EDITORIAL
Emerald’s roundup
of election stances
Democratic presidential nomination; Arkansas
Gov. Bill Clinton. Clinton addresses issues needing at
tention. issues that have long gone ignored during the
Reagan-Bush era. This candidate offers a chance at
change, and wo need one — fast. Jerry Brown offers a
similur, if not more, "in-touch" message, though we
doubt his actual ability to carry it out.
Republican presidential nomination: George Bush
has assured himself the nomination, but he has goofed
his big chance, having shown his ineptness in every
relevant area ranging from the environment to the
economy to domestic issues. Sorry, even another De
sert Storm couldn't win him this vote.
U.S. Senator: Democrat Les AuCoin. Now U.S. rep
resentative, he offers to balance Oregon's environment
and economic well-being via continued successful en
vironmental protection legislation and investment in
job training and education. His focus for Oregon is on
research and technology, resource management and
trading status.
Oregon Secretary of State: Democrat Phil Keisling
While a state legislator in 1989. he successfully pushed
legislation for increased child care benefits for families
with low and middle incomes; a loan program bringing
doctors ami nurses to Oregon's rural communities: and
the initiation of a toxic-chemical reduction plan.
Attorney General: Democrat Ted Kulongoski. As
an attorney, legislator and director of the Department
of Insurance and Finance, Kulongoski has the neces
sary experience to do a good job. His advocates are
consumer protection, child support enforcement,
crime/gang control and civil rights.
State Representative, District 41: Democrat Cyn
thia Wooten. She is managing partner in her public re
lations firm and boasts credible governmental experi
ence. her proposals include job re-training for dislocat
ed workers and tax reform that protects homeowners,
renters and working people while attempting to pre
serve social programs und education.
County Commissioner, Position No. 3: We pick Jer
ry Rust. The incumbent has worked to establish the
Willamette International Trade Center: led local re
sponse to homelessness and affordable housing und or
ganized the first Oregon Hardwoods Conference. He
proposes to develop environmental technologies to cre
ate jobs: build a Juvenile Campus for youth detention,
education and drug treatment; and create a local model
for responding to the ozone crisis.
County Commissioner. Position no. 4: we cnoose
Michael Linick. An attorney, he advocates health cart;,
drug education and rehabilitation, and services for se
niors; increased focus on recycling and conservation;
opposes Alton Baker Park's golf-course proposal; af
fordable child care: and suspension of ordinances that
contribute to higher rents.
Eugene Mayor: Ruth Boscom. A Eugene city coun
ci I woman for eight years and a former toucher, she ad
vocates "juckhammering" the Eugene mall fountain;
keeping the Huh Center; building affordable housing;
and working for a balance between wetlands and jobs.
For City Council. Ward No. 3; Ebon Dobson gets
our vote. His proposals include building an economy
by helping existing businesses and attracting new ones;
extending human rights action; and re-creating down
town into "an example of Eugene's future prosperity."
Ward No. fl; Nancy Nathanson. A database manag
er for the University and planning commissioner, she
plans to address issues including below-standard fire
and emergency services; congested traffic; the lack of
neighborhood purks and community centers; and open
ing Downtown to private development.
Ballot Measure 1; No. Voting yes would send fu
ture fuel tax increases and vehicle registration sur
charges to road policing. We would rather see the
funds used in other ways to improve our transportation
system — for example, road repair and bicycle paths.
Measure 20-01; Yes. This would restrict future ac
tivities and structure building along the McKenzie Riv
er. This protective measure is imperative to the river's
long-term survival. Not only is it Lane County's pri
mary drinking water source, it is a resource deserving
protection in and of itself.
Measure 20-08: No. Passage would delete govern
mental rights for gays and lesbians. Every person in
this country deserves to have their protective rights in
tact — simple as that. Any measure limiting these
rights deserves to fail.
“II doesn't leel like the rich got richer during the 80’s, Boopsie.
went into home security systems."
All our extra money
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Yahoo
The front page of this Emer
ald Wednesday. April 29, car
ries a photograph of a pod of
IIVVOC flexing their political
muscle In front of Johnson Hull.
Among their distinguished
number an- Teresa Naillon, for
rmsr IFC candidate, and Sue
Dockstador, current IPC mem
ber From the accompanying
text, one may infer that one of
them had just misused her
ASUO position to obtain the
use of a ladder belonging to the
EMU. which ladder they have
then used to destroy a banner
belonging to the University,
which they fool was insuffi
ciently diverse.
Having discarded the wreck
age on University property,
presumably in the expectation
that someone less diverse than
themselves would clean it up,
they appear to Is- having a col
legial chat Perhaps they ure
discussing the previous even
ing's IK' mooting, chronicled
on page seven, from which an
athletic department employee
was driven in outrage by
Dockstader's gratuitously foul
language
It used lo Ik; the jocks and
frat boys who expressed their
contempt for their civilization,
its history and its institutions
through pointless vandalism
and smirking yahooism You've
come a long way. babies.
Jerome Berryhlll
Physics
Logistics
Clos e-mind edness and cen
sorship (ODfc,'. May It)? How
about narrow-mindedness and
Inconsidorution?
I’m not talking about those
people who took down the
summer session banner I'm
talking about those who don’t
consider the banner as anything
more than a decorative summer
session advertisement. I'm also
talking about the University ad
ministration that once again
has shown that despite its
claim of being a "universi
ty...committed to cultural di
versity," it's only committed
when it is logistically conve
nient.
Diversity is indeed un impor
tant part of society. Is it not
also a part of summer session7
According to the banner, the
only interesting people we'll
meet are of white. European de
scent Not everyone got the bro
chure.
It was — I'll admit — a nicely
designed banner But if the
University is us committed to
cultural diversity us it says it is.
why not look to create a banner
from that perspective? Instead,
the University is resorting to a
logistical excuse.
Commitment is u binding
agreement, not subject to logis
tics. Until the University dem
onstrates u true commitment, it
should withdraw its claim.
Gary Hoh
Co-dir actor
APASU
Courtesy
Well, OK All 1 wanted was u
basket for my Schwinn bicycle.
I walked into Pedal Power with
my Duck Buck coupon for 20
percent off and asked if they
had any buskets. "Yes,'' the
man said and pointed to the
wall where there ware four
types I pointed to one and
asked, "Mow much?" SO 95.
Creat, I'll take it
Hu started to put it on the
bike. I noticed that it had u
sticker on it that said SO.50. so I
asked why am I being charged
S9.95? His nasty reply was that
I was getting it for 20 percent
off, and he was installing it for
free (standard, believe me), und
he wasn’t going to charge nit;
for the bolts that were 50 cents
each (not), and besides, it was
an old sticker price anyway.
He told me 1 couldn't have it
for that stic ker price and started
removing the basket. He told
me to take my money buck. I
can’t help but wonder how did
all that happen. Suddenly, I
remember the restaurant scene
in Five Easy Pieces where
Nicholson wants to order some
toast Later in the car when the
hitchhiker is telling Jack how
cool he was in there with that
— waitress ... und ol' jack says,
"Yeah, but ! still didn't got my
toast.”
I just want to suy it wasn't
about SI.45 for mo. It was
about a man lacking courtesy
and fair business practice.
Terlan McComb
Student
Inward
In the aftermath of the Rod
ney King verdict, I have heard
repeatedly both publicly and
privutely that, as a white per
son, it is "not really my busi
ness,” and I have sens'd a
sneering suspicion that whites
who appear to cure may have
some other motive.
I grunt that some may. but as
someone who has always striv
en for fairness and kindness in
my personal relations with oth
ers, it disturbs me a bit to bo so
summarily judged. Although I
will never bo in someone elso's
skin, there is a terrific human
emotion called empathy. It
means that one person can vi
cariously experience the feel
ings of another.
While I was growing up. 1
myself was an ethnic minority
in my schools I was occasion
ally verbally or physically
threatened by students and staff
alike because 1 was a "person
of color" — the wrong color. 1
do not suy this because I want a
star on my forehead, but to
point out that discrimination
takes on many forms.
Taking advantage of power
lias always been a curse of the
human character. No person or
group is exempt We will never
be able to change our institu
tions without first looking in
ward to root out our own preju
dices on an individual basis. In
the process, we may be able to
accept the fact that we arc hu
man beings first and everything
else second.
Matthew D MacArthur
Eugene
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