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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1989)
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Microcomputer Support I ah Room 202 Computing ( enter Monday -Frida\ 9am-5pni 686-4402 ndhnq f Activism C ont inued from P.iK‘‘ I tally hr sard Although the signilit .ml rise in student inlrr est appears in lie .1 legitimate I rend there is .il wavs the danger id iniifusing Ihr trend with Irendmess Student harrii ades. rallvs and dedir ation dis ruptions are making headlines hut are all nf the protesters representing a true strong-fell ( ause in an the\ there hei ause it is apparently trendy and sni tally ai i eplahle mi the i ampns mm ’ U ill those m the hack ol the pii lure on page one lie there at tile weekend meetings nr tile tedious work ptO|ei ts f Michael Dawson president ol the (iraduale leaching l ellows I ('deration on campus looks on the trendy as per I ol the resurgent o as a posi tive lai tm m the overall movement I leally have to believe that a large majority ol the campus activism this year is suit ere "II it is indeed trendy mm the sou ailed 'in’ thing to do llnm ue t an definitely use that to our advantage People aren’t going to come out un less they re i out erned Dawson.said So, hopefully one o they make that lirsl step to get involved and then are exposed to some of the details ot the problems fa< mg our world and that they i an at tually do something .iIhiu! it, then they- will stu k u tth it as much as they i an \nd I think that is what's going on this veal "Yes. attrition and people fizzling out has al wav s been a problem U ulfers added Hut a lot more people are sticking yyilh it this year Past year, we had approximately ‘it) people at a general interest meeting with almost halt dropping out Phis year yye had more than 100 people with maybe 5 percent dropping out shortly .liter I'rendy? I don't know Hut we've never had these kinds of numbers Some students however are voicing tiled oyy n i uni erns but don't see increased student ai livism as a genuine implement to voile those i mil erns I definitely think that then- are some obvi mis pressing environmental and social issues facing out generation said Pirn ( idem.in. a ju uim anthropology student "Hut I just don't know it all of the i rap that's been going on this term is really rt'flei live of how the lore of com erned students would go about things Stile, these people obviously have good intentions and definite concerns, hut they |iisl seem so unorganized, nothing good really seems to come of it "You almost have to wonder il most of the people ill the hai k are just doing it because it's somehow trendy "( diem,in said The rising interest in student activism has lead to a v irtual explosion in the amount ot ai turn groups on campus prov iding a pollui k ol i auses lot today s students to i boose from Mote than tat action groups representing a wide variety ot social and environmental uni mns now operate on i ampns compared with perhaps half that amount five years ago Pile rei ent resurgence of r oncern has also brought the inevitable comparisons between the rise of student s sense ol sot ial responsibility in the Idle Mils In tli.it of tile building burning d.ivs (if till- lids Michele (aillison. assistant editor of the n.i lional (hmniiltt <>/ Iliflhrr luhir.ition, who has been studying ii.ition.il trends in student ,i< 11\ ism. does not see the ( otnpanson as .1 viable one I think lll.lt oillv the people tli.il have been tnvolveil m both movements i .in in.ike those (omparisons. ” s.nd Oollison. who visited the campus Inst week from \\ nshington. !).<! to i on din t interviews fm her upcoming article in lie (Ihronii le Students themselves don’t seem to want to be assni i.ited w ith the movement of the nits, ev en generation has its own concerns The general nature of the movements is also very different many .u liv ists from the tin's will tell von that ai liv ism hasn't really returned vet. that there's been no significant events or man lies tint there does seem to he an awakening oil college campuses ai ross the nation I'llefc has been a lot ol concern within till academe world as to when it (student activism) was going to show up again.'’ said Louise West ling, associate professor of Lnglish at the l niversilv "Hut it looks like it is hat k "I think that the American puhlit has just been getting tired ot the altitude that the Reagan administration imposed at the outset ot the del ade and now we’re seeing a number ot infra slim lures beginning to break down Tile students definitely seem to he ret lei ting this view " I In- I adversity and the I’ai die Northwest in general have always been havens lor environ men tal concerns, hut this year lias seen a signifii ant awakening of the virtually nonexistent state of student activism i vents this term may well dis linguish tall term of logo as the bona fide return of student ai tiv ism on t ampus Hut ramifications of the some of the events over the last tew months, are leading many uni v eisitv utlii inis and students alike wondering whether the mi leased student a< liv ism is indeed a positive ton e I’he disruption at the science complex dedi cation. lot example toned both llaltield and (aildsclumdt to temporarily pre-empt then speei lies leading Hatfield to plead. "May I have illV tree speei li. too? The ensuing events led University President Myles brand to puhiiclv intii i/e the pmtestels and the Oregon l),iil\ linrr.ihi fm its condoning ot the action It makes V oil vv I Hide i il they re hurting then own cause said junior Hrad Mi (larthv "There’s nothing wrong with people expressing their con i ei ns hut some ot these guvs are choosing the vv rung time and place to do their expressing Hut the ettei ts ol tile recent ini lease ot puhlii awareness are already leading to a new phenoltie non on campus " There are a lot more young people who have a lot ol questions about what’s going on in the world hut gist really don't know what to do said lennifet Diehnel. one of those arrested in the ( l.\ hloikade. who is herself a treshman from Hillsboro "Young people are starting to gel an gry and waul to start making a diftereni e THE GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT lot every member of your "ORF. GON family. 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