EDITORIAL
Slow down
A month ago I watched .1
mother rate her hubs stroller
across Agate Street her a use
there is no safe r rossiilg he
tween I'rth Street and loth
Street
With the return of daylight
savings time and warmer
weathei everyone is spending
more lime outdoors this in
i ludes more t ars and motor
hikes on the roads and hit v
1 lists ami pedestrians
As the business of the at a
demit term est illates so does
.mother at tivity I am parte u
lark t ont filled ahout petit .In
an safetv near Mean parking lot
oil Moss Street anti all the
streets feeding the lot whit ll is
lot aletf between campus proper
anti I asi campus famik lions
ing
I am one tif more than 100
student parents of more than
100 1 hildren who t ross the
streets They are on their wav
to st I100I to play 1 hey are t“\
Iremek vulnerable to the thou
sands of tars that are driven
through our neighborhood
Our student government lias
begged the t it\ anti the t hover
sits to design t hanges to im
prove (onditions We have
talked with some individuals
who use the parking area to
drive slow k 111 and out ami to
understand there are t hildren
around
Some drivers leel verv insult
ed when a mother veils slow
down Again, on behalf of the
parents 1 hildren and bit v
1 lists I ask til i\ ers to slow
dow 11 and for the I -niversitv
and the 1 it\ to at I now
I here have been at t ulents
so far no deaths or serious inju
lies Please respond iiet ause no
one wants tins mess to result in
a <11 1 t all
Man Tegel
hast (iampus
Neighborhood ( mint il
Bike sweeps
Tin' ()ffi« »■ uf Publii Safety
has rci I'nllv stepped up ifs pa
Iruls of I.aw rent e Hall in sean h
of illegally parked bicycles
The issue involves the fire
code lai k of rack space Ihefl
and vandalism, building main
tenant e and more I'm sure
My main content is mv need
to (mint on transportation late
at night \n\ time I 'm ill I au
lent e II.ill after dark I'm going
to have my bike in llie build
mg
If I w ere to ( nine out of the
building at midnight and find
mv bike missing or vandalized
I'd tie in trouble Tin* issue is
itiv personal salelv and I i an I
< omprumise that \ qua k stir
vev in mv studio, (after the lat
esl OPS sweep) With between
11 and I t students present re
veuled 1 I bikes stolen and
three vandalized (ollei lively
I lie threat is real
There have been various so
billons suggested and some are
prettv good but thcv aren't lie
ing (onsldered None have
lieen implemented and the OPS
sweeps are cap hillg me and mv
efforts to protect mvself in the
middle
It s mi redible that the offi
(ers of safety are working
against mv safely This should
be a non issue I ill satisfied
that this ( all be resolved to the
satisbu lion of the fire marshall
code and I don’t understand
tile resistant e
( arid PaddiM k
An hilei lure
No panic
I was greatly disturbed by the
/rnera/(/'s (hone of headlines
(April 12) in reporting the
bomb si are at Johnson I fall
The headline read lohnson
Hall Bomb Scare Clauses Pan
i( Nowhere in the artii le was
it uidliated that there was a
“ ouiluams is safe omtwikd wrm a triple.... and it locks like tme sox
WILL UAVE TO TAKE A TIMEOUT ~TO RENEGOTIATE MIS CONTRACT. "
paiiit It seemed that people
11 ere corn erned w Im
wouldn't be but the impres
sjon I got "as the on I \ paint
going im was that nf the head
line writer who is apparently
but It11114 fur .1 |nti uith the Yu
tiiin.il Enquiwr
I'lease tie more ( .ireful m the
future that the headlines reflet t
the story and got over tIlf tie
sire to heroine a sensationalist
newspaper unless of course
von intend to start marketing
the imrrald in supermarket
idler knot lines
Ihe Knwr.ild might also
think about .in apoiogi to the
stall in |olinson I fall
Norma Sax
bailor I tint ation and
Kexeari h ( enter
Fuzzie facts
lie a volt for the 20.00 lab
oratory animals who suffer in
silent e at the Inner sits of Ore
gun read the flier advertising
Donald (fames’ talk (April 8)
sponsored bs Nf-.' I A
I'hc t adversity doesn't. in
fact havi- 20.000 animals, hut
rather houses 17. ">70. as of the
|an 21 too 1 i ensus B\ impli
ration the fiver suggests that
those supposedly suffering am
muls are all warm fu/./.ies
r ats and non human primates
In tin- interests of ar t ur.it y
the truth is as follows (these
numbers are public ret ord and
available to all. including
si-rr vi
(If the 17,ri7() animals HI 7
pen ent are fisli (zebra fish and
r u hI ids) 0 ‘1 pert ent are am
phitnans. la 1 pert ent are ro
dents (rats anti nut e| The total
remaining 0 1‘) pert ent are
tats owls rabbits ami non hu
man primates
furthermore those of us who
work vv ith these animals do not
believe the\ suffer, m silent e
or otherwise Kish are. hv their
nature, rather silent, but these
fish are cared for far better than
those found in most pet stores
or home aquarians
The same goes for the warm
fuzzies flood science can't be
done hv studying sick or mis
treated animals Animal activ
ists such .is those m SK I A mat
feel that no si ience is good si i
ein e if it uses animals; the v ast
majoritv of the puhln feels tilt
ferently. and is interested in
seeing that research continues
as long as the animals are
treated humanoh
Trai i Hoi k
Coalition for Animals
anil Annual Keseart h
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FORUM
No money? Don’t count on Bell for representation
By Fritz Blair
Dues Marie Ill’ll represent you in tIn*
Oregon state Legisiaturi”1 II von live on
i ampus. or north or west < ampus from
I i to thf Willamette Kiwi or it you at
ti’iul thf I’niversiW, tin- answer is proh
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Commentary
Hut it you arr a student thru Iht* .111
siver is no Ili i ausi’ shi1 li.is shown re
pi’utt’illv in truth words tiiul ili’i’ils th.it
the intfri’sts ot students are not her in
terests that those of us .it the l imrrsiH
mean little to her
On April 17. six students from the
I -niversitv and !.(!(! tr.neled to Salem to
lobby their interests to several of their
Senators ami representatives Of the
ones thr\ visited. Hell alone did not
meet with the students in person. 111
stead sending an aide Steven Baugh
man. to answer tin group's questions
The aide was decidedly evasive when
asked about Hell's general ideology, and
when elaborating said "I don't want to
get that specific.
Marie Hell s aide upset and angered
the Kilgene students, hut their dissntis
tai turn was not about p.irt\ polite s
I lies lame to Salem with a bipartisan
agenda focusing on toxii s redin lion
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legislation and m bool funding
However Hell s apathy Inward the
t'Diversity related issues frustrated the
students irnu h mure than am stain e on
them Although students make up mure
than It) percent o( Hell s constituent*
she refuses to take their needs seriously
I list rut -t 1 is "too big fur Hell to ade
ipiateK lepresent admitted her aide
who perceives a world where only
"muiiev talks " and overly "idealist!*
students with their "heads in the
clouds" don't i nun! fui mm h 1'he
spokesman fur Hell went on to sa\ that
He It OSl’IKt . AM () or the athleli*
department (Hell) does nut represent
these spe* nil interest groups
Representative Hell does, however,
practice an "open door" policy where
"anyone no matter il she agrees with
them or not" * an speak with her (nr an
aide) and sire will lend an eat ()t
course, what ele* fed offii i a I does not
promise at least this mm h? Hell also
pursues some very positive legislation
concerning the rehabilitative disposi
turn of sox offenders demanding that
I hex attend at least one of the victim's
support group
On most othei subje* Is she |usl has
not done her homework though Abol
lion and the rights of homosexuals, tor
example, are issues pertinent on cam
pus Hut Marie Hell is not interest in ei
ther Haughman would sn\ that Hell op
poses abortion but ( ould not speak on
i! I urthermore. In- atiniitt«*ii that sin1
had "never discussed' hnmosi'\ualil\
in her off it e
(dearly she c annot resolve student re
hili'il t nnflii Is it slif will not address
Iht'in Kven it the I'niversitv were "ton
sheltered a world for students to be
able to make responsible political
choices. Hell does not fare much better
oil i ainpus than on When asked about
industrial regulation and toxic waste
Hell's aide ([noted her as saving th.it she
would ac lively neglec t a clump that was
killing people favoring "free enter
prise over a positive life threat
Hell has so little regard for students
intelligence it nothing else that her
spokesman misrepresented the facts on
the suhjec t of i ampatgn funding The*
aide told four supposedly naive stu
dents that I’Atls, groups notorious for
promoting needs ol wealthy corpora
tions. had not been a part of Hell’s elec
lion Hut when confronted with infor
mation to the contrary, he quickly con
tradicted himself by saving, "Yes. there
were substantial contributions (from
I’M s)
Thi‘ hist time OSl’IKC went to Salem
the\ brought Marie Hell over >(((I post
cards on one single issue a formidable
amount from anywhere In explaining
how Hell then disregarded those filltl
student opinions, liaughman said tbe\
were "insubstantial with no meats
and potatoes" to them
liaughman said full length letters
with "in-depth supports" lor the posi
lion they take would have an increased
"psychological effect” on Hell who
would then take the students' opinions
into account
Mo matter what Hell believes stu
dents are. by and large, well-informed,
voting citizens with specific needs I bis
is especially true of those at .1 public m
stitution like tin- University, which is
dictated by the state Legislature There
fore, students simply cannot allow their
voic es to go unheeded any longer Me
in' Hell needs to be shown th.it our
opinions do indeed count
int/ llluir is a student <)t the I '/meisi
tv.
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