Editorial
Violence, hatred turn
civil rights marchers
Civil rights marchers Friday (urned back after com
pleting less than one mile of their two-and-a-half mile route
in northern Georgia when several hundred whites protested
the march by throwing rocks, bottles and mud at the
marchers.
The scene was as if from file footage of the opposition to
the Civil Rights Movement at its inception, as if all the years
of civil rights activism never occurred.
Two marchers were slightly injured, and nine people,
all white, were arrested. About 1,000 whites were on hand
to oppose the inarch. Police on hand, about 75 officers from
several law-enforcement agencies, were not enough to con
tain the passion of the whites.
Members of the Klu Klux Klan were on hand to support
the protesters and throw a few rocks themselves. |. B.
Stoner, who served three and a half years of a 10-year
sentence for participating in the 1985 bombing of a black
church, gave a speech to the crowd before the marchers
arrived.
Watching the protesters oppose the march with violence
and hatred was both frightening and disgusting.
The response came, no doubt, as a rude shock to the
organizers of the march, some white, who wanted to dispel
the racist image of the county. One organizer of the march
said afterward, “1 have never seen such hatred. There were
youngsters 10 and 12 years old screaming their lungs out.
'Kill the niggers.’ ”
Coming on the eve of the national holiday honoring
Martin Luther King, Jr., the violence facing the marchers
was particularly disgusting. However, the violence facing
the marchers would have been disgusting on any day of the
year.
Semester system comes,
replaces flexibile system
The Oregon State Hoard of Higher Education's decision
to change the schedule of all public, four-year colleges and
institutions to the semester system in 1990 was unfortunate.
The quarter system has served students well since the
establishment of the state’s higher education system in
1932. The quarter system allows students greater flexibilty
in academic exploration as well in flexibility in access to
school.
The Oregon Student Lobby, which opposed the change
to the semester system, argues correctly that the quarter
system allows students greater flexibility since they can
enter and leave school more frequently, an important con
sideration for non-traditional students.
Moreover, the quarter system gives students more op
portunity to avoid being locked into a field of study or sub
ject they don't want.
academic exploration; since many courses are offered in se
quences, the depth in study comes from a series of courses.
Moreover, the quarter system gives students more op
portunity to avoid being locked in to a field of study or sub
ject they don't want.
To say that the quarter system shortchanges students in
depth of study is to say that the Oregon education system
has been shortchanging students since 1932. We do not feel
this is the case.
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Letters
Leviathans
The Survival Center’s whale
watching trip on Saturday was a
great way to spend a day.
It was one of those typical
Kugene days, blue sky and sun
ny. The ocean was beautiful as
always — wet, salty, blue and
wavy. Whales were the
highlight ...big gray swimm
ing mammals that did us the
favor of showing us lots of tails
and heads and spouts. It was
definitely not the kind of thing
you see every day in Kugene.
The moral of the story is take a
Saturday away from the hooks
and go see whales.
You’ll like it. and remember
to bring warm clothes.
Bob Neustadt
Kducation student
Experimenting
She was a child who had ”to
try everything". . .so she puff
ed a reefer of pot.
She was a child who was in
“perfect control of her
life"...so she shot up some
cocaine.
She was a child whose
"pleasures knew no end"... so
she popped a few exotic
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“rainbows.”
She was still a child when her
‘‘candy man” sold her
“something for a high”. . . the
coroner’s report read, “injec
tion of opiate with indeter
minate exipients.”
She was a child with faith and
trust in the wisdom and integri
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them would have understood
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Pay equity
In her letter regarding the pay
of clerks (ODE, Jan. 14). Vic
toria Payton claims that studies
show that the University
“reserves its lowest wages” for
certain staff “because they are
female.” 1 would like to know
how these studies reached such
a conclusion.
There are low-paying jobs
that are held mainly by women,
but statistics that merely qualify
this observation shed little light
on causes, or on what, if
anything, should be done about
it.
To understand the real
causes, one must start with
basic economic principles.
Employers pay employees
because there is work to be
done. The value of this type of
work to employers, together
with the availability of people
willing to perform it, deter
mines the amount of pay.
Pay is not a statement of an
employer's view of the intrinsic
worth of a person. Employers
who equalize pay just to be
“fair" are making the same
mistake as those who
discriminate arbitrarily against
a parti ular gender or race.
Pay is not a reward for educa
tion. Education will lead to
higher pay only if the level of
education actually needed for a
job is in short supply.
Pay is not a kind of welfare
system. “To feed the children"
is a good reason for someone to
want a job. but not a good
enough reason for an employer
to pay him or her.
Either clerks perform a
relatively low-value service, or
there are plenty of women (and
a few men) willing to be clerks
for low pay, or both.
Joseph W. Dehn III
Eugene
Film review
I-ast Thursday 1 read, with
plenty of eyebrow-raising, Sean
Axmaker’s list of the 12 best
films of 1986, along with other
comments on the film year in
general.
I’ll say this for him, he’s a pro
at boring, confusing and
irritating.
Missing from the list were the
hauntingly tragicomic “Pyscho
III.” the harrowing yet
refreshingly feminist “Aliens,”
the sweetly comic “Restless
Natives,” the sublimely silly,
satirical “Down and Out in
Beverly Hills,” the biting, witty
“Farting Glances,” and four
highly-praised coming-of-age
films: ‘‘Lucas,” “Desert
Bloom,” “The Boy Who Could
Fly,” and “Twist and Shout.”
What happened to them? Was
there no room to mention them?
Or did we have to use those
lines to drone on about “en
joyable” versus “good” films,
with a few nice, easy shots at
“The Color Purple”? (Honestly,
hasn't that teacup storm abated
yet?)
A question: Does Axmaker
pick the films he does because
they were the ones he seriously
enjoyed and appreciated, or
because they are the “serious”
“artistic” works that “serious”
and “artistic” film students
pick? Does every picture have to
change history or “say”
something?
It's a big world, Sean. A lot
bigger than just the Bijou and
Cinema 7. Look again.
Dean Backus
Film