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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1990)
EDITORIAL Lonsdale for Senator, time for fresh ideas Harry Lonsdale gets our endorsement for United States senator. He is running against incumbent Mark Hatfield, who is seeking his fifth six-year term. Lonsdale's biggest asset is that ho has never held an elected seat in government. He is not a career politi cian. He is not controlled by political action commit tees and corporations, and does not have to make emp ly |iiuimncs iu in-uivr uuuauuii9> Hatfield is a career politi cian. He receives most of his money from corporations and PACs. Hatfield's power in the Senate brings a lot of federal money into Oregon. But he makes promises to other sena tors for pork-barrel prefects that turn into wasteful pro jects much Itke the Superfund. Hatfield was a big supporter of the Superfund pro ject in which $10 billion was allocated to clean up nu clear waste sites. But the money in that program cleaned up about 10 percent of what it was supposed to. And we still have Trojan. Lonsdale is more in touch with average, working class Oregonians. He started his own business 15 years ago in Bend and works in the private sector. He knows what working people need to do to survive without having to ask, like a career politician must. Hatfield must tour towns to learn about everyday working people because he has spent the past 24 years in Washington. While Hatfield is busy courting indus try contributors, tansdale is pounding the pavement meeting working-class Oregonians. Lonsdale wants a total ban on all raw log exports. Hatfield supports a ban on logs from federal lands, but not on state lands. Hatfield supports a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions, while Lonsdale supports a woman's right to choose. Hatfield did not take Lonsdale seriously until two weeks ago. Hatfield has never lost a political race, and he obviously thought this one was in the bag. The two candidates should debate. Hatfield has re fused to debate Lonsdale, considering him a non-enti ty. But now that Lonsdale and Hatfield are dead even in the polls, Hatfield must change his holier-than-thou attitude. The federal deficit, drug problems, civil rights is sues and the savings and loans debacle are not being dealt with. sftowr 70HiG^T: DucjtS VS. .SlUc s T‘,S^EfUl peAD Wr'RE Ba^iN|§ THfc grateful Dead BECAUSE OF the DRUG USE AND 5an gekous behavior THAT THEIR CONCERTS THE good: mo THE UGLY Students have power to bring back Dead How many letters does it take to get to the chewy center of University decision making? According to our story’s wise old owl. University Vice President Dan Wil liams. so far it takes 12. That is how many letters it took to per suade Dan " There-are-no-tox ins-at-t he-re search-park” Williams to ban the Grateful Dead from Autzen Stadium. Even though Kugene police have repeatedly said the con certs are relatively trouble-free, the accusa tions of drug use at the concerts have driven Williams to make his arbitrary decision. Where was tin? opportunity for Dead supporters to voice their opinions? There were only 30 drug-related arrests and citations at the two shows this summer. Williams is ignoring input from nearly 00,000 people because of a small number who got into trouble over drugs. Obviously there is something more to this decision. The reputation of rampant drug use is only part of tin; issue. If Williams made this decision based on the content of 12 anti-Dead letters, then what happens it Ins office is swamped by hundreds of letters from Dead fans protest ing the decision? Will he rescind the ban and invite the Dead to beer gardens? Something about his reason for the ban smells. If it only takes 12 letters to make policy, why doesn't the University just get rid of administrators like Williams and let the post office make the decisions? The lost revenue from the concerts will have to be made up somewhere. The summer Dead concerts, which pulled in more than $200,000 for the Uni versity, made up the amount that was lost by sending the football team to the Indepen dence Bowl. That's all right; maybe Dan can talk Myles Brand into lifting the enrollment cap and stuffing more unsuspecting "custom ers" into this institution of higher learning. Concerned fans should send letters to: Dan Williams, vice president of administra tion. University of Oregon. t)74(Ki. Make |ohnson Hall the University's Dead letter office. LETTERS Join the gang This letter is in response lo the hearlwrenching. emotional outpour th.it dealt with the sav ing of seats Vour rather sensationalized editorial [OI)H. Oct lit) was nothing short of hilarious This was parfii ularly true of the pas sage that attempted lo equate seat saving (and its "attitude") with major societal problems a mild exaggeration You would think that a re sponsible editor for sm h an honorable publication (not!) i mild shine some lights on top ii s w itli a little more so» tal rel evance And where did you get the idea that people who have seats saved are "irresponsible mem bers of society?" It would seem to me that reactionary journal ists are far more damaging and “irresponsible The seal saving will most definitely continue. in one form or another, so focus vour feeble efforts elsewhere Here's a thought Join one of those organizations th.it you are so quick to condemn and may be a seat will lie saved for you Then again, maybe no!. Mark A. Evert* Student Real men At S:.'t() pm Oct 20, I ar rived at Aut/.en stadium in hopes of getting a good seat for the UQ vs Arizona State foot ball game As I entered the stu dent section and look a seat. I was approached by several fra ternity pledges who informed me that the seat I was sitting in was Iteing saved for their broth ers. Not only were a few seats lie ing saved, hut six rows wen* being carefully guarded! When myself and the three friends I was with refused to move, we were told that we would regret sitting there. Mow right they were' When the oth er memliers arrived they were told to "give (us) a bad time One very verbal memtier pro i eeded to veil main obst ellities at us, and telling us to get the 'blank '' out \\ hen I i onfronted this member, he told me, 'Tin a fral dick, so what?" lie then pushed me In the ground The other members rallied behind him spitting tobacco ( hew on us. This verbal abuse and physi cal assault continued nut11 the end of the game On Sunday I went to the fra ternity to speak. With the presi dent of the house about the in cident In meeting him. I recog nized him from the game the night before He admitted that he was at the game and that he had watched his subordinate verbally abuse us. What kind of president would condone such actions? What caliber of fraternity would allow this to happen? I just wanted to enjoy a good football game Amy Hope Political science hducation It’s just emotion I am writing in response to the "Get Off My Case" and "Outta My Face" letters pub lished last week Fnna M Dole addressed an important issue in her letter: Many women feel frustrated and degraded when lewd stares and obscene remarks are direct ed at them. However, Dole al lowed her emotions to affect her presentation, and she alien ated many readers who other wise might have given this problem some serious consider ation I hope the men and women who read the letters will not ig nore the seriousness of the is sue simply because its presen tation was inappropriate and alienating Ann Swanson Khetoric/communication To the point Grateful Dead is nut a crime Matt Ramsey Knglish Space invaders In response to Ronando Long's and K |. Christiano's let ters (ODE, Oct. 1H): Many women feel threatened when their personal space has been invaded by men with their lewd comments, unsolicited stares and unexpected en croachments. We feel threatened because we are afraiil and with good reason. Violence against wom en is epidemic. For rape alone, the statistics show that one out of three women will be raped and that rape is the most unreported violent crime. One out of 10 rapes is actually reported and the figure may Ire grossly un derestimated. especially in re gards to acquaintance rape, which is rampant on college campuses. It is encouraging to know that them are men who are sen sitive to the issue. I applaud the group Men Against Rape who am working to dispel the myths that surround rape. I imagine it takes tremendous courage to take the stand they do. and I hope that more men and women will educate them selves about the horrendous na ture of rape and how it affects the lives of all those who expe rience it either directly or indi rectly through a sister, mother, partner, grandmother or daugh ter. la>ra Dolan Eugene