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Editorial Safety with fireworks needed for weekend This year's Fourth of July, like usual, promises to be a bang. But it is essential that people do not get so carried away in the celebration of our great nation's birthday that they neglect basic considerations for others and the environment. Thus, safety and common sense in the firework fun is imperative. To prevent injury to oneself and others, fireworks should be exploded outside, not inside, and away from any concentration of people. Consideration for dogs, cats and other pets also should be kept in mind. Because some animals scare easily, it is best to keep them indoors, Loud explosions can traumatize a pet. Because of the extremely dry weatner tugene nas ex perienced lately, fireworks should be set off in an open area, preferable a parking lot. where there is no dry grass or plant growth. To minimize the risk of fire, bottle rockets should Ik? shot off over water. The U.S. Forest Service warns that fireworks should not be used in Oregon’s national forests because of the extreme fire hazard this time of year. So if you go camping over the Independence Day weekend. leave your fireworks at home. Remember: Sinokey's watchin’ you. So. while having a hang this Fourth of |uly. be careful not to blow up anyone or anything. THERE AIN'T NO SMOKING GUN ••• Faculty form High court to be further right than public, expert says The piper* predirt Reagan will nominate ludge Robert Bork. How do you feel about thin choice, especially with his connections in Watergate? Well I don’t think you can lx; sure that he will la the nominee, lust because the papers say he is ahead doesn't necessarily mean he will be selected. Intellec tually he is the strongest candidate. fames Klonoski is a professor of political science. He leaches several courses dealing with the Supreme (hurt. In a short interview with the Oregon Daily Emerald he offered his opinions on various aspects of Supreme Court fustice lewis Powell's resignation on June 26. He does have this “black mark" with the Watergate administration. But in the legal community he is very well respected as a scholar and judge, and he would have a great deal — even though his views are very con servative — he would still have a great deal of support because the guy has intellectual integrity and smarts. But you have to be careful in this business because Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Doily Emerald is published Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co . at the University of Oregon. Eugene Oregon. 97403 Daily publication will resume with the tall term The Emerald operates independently ol the University with offices on the third door ol the Erb Memorial Union and is a member ol the Associated Press The Emerald is private properly The unlawtul removal or use ol papers is prosecutable by law General Stall Advertising Director Production Manager Classified Advertising Assistant to the Publisher Editor Managing Sports Editor News Editor Editorial Page Editor Photo Editor Associate Editors Student Govt Student Activities Carolyn Lamberaon Higher Edi Administration Mike Drummond General Assignment'Entertainment Aaron Kno« Community Stephen Maher Advertising: Janelte Heltmann Production: Sandra Daller / Ad Coordinator Kelly Alenandre. Eliot Knight, Diana Moy. Angela Muni*. Ingrid White. Serena Williams Susan Thelen Michele Ross Alyson Simmons Jean Cwnbey Stanley Nelson Lucinda Dillon Eden Godbey Angela Muni* Shu Shing Chen New* and Editorial Display Advertising Classified Advertising Letter Perfect Graphics Production Circulation and Business 886 5511 888 3712 8884343 888 5511 688 4381 688 5511 with all the names out there., and all of a sudden plop-o comes a different name altogether... .So one should not be led or misled by what today's papers say Watch out because there are conflicting points of views in the administration .. . Everyone out there has a chance Bork probably has earned the right intellec tually. But there have been a lot of professors out there, and even good judges, who look like they have earned the right but are never appointed. So you can be ready for a June or July surprise At the same time you may ex pect the name of Bork. How do you see the Senate judiciary Committee approaching and investigating a candidate, especially because the committee is controlled by the Democrats? See. if this was next year they would probably delay it until after the election. But because it is this year there is just too long of a time until now and the election to delay it and string it out. The Court will be meeting '87-'88 For the Senate Judiciary Committee there should be a full Court on board, so they're more likely to approve and say let's get on with it. Then do you think they are just throwing names out to see reactions? They're just going about business trying to find best person who fits the bill for what they want: A per son who has intellectual integrity, who could philosophically and ideologically satisfy the critics' philosophy and ideology and gel a guy on there who could serve 20 to 30 years What they’re doing now is just politics of judicial appointment, as usual. So they have to decide who is the IhisI choice — one who can manage to go through the crucible. He has to run the gauntlet. . . It's just a pure political challenge. But so much is riding on it. Do you feel it wax right for Powell to resign now, or should he have wailed until ne*t year? Must of us ami his colleagues war# taken complete ly by surprise when he resigned. W'hat were Powell's motivation for resigning when he did in terms of tim ing? Well, I think they're going to remain obscure at this time. . .. .He’s been on the C'ourt for 15 years. Did he finally feel he had enough? Or is he really a Virginia Democrat — that’s pretty conservative. Or is he really a closet Reaganite? See. I can't believe he is a closet Keaganite. Hut I'm still surprised that, given all the considera tion, that he would have chose this particular time to resign. Hut then I don't think hu is as ideological as these other guys. Brennan would never resign to give Reagan a chance. And Marshall would never resign to give Reagan a chance. Stevens is a younger man who would never consider it. And Hlackinan has switched over to that side. He would never resign to give Reagan a chance. I'm not sure that I understand the timing of Powell's resignation at this time. Why he would give Ronald Reagan the opportunity to put his stamp — in tellectual. ideological, philosophical stamp — on the court for who knows how many years to come? Somewhat obscure 1 would have to say given my own anaylsis of the decision... . lk> you have any final conclusions? The catch in all this, of course, is the country's now is moving back to the center. I didn't say it was moving left — but it's had its little adventure with Keagan to the right. You can read that in Ixju Harris's new book "Inside America" on the issues of the country moving to the center, but with this appointment the Court will move to the right. And you're going to have a real philosophical, ideological incongruency, I think, be tween a country that has readopted moderation as its approach in understanding of politics and choice making and a Court that will reflect the country's desire to have Ronald Keagan as president in '84. They made that choice. Maybe not tor the ideological reasons that Keagan stood for and some social issues and so on. but that's what they got. That's what then? going to get now from Ronald Keagan in 1987. What they did was they made a choice of a pres ident in '84 and the president chooses the members of the Supreme Court. So the public in a sense, then, is now returning to the center of gravity, the political center of gravity. Hut it's going to pay a price, if you will, for its choice in '84 I mean that’s just the way it is. So you have times on the Court when the country s in one mood and the Court's in another. Robert Dahl has always said that the Court even tually follows the election returns. Well, 1 guess the Court is kind of following the election returns of Ronald Reagan Hut there are all sorts of election returns bet ween '80 and '8t>. Reagan's election returns didn't necessarily mean that the country went that way totally. So Dahl, when he says the Court follows the elec tion returns. . .Well, the election returns aren't that pun; In the last six or eight years they had Reagan as an election return but also voted for an awful lot of Democrats during that time. ... But then, if you have a Democratic president in 1988 he might make some appointments too, so then the Court would follow the returns of '88. We can't see that_ So you have all these considerations of who the next president is going to be and maybe, if he is a Democrat, he will appoint some justices that reflect the changing public opinion now when the public is retur ning to the center of things. For the time being it looks like we're going to get the Ronald Reagan public opinion of '80 and '84. and it's just going to be out of synch and out of tune with the political movement of the public generally. That is. 1 think, the must interesting aspect of this whole movement.
