FORUM Act quickly to avert Measure 5 cuts By Traci Manning With tilt1 passage of Ballot Measure r>. main agencies throughout the state are left wondering what is going to happen The higher education system is no e\< eption Commentary The only thing that is obvi ous is that the money allocated to the state system schools is going to be cut: how much will be cut. how long it will lie be fore the money is replaced, how the money will he re placed and from where the cuts will come are all unanswered questions. However because these delu sions have not been made, we students have an opportunity to participate in the decision-mak ing process. As University President Myles Brand noted in his address to the University Assembly, all options are being entertained as possibilities Among these options, some will he better for students and others will la; worse The words "significant tuition in ( ri'.ist*" have been used as fre quenlly as have ideas fur pro gram elimination, lav offs. etc There are two primary firings lo consider Kirst. the l Ini versi fy will have less money starting |uIv 1 1991 Therefore cuts and or new ways to generate revenue must be dei ided upon soon Second, students have the opportunity now to help make these decisions Students in fact, can be a critic al element in this process Itecause as stu dents. we have information that the governor, legislators and administration don't have we know how these ac lions w ill affect us The ASIJO and the Oregon Student Lobby have already be gun the process of organizing students to voice our needs There are things that students at the I iniversitv can do A tuition increase of signifi cant proportions is being very seriously considered Letters and commentaries .is to how this will affect you personally are very persuasive Priorities will need to !»■ set .is tii what is thf must impor tant whim it uimi's timi* to make inis or raise tuition We ... to determine what the pri unties of students are amt to tie i ertain that they are heard For tills we need student input In many cases there will lie opportunities for students to speak dins tlv to the derision makers and to lie at meetings where these issues are ills cussed As students, we need to demonstrate our determina lion to be heard in this matter and force decision makers to re ali/.e they have no choir e but to hear us Information is available in the ASl!() offn e com eruing the above activities Come to the ASlI() office at Suite -l in the KMC or call at Hi. 17J-4 During this brief period of uncertainly. we students need to move quit kly to organize We need student input ill this process. If you have any con i erns or opinions you would like to have heard please step forward Traci Shinning is the ASlK) state affairs coordinator LETTERS Williams is right As furor grows over the ban ning of the Grateful Dead, we are once again being inundated w'itli protests from the ill-in formed and those who want them to stay that way. The Uni versity banned appearances by the band because of complaints that it appeared to condone drug use by allowing the band to use University (Athletic De partment) facilities from people who make it possible for those facilities to exist Opponents of this move keep quoting Kugene Police statements after last year's event about how little trouble there was with the crowd. I fail to see what this has to do with the reasons stated by the University for banning the Dead. Everyone seems to lx? for getting that this lack of "trou ble" included al>out forty ar rests for drug-related offenses. It seems to me that there was plenty of basis for the com plaints. 1 am also surprised by the failure of the Emerald to men tion all of the facts in their re cent articles about the situa tion Of course, what can you expect from a paper that urges a vote for David l)ix solely on his pro-choice position and his ability to pork-barrel, not on his inability to handle funds lor his party or his own campaign without breaking the law Matthew IV. IJrbv Accounting Dead statistics The recent decision to side line the (irateful Dead from Aut/.en Stadium next summer reeks of a powerful blend of hypocrisy and ignorance, lhm can we expect youth to take the "drug problem" seriously with such glaring, officially sanc tioned contradic lions? Figures from a 1‘IKH research study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse credit our sot ie tv's two most harmful drugs for a total of 471,000 deaths annu ally in the United States These two drugs art* used heavily in a shameless and irresponsible manner during most events at Autzen; their ( hemical names are ethanol and nicotine The one notable exception happens to lie Dead concerts, where the major drug category in evidence — marijuana and other, stronger hallucinogens accounts for a total of 75 deaths annually, according to a NIDA study. Can it l>e that those who run the show have on< e again been caught in an embarrassing lie' Is it possible that the cancella tion of this ris k and roll group has more to do with outright prejudice and bigotry concern ing a relatively small subcul lure's chosen styles of dress. 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