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.
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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
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