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.
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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!
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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
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Progressive Agenda and their
main goal of representing all
students, regardless of personal
opinion. To me. it's a shame.
I.aura Romano
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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
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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