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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
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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. When 1
hear it street spoken, as a verb,
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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
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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.
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