Commentator merits funds,
not ideological persecution
Those who would deny funding to the
Oregon Commentator should carefully ex
amine the hypocrisy underlying such a posi
tion. They claim to oppose funding for a varie
ty of reasons, but the only reason most have is
that they object to their money going to a con
servative publication.
If accuracy is to be the standard, apply it
in the same manner to every publication sup
ported with student fees. Some say that
beyond inaccuracy, the Commentator distorts
its "news” stories, adding an editorial twist.
Anyone who wants to single out the Commen
tator for this criticism has obviously never
looked critically at an issue of the Oregon Ad
vocate or Off the Record. Using the same stan
dard, they would not pass muster. Over the
years, "news" stories in these publications
have had as much editorial slanting as
anything appearing in the Commentator.
The difference between the Commen
tator’s writing and that in the Advocate or Off
the Record, aside from the differences in sub
ject matter, is in political viewpoint. The
reason that the Advocate doesn’t get told to
clean up its journalistic act and threatened
with loss of funding is that it has a liberal
viewpoint.
1 am not trying to condemn the Advocate
or other publications. I am trying to point out
that the Commentator, for no reason other than
its political viewpoint, has constantly been the
victim of a cadre of irrational hypocrites, so
called "progressives,” who would not know
the First Amendment if their mothers nailed it
to their chests. These people believe that only
certain ideas, with which they agree, should
be heard in campus publications.
I hope that there will be some in the new
ASUO leadership with the maturity and
foresight to accept the Commentator for what it
is — a raucous but healthy counterpoint to the
mainstream of liberal expression on campus —
and support its continued presence.
Commentary by Alan Contreras
Contributing writer, Oregon Commentator
letters
Lett out
Minority enrollment at this
University is indeed too low
(indefensibly low in my view),
and it is important that the
Emerald draw attention to this
inequity, as it did on the front
page of its May 15 edition.
(‘‘University's enrollment of
minorities is 'too low’ Un
fortunately, as is often the case
in articles that purport to ad
dress so-called minority issues,
the article referred not at all to
that most invisible and most op
pressed of all minority groups
— American Indians. Those of
us who do attend this Universi
ty are here largely to acquire the
skills necessary to improve con
ditions in our Indian com
munities, and we recognize on
ly too clearly that there should
be many more of us here pursu
ing similar goals.
It would be reassuring to
believe that the Emerald, and
for that matter the University,
understands the importance of
improved educational oppor
tunities for Indian people. In
the American legal system, In
dian tribes are entitled to exer
cise many of the powers of self
government. In order to do this
effectively, with maximum
benefit to our peoples and our
lands, we need leaders who
have been educated at univer
sities. When public media and
institutions ignore our
legitimate needs, we remain in
visible; if we remain invisible,
we tend to be all the more
vulnerable to oppression.
Steve Suagee
American Indian Law
Student Association
Illusory fact
Time and again, I hear the
zealous efforts of non-Christians
who want to instill into the
minds of all of us the illusory
ideas that the Bible is the
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