opinion
IFC did a good job
at difficult task
The Emerald would like to take this opportunity to com
mend the overall good work done this year by the Incidental
Fee Committee. The IFC has done a thorough job with its
unenviable task of allocating the students' fees.
The IFC has worked long and hard to achieve an
equitable budget for next year. Achieving an equitable
budget and satsifying a majority of the myriad of special in
terest groups is an extremely difficult undertaking. The IFC,
on almost all accounts, satisfied the groups' and the
students' wishes.
This year the IFC was faced with a serious challenge to
holding down incidental fees from the athletic department's
$850,000 budget request. The IFC did not roll over and rub
ber stamp the athletic department's exorbitant request.
More than a few committees in the past have bowed down to
the University's athletic department. The IFC pared the
athletic department's request by $120,000, which doesn't
raise fees inordinately nor substantially affect the athletic
department for next year.
The only blight on the IFC's character was its funding of
the Oregon Commentator inspite of IFC guidelines and that
publication's ballot measure suffering an overwhelming
defeat in the election. We criticized the IFC for this action in
the same manner we would have criticized the IFC had they
ignored the students' wishes and not allocated incidental
fees to the marching band or the United States Student
Association.
But, overall, the IFC, under chair Julie Davis, has done an
exemplary job. This bodes well for students and next year's
ASUO. (Davis was wise enough to name fellow IFC member
Marc Spence as her vice president.) If next year's ASUO
under Davis' leadership functions as well as this year's IFC
the students will have an ASUO government that is represen
tative and responsive to their wishes.
bipartisan House
votes sound policy
The House of Representatives has taken a significant
pause in what might have become a mad dash into the gap
ing maw of all-devouring war.
The House, with bipartisan support, voted 341-64
Wednesday to prevent U.S. troops from being sent "in
to. . .El Salvador or Nicaragua for combat." The only accep
table criteria is if embassy personnel or other American
citizens were in peril sufficient to warrant rescue.
The bipartisan measure withholds funds in 1985 for U.S.
military forces "for the purpose of delivering weapons fire
upon the enemy."
The measure clarified the acceptable exceptions as a
declaration of war by Congress or specific legislation that
authorizes combat activity; or actions by the president
necessary "to meet a clear and present danger of hostile at
tack upon the United States," to "meet a clear an present
danger.. .to the United States Embassy," or to "meet clear
and present danger to United States government personnel
or United States citizens."
Rather than scotch the Reagan administration's efforts to
militarily aid El Salvador and Central America, the measure
defines the perimeters of how U.S. military may be used in
Central America. Such perimeters will silence fears of an
escalating U.S. military presence in Central America and the
possibility of increasing U.S. involvement. The measure does
not usurp Pres. Ronald Reagan's powers, but does guide his
hand with a sound policy in Central America. And Central
America is a troubled area that would greatly benefit from a
sound policy.
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Typical
I am very disappointed to hear
that "Oliver" has lost his place
in the Emerald. While "Oliver"
may be a little hardline on drink
ing and scamming on girls, it
seems to me he (Oliver) typifies
many University students. Is
reality too harsh?
"Versatile Cow" doesn't even
compare to "Oliver." Send it to
Moo U-Corvallis.
Ray Byzewski
physical education
Seriously wrong
There is something seriously
wrong here on campus. A
minority organization is being
economically discriminated
against by our government. One
bureaucrat's veto has negated
the votes of 800 students; and
other students are applauding
this action. I'm talking about the
veto of IFC funds for the Com
mentator by ASUO Pres. Mary
Hotchkiss. And frankly, I am
appalled.
In open campus elections,
over 30 percent of participating
University students voted to
support the Commentator with
$10,000 of their own money.
How many other student
organizations can boast the
same degree of support? And
yet, these organizations receive
funding from the IFC without
challenge from our illustrious
(ex)president.
Hotchkiss said that the IFC
funding of the Commentator
was "extraordinary." Well, the
Commentator is an extraor
dinary publication. In a mere
seven months the Commentator
has gone from nonexistence to
the second most widely read
campus paper. The Commen
tator has well written articles,
thoughtful editorials, and
humorous, biting satire. For
sheer journalistic merit I believe
the Commentator should
receive IFC funding.
However, the Commentator
caters to a minority group on
this campus; and, unfortunate
ly, not one of the more chic
minorities. I guess if you are an
unpopular group with the cur
rent administration then your
vote is worthless. At least that is
what Hotchkiss seems to be say
ing by her veto of the Commen
tator's IFC funding.
This close-minded,
hypocritical action by our stu
dent government is a sad reflec
tion on the current state of af
fairs at our University. Free
speech has been compromised
by those who claim to cham
pion it most. It is a tragedy that
the students of the University
continue to tolerate, even sup
port such a student
government.
Ronald Harper
Xenophile
If campus philistine Dan
Goulet really is a political
science major he should note:
U.S. citizens consume ten times
as great an amount of natural
resources in their lifetimes as
people do in most of the rest of
the world. A U.S. growth of 2
million people (typical for a
given year) is equivalent to a
growth of 20 million in a Third
World nation. In terms of
depleting the already scarce
resources of this planet, the U.S.
is just as, if not more to blame in
increasing its consumption by
increasing its population.
Goulet, in his typical
xenophobic manner, sees other
nations as objects whose
statistics must always be com
peted against, even in areas that
have clearly reached levels of
concern that ought to transcend
pitty and archaic nationalism.
Even small amounts of U.S.
population growth can and will
have devastating effects on the
world. Since we and other
Western nations are in a better
position to control our popula
tion growth, a zero rate for us
should be given renewed
emphasis.
The horror stories we heard in
the early 1970s about the
population explosion are close
to becoming reality. Soon this
issue will prove to be the
primary ecological, economic
and political concern of the
world. The friction between the
U.S. and the Soviet Union will
seem foolish in comparison.
Land area for agricultural use
declines while population in
creases geometrically. This time
bomb will prove just as
devastating in its detonation as
a nuclear holocaust — and there
is less political and social will in
this country behind finding a
solution than there is behind
finding a solution to the arms
race problem. Because of this, I
thank Goulet for bringing up
the subject.
Rolf Erik Sjogren
history
Rock on
I sat down to breakfast this
morning, on one side was
cafeteria food for consumption,
on the other the Emerald for
entertainment. And I was enter
tained, but I was also
concerned.
Although the article presen
ting the Maranatha views on
modern music provided an
endless source of amusement
for my tablemates and myself, I
couldn't help noticing that it left
a distinctly foul aftertaste, an
aftertaste far surpassing that left
by the food.
As an amateur musician I
spend a good deal of time listen
ing to modern music so that I
might be able to play it better. I
have listened to some of these
songs played backwards and the
only things I heard were a rever
sal of the melody line and some
intensely garbled lyrics. This
was entertaining but hardly fill
ed with mystic messages.
Maybe I just don't have what it
takes. Maybe my brain doesn't
function properly in reverse.
You see, the human mind is
an amazing thing, when con
fronted with confusing or con
flicting facts and impulses it will
attempt to assemble them into a
more familiar and sensical
framework. In this way, garbled,
reversed lyrics are reassembled
and later read so that they ap
pear to make some sense to the
listener. What is produced is
determined by the mental pro
cesses and subconscious of the
hearer.
To you Mark Hayter, and to all
of your ilk, I suggest that the
next time you hear reversed
lyrics order you to "start to
smoke marijuana," you should
examine your own thoughts and
subconscious before you go off
on some lyrical witch hunt or
melodic crusade.
And so I close, still chuckling,
"Long live rock, I need it every
night."
Douglas Michel