Editorial
Now that it's official,
ending strike is a must
It’s now official. Eugene School District’s 1.200
teachers and other school employees have gone on strike.
We had hoped the Eugene School District and the Eugene
Education Association could have hashed out a deal before it
came to this. No doubt so do they.
The strike probably will lack the violence and bitter
feelings that marked the teacher strike of 1979. Although the
battle lines are somewhat different this time out. the same
issue of salaries and benefits still remain at the fore.
This strike, like the one in 1979. is a result of inflexibili
ty on both sides. And as with all negotiations, compromise
will be the key to this impasse.
It’s doubtful the EEA will get its requested 19 percent
salary increases. There doesn’t seem to be enough support
from the community to go along with such a request. But by
the same token, the district will have to give a little; more
than they have been willing to offer.
But the real losers in all of this, of course, are the 4-J
School District’s students. Precious little has been said in
their behalf. Regardless of the strike’s outcome, students
will have suffered, particularly high school seniors. These
students’ education is especially compromised because
preparation for college entrance exams will be delayed.
Both the board and the EEA should keep these facts in
mind. But now that the strike has started, it needs to be end
ed as soon as possible.
It takes more than a name
to become a real university
Southern Oregon State College wants to change its
name; it wants to become Southern Oregon State University.
That’s fine and well — if it changes its curriculum and
educational mission, too.
The State Board of Higher Education ruled that SOSC
cannot change its name. But supporters of a bill that would
override the State Board’s decision claim the name change
would bring in extra bucks to tin; region. Specifically,
members of the Jackson County Economic Development
Council say that the name “university” carries more clout
when it comes to drawing in business interests than does the
name “college.”
Maybe, but where’s the intergritv of changing tin; name
and nothing else? The State Board currently defines univer
sities as institutions that award doctorate degrees and where
research is conducted. SOSC does neither.
Supporters for the SOSC name change counter this
argument by charging PSU of not meeting the federal
Department of Education’s definition of "university.” The
Department of Education defines an institution as being a
university if it awards at least 30 doctorate degrees. Last year
PSIJ only awarded 22.
But this argument is weak. True, PSU didn’t award tin;
minimum of 30 doctorate degrees last year, but at least it was
in tin; ballpark. SOSC on tin; other hand was not.
Moreover. SOSC is not willing to change its educational
mission to include research. All tin; other Oregon univer
sities, including PSU, do. If those in favor of changing the
name of SOSC to SOSIJ are sincere, then they should be
willing to go the distance and make substantive changes as
well.
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POPE JOHN PAUL GETTING THE RED CARPET TREATMENT, PINOCHET STYLE.
Letters
Viable baby
Some while back, I attended a
college debate on the subject of
abortion between the Lane
County Right to Life president
and then state Sen. Margie Hen
drickson (the has-been darling
of the local militant lesbian-left,
and sister of Eugene abortionist,
Sarah Hendrickson).
Ms. Hendrickson zealously
took the “pro-choice" to kill
position.
During tin; questions from the
audience. 1 asked both debaters.
"At what point in a pregnancy
do you consider the fetus to be a
human being?"
Ms. Hendrickson refused to
answer. She couldn’t. She knew
any answer she could give
would too clearly expose the
barbaric logic of her position.
She knew that abortions are
legally allowed at any and all
times prior to delivery. She
knew that at some point, her
"abort ion-on-demand" men
tality is actually killing a real
live "viable” baby.
Possibly, one could sym
pathize with the uninformed,
but certainly not w ith the Ms.
Hendricksons of the world.
They know better, and still
eagerly promote “pro-choice”
to kill.
Jon Wollander
Eugene
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Good faith
For the skeptical agnostic,
there is no demonstrative,
Euclidean proof of Christianity,
nor of the existence of matter,
nor of the good will of your
closest friend.
People marry on faith, ex
changing vows without proof
that they will be carried out. 1
write a check. . . the cashier ac
cepts it with faith that it is good.
Is this foolish?
Roosevelt made the mistake
of waiting for proof of Pearl
Harbor’s vulnerability. It prov
ed to be a preventable disaster!
Every act of volition requires
faith. The agnostic claims he
needs proof, yet this proof is not
necessary for other decisions
which he makes in life.
For example, one cannot
swim unless one can support
oneself in water, and one can
not support oneself in water
unless one can swim. So, is it
possible to swim?
Many have done so on faith.
To say, “1 must have faith to
believe and have proof to have
faith'1 is endless frivol. If we
had no faith without proof, we
could not survive.
The problem with skeptical
agnostics, then, is not the lac k
of ability to have faith without
proof. “Proof” is conveniently
needed for that which he would
rather “wish away.”
God’s existence most likely
provides a moral accountability
and a dilemma with which they
would rather not deal. God pro
bably is not even interested in
the kind of theism which wins
logical arguments.
He loves us incredibly, and
He wants our trust, the very
same trust we give others
without absolute proof!
Brandon Shepard
Graduate
Damn shame
The current Constitution
Court case against OSPIRG is
ludicrous! For 16 years OSPIRG
has received funding for a broad
range of activities — cultural,
educational and political.
I his attack, as a denied per
sonal vendetta, clearly must be
one! OSPIRG clearly offers
students an opportunity to learn
skills that she/he can use later
on in life.
Those of us involved in
OSP1RG are concerned with a
wide spectrum of activities that
concern students. These issues
attract diverse students,
whether they be conservative or
liberal. They are students who
are concerned with important
issues.
Mr. Randall, Mr. Munion,
and Ms. Romano seem to think
OSPIRG does not serve the stu
dent population, and therefore
shouldn’t receive IFC funding.
Quite the contrary, it does!
Students run OSPIRG.
Through the OSPIRG State
Board, students choose what
issues OSPIRG should work on
and budget priorities.
OSPIRG offers students a
chance to be involved in a broad
range of activities, such as
internships, toxics issues,
world hunger, utility issues,
consumer issues and directing
voter registration. For example,
students operate and coordinate
(as 1 did fall term) the OSPIRG
Consumer Hotline that help
people with consumer
problems.
Students support OSPIRG.
Last year, the ASUO voted to
KEEP OSPIRG on campus, and
to INCREASE funding. Through
OSPIRG, students can make a
difference and DO make a dif
ference on campus. If Ms.
Romano, Mr. Randall and Mr.
Munion want to take away this
student power, then it’s a damn
shame!
Alicia Sloan
OSPIRG State Board
Pathetic
This is a note to all the beer
swillin’, sun-soakin’ frat boys at
the Damma Scamma Chode
house on Kincaid last
Thursday:
If you’re so pathetically infan
tile that you have to launch
water balloons at a hapless UPS
delivery man trying to do his
job, maybe your daddies should
make their checks out to
LCC. . . .
Eric H. Moore
English senior