.Letters
Thoughtful
('. M Toomi v s article (l)DK.
May 21 suggests that the t'Di
versity administration and its
Housing Department arc doing
nothing in the fate of the cur
rent housing crunch in Eugene
This simply is not true Wo rec
ognize the community has a
housing problem, hut it is a rel
atively new one
We are active participants in
a (htv-CounU I'niversitv hous
ing coalition action group to as
sist in bringing to bear the re
sources of these agencies to
meet these new needs. Our ex
pectation is that through these
efforts, new housing options
will lie available for students.
What many fail to under
stand is that the l<)HH Universi
ty student enrollment bulge is
not the only factor involved
Market place economics, pri
vate sector housing interests,
the burgeoning numbers of the
newly homeless, and the limit
ed purses of single parent and
low-income families are all in
volved in this complex prob
lem. Through joint efforts we
am sorting through the problem
elements to arrive at a reason
able and effective solution
The planning, approval and
construction of additional stu
dent housing will t.ike at least
two years and the debt assumed
to build these buildings must
be paid by the rentals from stu
dents who occupy them We
can’t casually go into debt for
20 years to solve a problem
which may be of relatively
short duration. We have to be
both thoughtful and deliberate
in tin’ decision* we make
Daniel A. Williams
\ ii e-President lor
Ad ministration
Right to party
Iti the United States we live
with unquestionable freedom
Women are free to lie raped and
harassed Two percent of the
population is free to own 54
percent ol the nation's wealth
Tlie remaining 08 percent of us
who unequalh share the re
mauling 45 percent have the
freedom and obligation to pro
led this freedom and wealth
Women who don't get to go to
war pay their dues to society as
targets for rape, harassment
and murder every das
A person with courage who
thought about it might get an
grv and question the authority
of the men who guide our lives
So what does it take to get stu
dents angrv Not rape, rai ism.
sexual harassment or govern
ment-sponsored murder and
torture.
Apparently the needed cala
lyst is a party Several kegs of
I>eer and we are so politicized
that we will throw bottles and
risk arrest in order to defend
our right to party. One activist
made comparisons to Chicago
in 1 *468. Quite a connection! He
may have been kidding, but he
is an accurate barometer of ai
tivism and political morality
today So you have my praise
bight for your right to parts
It's a noble cause, and the
raped. the poor and the dead
will wait
lames Margraf
Kugcne
Arbitrary point
The argument for endow mg a
fetus with human rights at ion
(.option is (vised on the reli
gious (relief that a spirit enters
the (.ell at this point, making it
a person U ithoul tins religious
belief, vvhii li (annot he the lie
sis for law it is absurd to sa\
dial <i single i ell a moment at
ter conception is a person with
rights The cell has the poten
tial to develop into a person (nit
so does tin- sperm and egg
win draw the line at concep
tion? I'here is no chemical
change at conception so mo
mentous as to suddenly entitle
the egg to a status equal to the
mother.
On the other hand, it is also
absurd to sa\ that a child a mo
ment before birth doesn’t have
the constitutional rights it will
have after birth The qualities
that give a child human rights
must develop, along with the
child Iwtween conception and
birth
Because laws governing a
pregnant woman's behavior are
so invasive of her privm \ a
\ er\ strong argument must lie
made that the fetus has (level
oped enough to pistils govern
merit intervention Roe \s
Wade established a somewhat
arbitran lull satisfai ton point
at which a fetus has legallv
re.u hcd tins point of develop
ment To push this i utoff ( loser
to the point of absurdity would
show a i lear disregard for the
individual liberties of women
And. as Lauren I pshaw sug
gesled (ODK. April 21). to leg
islate lh.it a child esists mo
ments after (‘jar.illation shows
reasoning i loudeil hv an e\ag
geraled sense of mast uline sell
importance
Robert St hotieltl
Graduate student
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