Letters
Keep free rent
Not long ago, the Emerald
came out in support of denying .
OSPIR6. rent-free status’Jn° the
EMU. Unfortunately, • the
Emerald muddled the issues'on
..which it based its opinion.- / ••
h’irst, the .Emerald 'implied,
that OSI’IKU. yvas shirking from
its- accountability .hy' .snVwiking --
its funding -onto the^.ballot v
•; without- gathering tho;requisite %
. ■ student signatures\‘/Vsif‘expos-'-.
. - ing the., qrgahjj'.atton ' tb; -the'
_• • scrutiny7.' of ;4^;d^-,^tudenisv
• ♦ ; wasn’t enough! .'Neyertfuiless.-V
t )Sl^lKti;vy'il l«othorr HjVtriiit n'rvK'
• to"pla{:«rit*;hinding;onil^-BajldV
' . dhVss p rtng. ‘d rid bed,' it _wii I Iseek.'
. the .approval/'of’solera) .thbu
■; sand'frnort;^students ;tiiaji; rte •*
. V -qulntd tp?^ji* <■.; •
- ;-.'S»H:oivdtliiV'Eineral'd eohfus:
ed the issue of;t Im TJrbgqiYStatb
Public Interest. Resell rcHUrmip
add theOregon Student I’IKtI in
ahattemptto make OSiMKC. ap- .
V pear less accountable to
students -
T]ie Clregon State I’lktl rtins a
canvass, which students often
v participate in, .and uses the
money to' supplement the ac
tivities of; students on campus
The Oregon Student IMR(.; iictfie
legal organ i/.at ion which
receives S.Tper student, per term
of your incidental fees Because
OSi’lkC has expanded greatly
in recent years, it is very lucky
to have a supplemental iiicoiiie.
which is more efficient than
Iwke sales
Because of OSPIRCI’s struc
ture, students have an oppor
tunity to be involved in a wider
v.tiielv <>t consumer. utility anil
envmminental issues l lus dues
not detract from OSPIRfl’s
responsibility to students. it
enhance* it ospiru is ii stu
dent group, accessible to all of
you Your student group should
I mi allowed to keep its rent-free
status in the EMU.
Carol Benedick
International Studies
Truly sorry
It never ceases to amaze me
where the pathetically paranoid
discover manifestations of the
evil that haunts them so ("For
men only")
Initially I was struck by the
banality of the complaint. So
what if Sports Illustrated enters
to individuals of the male per
suasion. As I read on. however,
the seemingly benign remarks
began to foster, soon progress
ing into the incoherent rumbl
ings of a virulent delusion.
Allegedly, somehow females
were getting tricked into buying
this magazine. False advertis
ing. betrayal of an unspoken
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trust — something must ac
count for the absence of equal
time, n fair share for women's
■sports.
• Blit oven more troubling, the
species, 'once .snared, lost all
, .perception of identity (ap
-paroritly.'.the •'.y.ictiriis bi .bra.in-.
Washing pc- vciodoicSee.Dnke. ';
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. . tuniij^r'migh’t I. suggest an alter
•na t jye ' -Sxpla.niit ion i I lender
deierminants «l,p .not aflip.t the ■
^Fapajb*!t’y/' t«iappreeiaIe, t lie;
ath(atIc explbifsbra Larry Bird,
a "I’ete'KpiirfpfaRufrigeratur anil'
' Shis;team.. the ('hifiago' Bears. '
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;; As for line annual issue, pf '
. • *•*ptMognpH^V well'.':swim
j "suits' s'iiine difference —; rtiaybe?
‘--.just maybe;^qpf afOletjsdafcreed
does riotfeel threatening by the
artful photography. In any
event I'm truly sorry for those
whose fears of sexual extinction
compel them to uncompromis
ing narcissism
[ have.but one suggestion for
■. those believing “to suffer the
slings and arrows Of outrageous
fortune" when perusing Sports
Illustrated Don’t! Instead, just
relish in the mindless dribble of
ybur Seventeen. Or have you
graduated to Mademoiselle?
Thomas Brooke
Student
System’s faults
Quoted fmm the' letter to the
editor ''FaliM! statement” (ODE.
I eh 14); "It's a pity the media
tend to ha ns on the negative
aspei.ts of Greek life and not on
all the positive events that take
place. Hut that's life at the II of
I find it funny that Miss
Hastings and Mr. White (they
m a k e sure to id on ti f y
themselves as Greeks) fail to
mention any of the positive
events of the Greek system. Are
them any?
('.an you know what life at the
University is really like when
your Greek system greatly limits
your experience? Do you make
friends by being in a house, or
does the house make your
friends for you? I)o you join a
house so you can meet people
like you. or do you do it so you
can ostracize yourself into false
lv believing you're better than a
majority of this campus?
Where has the liberal reputa
tion of this campus gone? Does
anyone have any opinions? Will
anyone sav anything worth
while about anything of im
portance? Where has this new
right-wing ami pro-Reagan sen
timent cor in; from-!' Will it be
necessary to have SI )1 just to
protect a bunch of people who
never wont’to pollegn thanks to ,
the Gramm-Kudman Act? •.
. It is muy opinion these ques-“
t io°hs • have. SOMETHING to do
wjth the -(’.reek..system arnj .its
laiilts :The t;ri'ek system does
•rnoro V^d’- f%'’yfveryot* ^th'«.n
jtood. in its- present'.' form, Nio.
cKa.nce.. '.:dyde." don't -try ~,io;
"fool yoprself-• ■'
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>. ’* *-’!L * /. •' Miri am
•> ' Independent
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Pants down
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s.' -Tqiri^V^ispky,>ijale«(<:.<:rarjif« v,
• ,of dls to'jrtjqn»(Ol }E/Feb.-i 7j.are
minisi:ti 1ea hi 1 -Jri<i icuWins. .The
NY Times;articl«Oibid 1 quoted
d deg-say; the'.'jbyiets are using
■'minimal"/militai^ power in
Afghartist'ap.;; 1 nileed it. says
theVareusingo"nlv"f>00 inwips ■“
in daily turn rations.
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There vvas no need for me to ;
refer to the article's statement
about the effectivimess of Soviet
air power becausiettH'e Gommen- <..
tator has/correctly; referred to it
in the past. :l quoted the article
fairly, and l challenge anyone
who questions this to gb to the
Commentator office add see for
themselves.
The reason for all this furor is
that my Afghan commentary
caught the Commentators
ideologues with their pants
down. They grossly
misrepresented the Afghan war.
and they know it Their
coverage was ridiculous —
there was no mention of the
well-documenteid and
numerous rebel atrocities or of
the til).(KM) Afghan Communists
who are doing the bulk of the
fighting nie Cdmmentator's
coverage w'as so one-sided that
it made one think the Russians
were fighting against
themselves.
No one has challenged my
well-documented contentions
that the Afghan resistance is ex
tremely reactionary and that the
Communists are indeed
preferable to the khomeinist
rebels, which was the entire
point of my commentary
Incredibly, in the Commen
tator's severs I-thousand-word
commentary, none of this was
mentioned even once! Neither
have they attempted to defend
their casualty figure of "more
than a million." Indeed, the
closest attributed statistic
they've since used is 100.000 to
200.000 So who is accusing
whom of "distortion?"
(ilenn Sacks
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