_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\
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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
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