EDITORIAL UFO abductee You students tannot know the incredible sense of power and control I felt upon seeing rm name in print Hut alas i! seems mv work is not vet done. I have not \et Itcgun to gripe Trees with souls? Three hull died shuttle (lights to the death of the planet? The president taking heart trouble just to since us Yeah and I'm a I d o abduc tee with secret in formation ahull! the alternative find possibilities ol i orn flakes The knee |erk re.ii tionaries in tins town need to lav off the green bud and I. S i) (live the I lead .Kennedy ret ords a rest long enough to figure out that the secret police don't really exist At least keep vuur para noid delusions out of tile c am pus paper I can i in'! mi! hi iiii'> potion* llat kvvoillls pi)t it II at < eSS|HK)l ill a town fas! enough 1 he slavers ilia! awaits me in an Alaskan salmon cannery will lie a welcome relief from lllls ilell (ihris I’haris line Arts Pornography Rape anil violent o against woineu is ,i \er\ i omples sm lal problem that Inis been in e\is lent e long before the fits! pub lii ationol l'l.i\lm\ In sai that rape is caused bs "pnrnnxra phs is a verv limited analysis of a soi nil problem Yes there are men vs ho have raped and read P/uv/xn Hut then- .ir»* f.ir more m«ht men who have read Playboy and not raped Wluit .in mints tor this Saying that reading Playlnn causes ra|ie smat ks ill s< ape goating a very large and tom (ilex sim i.d phenomena Also there needs to he a laig er perspei live on the si ope and definition ol pornography Suite the onset of MI'S tin video and magazine pornogr.i pin markets have boomed a thousand iuld People are staying home and doing their business alone lie lurid i dosed doors l! is t.onlrib lltlllg to keeping people alive and Safe awa\ from the threat of AIDS Could it he that the issue ul "pornography' is larger than the women's issue7 (amid it Im' that pornography is play tug a i onstrui live rule in this age of MIPS7 Jeffrey Woolner Student Choice Regarding Sarah | Satre s letter |( II II■ M,i\ 20} I Ixdieve she misunderstood led I erguson's letter l()l)l Miiv I t) by interpreting it to sa\ that "ipieers have an at (eptahle sexual drive " lie in fac t sav s I laving a sexual drive Ini members of the same gender is very foreign to me I guess it is at i eptahle foi you He does not sav he ai ( epts it or that It Is a( ( eptahle I le M/tfBe. WLLiew^Hefi: Nor id ccrwiw AECUT CUR RULINGS eRCDIWG FeRSCNAL FPeam. /»**»* merely re spot Is (' (Iocs not h.itc 'I von ns liulividunis of a different lifestyle I here is a differeiue between the polite al movements ol pen pie of tailor ami people of 0 to $1*0(1 tor tun bedroom apart ments ( urruntlv two bedrooms at Araa /on go tor $ I IH, s lr»7 at Westmoreland, and $180 to 'silo lor last ( ninpus bouses I hese low rents are a result ot tie (erred maintenance and renovation over the wars as well as tin' tar I that Amazon wax built (luring World Wat II as tempo ran housing and was never intended to last this long Kents w ill sk\ rot ket in any new apart ments to around 1(1 percent below mar ket rate Rough estimates suggest rent toi two bedrooms will be around S-JJO Kents may mine down it the burden of i ost ini reuses is spread ai ross the board by raising rents 10 perteut to JU percent at Westmoreland, l ast campus and Am a/on therein lowering rents in new apartments to between VAO to $ l-tt) \o subsidies other than the tree prop ertv tav status of the l hit versits property have been built into the legislative bonds In effect family housing vs ill no longer be significantly low cost, thus defeating its original purpose Other issues clouding housing deci Mims ini lude the etfei Is of «i rei cssion and Measure f> tuition cuts and program ruts which have made concrete demo graphic economic estimates unpredrc t able for the coming years Will housing still lie needed if the local economy turns sour and vac anc ies around cam pus soar :’ Will there be enough student parents to fill family housing with im pending program • uts in Fducatmn and Human Development and 1‘erformaiue programs both of which have high percentages of oltlei non-traditional students' 'l i s 1 here is a need for nnv famjlv housing Regardless of a retession or budget ( uts the far I remains student populations are sure to i flange grow older and become more diversified How yve define family is rapidh ( hang ing so as to include non married coll ides and guv and lesbian couples who ma\ be as finam ndlv .it risk and desen ing of low income housing as tradition al families 1 .mi income families with children still deserve special consideration such as expanding availability of three and four bedroom apartments and guaran teeing priority eligibility and low rents for those finam ially at risk Two in come families and students ysitli higher incomes can afford higher rents Higher rents ysould net essitate a financial means test a finam ial means test to de termine eligibility and priority family bousing I hope the administration yy ill pay attention to the work of a Finam ial Means l est (ommittee yvhii h is seeking yvavs to fat ilitate this proi ess Housing construction will be far ( heaper now than in it) years The rents proposed now .ire too high Kvery effort should be made to step-ladder the rent nu reuses over the average 30-year mort gage lifetime With recession it may ap pear vacancies are on the inc rease but that may be a false sign that more peo ple are victims of an economic down turn and are either homeless or dou bling up with other families and are not meeting adequate housing standards Make no mistake. there will always bo a need for low mi omo housing SludonK lose power in policy board Kegarding the rewritten governance dot uments for family housing students have lost considerable c ontrol over rent .tl uu leases and funding of replacement (urnituieandappliaiu.es Now Universe t\ Housing will tie able to implement uitomatii i percent rent int reuses per year and authorize the purchase ol new ippliames or turniture over a cost ol Sli.OlH) without student input and ap proval University Housing would also be able to st hedule mainteuant e and re |iair |ubs witli as little as _’4 hours notit e to families regardless ol the income mental such jobs may inflict on the stu dent’s family The University s argument in that maintenance and renovation i osts have been deferred far too long due to stu dent protests over rent increases to the point that the quality of the housing is iie« aying beyond a point of no return Mary l egal, of Hast Campus, and I have both testified against these i hanges. ai going they may benefit the University administration but over the long run will only deteriorate student respei t for University Housing and will raise rents to sui h a high level altogether pricing low-income students out of the educa tional market the very students who were intended to benefit Students living in family housing should lie very concerned and voice their outrage to the University adniinis (ration staring with University President Mvles Brand. Vice President for Admin istration Dan Williams and Director of Housing Marge Karnes Hrian Hoop is the ASUO University affairs coordinator