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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1992)
QjuUIEX Hate thing I (hint th<> idea of anyone clr culating hole posters is terrible There's no reason for tins It kmc) of reminds me of C.av Pride Week, when so many people were giving out material that said. "Smash the OCA The word smash means to "break in pieces by v iolenrc to drive or throw violently, es penally with a shattering or buttering effect Now. the OCA being made up of people, consider the words, "Smash these people Seems like Queer Nation and t he o t he r poop Ie involved would take a lesson Who is really doing the hate thing7 Let's get real Ron Williams Eugene Stoke the fire Thank you tor publishing the inspiring stnrv about diversity enforcement in action I have been conducting m\ own re se.iri h in the knight Library and I have discovered a num ber o! books there that I find objer tionable muitil v due to the convex genital structure and or melanin deficient v of the authors I'm "all lor Iree xpeet h." but a preponderant') ol such books in a school that claims to be committed to diversity is sim ply inappropriate I am i ailing on all students who are com milted to diversity and w ho are not afraid ol taking direct a< lion in in-gin destroying wnai ever volumes .ire offensive lo their progressive values .is soon and ell it, lent 1V .IS possible Spraying brown point .11 ross the lares til Pluto and jane \us ten is line, but il doesn't begin !o explore the lull potential ol diversity•enfori.ement as .1 tome for meaningful social change Besides, what College kid doesn’t lov e .1 bonfire' Sam Deese History Evil males I demand gist a e’ i he banner vandals should be arrested Vandalizing property is against the law Don't gel me wrong [here is a handful ol banners that 1 would love lo vandalize Imagine how vour diversi fied attitudes would react il I were to tear down and vandal ize .1 Queer Nation banner just because ! don't despise all guys gives me no right to break thr law I would almost ciTt.tinlv In- arrested because thi‘ '’diversified" students would scream for mv lynching Why didn't th<■ vandals wr ti> ,1 letter to the Emrmtii or com plain to thr person in charge of thr h,inner ’ Violent r. whether spontaneous or not, is no solu tion If ! were to react (with no regard lor the law) to every thing 1 saw and didn’t agree with, there would he far less di versity on campus Hut the law is there for a reason and should be abided by , regardless of your prejudites even it they are toward those evil heterosexual moles Norm Kuahl Biochemistry Whose rights? In the late I'it.Us, during the Vietnam War 1 (oined the t S Marine (lorps An integral part of our training and index trin.i lion during boot i amp and be y-otld Was a system.itii deserts i tization toward the humanity and worth of the Vietnamese people We were era oliraged to see them -is less significant than real' humans such as our selves This ainpaign ul debit mani/ation was intended to al Itny us to set aside our moral objectives of killing fellow hu man beings (by making them seem sob-human) so that We 1 mi Id more elfed I Vei y yv age w .ir against them A similar pattern u! dehu manization. followed bv up pression and/or desire lion < un be sri !! ill liiiiiii settings slavery and rausin. the Jewish Hi ill k ansi during V\ ond War ;. and pfartii cii sui h as rape and child abuse Abortion on de manti must surelv lie added to this list biological I v there is siinpH no question that the fetus is alive and human Ad vm ates of ufiort ion, however dance around this basic tot t of medi cal si lent.e through thn use of eupheiutsta language (fetal tis sue pregnant \ termination et< ), through outright rejection of truth, or siin[iIv through ig noring the entire issue, iix us mg instead on "choice vvutu en s rights to control ttie;r own bodies, and most pathetic of all, ; he wanted . Ill id arg.. men! i"hr next lime mu hear b;g people from the pro < home movement fix o', thrir argument on these issues be ,iw .ir» ! what il is thev ire r> ills saving tin*' small ( vi?t -is m.: unborn ( mill i* somehow !'■'.*. human ih.in ourselves. arul therefore d is[H isablf* William Moore History English No stones The l-.'nuTiihls slirili editorial iApril castigating a South ('arulin.i inrv lor a( ipiitlIng a man of raping his vsilr was typical >il irmply-headed nan is sism masquerading as opi-n minded hi■orahsui at the I 'll. v orsi! v \ s a bl.u k Sou !h ( ' inn if, . Ii<11 ii>i 1 ‘i nir: ,1,1 w unis hypocritical! v offensive ( dearly a husband < an rape his wiIf. hut In-1 a,:si- wi- has>• nut soon tin' ev iih-rii <■. rvi>n• ■ , I us knows if tins particular vs iirmin w as roped HoWl'Vl'r. till' l UltT.lltl sl:g gusts South ( ar. .11.1 IS so hai ► vs aril a uirv of its citizens is in apablu of liulivurmg jiistu < tiv saving 'it's time to update t il I'SI' goo,.I folk I h is Si- i i : ;,:liIuous attitude has the sail,. thoughtless origin .is rnui h ol the drive: iaiming from the in eessatitis moving lips of tins i ampus blindlv enlighteneil I hr South 111)1- bet'll ill! easy si iijiegu«lt lor iiiu long liv feter ring to South Carolina ,is t Site ‘.v here men .ire men .it. i ■.umii'ii .ini vtiie. tmi iitlJi k .1 region you .ire obviously igim runt of Is Hilliirv (Hinton's mut ft.ige to Mill her greatest .li t mu phshrnent' Still, the sub jet t here is not sexism hut bigotry the root i>! sexism racism .uul other evils South Carolina h.is hunt iv (ornered tin m.iibBt ..n tug it v U b.i! .iliont the (X A ' l)i the n.lines Mu no;.-!,! 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