EDITORIAL
Athletics’ survival
good for academia
Well, it's been delayed. You know — the vote on
how to fund the ominous S6.3 million athletic deficit
served up by Oregon's state university system.
The pretty-pi ease request for 53.5 million from Or
egon State Board of Higher Education funds to help
ease the deficit load has gone unanswered, again.
The board also decided to delay the vote in Sep
tember: it voted last Friday to wait until a task force de
signed to evaluate the funding problem reports back in
April. A June vote is set to follow.
If the board is thinking about handing over the
bucks to athletics, it’s a good thing they decided to
wait; they'd make a lot of enemies considering the
shape Oregon university academic programs are in due
to recent Measure 5 induced cutbacks. Retter to wait
for the pain to subside before bringing in the salt wag
on.
The board's task force offers a ray of hope though;
its focus is to look at other ways to fund the debt,
which is a necessary evil because a part of the Univer
sity's well-being coincides with the athletic depart
ment's. Pac-10 membership brings in a lot of little ex
tras we otherwise wouldn't have, ranging from national
institutional recognition to research grants. The bene
fits of athletics extend beyond the limits of the depart
ment itself.
The problem comes in when money is taken away
from academic programs to feed athletics Of course,
this makes people crazy, as it should After all, a uni
versity's ultimate purpose is education, not sports
These same people, however, must realize those "silly"
ball games do indeed help fund book learning at this
school.
A one time bailout may l>e the best answer at this
point, taking the heat off until an acceptable permanent
solution can be worked out. Hut such a solution should
take only the minimum amount of funds needed from
academic departments, not letting their money pools
run dry.
Athletics must now learn to live by the same slim
pickin's rule everyone else now adheres to. and univer
sity academia must open its sweaty fist a bit to share
with athletics, because the benefits come back around
in the end.
< )rt%on />int\
PO dO*l»« fUCtNt OPIGOW9M03
1 ’Mi (>»gan D(My l rr.ftfm) % [*/C*r%hmJ tla*?* Mtv*u»y tfwt>ug#' J mtoy <v - -ig ''«» ufxm
»w I j«vU> <ir*l TKv'vJ^y Cluing ?n® u#f*v*-** t»y :•■*» Owg-o' Da•'* I "
■ o lr< a! !**» Ur'fvwviy 0< O«go<" i Oogor
T '■*» I ■***»«! •xmc'o’uk ■^tei******^ o* I ►'**** -T o^f* a' •» fc>C o» •**»
i 'T> Mui’vww*) Uruor» «r*> n -'wtw at \*m Afcvx .v **! 1*^*,
!’•*> I m p/*v.*j« Dm* .«** '«*'•■*IVAS »xr ./*■• ol A '.»!>**
t)> i#w
f dilof m Chtaf r. » Hm •
Managing I (JHor I’a: Mils a -
I diiorial I tKtof Cai*** IVir ****
Gf*f)h*c« f d<1or Ju"
t nflarlMronant ( <f*»o/ l ay’^m l
N»w» t (Mor
i d«»o»ul l <fctof
Sports t dRor
N«ghl f dito/
<■ 'ht
Dor IW1!
J«vi Mar *
(Wi'afyn T mppe
ASOOCtaia ' uHOi •
Community ffema l>u* a ■ Studant Government Activlltas (!.imv I
tfaghar t duration Administration « <r- «j (»»* -o"
Haportars ] flft’uy (krtvxj t ►uft'txv - «xt . {^o • ift f JL» • JaCOOy '»*>-•
K*joi>p«'yj K 'ftIon l ./* aft. l •>-'1 kfenapcm Hupa tSua ' . > P«yv*g
Copy i dtlofi CNw Dor t nMa* Ka«» l ••*#&+. f'ad »Wvj«* t ’« fktvvKvy
l nut U lagan itk KafMy S-’^artOCft. ► *•' > SMMKwy
PNotogrsptvsrs ?**an Poston. Amlra Har*#
Advancing Joan tVta1*oy Soot! Dora 1 **.■«* * a It- a >r K-ttx^r T om l t %n Ny
tWftJon M «*> CaPtar-na M»ry-a Mtt-> ft** Sun art Vr ft. Iat> S/won Vir
CtftSSAiad IA <‘«'v Kavm A**!af,r,.»v' A a 1 •* \ '.J** -t t ».* on/o
thus to ms Kathy Carton* Suparvttor Judy CorvxXiy
Production Ingrid W^«io fVodULfdn CaorGkig»Aw JarvV«r A/cfw .'uft'.tf Cia'V Jim f mctt
Conn* f 'w* Krtsuna Grangar Jan 'or Huey. J*~ Maaon (>«u MtCobO Slacy HAftcfa* Mar
Mlk'-' Jannrfor Round Jar-.rv'ar Smith Ann# SiwpNo-'vy Jarm;!©* Vune T odd W ;'tarn*
Ganaral Marvagar J*N M«i
Advertising Diractor fVya^ H Goppadg* Production Manager Mk »xwa > toft ft
Naasroom 346 6511 Disptay Advarlising 346 3H2
tkiftinMft Oft tea 346 Nil? Cla»s*»ad Advertising 3464343
VICTIMS ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
lost ms job
pawl
LOST Ui£> hOMt
I LOST H15 SAVINGS
LOST WIS MIND
RECtiS>ION? 1
rwwRBBaor
i “ :3C IC vj- 2C
LETTERS
No comparison
Listen up. ]iison Lund In re
sponse in sour assertion that
t Saferide is disr rirnina
tors m its luring pruc tn es
ft >1 >1 . Nos 7) get a clue
't ou (trass a i ompunson Is
tween the Kl )T( . s poll! s of re
(using to hire gas and lesbians,
and l‘m|e< t Saferide s policy of
hiring only women drivers
You Mai! hs i tainting lo under
stand that u ssoimin might fuel
uncomfortable" receiving a
safe ride home from a man
You take this thought one step
further and suggest tfi.it people
svllhln tile ROLL may lie "un
comfortable" in the presence of
homosexuals
hirst and foremost, sshlle a
ss oman may feel "uncomfort
able In tin- presence of a man
in svliat should he a safe situa
tion. rememlier she is often not
simply "uncomfortable,' hut
stared Her fear is based on the
valid concern that she mas be
attai ked at unv time without
ss a rnmg
So lines it follow. Lund, that
those within K( )T( are afraid of
being attacked hs homosexu
als ’ Ridiculous
Ml this from a woman ss tm is
afraid to vs .ilk, alone al night
and who thinks being iiiiuiin
forcible ssorkmg with homo
sexuals is stupid
Kebekah Led with
Student
Sad day
What kind of student leaders
are ss e elei ting these d.is s'
ASIU) Vice President Jo So
n)d W atson s shoplifting deba
cle is an embarrassment to the
entire I'mversitv student hods
It is somewhat understandable
if Witison's criminal activities
included stealing valuable com
modities like food if she was
poor, full In steal post il note
pads and a troll doll from a co
operative non-profit corpora
tion that services members of
the University community is
extremely irresponsible es
pei ially w hen each time some
one like Watson strikes, book
store prices are obviously af
fur ted to make up for the loss
Watson went on to ignore tilt
legal prot ess and lailerl to ap
pear in court and delayed pay
ing her fines I hope Watson s
record follows her far into the
future so she can have a ( hum e
to learn that not reporting gross
mistakes like shoplifting Is not
at i eptable in a lavs abiding so
cietv It is a sad day when tain
vit led shoplifters like Watson
.ire in t ontrol of S4 r> million in
student incidental lees and
ASUO ac( mints Is emhe/./llng
the next step'
This time. Watson, you can't
win iht- contest try finding 100
different ways to define diversi
ty
Kit hard Hnrswell
Student
Hope
li is important to keep in
mind that while everyone is at
risk for human immunodefi
t lent v virus infer lion and sub
sequent acquired immunodefi
ciency syndrome, some people
are at higher risk than others
()l the total (102.400) number
ol AIDS t ases thus tar reported
in the United States to the Cen
ters for Disease Control as of
September. 5 percent (10.520)
wen- reported from strictly het
erosexual c cmt.it t These stalls
tits constantly change trecause
epidemiologists chase a moving
target
Poverty and political neglect
have more to do with AIDS in -
creasing than individual behav
ior, per se. For example, the
rati* of AIDS among African
Americans Is three times higher
than among whites Black
women face 10 to 15 times tile
risk compared to white women,
and black children account for
!>() percent of AIDS cases
Moreover, blacks have a
shorter life expectancy, a high
er infant mortality rate and are
50 percent more likely to die of
a heart attar k than whites ilnr
tv-three percent of blacks live
below the poverty level com
pared to 12 percent of whites
Public health education re
mains the most effective means
lor AIDS risk reduction, but re
portedly only 15 percent of to
tal AIDS funding goes to pre
vent ion
Many health educators .ire
understandably using Mugir
Johnson's revelation of HIV in
fection from unsafe sex to dem
onstrate that "anyone can get
AIDS " My hope is that John
son's situation will also get oth
ers to care alxiut those who are
at much higher risk for the dis
ease than themselves
Clarence Spigner,
Assistant Professor
S< herd and Community Health
Rain
To rain chastisements down
upon the heads of homosexuals
is neither bigotry nor hatred It
is morality and u genuine con
cern for the welfare of other
people.
Matthew K. Kokkeler
History/Political Science
■>-" ‘,r
f 1 ««
' -vv
- (s'
’■hV
IJ~:>'
*■ V* V"" -
• r:
-' '
vV
TW 3JT?!
' til.' \
•jr 1 i,~
" ir* *Z.~~ ■*■ • v -t»
* r/s'c "Jcl.
: J>JTV> At siU
( ' R*Tt: -
i
' V
1 •> '•<
uY
Xiv
■jr ■ «SHEti
■ R^’wes1:
£
;ir_ •• -
wsc ,«S!:
/
iTMOJr?!!
(.= '£=D
CWr.^
</V
’♦JT9>' «e *£U
'c ojt t^si:
■V r
V J