EDITORIAL
HEP needs more
respect in future
If you have driven down Agate Street, you may
have noticed the small wooden shacks across the street
from legendary Hayward Field.
These are not storage sheds or maintenance shacks
some of them house the University’s High School
Equivalency Program
The 23-year-old program prepares migrant or sea
sonal farm workers for their (IKl) exams. It is time for
the administration to find some ways to bring the pro
gram out of the barrios of Hast campus and into the
mainstream
HEP. which has a graduation rate of 85 percent,
has a $425,000 budget per year from the federal gov
ernment The program pays the University for both
dormitory use and student services However, mem
bers of the program must tak<* classes in the shanty
town atmosphere provided for them on Agate Street.
Their access to mainstream University (lasses is limit
ed. keeping HEP students on the other side of the
campus.”
If a goal of the University is to provide equal op
portunity education to the people of Oregon. HEP
needs to receive more respire! Making HEP students
feel that they are less important than the rest of the
University community in some way is not a positive
way to foster in them a desire for education.
Although half of HEP’s graduates go on to college,
program Director Steve Marks Fife said the majority of
them choose to go to school at Oregon State Universi
ty. This could her due to better recruiting methods on
the part of OSU. but more likely it is because HEP
members may feel they are not. or never will be. com
pletely accepted by the University community
It was nice of University President Myles brand
and other administrators to visit the program the
first time administrators have visited HEP in quite a
while. But a once-a-year visit with a few pats on the
back is not good enough.
Brand and the gang from Johnson Hall should
come up with some serious ideas for bringing one of
the University's most successful programs in line with
the rest of the University. The hard-working students
in the HEP program deserve to be treated like the rest
of the students at the University.
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Garage plans parked, now build housing
The parking garage plans for the Alder
Street tennis courts have been put on indefi
nite hold. That's good news. The University
needs affordable student housing much
more than it needs additional parking space.
We say no parking structures, period. It
only encourages people to drive their cars.
That encourages the consumption of oil.
Which, in turn, encourages the United
States to send 500,000 troops to the Middle
East.
There are many other alternatives to
cars. Every fee-paying student has a bus free
bus pass for three months. It might take an
additional 10 or 15 minutes to get to school,
hut the savings on gas and car care would
compensate.
Bicycles are already used by manv stu
dents. Sure, the rain can be a problem, but if
one cares to read about U S. history, we
have faced greater obstacles than getting
wet.
Car pools, park-and-rides and shuttle
systems could be set up to accommodate
people for all times of the day. Too many
single-occupant vehicles are driven to cam
pus today.
The University took neighborhood resi
dents' concerns into consideration before
moving ahead with parking garage plans.
Although it’s a $150,000 too late, at least the
University is willing to look into alterna
tives.
Forget any new parking structures near
campus. The University needs inexpensive
housing near campus.
If students are close enough to walk,
they won’t have to drive.
LETTERS
Flag team flop
I'at Hansen's letter {ODE.
Nov. 7) would like us to "sit
beck, appreciate, and above all.
enjoy watching perhaps the
premier marching band in the
nation."
While the marching hand is
Ok (Stanford's is certainU
more creative, humorous and
exciting), thi' flag team is an
emharrassmtmt
My friends and 1 cringe when
they take the field. As a team
they seem to lack even the most
fundamental < oordination
skills, their outfits are pathetic
and the movements appear to
have been choreographed by a
dead fourth grader.
We watch Ixxause we have
to. we laugh because we must
and we cry because someone
outside our fine state might see
them.
let's save some money and
use the flag tram to guard the
goalposts or something
Kawika Holbrook
Student
Proud
I'm sure many of us can now
better appreciate the compas
sion of our greek fraternity sys
tem, as partially embodied by
Fred Roellig {ODE, Nov H).
Some people might ask
“Gracious me. what organiza
tion would possibly want to
harbor individuals who deliver
veiled threats, practice mind
less violence (and then trv to
deny it), exhibit intriguingly
primal social skills and gener
ally act like puerile, obnoxious
human beings?"
I pity the naive and ignorant
And what was Amy Hope
thinking, trying to fight I mu k
legally? Sillv girl The whole
incident was her fault in the
first plat e
We all know that only the
Greeks have to pav tuition and
student fees. They an- the ones
responsible for funding the ath
letic programs and keeping up
general maintenance at Aut/.en
Stadium
Therefore, why on Karth
should we object when they de
cide to appropriate a small part
of the stadium for their person
al use?
So, congratulations to the fra
ternity members involved, ku
dos to the ever-vigilant security
people and thank you so much
for making me proud to be .1
pari of the system
Mary K. l-ocke Klein
Student
Vicious tripe
The letter to the editor [ODE.
Nov HI on the “thrashing on
the security crew by the stu
dent body" is one of the most
asinine < ommentaries | ever
hope to read in the h'nwrald
Its writer, who is obviously
getting little from his educa
tion. is apparently under the
impression that it is OK to do
stupid and dangerous tilings,
up to and including injuring
other people, in order to "get
rowdy ami have a good time."
This is an increasingly com
mon. and IhoroughK con
temptible. perception these
days The writer ol that letter
should Ih- thoroughly ashamed
ot having written such vicious
tripe as should the Emerald.
lor printing it
Michael h. Stamm
hnglish Dept.
Reality brief
We can’t legislate choice.
People always have a choic e A
person could choose to kill me,
and if they evert* < lever enough,
never get caught
At the present time then- are
laws whic h tell people "don’t
kill Bob." This reminds them
of what the soi iety has deemed
as right It doesn't remove their
choice.
On election night I was asked
tn a woman next to a "no on H
and 10" sign il 1 had voted yet
I soberly said "ves. but if mv
mother had exercised her
choice another time. 1 wouldn't
even be hen? to answer you "
For a moment she just stood
then- Her whole cause had just
been knocked out from under
her by a brief encounter with
reality She then turned to
someone on the other side of
the street corner and began ask
ing them the same question
I have no desire to "force
people to think my way." All I
( an do is share w hat is true in
hopes that someone will know
the joy 1 know.
C.od loves me He was suffi
cient tor Noah in a world where
there was "only evil all of the
time." so I sure don't need a
majority believing what I do to
he content in this world.
It might have been cool hav
ing an older brother growing
up. though. If the law had been
there. 1 probably would have.
My mom regrets the choice she
made, but she has one son who
loves her.
Bob Weigel
I.ab Tech
Disco library
Hey. why go to Guido's?
Why not just go to the main li
brary on a weeknight to social
ize? Everyone else does. We
might as well put up a strobe
light and bring in a disc jockey.
I figure since it is impossible to
study at the library, why not
party?
If I were to rate the noise lev
el of the library on a richter
scale of one to ten. it would re
ceive a seven.
The other night in the li
brary. 1 kept hearing this ob
noxious voice constantly ram
bling on and on. I looked up
and to my astonishment it was
one of the ladies that works at
the library. 1 thought to myself,
what a great role model for the
way students should behave in
the library.
Enough with the sarcasm. All
I'm trying to say is that the li
brary should be a place to
study, not socialize.
Brett johnson
Eugene
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