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letters Not silenced For men who feel their power is in jeopardy because women are seeking equality and choices, rape is the cure-all defense. They throw rape words around like long-barreled shotguns and feel safe again, in conquerable, like a Clint Eastwood in the desert. On this campus, men are throwing childish pranks of obscene phone calls, threats, and bathroom pornographies on a woman because she refuses to be quiet; she has chosen to fight. Weil, we won’t take it. The threat of rape must not be used as your armor. This desert is for all of us and all of us must share our power; a power of equality and consideration. We are here to say that the silence is now broken. This woman is Laura Romano, and we are all strong with her. Rape is not an idle threat. Not in this society. It is not a viable option. It is an act of violence used to degrade women back to “their place” since the beginning of time. But * FRAMES & GALLERY 22 OAKWAY MALL POSTERS & PRINTS 40% OFF OFFER VALID WITH COUPON THRU 2-28-85 not this time. We. on this cam pus, as a community, must show our solidarity. Women must have a voice if they are to gain equality in this society. Our voice will not be silenced by anyone. Chris Gonzalez Co~director WRRS Impact Jim Simasko, Assistant Race Director at Willamette Pass, wrote to you recently saying that. “Skiing does not impact the environment as greatly as other economic activities." Now 1 love a good colloquialism as much as anyone, but the prevalence of the misuse of this word is beginning to have an impact on my ear. Whatever defenses can be mustered for this use of the verb (and there’s a polemic available for any occasion), it strikes (not impacts) my ear as dissonant, at the very least unpretty. 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Production: Kelly Comyn, Stormi Dykes, Julie Freeman, Kathy Gallagher, Dean Guernsey, Susan Hawkins, Rob Kraft, Ross Martin, Karin McKercher, Lauri Neely, Kelly Neff, Kara Oberst, Curt Penrod, Michele Ross, Alyson Simmons, Peg Solonika, Tim Swillinger, Colleen Tre maine, Hank Trotter. Production Manager Classified Advertising Controller Russell Steele Vince Adams Jean Ownbey 2 Editor Managing Editor News Editor Editorial Page Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Sidelines Editor Entertainment Editor Assistant Entertainment Editor Night Editor Michele Matassa Mike Sims Michael Kulaga Costas Christ Michael Clapp Brent De La Paz Sheila Landry Kim Carlson Mike Duncan Michele Matassa Associate Editors Administration Higher Education Politics ASUO Student Activities Community Features Jolayne Houtz Michael Hosmar Paul Ertelt Julie Shippen Oiana Elliott Cynthia Whitfield Lori Steinhauer Reporters: Sean Axmaker, Dave Berns, Robert Collias, Thomas Henderson, Allan Lazo, Capi Lynn, Scott McFetridge, Stasia Scarborough Naurs and Editorial 686-5511 Display Advertising and Business 666-3712 Classified Advertising 686-4343 Production 686-4381 Circulation 686-5511 it is rarely stressed on the se cond syllable: “imPACT," which my dictionary defines as '‘to force tightly together; pack; wedge.” Let us do none of these things to our environment — think of the impact it would have! Michael Powell Asian Studies Great concern The ousting of Mr. Harper from the Women’s Task Force should be of groat concern to us all. The problems of discrimina tion facing women and men are intertwined. The women’s movement can not accomplish its goals without taking into ac count the problems men face. Men, as well as women, are victims of violence based on sex. It is men the military drag from home to the horrors of war. The theatre has us fighting one another in countless bloody bat tles. while television kills us off in droves as victims of God knows how many bullets, knives, and bombs. The courts take our children from us because we are not mothers. Male criminals far outnumber females, driven to a life of violence on the outside of prison, and one of rape and more violence inside. This injustice does not end with violence. The discrimina tions we suffer are interwoven with women’s problems, up to and including exclusion and ex pulsion from university sanctioned groups. The Women's Task Force has discredited its members, and perpetrates the very evil it hoped to destroy. Scott Kllcott l.aw No right This is concerning alt letters to the editor by those men op posing abortion. Actually it concerns all men opposing abortion. First, abortion is not used as a primary source of birth control, but as a last resort. The decision whether or not to have an abor tion is a difficult decision for a woman to have to make. For the sake of a simplified argument, let’s take abortion only as a form of birth control. It is very rare that men use any type of birth control, if at all, therefore delegating all responsibility for birth control to the woman. If you have this attitude, and are delegating the responsibility to the woman, then you have ab solutely no right to tell her what type of birth control she can or can’t (as in this instance) use. In addition, if abortion is outlawed there are two conse * 4** * fr aaaaoooaaatrWBCJtaaooaoaaaL^ JJfo Mjjrpjutijri fa 'OoaaunnaoaaooooooutjoQoaatjti. Tonight try our FulhCourse Chinese Peking Dinner far only $395 9* p*r«on Smwm* Mon Thur. II p.m COCKTAILS 13th ft HUyantf • 3434*34 quences you should be aware of: 1) Abortion itself will not end. It will simply return to the "coat hanger/back room" status, resulting in many more deaths and injuries (many of them permanent), 2) If abortion is illegal, then the man who helped create said fetus (after all fella, it takes two to tango) should be considered an ac complice. One last note: If you take no responsibility for birth control — it is a mutual respon sibility — then you A) are show ing your immaturity, and B) have no right to enforce a patriarchal ideal on your sexual partner. Janis Sellers Eugene Let's forget it As a University student who likes to keep up on today's news in the world, I am fed up with seeing story after story on the starving nation of Ethiopia. I see a story on these people's plight almost every other day. and, quite frankly, am sick of hearing about it. We are all well aware of the situation and since nobody is really doing anything about it, let’s forget it. It's really quite annoying to wake up in a good mood and to see in the Emerald, or other news sources, pictures of starv ing resemblances of humans. I know that it is not my fault that they are what they eat (nothing), and therefore I don't like to hear about them. So let's live our lives and forget about the other part of the world. I mean who likes to be bummed out by a picture of an underprivileged dead person? Charles Knechtel Economics/Pre-I.aw Remember In the midst of all this hem ming and hawing about abor tion there are a couple of things that we need to remember. Number one. recall that saying: “If you want to dance, you must pay the fiddler." How much does it cost? Only about 18 years of your life, given with total devotion, plus thousands of dollars. Who is wilting to pay that price? Some are. Number two. we need not cast stones only at women who want an abortion. Whatever happens to all of the men who help start this sequence of events, with its huge price tag? There are many men to whom the word devotion has not become obsolete. Along with many women, they are willing to share the costs. Also, both share the rewards. Wo need to remember these things whenever we feel like fiddling around. prlvata opmn air hot tub David Goss Elementary Ed. 741-1777 741-1777 Remember heart Throb deadline February 11th. \ AMU ■ 41
