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Editorial Bad news for Hart, but campaign is new All political candidates enjoy the limelight of media at tention. but presidential hopeful Cary Hart is getting more than he bargained for. A report of Hart’s possible tryst with an actress, publish ed in Sunday's Miami Herald — and subsequently picked up by virtually every major paper in the country — has the Democratic front-runner beckpedaling to regain lost political ground. The story brings to the surface questions regarding Hart's judgment, the role of the press in pursuing such a sen sitive and personal story, and the impact it will have on his campaign. The Miami Herald reported Hart and Donna Rice, an ac tress from Miami, entered Hart’s Washington. DC., town house last Friday night and didn’t come out until Saturday. Hart and Rice have denied any moral wrongdoing, and both claim their relationship is strictly professional. The report has renewed the womanizing issue that has dogged Hart since he announced his candidacy last month Yet Hart and his campaigners claim the story was built on a shaky foundation; citing that the reporters who tailed Hart did not cover the town house's rear door, which Rice said she left through Friday night. Whether or not Rice spent the night. Hart still demonstrated an incredible lack of foresight and poor judg ment by allowing himself to la; put in this situation. Had is well aware of the womanizing issue, and this latest episode has fanned the flames of innuendo, which can only hurt his campaign. Many may condemn the Herald's reporting of this inci dent as an invasion of privacy. But this type of coverage is valid in order to hold candidates accountable to their words. Hart has claimed to be an upstanding family man. Moreover. Hart brought the scrutiny on himself when he challenged the press in a New York Times Magazine in terview to follow him around. Tired of the womanizing issue. Hart stated. "If anybody wants to put a tail on me. go ahead. They’d be very bored.” However poor Hart's judgment was. The Miami Herald also has some atoning to do. The story was legitimate, but the reporting was a bit shoddy. The Herald's investigations editor admitted in the New York Times that between 11 p.m. Friday and midnight, only one reporter was viewing the front of Hart’s residence while the back was left unobserved. Between 3 a m. and 5 am. Saturday no reporters were on the scene. With such a sensitive issue, The Herald should have sta tioned someone at the rear entrance. Similarly, the paper should have obtained more substantial evidence that there was a tryst before printing the story. The Herald was the on ly paper privy to this scoop, so time was on its side. Although this is a setback for Hart, he can comfort himself with the fact he is still the Democratic front-runner. He may even benefit from "the sympathy effect” if The Herald's report proves to be shot with inaccuracies. Better news yet for Hart is that it's still very early in the campaign, and America has a notoriously short memory. ft Letters It's a shame As a participant and observer in the political realm on this campus, I find |odie Mooney's statements (ODE. April 29) to be not only appalling, but un founded as well. First. I note a disparity in her numbers. Shu claims it was the athletes who voted Hrooks/Gaff ney into office. Funny, but the Athletic Department informed me that there am about 400 athletes. This can only mean that the other 1,000 voters am not athletes. Secondly, it seems only natural to me that students vote for candidates who they believe will best represent their in terests As 1,427 people ex pressed that concern and voted for I^chkar, so did the 1.621 voting for Brooks. It was not on ly athletes It was me and 1.100 other students voicing a concern The most abhorrent comment Mooney made. “1 believe the students who voted for us were the mature, concerned students of this campus... 1 cannot respect the intelligence of the voters who voted for them (Brooks/Gaffney)." besides hav ing offended 1.621 student voters, makes me wonder exact ly how representative l^ichkar and Mooney would have been, had they been elected, of these "immature, unconcerned and unintelligent" students! Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday except during exam week and vacations by the Oregon Dally Emerald Publishing Co, at the University of Oregon. Eugene. Oregon. 97403 The Emerald operates independently ol the University with ottices on the third floor ol (he Erb Memorial Union and is a member ot the Associated Press The Emerald 1s private properly The unlawful removal or use ot papers is prosecutable by law Qeneral Stall Advertising Director Susan Thelen Production Manager Wayne Michael Lottinvllle Classified Advertising Alyson Simmons Assistant to the Publisher Jean Ownbey Advertising Sales: Peter LaFleur / Sates Manager Teresa Acosta. Janeile Heitmann. Catherine Lilfa. Rick Mart/. Joseph Men/el. Joan Wltdermuth Advertising Apprentices: Ten Boring. Heather Mull. Bar bars Rogers. 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Dan Wheeler Production: Michele Ross / Ad Coordinator Supervisors Sandra Bevans. ShuShlng Chen, Eliot Knight. Angela Muniz. Ingnd White Technicians: Kelly Alexandre. Ronwin Nicole Ashton. Virginia Baniaga. Samantha Barbitta. Sara Briscoe. Janet Emery. Judith Gatz. Lisa Haggerty. Jung Lee. Donna Leslie. Bobbie Lo, Kelli Mason. Mike McGraw. Rob Miles. Diana Moy. Julie Paul. Serena Williams Likewise. Jodie, isn't the term “unconcerned" more ap propriately applied to those students who did not vote? Voting, in and of itself, is an act of concern. While I still hold firm to my political convictions. I wonder what happened to Students for a Progressive Agenda and their main goal of representing all students, regardless of personal opinion. To me. it's a shame. I.aura Romano EMU Board Poor treatment Whereas I respect the rights of groups to defend and protect from distortion and abuse those traditions they revere, I am dismayed by the treatment of Norma Cordell by the Coalition of Women of Color. Ms. Cordell integrates spiritual teaching from a variety of cultures and eras to com municate their basic point of commonality — that the distress of the earth and its people today is a reflection of the separateness and pain we all hold within us. Ms. Cordell teaches and guides individuals to release that pain so that they and the earth can begin to bo healed. Ms. Cordell has been leading workshops, counseling and teaching in this area for tO years, is accessible to the public and willing to listen and communicate. If the coalition truly believes that Ms. Cordell is falsely representing Native American traditions, why haven't they ap proached her before this, and why did they wait for a public forum to air their concerns? As it was. the coalition's ac Letters Policy The Emerald will attempt to print all letter* containing fair comment on topics of interest to the University community letter* to the* editor must be limited to 250 words, typed. signed and the idem if nation of the writer must be verified whan the letter is turned in The Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter for length or style letters to the editor should be turned into the Emerald office. Suite :t00 EMU tions were far more focused on discrediting Ms. Cordell than in investigating whether she is ac tually dishonoring sacred tradi tions in her work. It is unfortunate that we as women perpetuate the curse of fear and suspicion that feeds to day’s dominant military cultures. 1 hope that this ex perience brings us closer to a more fruitful means to settle our differences and further the uniting of peoples of the earth Alice Tallmadge Eugene May Day Let me see if I have understood the May 1 front page story correctly: This university, an agency of the state of Oregon, supported by the taxpayers of this state, not to mention a recipient of federal funds, is going to charge fees according to the race of the student. This was some kind of May Day joke, right? Joseph W. I)ehn 111 Eugene Stay in class A few words about the Eugene teachers' strike. It’s nice to know the Eugene teachers an: standing up for their right to bargain for whatever it is they want, but it would also be nice for their students if they would do their bargaining in the classroom 1 came from a school district in which the teachers continued to teach while they were bargaining for better pay. They did this twice and they got what they wanted. Striking is an effective tool for laborers to bargain with management, but not in educa tion. Auto workers can strike for a couple of weeks and no cars will be made. The workers will get what they want, and management will lose money. In education, the students lose, last’s face it. You didn’t get into teaching to become rich; you did it to help the students. Patrick Alan Perkins Undeclared
