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OPINION Airing dirty laundry a definite no-no THE FINE PRINT BY CHRIS BOUNEFF The other das m\ editor and I be^an talking about the t oluinhs that are print ed pel audit alls in this paper I'lli'. wouldn't be unusual ex t epl that s\ e don t generally talk about newspaper topic s Mostly, our conversations ton sisl of Kditor: What s up/ Me Not much You' Kditor: Nothing It s a simple i onversatidn and vers similar to the one taught users ibis in ms Spanish ( lass, but the ( lass .list) asks where everyone is from, mek mg the i lass t onsersation more detailed As students, we do this esers this as 1 mentioned before, and nosy 1 am able to ask the gus sitting next to me svbat bis name is. the names ol bis par cuts, ss here tlies are from and svbat tlies do professionally These are vers important ((lies lions it sou are planning a trip to a Spanish speaking country Translated, most conversations m Spanish tire like this Person 1 What’s upv Person 2 Not much You ' Person 1 Nothing So. in our (.onsersation about columns (with the editor, not with the class), mv editor ob served tb.it .1 lot of columns this paper prints do nothing but complain about something or mention the paper's name .is d the world resolves around it (notice ms avoiding tile use of Emerald) Also ms editor observed that sometimes the column svriler subtly airs internal dirty hum dry In ms (ontuiuing effort to raise journalistic standards I svdl neither complain nor air dirtv lavmdrv I'o do mi would be petty It would In1 its petty .is charg mu li.irdwork.mg stall memlicrs S.’H lor Ireedoin Howl lukets 1 li.it couldn I have boon m alped .<I any price, especially because lho\ wore tin* worst so.its in tin1 stadium \ny si lunm k could ha vo walked to I ii o ticket booth paid tin- satno prii o and boon m a so.it whoro tho game was \ isililo and not |ust tho I .os Angelos sks lino (111 now thoro I go again l lotting potty w till mtornal stuff In my continuing effort to raise journalistic standards, I will neither complain nor air dirty laundry. To do so would be petty. and complaining so others can hour mo I roallv do understand why 1 should not complain and not question those things You definitely don't want to do this bet aviso of how you w ill bo per i eived by your i o workers 'loll might be thought ot as cheap, like the kind ol person who. m an office poll, would pa k the I ’niversity ot V\ ashing ton football team (ranked lourth m tho nation at the time) to beat lowly Kansas State (who tiled to cancel tho game with l'\\ liecause it was such a mis mutch) by only sis points (lee/, t did it again I got in a cheap shot I'm being petty, like the kind ot person who would ban reporters from watching I'Y in tho office Ii hrnrv while they are eating their liini h bet aviso advertisers might wander into the wrong department and see reporters w all lung TV ('mild vmi imagine that/ See mg reporters watch T\'On ttieir lunch hour no less taxi forbid that an advertiser see that I he e\t hange Ivlwi'en the general manager ami the .elver User might go something like this \d\ ert iser Is that a 1'V Manager N es \dvertiser Is th.it reportei w ati lung it ’ Manager Ves Advertiser Now alxiut those ,ul rates ()f i nurse ad vert isers tor most newspapers don't seem to mind the numerous TVs that litter newsrooms and' otfir.e li hraries of other papers the Or egonian lias at least live TVs in the newsroom two around the copv desk and one near tin sports desk And all those sets are not always tuned m to m formatiimal news shows sin h as Vig/if/ine \/. \ril l.rhrr and /faI s ol Our /.iies I rion t know how the\ manage to stay in business 't oil i an imagine advertisers walking around The Oregon/ tin Advertiser Are those l \ s? Sales person Ves Advertiser Well. I don't want to advertise with a paper that allows its employees to watch Donahue I m a 'Days man tm sell I Inis tin' w isdom behind the der ision to have a I \ hut ill it use it on tlie luni h hour be comes evident Thank (.oil tor logic Damn, there I go again W i'll instead ot rewriting this pint e to iie a sinning example of r ol umn writing (I don't have time (iprali is on I'V) 1 11 leav e it as it is to serve as an example ol what not to do Don’t tie pettv don't air ill ternal business and don't write tile word ijurr.ihl ( hns Huuni’ft /s news editor nI the Kmerald LETTERS Politics is hell As homosexual ac tivists cry foul in California .uni sec a ( hristian i onspirai \ in Spring field. conservatives whine about tax dollars going for ore nation in DKA sponsored "art " filths so-culled "AIDS education." and welfare i heats we learn anew th.it poll tics, like its violent brother war. is hell We have been sheltered of late No more Army w militia wars as in IBM \o more open active, bigoted denial of rights b\ gun and dog as in the IflliOs and tilts No more can the tech nocrats save us No. we must now stand on our own two feet and deride "What do I be lieve7" Opportunists abound We have taken the choice of seat belt use avv.il from all -toish Ph D's in Oregon Why then the fuss when conservatives like myself want to do the same for l.iish girls who are preg nant and incompetent to make it? Why the cry when sexual morality is the yardstick for sexual behavior7 Why defend the thieves, rapists and murder ers rather than the innot ent' Lines are being draw n This is an ideological war One side or the other w ill win. for, para phrasing Thomas Reed, we (the American people) believe that if nil white, male. sexist, homophobic. racist homogonites vote one wa\ and loo enlightened, politically i orrec I humans vote the other, the 101 .ire right Slav the ideals of our system hank and i ool our vicious dis position, fur in a land of major it\ rule only majority restraint w ill allow majority rights William Caskill Politic al scient e Appreciation just a note to proclaim m\ love and respei t for the teach ers Nancy and Carol and the student staff of the I Ml Child Care Development Cen ter The efforts, patient e and concern you share with our c hildren is invaluable and deeply appret oiled Thanks for every thing! (uliejohn Knott Student Affordable Like many other students on c amplis I drink coffee As a high volume c onsumer of cof fee. I have one question for the 1-All' food service Why does a 22-ount e coffee refill cost me 7f> cents at the EMC. but only 2r> cents at (lire le k ' A Imltomless i up .it most res tuurants is 75 cents I know that it costs far less than that to make* a c up of coffee usually f> H cents, ac c ording to the res taurant ow ners I have talked to In these (liftic ult finaric lal times, why not give the coffee drinking students a break low er the pric e of a tup ol coffee to .in affordable level Klin Harper Sue mingy Absurd I want to oblige Mark Russell [()l)H Sept IU| who requested letters U nshington DC is bee om ing stranger all the time Ac t mg dumb, forgetting important facts lying to Congress and apologizing lor your mutton turn is in, and you will be con firmed to run the CIA, .1 former ly demanding job! Also talking balderdash about “natural law 1 not ever having dis c ussed Roe vs W ade and growing up without running water or a toilet is in. and will lead to confirmation to the Su premie (ourt |ust what gives in this court try"1 W hy is everything bee om mg a fare e? A theater of the ah surd! Millie ( berry F.ugenr ( h , <11 I fatly Emerald po sox list eugene Oregon »?«j • • •• . f •••• « !.u"* M M> Ih. . •: ytja* and Tu«- . !a> i ■ *i Thursday - during »h« Oregon Da*!* l > «•' « J Put>iinh>ng : • in* UrMvtf'iitY of Ohttfon Fwg«*rif> Oog h Try*- l ?n<v as.} 0P#0«l«»* ' d<* n , pf (be University * >?»ffu:t*s .*1. 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