Editorial
L TD ballot botched
by executive-elect
While the Oregon Daily Emerald did not endorse the
Lane Transit District Ballot Measure, we must take excep
tion to the controversy and mudslinging that has occured in
the past week.
ASUG President-elect Karen Gaffney and Vice
President-elect Steve Hoyt have spearheaded attempts to
force the LTD measure (which asks for $4.50 a student a term
in exchange for unlimited student bus service) off the ballot.
Their claims that LTD used an inappropriate process seem
odd in light of the fact that when Gaffney served as ASUO
vice president, she supervised the election process. In this
capacity, she could have made certain that LTD did
everything they needed to do months, instead of three days,
before the elections.
It appears that recent problems surrounding the LTD
proposal stem from miscommunication between measure
proponents and the student government. Gaffney and other
concerned students claim LTI3 needed to go to an Incidental
Fee Committee goals hearing. Measure proponents claim
they were not aware of this.
Gaffney also charges that LTD violated election rules by
having a student intern work on the measure campaign. It
seems strange, however, that Gaffney would wait until the
day before the elections to bring this point out into the open,
when the intern had been working on the measure since fall.
Gaffney and Hoyt have argued for student empower
ment since the beginning of their presidential campaign.
Unless that empowerment is extended to student LTD pro
ponents and the voting student body, the whole point of em
powerment becomes moot.
There's still no fair game
for minority ball managers
The number of minority managers in major league
baseball doubled last week — now there are two.
Frank Robinson was named skipper of the hapless
Baltimore Orioles after former manager Cal Ripken led the
team to an 0-f> opening. Robinson’s hiring has, so far. not
done much either for the Orioles, currently off to the worst
start in the game’s history, or for the advancement of
minorities.
Though challenging, getting to guide a team in last
place isn’t much of an opportunity. And when a team is in
last place with a hopeless season before it. naming a black
manager could be viewed as paying lip service to a problem
that has existed for a long time.
Robinson has been straight-jacketed like this before; his
previous managing experience was with cellar-dwelling
teams in Cleveland and San Francisco. The California
Angels employ baseball’s other non-white manager, Cookie
Rojas, who has coached teams in the Dominican Republic
and Venezuela, but never in the United States. Rojas’ call-up
came out of former manager Gene Mauch’s unexpected
tumor.
Baseball's old-boy network is peculiar in that it expects
managers to come ready-made; it takes a lucky break or prior
experience to get the job. For aspiring minority managers,
the strike zone is too small.
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Letters
Pride Week
"Gay Pride Week" will soon
rear its ugly head on the Univer
sity campus. Hut just what is the
source of the homosexual's
pride?
Hopefully, he's not proud of
his fundamental irresponsibili
ty in the spread of the AIDS
plague: proud of the spread to
heterosexuals, innocent
hemophiliacs and new-born
babies. There can be no pride in
the tragic deaths, misery and
economic loss that his
degenerate lifestyle has
spawned.
Perhaps then, he is proud of
being able to twist the political
forces to protect his lifestyle
rather than to protect the public
health — to where even doctors
can be sued for revealing AIDS
test records to their nurses, or to
other doctors and surgeons.
Or is he proud of being able to
undergo the physical pain and
bodily destruction that results
from an abnormal practice that
his body was never intended to
withstand? Proud of flaunting
his aberrational acts in the face
of societal norms of basic
morality? Proud of fraudulently
portraying homosexuality as an
acceptable ''alternative
lifestyle" to recruit adolescents
into a diseased life of mental
and physical degeneration?
Mr. Homosexual, if ever there
was a time to quit being proud,
this is it. better rename your
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week to “Gay Shame Week.”
You owe it to yourself, your
community, your society and
humanity. However, there’s one
thing for which you could be
proud: Publicly renouncing
homosexual behavior for the
perversion it is.
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Money pool
In response to Darla Church
man's “Objection” (ODE, April
14): You shouldn't object.
Your argument is that we the
people should not have to pay
for something that just a few of
us use. Well, where do you
think the funds for things like
Student Health Center come
from? They also come from us.
Money is taken from us and put
into a pool and put to use by
several organizations on cam
pus: one of which is the Student
Health Center and one of which
should be the mass transporta
tion proposal by the lane Tran
sit District. We do not all get
sick and therefore we do not all
utilize the services by Student
Health Center, but we all pay for
them. There's nothing wrong
with this. We have been doing it
for years in the form of Social
Security, welfare plans, in
surance, etc.
1 think it’s great that we have
the opportunity to save some of
our natural resources (gas. etc.)
by taking the bus. not to men
tion our nerves by avoiding
dealing with campus car
congestion.
I suppose some people would
prefer to squander our natural
resources needlessly, but let
those of us who would like to
have bus service have our bus
service.
Dan Gruber
English
Goo not cool
1 hate to be a social poop, as 1
am sure everyone else would
hate to be one. You know what I
mean, the type of person who
complains and whines about
the simplist of issues. That per
son to whom, in your best Dirty
Harry voice, you want to say,
"Sit down, shut up." I hate to
be one of those people, but
something has forced me to
adopt such a role.
As we all know, Hayward
Field has been undergoing
renovations. A couple of weeks
ago I noticed a crew working on
the east bleachers at the corner
of 15th Avenue and Agate
Street. They seemed to be
“stripping” off that old, sick
colored green paint. Good; it
was unsightly and induced in
testinal gas pains. I was hor
rified when 1 recently observed
that they had repainted those
bleachers that same faded Porta
Pody nuclear-winter green.
Why? A Physical Plant van
looks better than that. Bad
breath smells better than that
looks.
I hope it is only temporary.
This is supposed to be a world
class track and field. Our ac
commodations should reflect
this. Then again, maybe Fuller
Price, or Dutch Boy, was having
an irresistible sale on that goo,
relieving the University from
any further financial burden.
Great. Or maybe they are saving
the good paint for all of those
science buildings.
Dain Nestel
TCF
Coors ad bogus
I understand that the Oregon
Daily Emerald needs Coors'
financial support. This year the
paper seems plastered with
beautiful, white, beer-drinking
women and wonderful, white
men, as in the Coors Light |am
min' Sweepstakes ad (ODE in
sert, April 18). This image
typifies a Coors attitude of
pushing supremacy into nations
below the United States.
The Coors foundation private
ly contributed a C-4 military
transport plane to the
Nicaraguan Contras. I'm sure
the Emerald is not condoning
this company’s politics, but in
theory the paper should at least
publish a disclaimer. Even bet
ter, the Emerald could publish
the dirty facts behind this
glamorous company rather than
ignore the manipulative power
of advertising.
Rachel Formanek
TCF