Three IFC members resign spots
By Edward Kloptenstein
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Committee started the sc hool year with a per
sonnel i risis as three member* annmmcd their
resignation at Monday night's meeting.
All three — acting Chairwoman Esther Wong
and committee members Julia Wallace and
Tonija Edwards — cited financial problems
Edwards also cited possible problems with her
daughter's health.
Also at Monday night's meeting, the commit
tee voted committee member Jian Liu in as
i hnirman Committee member Joey Lyons was
voted in as vice chairman
The three said they want to train the new
members before leaving their positions to
reduce disruption to the committee.
”1 know what can happen if we don't have a
cohesive unit." said Edwards, later adding that
"what we can do to leave more res|MH tahly is by
training new people, making a more consistent
transition "
The committee decided to contact ASl'O
(’resident Eric Howen in the next few days to
disc uss adding the now requests lor members lo
I hi* IFC search committee The resigning mem
bers said they had not talked to Bowen l>efore
the meeting. According to IFC bylaws, the
ASUO president appoints new members
Acting Chairwoman F.sther Wong said the
University’s high tuition is forcing her out
Wong said paying out-of-state tuition and los
ing money in the currency exchange from her
home country of Singapore is forcing tier to
graduate early.
Wong is currently taking 21 credits to meet
that goal. She plans to leave in February, she
said, with the beginning of the winter term
marking her last day in office.
Wallace said entering graduate school
brought extra tuition charges that are too much
for her IFC stipend to pay Committee members
earn about $100 a month.
Wallace unofficially gave Oct 1 as her last
day in office.
The committee hopes to replace the current
vacant position and Wallace's position first,
then look for replacements for F.dwards and
Wong.
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1973 Supreme Court case Milter
vs California
The work must be ' patently
offensive." and must, taken ns a
whole, appeal to the "prurient
interest" in sex. and its contents
must bo utterly without redeem
ing social value. The problem
with such legal definitions is
their subjectivity. Heins said
Unlike the term "obscenity."
pornography does not have a
legal meaning, but is the subject
of censorship efforts by both the
political right and left, she said
Heins said attempts by groups
like the Meese Commission to
i ontrol material on the shelves
of adult entertainment stores
have been strengthened by polit
ical and intellectual arguments
and intellectual stature of peo
ple like University of Michigan
law Professor Katherine McKin
non. an anti-porn, left-wing fem
inist.
While Heins defined pornog
raphy as adult videos or litera
ture that's designed for soxual
arousal, the McKinnon defini
tion classifies pornography as
sexual material that is degrading
to women or has a message of
degradation.
It is unfortunate, Heins said,
that McKinnon and her follow
ers have persuaded the mass
media that their agenda repre
sents feminism, because such an
ideological definition of pornog
raphy stereotypes and limits
what society sees as a proper
female sexual response.
Sex. Sin and Blasphemy
argues that despite claims made
by McKinnon’s followers, who
have influenced the Canadian
government to adopt their defin
ition of pornography, there is no
credible evidence that pornogra
phy causes men to commit rape
or any other sexual crime.
It would I** disastrous. Horns
said, to censor material on the
basis that it may cause certain
behaviors, regardless of whether
the material w as pornography or
children's television program
ming
"For anybody to think that the
problems of crime and violence
in society are going to he
resolved by i ensoring television
programs, they have got to be
living in la-la land," Heins said.
Political efforts to censor car
toons because they may cause
violent behavior is just a distrac
tion from the more expensive or
controversial solutions like edu
cation. gun control or drug ther
apy. she said.
Heins, who also has a private
law practice, said racism is
implicated in attacks on rap
music because of cultural con
ventions in black music that are
not fully understood by censors
Censors fail to understand vio
lent imagery that sometimes
occurs in African-American
music and literature, even
though it also appears in enter
tainment for whites, she said.
Her example was the vehement
protests to Body Count's song.
"Cop Killer." even though there
is "lots of cop-killing in Clint
Eastwood movies. " she said.
Censorship is essentially
thought control. Heins said, no
matter who the censors ore. The
OCA, in attempts to suppress lit
erature, is attempting thought
control just as anti-OCA protest
ers who would try to ban the
organization from participating
in the Eugene Celebration
parade are, she said.
However, when the OCA tries
to censor materials that portray
homosexuals in a positive light
in order to reduce rejection of
homosexuality, "that's not only
control of thoughts, it's control
of behavior," she said.
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