EDITORIAL Voters want cures, give only diseases Voters signed the stain s death warrant when they passed 1990’s Ballot Measure 5. I’ruperty taxes wore sliced dramatically no replacement tax was pro posed — leaving a monumental budget crisis on the governor's hands (Jov Barham Roberts was elected just in time to face the brunt of the dilemma. Since then, she has worked to pass a sales lax to no avail and has proposed a comprehensive budget-< titling pl<«n to he discussed in the Legislature's next session. Despite her efforts, sortie Oregonians aren't happy with Roberts They accuse her of wasting her lime in office anti failing to understand the priorities of t iti /ens. Disgruntled voters launched two retail efforts, which have failed. Her only crime is not solving a voter imposed cri sis to the satisfaction of the electorate I rue. the state has yet to settle the Measure r> dilemma in a positive way Drastic budget c:uts are likely, many of whir h will devastate statewide programs including education But in Roberts' defense, nobodv could handle Ore gun's situation to everyone's satisfaction. She tried It) put a sales tax on the ballot, but the Legislature killed it when the metnliers' egos were not stroked sulli ciently. Mouse Speaker Larry Campbell stubborn ly opposed Roberts probably loading to the tax’s defeat — presumably because of the politit al thre.it a sales tax imposes to any politician. And as most Oregon The only shame is the treatment Roberts gets from the people who elected her. citizens are aware, voters would probably turn down a sains tax anyway. It's been done countluss times before. Roberts lias unjustly become a scapegoat for the problems of the state. Welfare and other sm tal services will be (ill. schools will lose money and police funding w ill lie reduced. Roberts will, of course, be blamed for these problems bec ause she drew up the budget. She had few other options. She i an propose anoth er sales tax. but apparently it won't be considered until the Legislature and the voters truly understand I ho state’s fiscal situation. Nobody’s content right now, but nobody’s taking responsibility — aside from Roberts for the crisis either. Realistically, blame can only fall on the voters' shoulders. If Roberts fails to work on other problems within the state, such as the gradual de-emphasis of timber as Oregon's primary economic industry, she is criticized. But cam she be faulted for ignoring other is sues when Measure 5 is present? It’s a monstrous prob lem, and one that won’t go away by blinking If the voters aren’t happy with Roberts’ perfor mance. perhaps they shouldn't have passed Measure 5 in the first place. 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I c .in honestlv tell you that mv Insto rv instruc tor, who had a Ph I) , was ,i "real historian." eager and anxious to share his wealth of knowledge and experience with his students And my geology mstnic tor. a real geologist" who is as edu cated equally m the field as in the i lassroom he. too, was ea ger and anxious to share his wealth of knowledge and expe rience d ills is not so true at Mu k rv s house At Mil Lev’s house, enduring boring, pre-packaged lee lures dircs tlv from the pub lishers. laboriously delivered with a sense of apathy, .ire stan dard Lectures arc* so twisted and tangled that vou leave feel mg like a rat exhausted from running within a maze Where is the interaction among students and between student and teat her7 Or is it that Mic Lev s house has onlv lc-c turers and not teat tiers7 Then come the tests, en dowed with plenty of time, and being the good student that you are. vou have already read the textbook With still more time, vou studv those interesting lec - ture notes and the textbook Now. complete with the “exuberance" of the lectures, the textbook and vour lecture notes, vou remember almost ev ervthing and get that A or B vou desired, right? Just last night 1 was talking with mv fiance, who after five long vears, graduated from the Universitv in ldftH This is w hat she said to me When I i .sine to the Univer sity ilirei tl\ out of high sc hool luiving been an honor stu denl every year 1 was very confident. I felt like I c ould do anything Hut hv the time I graduated from the University. I lac ked most of the i onfideni e I had when I i ante. 1 think a lot of it lias to do with how diffi i ult I found it to do well when the classes were so horing and impersonal. They don’t teach you at tfie University. You teai h yourself." At the kiUii kamas Communi ty College Knglish department, the instructors promoted free thinking and creative writing, with the objw live of providing the student with the necessary skills to write effec tively This is not true at Mil key s house At Mickey’s house, you must yvrite with the same opin ion or outlook as the instructor. Is this what .1 liberal education is ahout? Isn’t the purpose of the University to create people who i an think independently and effectively express their y iey\ s and opinions' let me quote what my pre vious iOO-level Knglish instrui tor said to me "Coming to the University, yvhere the level of proficiency expected from the student is mu< h greater than the commu nity college. I tail understand yvln you may have some trou ble.” I was i|uii k to point out that in my opinion, the education 1 had received at the community college level was very good, and 1 resented her arrogance at assuming otherwise If at the end of a hard day of lectures, crowded rooms and stale air you find yourself frus trated and feeling either too sloyy or too stupid to get that A I doubt many instructors really care about the opinions of the student body, and therefore probably don't read the Emerald. or H. consult* yourself. You are not too slow or too stupid. As with most University students, you are just overworked and under-taught. Having said so much, you may be thinking to yourself Isn't this guv a little nervous about writing so < ritically of Mil key’s house7 After all, what if one of his instructors read tins thing? No, and this is why: First of all. I doubt many in structors really care about the opinion of the student body, and therefore probably don't read the Emerald Secondly, if any of mv in structors do read this, they probably don't know who the hell I am anyway And third, d it is my English instructor. I doubt he could be more critical of mv work than he already is What's a feys more destructive comments scribbled on my papers7 A word of advice: Don't waste S‘H)0 a term in Disney land at Mickey’s house First go to tlie community college until you can no longer — then meet me in Portland at Lewis and Clark or Reed College Daniel T Frank is a sopho more majoring in pn>-journal ism. 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