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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1987)
Letters Toll-free spy That new toll-free spy number (1-800-CAM,-SPY) might seem beneficial to our management, but 1 think there an? a few bugs in it that, as il lustrated below, need to be worked out Supposing a kindly, middle aged housekeeper notices a suspicious-looking, oh. slightly older bib-overalled gardener putting out some snail killer near the rose bushes of the new neighbors down the way. He's putting down the pellets and looking around and adjusting his bib overalls — and basically goldbricking, she thinks but that’s not all It appears to her. suddenly, that after he puts down whatever that stuff is, he laps at it with his foot and then presses his ear and savs something to himself. Well this sets off the former IT A member, mother of three, to calling up the intelligence people in Washington, who, eventually, have them both put under surveillance for the following reasons: The housekeeper, it turns out, works for an ex-ambassador of an unspecified South American country, and the gardener used to he a night watchman for Rockwell. Also, the roses turn out to bo petunias, and tin? last thing they need help with is snails. Anyway, they decided to test their reactions under fire. The housekeeper had to face an agent posing as an Avon Lady, and tlie gardener's boss was tip ped off about the care of petunias, who then wanted to know what the hell he was do ing with that snail killer. There are some more com plications. but they'll have to wait. Tim |aques l Inspect fied Ironic warning It is ironic that Michael (Toss writes letters to the local newspapers warning us "Westerners" to be aware of the fact that we are a minoritv on this planet with a "negative population growth." He pnu laims the grim warn i ii g of extinction o f "Westerners" if they don't start having large families "like evangelists' do. The irony < omes when he responds to someone who criticized him for such a bizarre idea me (OI)I\, April :t). When I accused him of trying to impress people by quoting others with exotic names (a man w i t h the last n a m e o f Perevedentsev). that was seen by Mr. (Toss as me being ethnocentric believing one's own race is superior. 1 would like to suggest that Mr (Toss’ idealistic sugges tions are as close to ethnocen trie as one can get. I challenged his idea quoted from Mr I’erevedentsev: that the larger the population of a nation, the greater their chances of achieving economic superiority; hy asking why. then, are China’s and India’s economies not superior to all nations of smaller populations? Of course he didn't respond to my question. Instead lie tries to find fault with my choice of the word "exotic.” falsely im plying that this word denotes .1 prejudicial connotation In my letter of response 1 humorously suggested that Mr I’erevedentsev had a patent fora perpetual motion machine. It appears that Mr Cross was angry over this It seems he doesn’t know th.it there is no such thing as a perpetual mo tion machine and never can be Main issue I would like to take this op portumtx to clear up a few misinterpretations of my stance regarding ()SI’IK( i on the part ot Alii ta Sloan of the ( )SI’ 1KC i state hoard l lie issue at hand is not that I think OSl’IRC does not serve the student population And the issue is not that I think OSI’IKC should not receive incidental fee binding I do think that ()SI’IK(i does otter students a chance to he in volved in a broad range ot ai tivities. However, just because last yeai students voted to in <i) C&LK? /rvw VvPWjt 1 J "AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE SOLAR ENERGY COMMITTEE, I CONTINUE MY Ffitf-FINDING TOUR...' i rcasc I muling for OSIMKll does not necessarily mean students support improper use of their fees for purely partisan political reasons. ( dearly no one, least of all me. is asking to take away student power. Again, this is not the issue My concern, which is the' issue, is how OS1MRC. uses stu dent incidental fees. lust as no other incidental fee TAN 10 visits $25 The tan you want when you want It. SunShower on campus «awi23'a?4t nth UptUlf bf Mnko % funded program cannot lobln politic ally b\ \\ «i\ ol ll-C monies, neither should OSl’IKC. It is my belief th.it OSl’lRG has abused this power, and therefore the situation needs to be remedied before it gets total ly out of control. I.aura Koniano KMU Board Budget Chair Greek GYROS Sandwich §2*25 with coupon Seasoned beat on hoi pita broad, rod onions, troth tomatoes testy yogurt sauce STlirr IT r.ATFRY • 1219 Alder 400 Voluo 1 German AUTO SERVICE VW'S MERCEDES BMW’S DATSUN TOYOTA ;.r 342-2912 rs.rs MOHe-0 fllllN&j* -V S&\ ' \‘i T" The Saga Continues WEDNESDAY NIGHT at TRACK TOWN PIZZA Get a medium (12”) One-Ingredient Pizza for ONLY . . . ITTiy settle for less . . . than the BEST!?! 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