almost twice that
of national defense. The rest of
the budget is equally divided
between net interest and all
others. To back these claims,
Wullschleger cites his sources
as the OMB, Budget of the U.S.
Government FY 1984, and OMB
Federal Government Finances,
1984 Budget Data, February
1983.
So you’re wrong you Com
munist worms. Now come back
and clean your offensive graffiti
off my street.
Rick Calliher
Don't look back
After attending this University
four years, I can look back on
the many things that have hap
pened to me, and reflect on
both the good and sad.
I'll remember my friends, my
two years as resident assistant,
and the Summer and Fall
weather Eugene is famous for.
Perhaps most though, I'll
remember the joy of becoming
an elementary education major.
You see, the teachers of educa
tion courses not only have the
concepts, but they have the
skills to teach those concepts;
most of the professors in the
education department have
been teachers before, so they
have been taught how to teach.
What a joy walking into my
classes, knowing that the lec
ture won't bore me to tears, but
that my professor will inject
vitality into the lesson. The ex
amples are endless.
In the beginning of my letter I
said I'd remember the good
things...and the sad things.
The University is known for its
learned professors, but that's
behind a desk or in a research
lab. When we get to the
classroom, we find professors
who can't teach concepts and
would opt to have their right
hand cut off rather than teach
introductory courses.
It seems to me that an institu
tion dedicated to higher educa
tion would do its best to
educate students in the best
way possible. Having professors
who can and like to teach is cer
tainly a step in the right
direction.
Dave Lund