EDITORIAL
It’s official: Elmira
to be Dead again
Staging a concert shouldn't be this difficult.
Everybody knows about the problems local fans
have had getting the Grateful Dead to play Autzcn Sta
dium in recent years Opponents of the band claimed
the annual summer concerts resulted in excessive
noise, large unruly crowds anti u general sense of cha
os.
Funny, but the above-mentioned characteristics
can be applied to an annual fall event — Duck football
games, Of course. Grateful Dead foes don't complain
about that
Must be all the tie-dye.
Anyway, the Line County commissioners last
Wednesday, in a 3-2 vote, approved a mass gathering
permit tor a two-day Grateful Dead concert in Elmira
this August.
The public hearing in which the matter was decid
ed was not without its poignant moments.
Concert opponents brought up the traditional com
plaints: safety, fire, sanitation, etc However, backers of
me concert apparently
proved to county commis
sioners Jerry Rust {a long
time Dead supporter).
Steve Cornacr.hia and Jack
Roberts that those con
cerns had been acknowl
edged and that steps have
been taken to see every
thing will go smoothly.
So it looks as if the
concert will go ahead as
Grateful Dead
fans don't fit
these people's
ideal world
image, so they
react
accordingly.
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lingers. Why is there so much difficultly in scheduling
the Dead?
Is it the large crowds? No. The concert is expected
to attract 40.000 fans on each of the two days. The
home football contests top that number almost every
game Lane County, the home of a rather large universi
ty and all of its sporting and cultural events, is no
stranger to big crowds.
Is it the people, the "Deadheads," who follow the
band wherever it goes?
You bctcha.
Lane County, for all its supposed and professed tol
erance. is exactly the opposite. Case in point: Spring
field's Measure 20-08. Some local residents view any
thing out of their narrow "norm" as strange, weird and
a threat. Grateful Dead funs don't fit these people's ide
al world image, so they react accordingly.
But for now. this round goes to the tolerant people.
You don’t have to be a Dead fan to realize the band
clearly has a following in the local area. If all the con
ditions for a mass gathering permit are met, there
should be nothing preventing the concert from contin
uing.
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No help
On May 1. a group of Univer
sity students come to Roosovoll
Middle School to protost the
suspension of 11 Roosevelt stu
dents who left campus to pro
test the Kodnoy King decision.
Those University students
couldn't comprehend that those
suspensions were not an at
tempt to prevent the students
from expressing the outrage we
all full at the trial's outcome,
hut instead was in response to
the students' safety Our princi
pal offered to march with these
students ulter school so they
could protest with some adult
guidance Instead, those stu
dents chose to leave campus,
and. as a logical consequence
for that decision, each received
one-day sus|»onsions. 1'rotest is
a right and a choice. What is
significant is that there are con
sequences for making thut
choice and still choosing to
protest.
We nave u serious concern
for our students' safely They
are not adults and. as was the
case Friday, they tain be easily
exploited and manipulated by
others We have already had
two students hit by cars in front
of Roosevelt this year. These
University students encouraged
our students to sit in the mid
dle of the street University stu
dents run through the building
shouting and banging on class
room doors, calling names and
inciting our students to break
windows This frightened a
great many of our students.
The public, which supports
the public University, saw Uni
versity students act destructive
ly with little sensitivity or un
derstanding
Have their actions really
helped fight racial prejudice
and improved our community
relations?
Robert Rubinstein
and 3t staff members
Roosevelt Middle School
We’re special
It's obvious political intimi
dation is the only explanation
as lo why students were arrest
ed for protesting their rights
They will have criminal rec
ords and may face a prison
term.
Our rights us protesters are
too important to bo tukon from
uk it just makes mo sick that
the government comes hero und
harasses us so much, trying to
get us to conform and take re
sponsibility for our actions.
Take responsibility for our
actions? The government just
doesn't understand. Don't they
know who we are? Don't they
know that we are not account
able to the laws they hold? Wo
are not U S. citizens, wo are
part of the "Anarchist's Associ
ation of Protesters at the Uni
versity of Oregon,” und no one
can tell us what to do.
Allan James
Student
On trial
A couple of weeks ago, Brian
Hoop and Carlos Arias wore ar
rested und charged with de
struction of federal property.
Many students gathered to pro
test The protesters may believe
that Hoop und Arias should not
bo punished because their
cause was just. We disagree.
People have the right to protest
injustice, and even commit il
legal acts as a form of civil dis
obedience. However, people
who commit civil disobedience
must respect two principles
First, these acts should fix:us
attention on the issue and not
on the individual committing
the act African-Americans pro
tested segregation laws by
breaking them, Their arrests fo
cused attention on those unjust
laws because news agencies
could not report their arrests
without describing the laws
they broke. Those acts dissemi
nated knowledge of racism and
injustice.
By contrast, news agencies
could (and did) report about
broken windows at the Federal
Building with little or no men
tion of the Rodney King raise,
because the laws against de
struction of federal property
have little relation to racism.
Thus, people who damaged the
Federal Building focused alien
lion on themselves and not
their cause.
The second principle of civil
disobedience is that individu
als accept responsibility for
their actions, including legal
consequences, of their actions.
Wo cannot expect others, in
cluding agents of the govern
ment, to behave responsibly if
we do not. If Hoop and Arias
broke the law, they should be
tried. They may feel the judici
al system is flawed and unjust
(it certainly was in L A.) hut
their own actions have placed
them in its path.
John R. McQuatd
Mathew J. Traxler
Graduate Students,
Psychology
Final test
Regarding Measure 20-0B. il
is just I he beginning of under
standing. As wilt) any now law
until it is in force, wo huvu no
idea of the problems that will
arise Now the work begins. 1
personally saw so much hatred
and anger the Wednesday
morning after the measure's re
sults were published, that it
made me wonder, (list what is
really happening?
As a Christian. I c;an tell you
what my plans are for today, to
morrow and ever after. There
will be many days I will fail or
be discouraged Them will be
days I may disappoint you. but
1 do know that Cod, my Cod
and yours, loves us all the
same. He gives you and I the
same choices, and we are the
only ones responsible for the
choice we make. Wo can't ex
pect freedom from hardships,
or pain, or special considera
tion for our choice. This is our
lost in life
I have gay and lesbian friends
and our friendship goes beyond
our differences, we respect
each other as human beings. 1
treat them the way 1 would like
to be treated. Our friendship
does not hinge on conversion
Lovu is the greatest gift of all.
and we don't even have to fight
for it. what a simple solution.
Vicki Travis
Staff