EDITORIAL
Provide lull access
for disabled citizens
Kugttno’s Mayor-elect. Ruth Ha scorn. ha* yet l<» take
tin; oath uf office, but has already become the sub
jet t of controversy.
On Friday. Hasrom ordered her swearing in cere
monv invitations to he reprint ml. allegedly because
they referred to her and incoming City dmincil mem
bers ,is "mayor-ole< t" and "councilor-elect," rather
than "mayor" and "councilor."
If those were the only changes she had made, there
would be no controversy But she also ordered the re
moval of information stating the event was when It hail
accessible and that it would l«* interpreted for the hear
ing-impaired.
Museum's reasoning
for the deletion was one of
aesthetics "I was trying
not to get it to look so
cluttered." she vs.is report
ed as saving in /Vic Keg/s
trr( 'third
Whatever the reason.
Museum's action will like
ly alienate much of the
disabled community. Dis
abled citizens are often
overlooked in society, and
When do hearing
impaired citizens
lose their right to
the same access
to public events
and information
that other
citizens enjoy?
any effort to remind them they are welcome should not
be avoided,
Ba.scom furthered the problem by saying she
doesn't believe it's necessary to have ‘’every public
event'' interpreted for the; hearing impaired If that's
the case, who will dec ide what events should be inter
preted and what will ice the criteria? When do hearing
impaired c itizens lose1 their right to the same acc ess to
public event* and information that other c itizens en
joy?
Ha sc torn should remember that she was elected to
represent all Hugene citizens, equally ami fairly Ami
while* Base mil's action should not imply that shu is in
sensitive or uncaring, it should serve notice* that, as
mayor, her every action will be subjec t to intense sc ru
tiny.
Mayors are only human, and they make? mistakes
Hopefully. Bascom will learn from hers and be a l>ette*r
mayor because of them.
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Siephanie Sisson
An ml l.inker, carrying
twice the oil of the Kxxon
Valdez, run aground lust
week and began spilling oil in
the Shetland Islands
Damage to wildlife in the
Shetlands has already been do
si rilM-d hi (’.oast Guard offii lals
as horrendous Although the
actual nund>er of lards and fish
in that area is less now than it
would lie in the spring, the 25
million gallons of oil spilled
still has a signifii ant effe< t on
wildlife in the area
This is tile latest example of
the negative effet ts of modem
te< hnologi and our limited
means of controlling it
In March the infamous
Kxxon oil tanker ran aground in
Valdez, Alaska, and spilled It
million gallons of oil into the
Prince William Sound.
A cleanup crew of 10,000, six
months and St 3 billion could
not repair the damage done to
the beaches at Valdez. Thou
sands of sea birds and hun
dreds of bald eagles and sea ot
ters died, and the carcasses of
more than 3,000 shore birds in
the Gulf of Alaska have lieon
recovered.
"We didn't have the precau
tions in place to prevent (the
spill) from occurring, we didn't
have the capability to deal with
it uih e it was in tin* water, and
now we re finding that there
wasn't am technology to deal
with it on the beaches.” said
Steve Provant. on-screen coor
dinator lor the Alaskan conser
vation department
I'he condition of the earth's
water supply is only part of the
big pit lure Air pollution is an
other lag < ont erti According-to
a report front tin- Oak Kidge Na
tional laboratory, the level of
carbon dioxide in the earth's
air has steadily increased since
the 1800s and has risen sharply
situ e the 1950s
Can humanity and Mother
Nature live together in har
mony' I lielieve so. hut it will
take more effort on our part
Man's i arelessness and greed
have done terrible things to the
environment Fortunately, |us!
as it has done in the wake of
volcanoes, earthquakes and
other devastating disasters, our
planet will survive
"Mother Nature, to a great
degree, will eventually do the
best job of t leaning up this
spill," said Coast Guard Vice
Admiral Clyde Robbins, the
federal cleanup coordinator for
the Kxxon Valdez oil spill
Robbins has the right per
spective Although it is impor
tant for us to be concerned
about air and water pollution, it
is just as important to realize
the earth will endure despite
humanity and humanity's mis
takes.
It does not hurt to be more
careful about how we use the
technology we are lucky
enough to have, hut misplac ed
Ii'.ir ( mu make us too cautious.
Statistics created to make
Ainerii alls (eel guilts about the
harm vve are doing to our plan
et arts ridiculous These statis
tics don't show that air and wa
ter pollution levels in the Unit
ed States are among the lowest
of countries comparable to ours
in e< onoinir s, government and
industry.
There is only one way to pre
serve tlie planet as it is now,
and that is to eliminate man.
Mankind's existent e. which de
mands progress, has to have
some effet t on the earth. As
technology changes, as the way
we live shifts from an agricul
tural basis to mechanical, the
earth must change with us.
We cannot halt progress and
go Iwc k to an age tiefore auto
mobiles and ml development m
order to accommodate the plan
et We just have to lie more
careful about how we list* auto
mobiles and oil
Humanity is not the enemy
of the earth. Humanity is not
hig enough or powerful enough
to destroy the earth. Our planet
has ways of purifying its air.
cleaning its water and mending
itself after both natural and
man-made disasters.
The earth is a lot sturdier
than we like to admit in this
panicked, environ in en tally
aware era. The earth has sur
vived disasters for thousands of
years. It will survive our gener
ation and many generations to
follow
Stephan in Sisson writes a
monthly column for the Kiner
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