EDITORIAL
MacDonald, Tollenaar
for the city council
Eugene needs a city council dial is responsive to
ihe community. We endorse Randv MacDonald for
War*! I. and Ken Tollenaar for Ward 5.
MacDonald is bring dial
longed by Dick Briggs for the
seal lasing vacated by Emily
Schue MacDonald is a progres
sivo with the ability to listen to
all sides of an issue He is the
former president of the Eugene (.ity Commission on
Minority Rights and a recent graduate in political sci
ence. with honors, from the University.
Briggs is the governmental coordinator for the Eu
gene Chamber of Commerce. He wasn't planning on
running until MacDonald went to the Chamber of Com
merce explaining his positions and his willingness to
work with them.
The Chamber of Commerce was worried. They did
not have their token candidate picked yet. so Briggs
bravely stepped in.
Ken Tolienaar is our pick for Ward 5. We believe
he is more focused on local issues because of his back
ground in community involvement. He currently
serves on the Eugene Planning Commission and was
president of the Cal Young Neighborhood Association
twice.
Tolienaar supports community oriented police
policies and wants to protect the Willamette Greenway
against "conflicting land uses.”
His opponent, Kaye Robinette, served on the 4J
School District Budget Committee from 1981 to 1983.
The voter pamphlet statement says that "Robinette is a
fiscal conservative and a moderate on all Other issues.”
The recent elections of Bobby Green and Paul
Nicholson to the city council show that Eugene is tired
of the ol' boy network. The Eugene City Council can
continue its progressive turn for the better with the
elections of MacDonald and Tolienaar.
We don't need a city council that refects citizen
referendums such as the Nuclear Free Zone. Nor do we
need a city council that unilaterally wants to open Wil
lamette Street. They are spending $60,000 on designs
that exclude the option of keeping it closed, even
though many citizens support keeping Willamette
Street closed.
We need a city council that listens to the commu
nity. and accepts the community’s needs and wants.
Vote for MacDonald and Tolienaar for a responsible
city council.
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Lighten up and appreciate Stanford’s band
Be forewarned, a band banning epidem
ic seems to l>e sweeping the Northwest.
First it was the Grateful Dead getting
barred from Autzen Stadium. Now the Stan
ford Marching Band has been suspended for
at least a week because of their half-time
performance at last Saturday’s Duck Cardi
nal game.
The band, in a well thought out and en
tertaining presentation, poked fun at the
current timber owl controversy raging in the
state. It was a non-partisan satirical presen
tation and should have been received by the
audience in the spirit in which it was meant.
But apparently some insecure Oregoni
ans can't stomach the idea of those "Califor
nia kids making fun of us."
Oregon’s band director said the half
time show offended a lot of people. But
there were also a number of fans who appre
ciated the humorous tone of the the show.
Face the facts. The environmental and tim
ber groups have been engaged in a name
calling. no-middle-ground, chaotic battle
that has made very little progress toward a
solution. The Hand didn't create the prob
lem, they simply made light of the contro
versy — something cartoonists do to enter
tain us everyday.
While the band's shows are not the ac
cepted format for half-time entertainment,
they are more attention grabbing and enter
taining than the traditional march-in-forma
tion variety that drive most fans to tailgate
parties or the Alumni Tent.
The Stanford band should be congratu
lated for their attempts to revolutionize half
time entertainment. The band should not be
punished simply because the message of
their show was unpopular. That is censor
ship. They did nothing obscene during the
performance, and it did not breach national
security. So, maybe Oregonians should suck
it up a little bit and laugh at themselves.
If censorship advocate. Jesse Helms,
loses his re-election bid in North Carolina he
might want to look into the college adminis
tration field. There seems to be a new trend
there that would accommodate him well.
LETTERS
Ad prey
ll would appear that the km
erald staff has fallen prey to ad
vertising In the Oct. 30 issue,
an editorial ran with the head
line "Roberts refreshing change
in politics." This comes direct
ly from her slogan. "Change
will do us good."
I agree with that slogan,
however. liarlsira Roberts is
nothing more than Neil Cold
schmidt plus ten percent. The
editorial called Roberts a
“doer" and not a "thinker." I
believe this statement when I
look at her programs. She
would have to raise $201 mil
lion to fund her programs. This
means higher taxes
Furthermore, the editorial
hammers Dave Frohninayer on
he grounds that he will not be
ible to make "the strong and
■introversial steps necessary to
form public school and high
er education funding " I'm not
sun1 that controversial is a pre
requisite for effnt live reform I
do know that Frohnmaver fa
vors $!>() million program to
improve higher edu< at ion sala
ries in order to attr.u t lietter
professors to this state. Roberts
favors only $-tf> million for the
same plan which she forgot to
include in her budget sum
mary It makes you wonder if
she really supports higher edu
cation improvement.
This is s a very big election
for Oregon The Register-Guard
endorses Frohnmayer, and 1 ask
you to, also. Everyone is asking
for a change. Frohnmayer is the
only candidate with the knowl
edge and experience to begin
the change in politics that this
state so desperately needs.
Walt Postlewait II
Political science
louraalism
Logical
Measure 10 stops all abor
lions except in the case of in
test. rape and threat to the
mother's life Strong points
have been made Abortion is
the murder of an innocent life.
I’m t hoice for the mother is no
choice for the abortion. Abor
tion is cruel torture and the tie
strut lion of human life
A question to consider In the
case of incest, rape or threat to
the mother s life is the unborn
that is aborted any more re
sponsible for the one who was
aborted in in the accidental
pregnancy? If you follow the
same logic, incest and rape vic
tims should lie forced to keep
their unwanted children also It
is hypocritical to say "save the
babies" on one hand and then
allow their "destruction" on
the other.
A proposal: Instead of letting
anti-abortion activists decide
who can have an abortion and
who can't, why don’t we let ev
eryone individually decide?
Remain pro-choice.
Aaron l)eas
Political science
For choice
We've all heard a lot of rheto
ri< over the last few months
fnun the supporters ot ballot
Measure Id. the so-called "pa
rental notification" initiative.
We've been told Measure 10 is
a > ompassionate measure that
would improve family commu
n (cation.
The proponents of Measure
10 say they don’t want to re
strict abortion, "they just feel
parents should be involved in
their minor children's lives" —
an ideal we can all support.
I think it is important that we
examine the real motives before
we vote. Measure 10 is spon
sored by Kight-to-Life, an or
ganization whose agenda is not
to make families more function
al, but to make abortion illegal.
If parental notification laws
really helped families commu
nicate. they would be support
ed by — even sponsored by —
organizations of teachers, so
cial workers, family therapists,
doctors, psychologists and psy
chiatrists.
They are not!
All of these organizations in
Oregon oppose Measure 10.
this measure is a first step to
ward restricting abortion com
pletely in Oregon by making it
unavailable to the most vulner
able women in our society —
those who cannot vote.
This measure is so punitive
to doctors that they will stop
performing abortions for mi
nors, and Right-to-Life is well
aware of that. It is up to those
of us who can vote to preserve
the right to choose for those
who cannot vote.
Vote no on Measures B and
10.
Sara Stankey
Student
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