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EDITORIAL IFC no-shows shirk elected obligation The Incidental Fee Committee has taken a lot of heat on this page during the past few months. And it will continue to get heat until it cloans up its act. Last Thursday, the IFC canceled its second budget hearing of the week because only three members showed. The committee — which after Zoe Pargot's res ignation has only six members — is supposed to have at least four representatives present at a hearing to qual ify as a legal quorum. The committee s latest cancellation is ridiculous. The missing members — Lydia Lerma. Jose Balderas and Efrem Mehretab — know when to show up. Committee meetings have boon scheduled for every Monday and Thursday since January. Presumably the members also know how to use a phone to make sure other members will be there in case of an emergency. Committee mem ber Anne Wagoner justifiably showed her frustration at the other members when she said. "If they’re not here, they should be held responsible.'' The problem with missing meetings is that the IFC is not the only organization affected. IFC screw-ups affect everybody who has vet to appear before the committee. On Thursday, tho EMU budget was due for scrutiny. EMU Director Dusty Miller and his staff were inexcus ably loft waiting at the IFC altar for tho third time this year. This means once again the IFC must reschedule the EMU for a hearing, which in turn will lead to the rescheduling of several other groups. Now the EMU staff must put off any post-budget decision making, creating more inefficiency within its own department. In addi tion. the IFC will probably have to have several quick, ill-prepared meetings to make its May 24 budget dead line. This latest misadventure proves the point University President Myles Brand made when he proposed restruc turing IFC power. Brand was concerned that the IFC was abusing its responsibility by reviewing budget notes from various EMU groups even though doing so is not within the IFC's jurisdiction. Now the IFC. after trying to over-stretch its authority, is moving in the opposite direction by shirking its duties. How can the IFC campaign for more power when it can't handle the power it has? IFC Chairman Steve Masat must solidify the commit tee for the rest of the year by clarifying that the hear ings will not be missed and will be conducted profes sionally. Missing meetings is reprehensible, especially when members were directly elected by the student body to delegate funds. Lerma, Balderas and Mehretab must also take the blame for their most recent actions. They must either confess their irresponsibility and show up to the rest of tho meetings or resign. Although their individual excus es may have been solid, they must take the entire group into consideration. It is their duty as IFC representatives. 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April 12. 1993 eOa NAVY Ml FtoB: Woman in combat " navy 'mi COMMENTARY Is pornography defensible? Pornography rapes women’s respect By Shoshanah Oppenheim Sex. porn and all ihul jazz I hope 1 got your attention I want to introduce myself before we get to the topic at hand. 1 am one woman, with one opinion. I have one voice, and I choose only to speak for myself However. 1 rec ognize there are women who both agree and dis agree with me I believe this editorial needs a dis claimer so these words and opinions are not exaggerated, taken out of context or wrongly applied 1 ait's gel right to the point Pornography in my world view is bad. Pornographers such as Play boy. who come to recruit at the University, or any institution, are bad as well. Contrary to the belief of this fine publication (the Oregon Daily Emer ald). neither I nor any of the women with whom 1 have talked about this subject have ever criti cized the women who choose to pose for any pornographic magazine I fully acknowledge the fact that we as women know what is best for ourseive., and that the choices we make are ours alone I would never dare to make a decision or deliberately limit another woman in her decisions The problem with pornography is not that women an* modeling for magazines; the problem is that the magazines exist, and pornographers are making $22 million a day using women as objects. 1 do not ' scorn’' the women who pose because I understand that we lis t* in a six lety where there is an imbalance of (rower and opportunities, and that women are the victims of such a system of patriarchy and misogvnv This unbalance in power is crystal clear in the sex industry Who is making money off women's nudity? The models sure aren't pulling in the rev enue. The Emerald reported that college women can make $500 for posing nude; why didn't it report the magazine's gross profits from the Pac 10. Big 10 and other college issues'TWhy didn't the Emerald report what it means to be (curt of the sex industry and how profits are made exploiting women's bodies? Pornography can be defined as the marketing of women's sexuality, bodies and lives for male consumption and entertainment. There is a mar ket for sex in our society, and Playboy cashes in along with magazines such as Penthouse. Juggs and Swastika Snatch. These are only a few of the magazines available: the list goes on. Playboy is one facet of the world of pornogra phy that cannot be separated from the so-called “hard-core" porn. Furthermore, pornography is on a continuum of violence against women. Pow er is exerted over women by the constant objecti fication of women's bodies and the sexualization Turn tp RESPECT. Page 3 Double standard for pornography By Joe Huston lot of letters have been written lately about pornography From what I hove JL jLseen. many of those writers condemn the negative aspects of pornography on society, specifically asserting that pornography leads to the perpetration of physical or sexual abuse of women and children. Most refer to a body of evidence that links pornography to these crimes. However, no one seems to Ihj forthcoming and specific about this evidence. Some simply assert that the connection is obvious. Look at Ted Bundy’s own confession for Christ's sake. As a student of science and someone who has managed to go through life with his eyes pretty much open. I have a hard time accepting anecdo tal evidence. I believe it was Calileo who was judged a heretic and cast out of the Church bei nuse he went against the beliefs of both the common and the wise of the time. "Of course the Sun turns around the Earth. Look — here it begins its orbital path in the morning, and over there it finishes it at night flow else could it be7" I'm not trying to dispute a link between pornography and violence, if one exists I just want to look a little closer at the evi dent.e before I take freedom from a group or groups of people You know — choice and all that stull. Along the lines ol victimizing women and chil dren. domestic violence among them. 1 have made some observations of my own. There seems to he a relationship between alcohol use and these crimes. Granted my observations are unsci entific. gathered from friends who are police or who are in other branches of the judicial system and social support system. There are also numerous hooks written by social workers, psychologists and. yes, even a few psychiatrists, detailing the adverse effects of alco hol on family members, such as women, children and even the occasional man. Yes. it seems that some women become alco holics too. wreaking abuse on their children and even on their spouses (as incorrect a picture as that may seem). 1 wonder why there are not any protests against alcohol as a source of violence against women and children Why don't those posters say "Prohibit Pornography. Abolish Alco hol." Hmmm ... Now I am really going to go out on a limb and wonder what effect drug-addicted parents have on their children and their spouses. All that steal ing and prostituting to get money to buy those drugs. And what about those nasty come downs? 1 hear they can turn a person's behavior downright Turn to HYPOCRISY. Page 3