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EDITORIAL Students justified in condom provision It got the bull rolling, but it's still only half way across the field. Five South Eugene High School students gave out condoms earlier this week in an effort to call attention to their request for condom dispensers at school. Planet hood Party, a group of student government candidates, handed out 1.500 condoms in all — a legal no no according to Eugene School District law Princi pal Don Jackson was not a happy camper. Jackson, who supports the students' push lor safe sex via condom use. says they went about it all w rong. Well, yes and no. The students' somewhat extreme bid for condoms may have been a necessary catalyst in the situation. Now that they've got everyone's attention, the issue will have to be addressed ft may not have gotten such quick action before. That's the "no" part. The students missed the mark by not taking the measure uli the way. In addition to handing out a sab sex tool like condoms, something designed to increase student’s knowledge of the subject would’ve made the Party's message much more effective. The handout is a good sign, coming in answer to the school newspaper's survey findings that 90 percent ot the student body would like to see a dispensing pro gram at school It shows today's kids are thinking about such is sues. proof that the messages are getting through (loud to see. since problems ranging front AIDS to teen ages! pregnancy are growing in this country. Hard as it may !«' lor many parents to face, teen aged sex is a reality Understand.tbly. this is a hard fact lor parents to face. Ridiculously, however, it's primari h this group who objects to something like the student hand out. believing that the action only condones sex What it actually does is make it safe; condoms along with information about safe sex could literally save the child they want so much to protect. It's in their best interest, along with their children's and the entire community, to support this type of program for these kids l-’or the students who would participate in sex anyway, (which is most), tools and knowledge could be the best option offered them. 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Inn JJ) Hush must hr pretty despot ■ili' In have tu call on Durtiura's good image lor help Aside bum llrr good srnsr ul humor i which she musl need') and reading tu i hlldren, shr has duiir hlllr Hit sympathy lot Ir.1 ‘|i Ijabies ended when they vvrtr supposedly timivil) mil of initihiilors Hul now ' She does nut even answer her mail on the plight ul thousands ol si( k nnd dy mg Iraqi i hildn-n Speaking uf helpmates I ,im appalled tu find nut im I roil I lint' our elei linns have been fueled by millions ul duty dol lars from the Key Moon Hoy\ low can Hush sink1' Ur have to tie on careful guard bet ause tins tune, he'll stop at nothing to continue his imperial reign Hilda Cherry Eugene Lionize ( •; i ■ ruing tin /'mctulti's .if . I- :!' .: V .. I’ Kvall .it Icr his suit nlc. I led th.it you unjustly titiin/.'.i isstn Thf .1 r11 1 i< tf 1. .1 to tu.ii.1' Uvan out to btr ,1 hutiiiin In-trig or .1 humunitun .1 n Who .in \ m trying to fool? Tin- woman whom hf rupni In imiff human than Ibis 111.111 VMiulii 1 • v.*r tin Whi-ti- in thi'ir Mth* to tills' If thi-ri' in .mV hu mail suf«■ tii tins whulf .itf.iir, it would conn* lioiii thf |h* op In of whom Kvan took, .itfvuntugi Anthony Wilson English Salt I s 1 Ms 11'n Bt.uni It v\,isn't too long ago that wf vM'if h.onor, ,1 with a nif f lum h am! a spi ff h from vou tolling as ol hatii tinii's Tightening , lit hi Its ftf It Was all \m nice, hut plf.isf don't tfll us ahout hard tlllU'N U Ith V i alii! Vi .Ilf VV I If hot h fuming a fair amount, no chiI lirfli. a lovely houSf furnishfli In thf 1'iiiv i-rsitv ts tt true vour honif! Is truing remodeled? \l wliusr expense7 How much? To suggest .1 raise lor you. sir, is like rubbing sail into a wuiiini an open wound Alter tie ordeal about the money used to transport the City officials' wives. Is It true V mi ret eived .1 ia is that very d.iv I’lease explain, as we are a lainilv. remember? We are all ai i ountable to each other 1 must take time off soon !*• I ause lit health reasons With out pay. that means I will be without health Insurance for u Sear It is very difficult for me right now as our health benefits used to Is- paid lor 1 have tried endlessls to expand ms office hours to eight per das with no i’hs sli alls . it i cm hi have tab ell a lot of pressure off of me to know I could afiord to survive I spent over Sti.OOO on medical lulls myself this sc ar, out of a grand total of $14,000 I still have to pay the state SK!J I'm glad you’re very success lul 1 nisi wish you wouldn’t speak out of both sides of vour mouth I don’t c are if you share with us just w a Ik in our shoes Vicki Travis Staff Favor I would 11ki• lo ask a small fa vor ol thf University communi l\ There are a few words winch I have had the misfor tune of hearing people litter around campus The words are "pistol," ' iheddar. "prognosis," and Dakota 1 do not like thus*' words and would appreciate it if people would not publicly use them I led that bv suppressing these words (and possibly im posing Fines on those who in sist on saving them), we can stem their power and perhaps make people forget all about them I leul lilts would make the University community a better torum lor the free and non s< .irv e\« hangc ul ideas Thanks for the help Bryce Ingram Student Amazon I would like to respond to Murk Serb us' (OUt.. Jun 27) i ommenturv on Am.i/on hous ing by lirst doing a little self-in terested whining, then offering .1 eh.blunge to the University Housing Board to consider if in fact Amazon is to he rebuilt hirst, we are not talking about a few dollars rent in i rease il Amazon is rebuilt, hut somewhere in the neighbor hood of a $ too ini rease I bis is out of range ol most of the sin gle parents and ti l l s who call Amazon home I don't mind a sheet metal shower in exchange lor low rent, as I only intend to be here three or four years, and think of this as camping out, las ause if I were paving more for a nicer plat e, I would not be in school As fur the results of tin* sur vey circulated around Amazon, l ast C.ampus. and Westmore land. I am not surprised As a dedicated Amazon resident, I would probably vote to tear down Westmoreland Of t nurse, my self interest bumps hard against the reality that Amazon was intended as tem porary in the days (iod was young, and that sooner or later, some students would be incon venienced by change As a resident of Amazon and a taxpayer, 1 too am concerned about the bond money, and would like to see it thoughtful ly spent in ways most Ixinofi eial for the student population To this end. I would propose tin* formation of a student job pool, which would distribute some of that money hack to the students in the form of wages paid in exchange for doing con struction on these units, thus utilizing skill of many older, re turning students who find the present support network a little thin How about it7 Lee Green Student