EDITORIAL
Give ICC new tax
base, yes on 2001
A vote for Lane Community College is a vote for
education.
The Emerald endorses Measure 20-01. which
would boost LCC's tax base by more than $3 million a
mar.
ICC playa a vital role in our
community. The Dislocated
Workers Program has drawn
rave reviews from people who
have lost their jobs in the tim
ber industry. People making ca
reer changes receive training
and instruction, not only in
spwmc occupation*, out a iso in suonuning |oo appli
cations.
A community college's mission is to adapt to the
community. It responds to student and employer
needs.
Lane had to turn students away this fall as it expe
rienced record enrollment. Lane simply does not have
the money or resources to serve all the students who
want to attend. With University admission standards
toughening and tuition skyrocketing. LCC remains a
haven where students can complete two years of
school at about half the price.
Classes at LCC are small enough that instructors
actually learn your name. They believe students are
more important than research projects. Individual at
tention can mean the difference in determining wheth
er an older, non-traditional student continues after his
or her first term back in school.
LCC is able to serve older and returning students
easily because there are no grade requirements. In fact,
many University students who encounter academic
probation attend LCC to bring their CPAs up.
But LCC has not had a tax base raise in 10 years. It
cannot afford to meet the rising needs of the communi
ty without establishing a new tax base.
Education is supposed to be a right, not a privi
lege. However, when the local economy falls, more
people attend school. It is incomprehensible to turn
away students, especially at a community college.
Lane’s night and weekend college courses show
that LCC will bend over backward to accommodate stu
dents. But without an updated tax base. Lane will have
trouble continuing its current level of programs.
Vote for Lane Community College's new tax base.
Remember, some day your children or parents might
want to enroll for training and classes. Someday you
might have to enroll there yourself.
HAVE A |
PAY
Bucklina up decision should be vour own
Tht; polio* just don't have enough rea
sons to stop people in automobiles, so sup
porters of Ballot Measure 9. the mandatory
seat-belt law. want to give them another
one.
By making the non-use of seat belts an
infraction, officers will be able to pull over
anyone who they suspect is not wearing a
seat belt. This means d they don't like your
car. the color of your skin, tin* length of your
hair or the stickers on your bumper, they
can pull you over with the "probable cause"
that they didn't think you were wearing a
seat belt"
Many voters who favor the law may sim
ply believe that citations for not wearing
seat belts will be given out only if you are
stopped for an unrelated infraction. This is
not the case. Measure 9 is a staunch en
croachment on personal liberty that would
allow police to pull people over for almost
any reason
People should wear seat belts because
they do save lives. Hut it is not the role of
the government to make decisions for
adults. Without Measure 9, Oregonians are
free to use seat belts and to remind loved
ones to wear them as well. In fact, Oregon’s
seat belt compliance rate is already above
the national average. Automobile occupant
deaths in the state are were lower in 1989
than in 1988 — without a mandatory seat
belt law.
C.iving up the right to make your own
decision about seat belts may seem trivial at
the moment, but the long-term result of tak
ing these kinds of decisions from the indi
vidual is a government that becomes oppres
sive and out of control.
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “They
that can give up the essential liberty to ob
tain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
When you consider that more people
suffer from heart disease than from automo
bile accidents, it would follow that the gov
ernment should be working harder to insti
tute mandatory diets rather than seat belts.
LETTERS
Once again
I am writing to clarify soma
points m my first letter which
were obviously ill-taken by
some.
In regard to Todd Helton's
letter (ODK. Oct l!l). the issue
is not my friendships and rela
tionships with men I know or
have known Some of the
friendships which I value most
highly are those I have with
men. I did not write about peo
ple who ask me "for the time of
day." "how I did on a lest" or
w hat I think of a particular sub
ject. (And yes. I do appreciate
compliments from people.)
To quote myself. I wrote "to
the men on campus who invade
my own and other women's
personal space.. I write this in
respect to several incidents in
which you approach me es
pecially when I am alone
and speak to me as if I know
you intimately, make sugges
live catcalls and or look at me
as an object
To define these people fur
ther. I refer to those who follow
me. who approach me when I
have no idea who they are and
ask uu* to go out or do other
things with them, those who
direct very sexually implicit
gestures at me. who make cat
calls the list goes oil
I thought that the difference
between the time of day and
these things which I just de
scribed should he understood
without my explanation What
does it take to validate my
point?
As for the letters from
Renando laing and R.|.
Christiana, both of you should
ask your female friends what
does offend them And. what
exactly is a "happy gal?"
Knna M. Dole
Student
Real terrorists?
According to a recent article
(f)l)E. Oct. 18), Dr. Vanderlip.
dirtn tor of the University office
of Veterinary Services and Ani
mal ( are. stated the two Rhesus
monkeys on campus are "hap
py "
I find it insulting to hear how
doctors of the animal rescan It
community i.m consider a
monkey ttut is being held
against its will, poked, prod
ded. deprived ol sen ialization
and denied any "real" exert ise
as"happy
Furthermore. Vanderlip
states because of acts of terror
ism more money was spent on
security rather than exercise
cages II the research communi
tv is undertaking this project,
all measures of well-being
should lie addressed regardless
of any extraneous factors.
Vanderlip goes on to portray
all animat rights activists as
vandals and terrorists and that
they achieve their ends through
violence. Hut I ask who is real
ly committing the violence
when electrodes and coils are
implanted in an involuntary
subject's body, and then dis
posed of?
Monica Semeria
SETA
Not violent
In the recent article about the
University lab monkeys. I feel
Dr Vanderlip made some com
ments directed toward the ani
mal rights community that
ware very unfair.
Regarding animal rights ac -
tivists and their attempts to halt
the monkey research he said.
"If they want to change this
then they have to do it by
means other than violence and
vandalism."
This statement implies that
the only approach animal
rights activists have taken to
stop research is "violence and
vandalism."
It may surprise Vanderlip to
learn that many animal rights
activists don't support violence
and vandalism and that only a
very small percentage take part
in these acts.
In fact, we have used many
means to try and stop the re
turn of non-human primates to
campus We have gathered sig
natures on a petition to stop the
research and held information
al tables and non-violent pro
test We have written letters ob
jecting to the research and
speak with those in charge of
research including President
Brand, John Mosley anil
Vanderlip.
We have also raised our con
cerns to the 1ACUC. the people
who are supposed to be in
charge of the monkey's welfare
Unfortunately, all of our efforts
have met with little or no re
sponse.
There is one approach we ha
ven't tried, and certainly are
not going to try. and that is vio
lence and vandalism.
Kathy Yonker
Political Science
LETTERS POLICY
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