LETTERS Dead wrong In regard to John Higgins' letter "Deadly Cuts" [OOF. Nov 12) While I don't net es sarily agree with the (irateful Dead being banned, there are some facts you need to get straight. The athletic depart ment has a large impact on our school and most other large universities. The University is in the Pa cific- 10 Athletic Conference. It is a conference full of presti gious schools. If it were not for our athletic department we would have to drop out of the Par.-10 and would be known on the same level as schools like Portland State and the Univer sity of North Dakota. Now. I am not knocking those schools, but I don’t be lieve those schools are known as well academically, even though they have their strong points. However, we are presently in tln> same conference with teams such as Stanford. Berkeley. Washington. UCLA and USC all excellent universities. Now, about our football pro gram Higgins stated. "Autzen rarely fills to capacity while our classrooms are overcrowd ed to pay for football scholar ships." The extra student en rollment this year is due main ly to the shortfall in last year's enrollment, not to pay for foot ball scholarships The University’s foottmll pro gram has a $2 million profit per year, and the men's basketball program has a $1 million prof it Those sports pay for them selves. plus they help support non-revenue sports sin h as women's basketball, volleyball, golf. etc. Ulus, this year we broke a single season attendance re cord. and in 1980 we averaged 40.000 people per game He proud of our school, as well as our football program The University's athletic de partment had nothing to do with the banning Oh veah. Vo fonlball .Vo Ant /rn No place for the Dead In play in the first place Paul Kegali Student Cop out I would like to si't tlu- record straight in regard to the 1'nu‘r aids headline "ASIIO closes in one-day protest " 101)1' Nov ir») Tins headline was niisle.nl mg hi that it was assumed all branches of the ASM) govern ment shut down This was not the case The Incidental lee Committee is a distinctly sepa rate branch from the Kxecutive We did not, nor will we in the future, engage in "visual state ments” that harm the effective operations of the student groups we are empowered to serve. Such a tactic is not in the best interests of the student body either The shut down was a cop out by the ASM) Kxecutive. The Executive wanted people to “reflect on the consequences of what has happened and of what all of us can do to head off the impending crisis " This shows just how perplexed the ASUO Executive leadership really is. Why weren't the co-presi dents reflecting on the conse quences and coming out with immediate reaction(s)? Well, probably because they chose to shut the doors rather than open them iiiul attempt In address tin* problem in a construe live .mil straight forward wax Leadership is alMiUt addressing issues and Inking a stand So, what's it going to lie' Li I her lead, follow or gel out of the wav' Let's gel lint k to where substance can rein over imagery. Lei's gel down to work and serve the .students well And that ini hides keep ing tht* doors of government open to everyone Michael S. Colson ASHO Incidental Lee Committee Chairman Don't miss it Don't make the mistake of missing the photography exhi bition. "Contact: Photojournal ism Since Vietnam." at the University's Museum of Art After viewing this work, per haps you will become more aware of the world crises and less focused on your own per sonal problems The exhibit ends Dec. 2t>. Annette Holden Art history Steam Boy. am I steamed! The sub jec t. of course, is over the Uni versity vending machines. Sidestepping widely the whole South Africa Pepsi Coke issue I'm talking about cost Cist year I decided that the going price (t>5 cents) was way too much for my favorite non alcoholic beverage, so I stopped buying from the ma chines. But when the price ac tually ini reased by a nickel last week, it was too much. The way 1 figure it. the vend ing company has the entire stu dent body in a virtual choke hold. Several thousand si n dents with no time or energy are victims of the easy meal and seek comfort from the big red refrigerators With su< h a situation. I would think that a company could make a healthy profit using a reasonable mark up of 100 percent over the cost they pay for the product But what's the mark-up on a 70 cent can of soda? 250 percent? (00 pen nut' More? This is outrageous Boytott. I suv Hove olt’ Walk down to the i onveruonee store ami huv a drink Bring in a twelve-pack ami steal some fridge space Co on a hunger strike, even Hut Imivi oil the vending tnat hi ties I am using drinks us mv ex ample, hut the same argument applies to the food mat limes where the price has also just in creased. and you can spend T>0 cents for an ounce of potato chips In fact, while I’m on a roll. I could also mention the low cost performance ratio of most of the KMU food unnth er case of a captive audience flagrantly ignored and trodden over Hut I digress Chet S. Haase CIS Department How secure Is Aulzen Stadium sis uritv fur real? They protected » 'I'v The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday except during exam week and vacations by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co at the University of Oregon Eugene. 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