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opinion_ Emerald needs your support to offer services to readers As a voting student of this university, you have the power to go to the ASUO polls this week and cut off student support of the Oregon Daily Emerald. But before you do it, think about the consequences. Many people think the Emerald doesn’t really need the incidental fee support that you give us. But the $82,000 in subscriptions that we received this year — and the $87,740 we’re asking you to approve for next year — enables us to run larger papers with the features you see every day. •Et als, which are used to announce up coming student meetings, interviews and lec tures, could suffer as well. When we have to run more advertising and less copy because the papers are smaller and ads make money, these free announcements are easier to cut than are stories about President Paul Olum’s news conferences and administrative deci sions that affect students. •Most importantly, we would have to cut staff. This could result in less thorough coverage of the campus, including news If we lose that money, which subsidizes our printing costs, we'll have to make up for lost revenue by running more advertising and less news, art and other features. Although we would try to From the editor’s desk —Michele Matassa events, editorials, teatures and entertainment information. Some of these gestures may sound ex treme, but any or all of them could result if our budget suffers a great loss. minimize the effect of these cuts on the quality of service we offer our readers, reductions could result in some of the following losses: •Cartoons, which are very expensive to subscribe to, would be cut fairly early in the process. DoOnesbury and Bloom County each cost about $10 a week and take up space that could be occupied by important breaking news. •Photographs also cost a lot to produce, financially and in terms of news space. When space gets tight — which it would if we cut pages to reduce printing costs — we can gain room by dropping photos here and there. The amount students contribute to our revenue totals roughly 15 percent to 17 percent of our budget. Keep in mind that the Emerald is com pletely independent from the University, unlike many college newspapers, including the Oregon State University Barometer. This means that administrators can’t tell us what to write and what not to write, but it also means that we raise all revenue needed to pay our rent, buy our equipment, and hire our staff members. The University supplies none of this for us, making your $1.99 per term even more important to the Emerald. letters Another war? A generation of Americans has grown out of the 1970's, young men and women un touched by the Vietnam War. In the background of our American society, there is a powerful cement that binds these people to materialistic ideals. People my age wen; un touched by the problems that faced the world twenty years ago. It seems to us, even the Se cond World War is only as im portant as the ancient faded black and white movie-tone pic tures we now see on it. What You're Needed All Over the World. Ask Peoce Corps volunteers why their ingenuity ond flexibility ore os vitol os their degrees They'll tell you they ore helping the world's poorest peoples otrom self sufficiency in the areas of food production, energy conservation, educorion, economic develop ment ond health services And they'll tell you about the rewords of honds on career experience overseas They'll tell you it's the toughest job you'll ever love PEACE CORPS Call Marsha Swartz NOW for placements beginning in the next 3-6 months. 686-3235 LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS . . . dominates the minds of young Republicans today, and what elected Ronald Reagan to office, is the selfish desires of our capitalistic economy. We were lucky to be invited into this century to experience an incredible industrial, cultural, and spiritual growth, to confirm that our race would survive. Yet today there is a trend against this. It is signifi cant that Ronald Reagan will be visiting soon the cemetery where Nazi soldiers lie buried on the eve of the fortieth an niversary of the liberation of Europe. I know I am alone in my anxieties over the current ad ministration, or perhaps our own society. But I am watching America being sucked into the vortex of an almost un precedented series of crises. I believe American society reflects an attitude that will cer tainly reveal itself soon, perhaps with another great war. 1 suspect the rumor about the United States supporting unethical standards has always been true, but when our presi dent visits the Nazi cemetery in May. the verdict will be guilty. Jeff Salazar Theater Arts Mon. April 22 Tues.April 23 Weds. April 24 Thurs. April 25 CAREER WEEK! APRIL 22-25 EMU DAD'S ROOM Daily Sessions: 12:30-2:00 p.m. Internships-Experience is the Key to Your Future Interview Skills-Yours for the Asking Job Search-Strategies and Survival Tips International Career Opportunities | iSiSj A lanning^& lacement ervice Ext. x3235 having a garage sale? Get the word out with an ODE classified [ Paee 3 «/<•* f OPEN 7 DAYS TIL 3 AM Late Nite 4 E" CO oc Omelettes 4)a.AJ ' Lunch Daily • Beer A Wine aura*.**. 9AM 3AM *69 £ I3lh few WHERE ITS OKAY TO GIGGLE!! Fifth Pearl Building 207 E. Fifth Ave. 687-9009 UNIQUE CARDS & GIFTS 10-5:30 Mon -Fri. 12-5 Sunday THE 50th ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM “Religion in American Life" Sponsored By The Department of Religious Studies The College of Arts and Sciences Thursday, April 25, 1985 Gerlinger Lounge 2:00 p.m. 2:15 4:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. WELCOME Prof. Robert M. Berdahl Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UO PRESENTATION “Pierce v. Society of Sisters: an Episode in Oregon Religious, Political, and Legal History” Prof. Ralph James Mooney, School of Law, UO “Reinhold NiebuhT and the Cure of Souls” Prof. Benton Johnson, Department of Sociology, UO COFFEE BREAK PRESENTATION “Behind an Official Consensus: The Slavery Question in the Old School Presbyterian Church” Prof. Jack P. Maddex, Department of History, UO KEYNOTE ADDRESS “The Religious Crisis in America: Challenge of the New Religious Right” Prof. Walter H. Capps Department of Religious Studies University of California at Santa Barbara RECEPTION All sessions are free and open to the public For further information call the Religious Studies Department Office, 686-4971. This symposium is made possible by a grant from Barbara and Bill Bowerman to the College of Arts and Sciences
