—Editorial
Baseball fans realize
which choice is best
Viewers of tonight’s “debate” between George Bush
and Michael Dukakis should tune in with a bag of popcorn
and a grain of salt.
As we are in the final throes of baseball season and at
press time the Wednesday night final game of the National
League championship series has not yet been played, it is
with the proper amount of respect for the election that we
point out if the baseball game has been delayed by rain,
then the debate also will be delayed.
Some people think baseball is boring. Some people hate
the Mets. Some people do not like Tommy Lasorda, the
manager of the Dodgers, because he is fat and obnoxious.
Some people do not understand the subtleties of base
ball. They fall asleep during the long spans of inactivity. All
the pitches look the same. After all, if you’ve seen one base
ball game, you’ve seen ’em all.
However, if the game has been played, and we have to
wait until Saturday night for another (when the World Se
ries starts), then all three networks will air the game be
tween King George and the Duke. Some people will rent a
movie.
Baseball in this case is being given due respect. Heaven
forbid the presidential debate should preempt our national
pastime. Should the two events be conducted simultaneous
ly, network telephone lines would light up like warning
lights at Chernobyl.
If we had to actually choose between the two, imagine
the dilemma of bored students at UCLA, where the debate is
being held: Should I drive through all that traffic to attend
the final game of the playoffs at Dodger Stadium, or should I
walk across campus to witness the face-off between Bush
and Dukakis?
Start the car, Bubba. Maybe we’ll catch a foul ball.
Shue's comments dig up
dirt in wrong backyard
In all fairness to Emily Schue, candidate for the Eugene
mayoral race, dredging up the 20-year-old comments of a
former mayor clearly appears as an eleventh hour jab, a des
perate maneuver.
Monday morning on KUGN-AM, Schue flatly stated
that Jeff Miller, her opponent in the mayoral race, is mis
trusted by the minority community. She implied that the
lack of trust grew out of an endorsement by former Mayor
Ed Cone, who in 1968 made a visit to South Africa and re
turned with the impression that it was “a wonderful coun
try.”
Of course, Cone’s feelings at that time, misrepresented
or not, have little relevance on the upcoming election and
should never have been raised. If the minority community
truly distrusts Miller, as Schue suggests, then it would be
best served to wonder why.
If Schue can offer no better evidence of that distrust
than an outdated remark by a former mayor, then she should
offer the apology that Miller has demanded.
Apologies aside, the issue could easily be resolved by
the minority community. We welcome letters in response to
both Schue’s tactics and Miller’s outrage.
Now that the lines of battle have been drawn, it would
be interesting to discover the truth. Is there any basis to
Schue’s implications, or is she merely digging for dirt in the
wrong back yard?
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Fairy tale
Once upon a time, there was
a student who ambled along
13th Avenue every day in the
early morning hours. Arriving
at a local "coffee haus," he
would buy a fresh cup of
"expresso” enroute to his first
class.
Trekking to 150 Geology, the
student passed Condon Hall;
glancing to his right, he was
awed by the ethereal surround
ings. Birds gossiping in the
trees, the aroma of freshly cut
grass on the quadrangle and the
squirrels scampering about.
This went on for a year and a
half; going to class, studying at
the library, and enjoying the
companionship of his fellow
classmates outside Johnson
Hall.
Until one day, he noticed
something strange about the
land ....
The once-fertile environment
had become vandalized with
garbage. Looking around, he no
longer saw the birds, for they
had flown to a cleaner region;
the once-inanicured lawn of the
quadrangle was now a disposal
site for “class notes” and "cig
arette waste.” The scampering
squirrels lay dead from the
“diesel exhaust” that pierced
their tiny lungs.
Tired and depressed, the stu
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_Letters_
dent slumped beside an inebri
ated transient outside Condon
Hall. Pondering the question of
“Why — when then; are so
many interest groups through
out this institution denouncing
such things as toxic waste in
their community, nuclear arms
and apartheid — why can't
they clean their own yard?"
Like a bolt of lightning, the
answer jolted him: “Hyp
ocrites!" Similar to the higher
government in the land, the
people here are so engrossed in
dealing with other society's so
cial inequities, that they don't
deal with their own ....
I’m glad this is only a "fairy
tale." Aren't you?
Tony Piculell
English
Write-in
The Eastern establishment
uses Henry Kissinger and Cyrus
Vance to form commissions of
non-elected people, answerable
only to the elite, to wield gov
ernment power by bipartisan
consensus, headed by Gerald
Ford and Jimmy Carter ... a
Grand Coalition of Fascism ...
with either George Bush or Mi
chael Dukakis as a figurehead
president ... destroying Ameri
ca's world power, conceding
that power to Moscow.
Give Lyndon LaRouche a
write-in vote for president. He
will stand up to the elite ... re
place the bankrupt economy of
free trade with our founding fa
ther's American economic sys
tem. Put people back to work,
thus broadening the tax base;
back our monetary system with
a gold standard with low inter
est for farmers; industries and
infrastructure improvements;
freshwater management; trans
portation; biological research to
contain AIDS; balance the
budget and restore foreign poli
cy.
A write-in vote for Lyndon
LaRouche for President of the
United States will save our
country. You'll never regret it.
For God, country and future
generations ....
Ruth N. Willis
Salem-Keizer
Parameters
A topic of current discussion
on American university cam
puses it, that of values and ethi
cal issues. Here at the Universi
ty. for example, eminent schol
ars are again being invited to
present seminars on campus
relevant to that general theme
by the Humanities Center.
These efforts are commendable.
At times, however. I've won
dered whether some internal
scrutiny of the ethical import of
certain University faculty poli
cies and practices might not
also be a worthwhile undertak
ing.
The faculty here will soon
elect several persons to serve
on a newly established "Pro
motion, Tenure, and Retention
Appeals Committee." This im
portant panel shall hear formal
appeals on questionable deci
sions to deny tenure and/or
promotion to faculty personnel.
Hopefully, this committee will
act with integrity and forth
rightness to assure that this in
stitution's ongoing judgments
relative to faculty retention and
advancement in rank will be
consistent with our verbalized
commitment to appropriate di
versity within a defensibly lib
eral standard of academic ex
cellence. (In point of fact, 1 am
aware of several such cases
which should be referred to
this panel for review without
delay.)
Another area at the Universi
ty with "murky ethical param
eters" pertains to faculty salary
policies. 1 am particularly con
cerned about what I perceive to
be an undercurrent of arbitrari
ness. For example, apparent
disregard for faculty seniority
and/or rank variables in deter
mining fair compensation.
So-called "market factors"
and the often-heard rhetoric of
wanting to retain only those
who are “genuinely qualified'
can mask much injustice and
moral shallowness in academe
1 truly hope wo can combat
these symptoms of internal du
plicity.
Ron Rousseve
Professor,
counseling psychology