_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
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