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Emerald Erdlt01*10.1 Daily Eugene was fooled by NFZ opponents Are Eugene's voters fickle anti easily manipulated, or are they solid, sensible citizens? That's the question on everybody's mind as the aftermath of the campaign for a stronger nuclear free zone vote is analyzed On Tuesday. Eugene's voters rejected Measure 20-01, the proposed nuclear free zone charter amend ment. The fact that the measure was defeated is not as surprising anti alarming as the tact that the meas ure was shot down overwhelmingly. After all. 20-01 was basically the same measure that was approved by a similar huge margin in 1980. The original nuclear free zone was pared down to a symbolic gesture by a city council that saw constitu tional problems where it looked hard enough. A minimally revised version, closer in spirit to the original intent of '8<i zone supporters than the city's thin gruel NFZ. was on the ballot in 1988, and again was overwhelming approved. But the city count il saw fit not to enact this zone either. The latest round. 20-01. would have placed the NFZ in the city c harter, whore it couldn't be tampered with at the caprice of city council members So what happened between 1988 and 1990? Eugene’s voters were told by 20-01 opponents, "this one goes too far." They were told the NFZ was anti-business \s proof of this c laim, they were told they could look Ruhr Industries' decision not to locate in Eugeni* They were told a strong NTZ wouldn I meet a federal challenge bee ause the < ourt had just ruled .in NFZ in Oakland (.'alii .unconstitutional The c itizens of Eugene believed what they were told, bec ause that's |ust about all they heard \1 Z op ponents greatly outspent measure supporters in cam paign expenditures Eater in the c ampaign. there yvere charges that "Yes on 20-01" signs had been rounded up by oppone nts and trashed It's unfortunate that responses to potential prob lems with the stronger NFZ weren't heard Then. Eu gene's voters might have understood that Rohr never had serious plans to come to the c ity, and that the NFZ yeas a negligible factor. They would have heard that the court ruling on Oakland's NFZ was inapplicable to Eugene's matter, because 20-01 specifically exempted tederal nuc lear ac tivities. Oakland tried to take on a I' S Navy base: that was Oakland's mistake A symbolic NFZ is a nice gesture but an empty one That's what we're stuck with now; the voters say they're happy with it. That's their prerogative, but you have to be cynical about their decision to stay yvith a toothless NFZ It appears the dec ision was made less out of satisfaction and more from their buying the* big lie from people who bought the* elec tion __ Oregon Daily _ _ Emerald PI) H><\ »!<*» t U|jrnc Oregon V"4U» The Omg Daily Emerald >s published M- ■- Jay through F nday ! 1u»mg •••at’1 Af(‘k and vacations by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing C at the University of Oregon Eugene. 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GOALS OF EDUCATION Man's issue 1 have watt lied 11u• anti i hoit c people burn dnyx n Planned Parenthood buildings burn down i Iinit s severely on dangei the lives of people who work there physically harass and menially abuse women w bo are even ismg their rights undei the law and then speak out about life lining sailed I bis is an example of iiiipiisi tion mentality in the name ul ( aid ' If they prevail, women will bei ome tiiminals, abortions will go underground, sex edu cation and planned parenthood will disappear Is birth control next ' A new dark age of sexual ignorance will reduce women to breeding stm k I bis is a man s issue of the utmost importance How many i on pies have bad to dot ide be cause their birth control failed' Would you like your life part net to have to go to a "coal Itanget i linn ’ Or be told rvliat you and your partner can or i annul do by religious fanatics wanting totalitarian control' We already have thousands ot unwanted ( hildren, do we need more And it the i liild spirit was meant to get to earth, (aid might be able to tint! another body for it I be dei ision for an abortion isn't made alter brushing your teeth It's not a convenience and not soon forgotten Let’s support the rights of our friends Pro-choire doesn’t ton e spei itn beliefs on any one Those who believe it’s bad can choose according to their belief, but not have the right to i boose lot others (iary Darby Kugene For Lonsdale He's the ant I politic inn poli tu ian And he's running against the ponderous politic al momentum of Republican in c u m be lit Mark Hatfield Yet Harry Lonsdale, candidate for L S Senate, is confident he can win if he can get his mes sage out To begin with, Lonsdale be longs to ,i rare breed of < andi dates in that he refuses to take i ontributions from special in terest or lug business political action < oinnuttees Instead, he is relying solelv on individual contributions to finance his i ainpaign bonsdale is pro-choice, mi like Hatfield, who supports .1 constitutional amendment to ban all abortions, even in < ases of rape and ini est As ,1 businessperson and an environmentalist. Lonsdale is the founder of a research firm tb.it has pioneered environmen tally sound technologies I'o strengthen the Oregon econo my. he favors economic diver situation providing jobs and maintaining Oregon's quality of life lie also proposes a bail on lumber exports, preferring finished goods, which would 1 reate jobs Lonsdale's views match those of most Oregonians, his challenge is to connect beliefs to ballots In a contest over is sues and integrity'. Lonsdale would win Whether these can negate Hatfield's advantage in campaign spending will be up to the voters to dec ide Don McIntosh Political science Persecution I am a heterosexual Christian writing in response to the homophobic letters written by fidlow (Ihristians I believe in human rights for all people, and am very upset when people w ho are taught to "love thy neighbor as thy self persecute gays and lesbians As a Christian, I listen to )e sits' words and try to live by them He is, after all. the word of Cod made flesh Jesus never c ondemned homosexuality when he was upon this earth The passages usually c ited by the homophobic: Christians try ing to persecute homosexual people are found in Paul's let ter to the Romans. Chapter 1 Paul once persecuted a group of people w hose ideas were dif ferent than most of society's: Christians He persecuted those letters whom he did not understand So. might I add. art' vou Being skeptical with parts ot the Bible. ,is I am. does not mean vou are a bad Christian Martin l.uther and other "church lathers ' were skepti cal with i ertain passages and books of the Bible Open vou! mind and learn to distinguish between the word of Cud and the bias of human authors I Jo spite what vou might like to be here, not everything in the Hi bln was written through divine interv ention Being Christian means learn mg to love your enemies and your neighbor as yourself Be iug homosexual means vou love someone of the same sex as vourselt When vou think about it. homosexualitv and (Christianity are both about love and being (Christian. i an you find any tiling wrong with love' \\ il t.arbor Biology Not welcome I would like to express my apprei iation to the l-.MC Board for dei idiug to discontinue the sales of l’ln\ bu\ and Penthouse magazines at the I-CMl Main Desk Store. These magazines portray sex in an impersonal way that is completely void of intimacy and respect They also portray women as objei Is for men's sexual satislai tion This in turn i an lead to women's inability to be taken seriously by men in their careers, classes, relation ships and other aspei ts of life On this particular issue. I think women’s rights to live (list rimination free lives by far outweighs the pornography in dustry's right to freedom of speech By not supporting the exploi tation of women for profit. 1 feel the I \1C Board is sending a message to the University that this kind of attitude is not wel come here Valerie Kbner fournalisni