Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, May 29, 1990, Page 3, Image 3

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    Letters
Not dorms
In response to lay Johnson's
Ma\ 22 letter. 1 would like to
propose that the most popular
living accommodations on
campus he referred to as clor
mitories.'' not dorms
A dorm" is often stereo
typed .is a large facility lor the
imprisonment of new. imma
tore, unsophisticated students
who spend most of their time
sleeping, eating pizza, plaving
pranks and destroying them
selves as well as their sur
roundings
A "dormitory." however, is
a spec ions environment lor stu
dents to come together in a
warm, bonding, familv-type or
ganization that promotes more
intense, high-powered stuck
mg c onditions
While we are on the' subject
whv shorten birth names when
that only connotates vouth and
immaturity? Why have slang
when it involves such chnppv.
lineduc ated sounding terms
that are not at all proper in
ll e/i.s/er'.s? We could go on
pondering forever um
what v\ as viiur name again ’
Cari t .roghan
Physic al Therapy
Good images
I am interested to know how
Valerie Idmer decides what is
and what is not exploitation
IODI-. Max 18). Are all nude
pictures of women exploitive'
It so, what about the ones
whii h appeared on the walls of
the I All' in a rei ent photo ex
Inbit'' And what about all ot the
nude women in i lassii art' Did
Tell us
what
you think.
Please tell us
what you think by
filling out the
reader survey in
the Oregon Daily
Emerald on
Wednesday, May
30.
——Oregon IXuh_ _
Emerald
O.iViiK i have exploitation in
mind whim he siulpted the Ye
mis I)e Milo '
Miner may argue the repre
sentations in exhibits are art
and the pictures in l’liivhn\ are
pornography, hut what criteria
could she possibly use to de
i ide this r
besides. exploitation and
objei til a ation go both ways
Walk down the floors ol some
of our female dorms and one
will see plenty ot pit lures ot
nude male chests and buttocks
pinned to the doors
Miner objei Is th.it I’Livhm
and f’rnthousr " can lead to
a woman's inability to be taken
seriously by men in their i.i
reers, < lasses, relationships and
other aspet ts of life I he
problem is mm h more i omplex
than this, and making the pur
i baser yvalk a ferv more him ks
for his magazine is not going to
change .1 thing
Women yvill continue to he
taken more seriously in this so
i lety regardless of the arailahil
ity ot nude publii ations The
Whoopie (inlilbeigx, Molly
Yards and Tracy Chapmans are
In mg testimony
Miller's cause would he
mui h better served and respei t
ed if she promoted yvhat she
feels are good images ol women
and didn't ailvoi ate 1 ensorship
ot the ones she disliki's
Timothy Wetilier
TCI
Poverty
I’overtv is piirtlv reflective
partlv subjective Some sav
povi'rtv will alvvavs he vvilli us
The government should assist
the poor iii mss the nation In
providing funds and passing
laws that guarantee over', suit
able dwelling new and old
alike, he provided with elet
tru llv plumbing and ( lean wa
ter
t here are plai es in A mem a
where families live in shnhhv
lints with no bathroom The
business of the government
should be to help those people
Pete Kona
Graduate student
More scripture
And he went up from
them e unto Beth el and he
was going up In the wav there
i iime forth little c hildren out of
the citv . and nun ked him, and
said unto him. Go up, thou
bald head, go up thou bald
head
And he turned bat k and
looked on them, and nursed
them in the name of the l ord
And there name forth two she
bears out of the wood and tare
fortv and two i hildren of
them (II kings J I■ j41
Si oil Itishnp
Kugene
_ letters Policy
Tin' IjihTtihi will attempt to print .ill Idlers i unlain
ing comments on topii s ol interest to the I nirersitv
communiH Clomments must be tai tuallv .iii ur.it!'
.mil retrain from personal attacks on the character ot
others
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