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_Editorial— University needs sports lottery game Despite objections from the National Football league, Sports Ac tion - the Oregon lottery game based on point spreads of National Football league contests will prove* to be a good bet in the* long run. The sports lottery, the first of its kind, has ear marked proceeds to aid intercollegiate athletics in the state While it was almost too late in coining. Sports Action is a needed step in the financing of college sports. In the beginning, the NFI. considered Sports Ac tion a threat to professional football, claiming a betting game based on point spreads would lead to possible game fixing by players and coaches. This was a dubi ous complaint at best, considering no NFL teams exist in Oregon, and there is only one NFL team in the en tire Pacific Northwest As such, the NFL has since backed off on any lawsuits, as it threatened earlier in the summer Sports Action is a necessity for state institutions to remain competitive in the Pacific;-10 and other confer ences since Oregon is the only state in the nation that doesn’t provide funds for c ollege athletics through the state legislature. If not for Sports Action, the Universi ty and Oregon State, already pathetically last in the* Pac-1() in quality sports facilities, would sink even lower. University Athletic Director Bill Byrne and most coaches are particularly ecstatic over Sports Action. Although Sports Action may generate only $5 million this year instead of the predicted $8 million, Oregon still should receive between $1.8 million and $2 mil lion this year. An important aspect of Sports Action is that 70 percent of the funds will go for non-revenue sports and 50 percent of that money will go for women's sports. Currently the football and men’s basketball teams, the only revenue sports, have to fund all of the other sports such as volleyball, golf and wrestling. Money from the football and basketball programs can then go to other things such as the completion of the Len Casanova complex, or building more skyboxes at Autzen Stadi um. Sales were slow during the game’s opening week, but sales increased by more than 50 percent during the second week. Byrne feels that the game will continue to grow as more people become accustomed to Sports Action. Sports Action ts a very necessary step for college sports in this state. Funding for state sports is a proce dure that the legislature should have taken up long ago. Hopefully Sports Action will be around for many years to come so that intercollegiate athletics in Ore gon’s state colleges will continue to exist. Oregon l)uil\ I* (I H..x »I<V Eu*r»c. 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Keep Hyland Plasma Center where it is Once again it seems that the mure afflu ent business people ot Fugene are trying to hide or do away will) what they < all "unde sirable” people The Hyland Plasma ('.enter at -to K. 1 Oth Ave is losing its lease Less than a week af ter the Aug 24 stabbing death ot a center donor, the owner ot the building. Daphne Walwvn announced that she would not re new the Plasma renter’s lease at the end of Dec ember She ( tainted that the stabbing had nothing to do with her decision. This is unlikely Downtown business owners have in c reased their efforts to clean up the image around tilth and Willamette The Plasma (tenter lias been one of their main objec tions bee ause they fear it scares awav potential customers and new businesses from the area The people the store owners are afraid ot are the unemployed, homeless and tran sient They don’t even like1 teenagers on skateboards Discrimination has been on the rise the past few years, and these so-called "undesir ables" are taking the brunt of it The Plasma Center is very important to many people in the area and serves two func tions. First, it serves as a plasma collec tion agenc v Many people need plasma each dav and the center helps to till this need With an average of 230 donors daily, tin* center is obviously serving a need in this community. Second, the people who come to donate at the center usually are students, house wives. single mothers and homeless, who really need the money they earn trom the center to survive. Donors can earn an aver age of $100 <i month from their donations and many use that money to feed their chil dren and themselves. So the Plasma Center's office space will be taken over by a store that will serve the needs of only a few members of the commu nity. instead of leaving intact a program that serves people in a multitude of ways So where should these people go? The Kugene Plasma Corporation which is near the Hyland Center serves only 100 people a day. Although the Plasma Corp. says it can take on all the extra people, many donors say they will not go there. Why replace a needed service with just another business? Aren't there enough trendy, fashionable stores in Kugene? Per haps the owner of the building should con sider the needs of the community as a whole instead of the those of the individual. —Letters. Stereotype Once again the sororities ex hibit their women, publicly Ire having and dressing like cheer ing. short skirted junior high school children Sororities probably call this clean, get ting to-knovv-you fun Howev er, it Rape Crisis Network. Men Against Rape, or NOW (Nation al Organization of Women) saw the drifters watching front lawn i heerleading practices, or men actually running to look when sorority pledges blocked traffu . I think they would call it riskv behavior. Iki sororities recognize that sorority girl. little-girl and cheerleader stereotypes are sta ples of X rated films and maga zines that fuel exploitation of women7 What is being "said” to the drifter who recognizes a woman he watched, later walk ing alone? Are they hearing. "II she says no. she < an't mean i!7" Arc they hearing, "She's just a dumb, helpless little thing?" Are victims being cre ated? Kun is fun. privately inside sorority houses; but outside them, perhaps costuming, trivi alizing and parading our wom en in a manner society regards as mindless titillation. should be reconsidered. Also, the looks on some of the women’s faces seem to say it is humiliat ing (i.e.. hazing) to publicly act 12 years old on one's first col lege days: another obstacle to showing one's intelligence he ing taken seriously, having self-confidence and real friend ships. The women of the (Mass ol 'Oil have the highest-ever enter ing GPA. They are our future physicians, judges, congress women. They deserve to be re spected by campus women ol power like sorority leaders, and presented as persons of worth the moment they step on cam pus. Patricia Lambert Institute of Neuroscience -Letters Policy-— The Emerald will attempt to print all letters con taining comments on topics of interest to the Univer sity community. 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