EDITORIAL
Revenge motivates
labor leader's trial
If any students have University adjunct professor
Dennis Gili>ert for a physics class, be warned: he'll be
absent this morning, lie'll be in District Court. Gilbert,
a self-proclaimed ‘‘community labor organizer" has
been charged with two Class C misdemeanors.
The charges stem from an incident that took place
in the front yard of Morgan-Nicolai Plant manager Le
eRoy Pasquini's South Eugene home. It was the second
anniversary of a bitter strike between Local 3035 and
the Morgan-Nicolai door manufacturing plant that
started when employees were asked to take average 30
percent pay cuts. Morgan-Nicolai hired replacement
workers and busted the union. Several union members
planted 150 small white crosses in Pasquini's yard.
The crosses symbolized years of lost family wages
Gilbert is the only person of all those involved to
be charged for the action. He is facing fines of $500 or
30 days in jail for each alleged violation. This is obvi
ously an attempt to persecute Gilbert for his beliefs. No
harm was caused to Pasquini other than having his
lawn aerated for free
Gilbert said the group put the crosses in front of
Pasquini's home to remove the plant manager's ano
nymity in the community that he “harmed "
Pasquini filed the charges against Gilbert, not be
cause he was injured in any way. but in another at
tempt to "bust” the union one more time. Gilbert is
not a union member (replacement workers voted to de
certify it anyway), but he has been one of the loudest
voices in the local labor scene.
Gilbert has accepted the role of martyr for the
movement and is playing it for all it is worth If the
wheels of American justice do see fit to send Gilbert to
jail for his alleged "crimes" against Pasquini. at least
it will bring the actions of the bottom-line-first door
company to the light one more time
Eugene Country Club
opens doors to women
In a common-sense move the members of the Eu
gene Country Club have voted to admit women into the
elite all boys club. The members of the country club
should be congratulated for walking into the modern
world: even if it is a little later than the rest of society .
All people should have equal access to any estab
lishment. institution or organization. The era of divid
ing the world into homogeneous groups is painfully
and very slowly coming to an end. And every step tak
en in that direction helps out.
Don't expect to see women flaunting membership
to the club anytime soon, however. There is a three
year waiting list that is already filled by men. One hur
dle in the path of equality was overcome, but obvious
ly there are many more.
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LETTERS
Childish attack
Regarding "Not Hudson Van
(:uron"
Adrian Wallace's temper tan
trum toward "Hudson Van
Curen" is unbecoming to an
artist. espe< tally one who holds
as many credentials as he
claims
Creative criticism is wel
coined by most artists hut we
tan all do without petty and
purely envious insults
I am surprised that the Emer
ald would print such a < hildish
attack
Kociu Carrera
Kugene
Might or right?
In her letter to the editor
|ODE, Feb. 7), Vk kv Trallis as
serted that "might makes right,
my friend."
In other words, it is accept
able for a larger, stronger state
to use violence to coerce a
weaker state to act in a manner
acceptable to the mighty, Logic:
like this justifies Iraq's invasion
of Kuwait, in which a stronger
state overcame a weaker one.
Following her logic, Trallis
would say that Iraq is "right "
Isn't it more accurate to say
that "right makes might?" In
this case, neither Iraq nor the
United States would be very
mighty.
|av Nusbaum
Political Science
Not funny
Aren't we just the highfalu
tin' self-righteous hypocrites of
the "liberal" world?
If there was an incident
where a gang of blac k teenagers
killed a white person and the
incident was drug related,
would you consider it tasteful
or responsible to print an edito
rial cartoon implicating that
black teenagers, in general,
were murderous drug villains?
I don't think su!
So now, because a few farm
ers in the Bend area became
verbally nasty and decided to
exercise their right to freedom
of expression regarding an
opinion expressed by a college
they support with their tax dol
lars. the Emerald has taken it
upon itself to depict all farmers
as conservative, blindly patriot
k uneducated, narrow-mind
ed . (Hiring and la/.y bigots. Gee,
I wonder bow many other mis
dire< ted. narrow minded, un
educated stereotypes you can
come up with for people you
don't agree with.
The printing of the "Farm
er's Profile" cartoon by Mike
Russell (()l)h|an H|. without
referent e to the extreme hypo
( risy of it is a disgrace to the
integrity of a newspaper that
touts open mindedness Or is
this typical of a newspaper that
believes in open minded ness so
long as no one disagrees with
its self-righteous, egocentric
view of morality?
Nelson 1). Sherry
Biology
Grieve for all
OK. let me see if I have this
straight
According to Vicki Trallis
{DDK, Feb 7) the cost of free
dom is 12 dead Marines, eight
of which were killed by
"friendly" fire With friends
like that we had to go all the
way to Iraq to find enemies?
Think of all the time and ex
pense we could have saved by
simply killing them at Paris Is
land and Gamp Pendleton.
God bless our soldiers, in
deed Hut even more important
ly. let's hope that She will pro
tect them from their own com
rades.
And by the way. 1 am not
ranting 1 am grieving for all
the young people who are be
ing placed into the world's
largest meat grinder for no oth
er reason than to undo the for
eign policy blunders of the Rea
gan and Bush administrations.
Robert Parker
English
Anti-commie
To all you commie-loving
anti-war liberals. The solution
to the end of the war in the
Middle Fast: Nuke the Arab na
lions Support our president.
Support our troops Let’s win
this one for the Clipper.
|im Bridge
Primary Education
Ignorance
In observing the reaction to
the Persian Gulf War, we can
not help but observe the igno
rance that often prevails even
the best intended of protests.
We feel that ignorance pre
vails wilt re protesters claim
that this is a war revolving
solely around materialistic
gains, such as oil. rather than a
war for democracy and free
dom Oil is just one of the
many reasons for the war
We are also fighting to rid
the world of a mad. ruthless ty
rant. In order to have world
peace, one must first eliminate
all the problems. One such
problem is Iraq. We feel that
with the riddance of Hussein,
world peace would finally be a
reachable goal There is no ar
guing this fact.
If we did not stop them who
would? Hussein would attempt
to conquer Israel and others out
of hate, and before long, we
would have another World War
II Kih:uII that Germany invaded
Poland while we stood by and
watched and did nothing. This
time. Amorica decided not to
let history repeat itself.
An; you supporting tyranny?
Is this what you protesters
want ? Do you protesters believe
in freedom for other people?
We can not allow one coun
try to invade another and ex
pect to get away with it. This is
unacceptable in the world to
day. We are proud that our
country is standing up to this
barbarian who has been twisted
with years of hate and aggres
sion. This killer must be
stopped at all costs.
fonathan Bernstein
Accounting and finance
lira Bridge
Primary Education
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