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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1990)
Editorial Move congressmen in overriding veto After a month of lobbying and a week of intensive mobilization, members of the ASUO and tho United States Student Association arc likely to spend the next few das s anxiously awaiting the results of their efforts Today, the U S House of Representatives is ex pected to begin action on mustering an override of President George Hush's veto of a bill that would allow visiting Chinese students to remain in the United States after their visas expired. lust before the end of the last Congressional ses sion. Rep Nancv Pelosi (l)-Calit ) sponsored the bill in response to last June's Tiananmen Square massac re of pro-domocracv students and the reprisals that await vocal Chinese students who were in this country dur ing last summer's unrest The bill would allow the 4Ti.000 students here the i bailee to stay until they feed sate; in returning to China. Pelosi's bill passed unanimously in both the House and Senate Hush, who has long had a soft spot in his heart for the current Chinese regime (Hush was ambas sador to China 10 years ago and remains clo.sc> friends ot Deng Xiaoping), felt the bill threatened Sino-U.S. re lations and vetoed it Hush is apparently ready to en danger the lives of these students, or force them into silence, in some sort of hazy quest for open markets for U S products — which certainly aren't worth dying for or a long-term allianc e with China that is unnec essary in a time when traditional U S.-Soviet rivalries have fallen aside. The perceived threat to Sino-U.S. relations embar rassed Hush recently when his administration was caught in a lie over secret diplomatic missions to Chi na shortly after Tiananmen. That backlash may carry over to the attempted congressional override. Hut Hush has been working hard on the Senate, trying to protect his misdirected Chinese foreign policy. To counter the president's efforts, several grassroots campaigns have been started among the* na tion's universities to fight for the override. The ASUO and USSA campaign is one such effort, and it appears to la* having some success. I^ast week, about 500 post cards were delivered to Rep Peter DeFazio to encour age an override vote. In the Senate. Sen. Hob Pack wood appears to be on the override side; Sen. Mark Hatfield is still undeclared. There are still opportunities for students — all stu dents — to get involved in the Pelosi movement. To day. ASUO is generously sponsoring a phone-in cam paign in the Suite 4 EMU office between 8 a m. and 2 p.m. where students can call their state congressmen and let them know where they stand. me tsas kiippr r* h\ IHHEIT U VMENTWff 8t HMfBK... Mew residency rules will lessen diversity II there's one thing the l adversity ad ministration has been rinphasi/ing lately, it s the need lor a mure diversified student hudv I he I'niversitv prides itself in recruit ing folks, hum .ill walks of life, w hie h makes lui ipiite a melting put ut ideas and i ultures That melting pot. however, is likelv In have a few less ingredients in the coming vears. due to strii ter resideni v rules recently approved h\ the Oregon State Hoard ul Ilighet Education. Heing prni homed a resident In the I'ni versilv is a pretty lug deal, considering that it costs a nun resident nearly llirrr times mure eat h term to attend school In order to iec eive resident \ status now a student must either live 111 the st.ite for I.! consecutive months while attending the university 01 live m the state for sis months without at tending si lion! In addition, under the pres cut system, a student who is exceptionally smart 01 talented i an he awarded resideni v status right away The new residency rules dictate that the unlv wav a student can get in state tuition is if he or she lives here lor 12 consecutive months while attending a university The other two provisions are soon to he made ob solete, it seems Win the change? Our residency rules are ( onsidered a bit too "liberal in compar ison with tlie standards of other state schools Hut it's a major mistake to do away with the provision that encourages top-rated scholars to consider this school. Without the meritorious student provi sion top qualit\ students on tin* other side of the ( ountr\ will undouhtedlv lose interest in our si liool hei ause of exorbitant ( lists As a result, we Oregonians will lose out on the opportunitv to be exposed to the customs and crazy ai < cuts of those "foreigners" from Alabama or Maryland The t'niversitv is probably thinking of how much extra money the out-of-staters will ( ontribute due to strii t resident v rules However, the administration seems to be ig noting the fat t that that main non-residents are likelv to ignore us now when they might have ( onsidered attending here before Without ,i little leeway in resident \ rules, our the members ot our diverse stu dent hoik will become more similar, and the melting pot w ill he much more bland Letters Tyson a wimp? (live us .1 break Mike l.eland ■mil Hill Kiiss. ll! (()l)l |.111 I "| |t■ Montana . milil vrr\ well lie t In* lies I You ( laim Montana is medio ire lift ausc hi. throw s short pusses Yes, he usu.ilh doesn't throw pusses over J > vurds i guess you gu\s forgot lh.it the idea of foolhall is to gain Inst downs \ I most all ipiaitf rbacks will agree the\ are more suciessful throwing shorter passes and completing first downs than launching mten options At mild Schwarzenegger must lie your model of a c|iiillterha. k Itesides. if von reallt watched the \I ( i hampionship vou would have observed Moil tana's aliilitv to 'thread the needle You also i omplamed that Montana li.is one fourth of his plavs a I read \ written For your information the Montana n! tense c not.tins about 100 differ ent plat s eac h w ith three or four variations The offensive c oordmator mat randoniK c all a run or pass plat. hut Montana ( houses U till It VdMUt loll lo I'M' ( ute I urthermorc. win did vim gins s.i\ ili.il Unit.is .mil St.in Ikii h i ailed "ni.iii\ " o! lin n ovv n plays Main doesn't mean "all Montana also i .ills mam ol Ins own plavs •’ Nk e trv llin Kins rememlier the "ge inns led tin mu i- sum Miners to thri'f Super Howl wins in eight years 1 ran onK guess you Kins .lie sine liei aiise yotli team didn't make it to the Su pel lion I Don’t li\ to degrade a good team or a great <|U.irtei I Ml k ( 'mon l.eland and Ktissell Next \ou ie going to tell us that Mike l \ soil is a w imp Brian lardme T< \ Another unicorn When mv friend |ohn Shenon related to me Ins vision ol the unit urn (O/)/-.'. |an 17| I was skeptual ot i nurse I'd never know Shenon to lie a liar, hut how i an one believe sut h a fan last it storv ' Despite nn skepti i ism. I h.111 im nun \ isi«>11 thiil night I was pacing through the lal t*sI On-giro Win e 11111- Count down to Mmagoddon issue) when suddeuh Irotn under the lied, the umi orn i aim- i harg ing l or a moinenl. I feared I was going Id get tile horn, hut Id mv relief I gul a message in stead Pineapples will indeed sal e tile H in Id Consider I lie ideologues who tint casiugh till this editorial page with their own selfish so lotions to the world's proh loots Isn't il so roliev ing. so enlightening to know that uni corn's solution is so simple? I don't know what you have planned for the morning of Max _’M hut I II he eating m\ pineapple Kirk |epsen Student Good morning It s funny that these letters seem to he written h\ the same people over and over again People that trv to think tor the "good ' of everyone else, and who w ill tind problems in ev ima .is|)e( I ul human existence I bis is humorlcssh depress inn .mil boring, sou are what you see You will liiul vvliat sou v\ ant to I mil in .mix and all humans and their actions I Ion about some jokes like I said to the !l\ your man is open " Or some positive vibes for all is stressed out students a creative poem 01 song I love smiles v\ ith iiiv morning i offee ()l course I nn Hughes (01)1 |an 15) will find something homophobic m the words "you suck" when obsession.dlv dis sel ling every word Yet. I also sink lollvpops and straws though language is not a per lei I wav of expressing con i epts, it's the best wav of com munii atitig So. relax ladies and gentle men when vou hear bin or lady. or I'ven girl Oh im (aid I said tin' tut; (. u ortl in Kugene 1 also ask all ot you who drive cars which pollute our euv iroumcn! drink coflee Imni plantations where indigenous people .ire exploited. own leather from slaughtered ani m.ils smoke i igareltes from ( apitalistu greed mongers and who then try and preai h about m\ humanistii propensities beliefs, diet, etr please re press voui neurosis for your orvn psychotherapeutii ses sions Hei ause as mommy al yyays said, "il you don’t have anything niie to say don't say any thing .it all Nave a splendid day in school. Mil hael St hell Anthropology /Six iology -1 otters Policy_ The Emerald will attempt to print all hitters contain ing comments on topics of interest to the University community. 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