EDITORIAL
Joe’s campus car lot
gives off bad fumes
A student is currently charged with misusing per
sonal property because someone stapled some not-so
seusitive fliers to a display case. So if that's misusing
University property, what do you call it when |oe Ro
mania uses the EMU south parking lot to sell cars?
Apparently attempting to make a political state
ment is "not proper use" of the University but selling
cars is.
Now, that 's an education.
Is there such an abundance of parking on campus
that the University is renting it to someone whose goal
is to sell more ears to students?
All this occurs at a time when the University is en
couraging students and faculty to find alternative
means of get
ting to campus.
This includes
giving refunds
to anyone who
turns in their
campus park
ing permit,
opting for the
bus or a bicy
cle.
Joe Roma
nia has two car
lots just a short
walk from cam
pus. If graduat
ing students want to check out Joe's latest selection of
shiny convertibles and sensible family cars, they can
easily walk over there and do it.
Many causes, such as blood mobiles and "theme
weeks" have legitimate reasons for taking up campus
space. In such cases, the groups can batter justify their
use of campus, for example, by providing a service that
is not readily available.
The current Street Faire and this weekend's non
profit Willamette Valley Folk Festival are ventures that
serve the whole community. The small vendors of the
Street Faire are mostly handcraft merchants who have
no permanent residence for their businesses. Besides
trekking to Saturday Market once a week, students
would not have access to these vendors Joe Romania is
open every day of the week.
Joe Romania can use campus billboards, publica
tions and any other form of creative advertising. bu»
students and other campus guests should not have to
give up parking spaces and an educational atmosphere
in order to save a short walk for some people who want
to shop for cars.
This is no big controversy You won't see any pro
tests or flag burnings, and no one is going to be pun
ished under the Student Conduct Code for it But the
University campus shouldn't come with Car Lot In
eluded.
This is no big controversy.
You won't see any protests
or Bag burnings, and no
one is going to be punished
under the Student Conduct
Code for it. But the Univer
sity campus shouldn ’t
come with Car Lot Includ
ed .
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FORUM
‘Hate crime’ case teaches lesson
By Marlene Drescher
Many people apparently misread the rei ent
newspaper .irtn le on so called hate fliers .it the
University There vveri' two unrelated sets of fli
ers
Commentary
I "he first set depicted people of color (who were
desi tilled as homosexuals) with targets superim
posed on their heads 1 hese fliers had hateful
threatening language on them, and they were
plat ed under the door of the (.a\ and Lesbian Alii
ante and distributed in a way to directly intimi
date minority students and gays Unfortunately,
there was insulin lent ey idem e to lead to the per
petrator of these hate fliers
A second unrelated set of fliers was intended to
i onvey an anti war message in a satirical manner
that linked militarism to misogyny The attempt
ysas clearly amateurish considered uilputriotii hy
some and ineptly drawn
(hie of these fliers showed a Patriot missile in
the shape of a vibrator Many people thought
these lliers wen- si-\ist ratliei than perceiving
their intended purpose of cntiiizing sexism and
militarism
It was this set ond set of fliers that was intensely
investigated in ,in unprecedented manner by the
University Some people believe the investigation
was ptirsiu*tl so zealously bin ause ol .1 "i hie" that
lhi‘ 1nak.1T ol tin- llu-rs was a li-sbian
An rasiK identifiable lesbian ininoritv commit
inly al tin- University was heavily investigated
and disrupted; three women were wrongly ac
Clised and severely traumatized The woman who
is being defended In the Office of Student Advo
i ,na is not 1 harged with a hate 1 rime or with ha
rassment. hut with violating the Student Uonduct
( ode h\ "misusing personal property" lor taping
the tlier to a glass r ase and tor satirically stating
Order forms available at the Uollege Kepublu an
office" on the flier More than Jilt) hours ol cam
pus sei urity stall time were devoted to finding the
alleged maker ot these fliers
Many lessons can be learned from this unhappy
set ot circumstances One lesson has to do with
the tension between the First Amendment and ot
tensive or misinterpreted speech Another lesson
has to do w 11h the mistakes of well-intentioned
people mi hiding the maker and the investigators
of the fliers
M-t another lesson is how the least-protei ted
members of society are the first to get hurt when
authority figures become overzealous
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LETTERS
Stupid idea
It seems "cultural diversits"
has lit'iiimc iht* phrase dial
pa vs on I he 1 hmers it \ campus
Hut isn't i uitural diversits
lust .1 sneaks was nl saving al
Urinative action?
Non know affirmative ac
turn the uie.i that we as a soi c
et\ tan uven time centuries nl
i uitural ami economii oppres
sum of minority groups hv pro
milling a token number of mi
mints group members to posi
turns for which dies .ire less
i|ua!iftoci lor than svhites or
Asians The vntf result being
sse .is a society ssill achieve
rai la 1 harmons eroiuinm ipial
its and perhaps even world
peat e
It's a fine and wonderful
idea e\i epl il s stupid
Anthony Stumbo
Six iology
Healthy blast
I lead yyith interest, Lisa
Milligan's story on the la< k of
interest in the open house on
the $jr 1 million makeover of
the Knight Library
I am a longtime advoi ate of
libraries 1 am usually happy to
hear about plans a community
may have for keeping libraries
turn tional for their community
members
I am also a longtime advoi ate
lor healthy living environments
and green spaces (who h in
t hide oxygen and shade pro
y iders m the form of trees
lyvo things | appreciate as
deeply as a good book or great
building) After several hours
ot study in ,i i lust'd fat ilit\ I
not only like a nic e vt.dk
through the trot's, hut I have
found that I need that healthy
blast of fresh oxygen
It is obviously too late to altei
the architet tural design of the
library to incorporate those
trees whic h must have taken at
least 70 years to mature How
ever, I would like to thank the
designers for attempting to cor
rect this horrendous mistake by
planting new trees in their
place.
Perhaps the new trees will
reai li the height of our re< noth
felled trees by the time some of
our grandchildren are attend
mg the f diversity
Theresa Scott
Graduate
Counseling Psyi hologv