EDITORIAL Judge blows horn on unconstitutional fines Lane County District Judge Bryan Hodges made a wise decision in his courtroom on Tuesday Hodges ruled that motorists had the right to honk their horns in support or opposition to the Persian Cult War while driving past demonstrators gathered downtown. The judge determiner] that, under the i irr mil stances, the otherwise illegal horn honking was an es pre.ssion of political opinion, therefore making it pm teeter] free speech under first Amendment That’s one blow strut k for freedom and one strut k solidly against censorship in the name of maintaining the peace Tin.' whole horn-honking hullaballoo start ed when demon strators. both for and against the war, gathered downtown at : houis not the greatest form of spinel) i-vtir, but tin- beeps toots .uni honks did contain politic al ( xpres aon However, the Kugenu Police Depai tcut lid :m! Imd the horn honking to be a positive poldn .il 111■.< , sum of our country's current c risis \o. the officers ol 1*1 PI) decided the debaters on wheels needed to It. hushed before any sort of riot ensued. Rather than opt ii»foi their usual "shoot tear gas first and lions later routine, the h.I’D officers handed oat In k.'s to drivers they determined were using auto horns lot anythi up, other than a warning. Most of the fit) plus motorists . ted to; tin h. nun i rime either pleaded f;uil!\ and pot SI 1 lines 01 didn't show uf) at all and forfeited the* S ;bad So . mis two horn offenders appealed the case to the state !> s trie! liuuit. Luckily lor the defendants, the judge m tins ease was wise enough to see what the police officers and polic \ makers could not: There are mam ways to make sure a healed situation does not become too hot Show mg a large contingent ol officers is probable the best wav And the I.I’D has shown it has a fine talent lor tes mg its i hemic al arsenal for dispersing crowds Howev er. in this country, prohibiting people from expressing their political beliefs is not an option It the police wanted to get to the root i ause of the hot-tempered crowds that gathered downtown, thee should have ignored the horn blowers, and gone !>> Washington 1> (,. to ticket Cieorge Hush for blowing too much hot air () report Daily CO BOX lt*». EUGENE. OREGON »M01 Iho Orogon Daily f marald •% puMahad da.-*y Monday througf> f du'-ng «ho • t>oo< y w.v and I ue**day and Thursday during th*i vjmmer by ’ha Oogon Dafy t mo'aid fJL*Wishing Co Inc ill lha Uruvonuty o< Oagon. I i>gonu. 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T, 10ft Ns: i ATvrf jtupn* ♦ <**. -«* <+**• -4JNi C*» Former student reflects on prof By Ailyson I Bamcklow When 1 heard of Professor Emmanuel Ha t/antonis' dealh, 1 struggled with the pain and confusion that 1 am sure 1 shared with thousands of students, colleagues and friends who felt Ins influent e at the University and in the community 1 can't imagine friendly Mail without him. Il look a few minutes for the news to sink 111 when I read it in the O/ego/i/an. and I didn't cry until I thought about his office lining assigned to some one else For some reason the thought of 224 f riendly being stripped of Ins charm ter, the books, pictures, maps, memorabilia, student pro jects and other items collected over more than 20 years of distinguished servil e here and abroad, made the tragedy leap into reality for me He was my friend and mentor lor 11 years, and 1 grew io consider his office a place where I was assured of a friendly greeting and a sympathetic rei option to am problem 1 was having I lirsl met him when I was an undergraduate 1 can still see fits smile as he shook mv hand that dav \H lirsl iin|iressu>n of him was that he was warm and kind, anil I witnessed more and more ol those ijualllles over the next 1 1 years He was never aloof or indifferent to ills stir denis Class time with him was always stimul.it mg. as he seemed to enjoy convoying Ins knowl edge to a new group of students I was a French major originally and I divided to studs Italian, in part because my friend Helana was taking Italian and hart such good tilings to say about her leather, Mauri/io Viano, who was one ol those students whom Haly.antonis met in ltuly ,,n(i then exhorted to come to the University as graduate tear hing fellows I der hired myself a Komance Languages major when I started mv graduate study 1 studied second year Italian with Haly.antonis as well as Italian Poetry and film l also took the legendary Dante class lor a year I left the University for three years anti when I wrote him and asked him to recommend me for re-admittance, he sent me a letter saving he was filled with joy at the news that I was coming har k, and he couldn't be happier to write me a recommendation I went to Fram e for a year after that to teach English Prolessor Hat/antoms urged me to com plete the Perugia program the following summer since i was already in Europe. I wrote and told him I wasn't sure I could afford it He sent me all the materials lor application and assured me that he would find something lor me to do He called later and told me 1 would he his co-administrator, I went to France for a year after that to teach English Professor Hatzantonis urged me to com plete the Perugia program the following summer since I was already in Europe. I wrote and told him 1 wasn't sure I could afford it He sent me all the materials lor application and assured me that tie would find something for me to do He called later and told me I would tie his co administrator, and I would have a scholarship of $300. I helped him out witli meetings and administra tive details, and when we had excursions I went along and did a few tilings to keep the brood in line He did all the real work of grading and deal ing with the University himself, so I was able to tie a regular student with the rest of the "Gruppo Oregon I liked the way he had a solid grasp of what would tie re,illy important to us in Italy Every where we went tie had a literary reference tor, and some cultural information to pass on. such as a personal anecdote or a song to teach us He en couraged us to go out and do some living in Perugia He didn't expect us to to tie entombed in a library for the summer When I came hack to the states, tie said the Uni versity was able to offer me a joti as an Italian in structor All through the year my classroom was down the hall from his office and tie would drop in while I was teaching Sometimes tie would sneak up behind me while admonishing my stu dents not to give him away The last time I talked to him, by which time 1 tiad said goodbye to him as my colleague at the University, I was harassing him as usual for a rec ommendation He told me, "Pi voglio un mondn di bene ” 1 have a problem translating that, not just because it is an idiomatic expression in Ital ian, meaning to have a world of fondness for someone, but also the way it reveals the unique depth of his commitment to his friends. 1 haven't found many people who would care for and take care of as many people as ini did 1 have a world of gratitude for his generosity, and a couple of continents worth of things I wish I had been able to say to him before tie moved on Allyson I Durrii klow is a resident of Salem UET, WEALTH CABE WERE ISN'T ALL THAT DISCRIMINATORY / I MEAN. 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