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_EditoriaL_ ODE wants readers to pick new comic Because the Oregon Daily Emerald is a student newspaper, we aren't afraid to look to our professional brethren for ideas and inspirations on how we might do our job better. When we see something we like in another publication and think it might work in ours, we'll leap at the chance to emulate, copy or downright steal that idea. hast spring. The Oregonian polled its readers to find out what they liked on the ( omit s page. The paper collected and tallied the results, published them, and then re-designed the page to reflect what the readers wanted Thai's a good example of .1 paper being responsible to its audience, and ue want to do the same thing. As most folks are aware. Herke Breathed's Pulitzer Prize-winning strip Hloom County ends publication Aug 19. As Breathed's new strip (Jutland will run on Sundays only, the Emerald will have room for another daily (We will continue to run Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury and Gary I .arson's The Far Side). So, we want to hear from our readers what strip they want to see Our staff has expressed an early inter est in 1 arrying Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, hut nothing has been decided yet, and if our readers ex press an overw helming outcry for something else, then we will examine meeting their wishes. Sadly, we offer no guarantees that we tan abide by the results of a survey. There are cost and size! consid erations; lor example the Emerald has passed before on Matt Crooning's hilarious Life in lloll strip because of its price tag and weekly publication schedule. There are aesthetic matters too; we cringe? at the thought of running Mark Trail or some such strip if this survey takes an unexpected turn. But we do want to hear from you. Please send a postcard stating what strips you do and do not want to see to: Comic Survey, Oregon Daily Emerald, P.O. Box 3159. Eugene. OR 97403. The deadline is July 21. Finally, there is always the question on this matter as to whether we would consider a strip done by a lo cal student. The answer is yes, we would. After all. Trudeau got his start at his college paper, and we wouldn’t mind being the* ones to find the next Doonesbury. But any student-run strip would have to be damn funny for us to take it. With that caveat, we’ll accept submissions We ll report the results of the; survey, and our deci sion, at a later time in the; Editorial section Giamatti should send Rose to showers Baseball's All-Star Break has been the traditional time to look back and reflect on the season's pennant races so far. This year however, all the statistical prognostication is overshadowed by one contest: Will Pete Hose beat the gambling charges hounding him? Although this ordeal has already lasted four months and is certain to go on through out the dog days of summer, the consensus forming is that Rose is going to be tagged out If the accusations against him of betting on baseball are found to be true1, he faces suspension for one year If he is found to have bet on the Cincinnati Reds, the team he manages, he faces life suspension from the; sport. Rose demies the charges, but the? mount ing evidence scoffs at this. It seems clear that Charlie Hustle has been hustling on baseball. Lately. Rose has taken his desper ate defense in court. Cist month. Rose was granted a tempo rary injunction by a Cinc innati judge under the1 complaint that baseball commissioner A Bartlett Ciamatti has pre-judged Rose and it will be* impossible for him to gel a fair hear ing. The fair hearing ruling was a farce, coming from a judge facing re-election next year who found his hometown's most popu lar citizen in his courtroom. Baseball's law yers have asked that the matter be moved to a federal court, and it appears they will suc ceed. Once the legal maneuvers are over what happens then? As it appears that Rose is guilty of the charges, is the lifetime suspen sion merited? A chorus of voices across America say that it is not. Those voices are wrong. Baseball’s aversion to gambling dates hack to the infamous 1919 Black Sox scan dal. Once the vice of low men. 70 years later there is now a wide public acceptance of gambling. Folks ask what is wrong with Rose betting on his own team — as long as he has bet them to win, which Rose appears to have done. What is wrong is that Rose appears to have a serious gambling problem, not a oc casional wager excursion for fun. His debt tallies have run up in the six-figure marks before Addicted gamblers are desperate people; what's to prevent Rose from throw ing one game in a lt>2-game season to re coup his losses? The fact that Rose began betting on baseball three years ago. when he knew the penalties he would face, shows that his judgment was already clouded. -Letters Big trees Since our retirement in X‘>7*». my wife and I have made three trips to the Pacific Northwest, each time leaving $2-5,000 out there in travel expenses plus plane fare. More than any single thing your big trees draw us. We don't have them here. We can buy pretty good fresh salmon here but we must travel to re ceive the serenity, majesty and peace your big trees provide Please preserve them We would never travel to see big stumps but big trees, yes! (Iraham K. Hodges Liverpool, NY Smoke-stained Far be it from me to criticize the Legislature, but it does o< cur to me that perhaps the or der of business got reversed with regard to S11425 regulat ing field burning and the bill to change the < olor of Oregon's li ( case plates The license plate bill should have waited until after the House voted down the field burning bill Then the license plates could not only have been ro-colored, but redesigned 1 have in mind a heraldic em blem embodying symbols that truly represent reality for ordi nary Oregonians: Smoke stained greenbacks on a field of burning grass. Mary-l-miise Pasutti Eugene Smoldering This issue about flag burning has me quite concerned After all. 1 thought the 27th Amend ment was going to lie equal rights, but I guess the issue is one of what is "hot" compared to "cold.” and rather than clar ifying whether or not women an? created equal, the issue is a government ploy of chasing smoke (a Washington pastime). I personally would not burn a flag or in any other way deface one; however, for those people who are in tune with the state of the union, they probably re alize that burning a flag is more of last year's style. That is. with the smoldering issue of how the federal forests are toasted, it would've been a more timely mode of protest. This year 1 recommend a means of protest that should leave all concerned parties con tent; protestors should take their flags and dip them in their favorite bay, sound, navi gable river or scenic waterway. _Letters Policy_ letters to the editor must be limited to no more than 2ri() words, legible, signed and the identification of the writer must Im* verified This will satisfy protestors’ desire for feeling that they have properly defaced the flag, and it will obviate the need to cre ate new legislation, as it would now be up to the Knvironmen tal Protection Agency’s regula tions to determine the flags' disposal. Glen Smith Eugene -—Oregon Daily- - Emerald ro Bos Ji.fi. i: The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Tuesday and Thursday during the sum mer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co , at the University of Oregon. Eu gene. Oregon Daily publication begins with the fall The Emerald is operated independently of the University with offices on the third floor of the Erb Memorial Union and is a member of the Associated Press The Emerald is private property The unlawful removal or use of papers is pros ecutabte by law Editor Thomas Prowei! Managing Editor Alice Wheeler News Editor Christopher Blair Graphics Editor Mark Ylen Night Editor Frank Byers Associate Editors Community/Higher Education: Gary Henley Enterlainment/Student Activities: Kelvin Wee Advertising Sales: Scott McAvoy Production Jim Finch. Ted Shepler Ingrid White General Staff Advertising Director Susan Theien Assistant to the Publisher: Jean Ownbey Production Manager: Michele Ross Advertising Coordinator. 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