EDITORIAL University isn’t able to serve 2,000 more On the surface, it seems like the ideal solution: the University would increase student enrollment while maintaining the same number of faculty mombors while (hopefully) keeping tuition increases at a minimum, while (get this) improving the prestige and attractive ness of the University. Sound like a pipo dream? Well, it probably is. In an address to the University Assembly last week. University President Myles Brand described a scenario for preserving the University during the next biennium’s budget cuts. In that scenario, the productivity of the University would bo increased to such a degree as to accommodate 2.000 (or more) additional students. This section of the plan, while doubtful, is not impos sible. The use of new technologies (such as video recordings or instruction by computer) might allow the University to instruct a few more students: increasing the average class size might make room for a few more, finally, if more students were able to graduate within four years (instead of five or six), that too might increase the University’s capacity. If we are prepared to bo optimistic, we might even agree that these methods would be enough to handle 2.000 or more additional students. However, the idea that all this could be achieved while simultaneously improving the quality and attrac tiveness of education at the University is nothing short of fantasy. For many universities, maintaining a low student teacher ratio is a sure-fire way to attract students; con versely. a high ratio can scare them away. This univer sity is no different. Relying too much on technology, particularly as a means of compensating for an imbalance in the student teacher ratio, is likely to produce a backlash. High school students may be thankful for a filmstrip to break up the monotony of lectures, but college students are paying for their education. Most people perceive human instruction as superior to the alternatives, and that per ception, right or wrong, is enough to make many stu dents shy away from a university whose ratio is too imbalanced. Increasing class sizes won't improve that ratio either, and will almost certainly reduce the quality of instruc tion. Finally, making it easier for students to graduate in four years by reducing graduation requirements could be seen as a "watering down" of the degrees offered. That especially could have disastrous effects on the abil ity of the University to recruit and retain new students. Some students, particularly those from within the state, will come to this University no matter what. But many out-of-state students, upon which much of the University's survival depends, would find a lot less rea son to come hero if the University tries to take on 2.000 more students without signing on an appropriate num ber of new faculty members to teach them. Especially if their tuition keeps rising all the while. Oregon Daily Emerald Uanagtng Edllor Editorial Editor Graphics Editor Freelance Editor IN) Oregon 0»lf [rnerttd ■» putr.»f>«d daily Monday through Friday during the acriooi year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by me Oregon Daily Emeiaid Publishing Co . Inc . ai the University ol Oregon. Eugene. 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Oct 22). supporting Ayn Rand’s rational egoism and laissez-faire capitalism, there is an important point that ('.ole fails to address Nowhere in Rand's ideal cap italism does she consider its inevitable effect on the environ ment (She wrote in the l‘150s, remember') Is Cole suggesting that we should abandon a gov eminent that subsidizes multi national corporate exploitation of the world's resources for one that simply allows the corpora tions to do it on their ow n' Although Rand had a clear understanding of the l).S gov ernment's violation of the first t ardinal rule of i apitalism. oper ating at a loss through sub sidiary programs, she perceived the governments involved to be counterproductive to corporate profits. In actuality, U S policy (particularly military) has result ed in tremendous profits for multinational corporations (All under the guise of spread ing detnoi racy, I might add; communism may have actually worked somewhere on this planet if it weren't for the Unit ed States' systematic and very thorough extermination of it.) As far as the environment is concerned, we are in danger of losing virtually every natural hahitat left. And to what? Cor porate profits! I am not a communist; I am a capitalist in Ayn Rand's ideal sense of the word. However, on their "enlightened age." we must realize that a corporation's profit motive, if left unchecked, will have irreversible repercus sions on the environment. 1 add this appendage to Rand's oath of the profit motive: "I swear by my life and my love of it. That I will never live for tiie sake of another man. nor ask another man to live for mine.” yet I will live for the sake of this planet as a whole, which my life is entirely dependent upon. Paul Iverson Eugene Exorcism Nov. 2 is Election Day in the United Status, which will reaf firm the corruption of the U S. Constitution by the people's elected representatives who have transferred individual rights to profit-making and tax collecting institutions But this betrayal of the U S. Supreme Court demands that all nine jus tices resign. freedom of speech only applies to a single individual in order that he or she might address his or her community regarding its welfare and longevity An individual also had the right to have his or her com erns broadcast per freedom of the press Both are individual rights and cannot apply to a group Again, religious belief is an individual right, not applying to .1 group. Individuals have the right to assemble, not in a repre senting group, but only them selves. So the time has come for everyone, especially preachers, to rise up out of their group graves and be born again. I did long ago. Anyone now? The (John lfi:ll / Jude 1 fi.lt) Kill King James Bible was spir itually fulfilled during this gen eration. and an example of group demonizing is found in Matthew 8:32 where greed entered into a group of lawyers and they ran down a a steep place and perished in the sea of laws (hat destroy individualism. My one-man crusade to exor cise demonized America began Feb. 17. 1972, and on Easter Sunday of April 10,1977,1 got a partner with a photo in the Salem newspaper with a saying, "if all (Wo-men) stayed home, we'd sue: 1 Full employment; 2. No crime; 3. Jesus; for Christ's Rev. 19:7 marriage. John-Wayne Johnson San Diago, Calif. We ll listen In response to Michael Swatzel’s letter (OUE. Oct. 22), if you need someone to talk to. call 465-4832. Anyone here will talk with you. James Slagle Eugene Baha’ism The American Baha'i commu nity has recently reported about the destruction of the Baha'i gravesites in Iran and a secret government plan to suppress and destroy their "cultural roots." That is deplorable. But that's not the full story. Culturally, most of the tradi tions in Baha'ism are in total con flict with and far away from the Iranian traditions and values. The encouraging of young women to employ all means possible to solicit and recruit now members is not only utterly offensive hut reprehensible to traditional Iran ian values. The so-called emergence of Baha'ism is viewed by Iranians with suspicion and skepticism, since the very precept of Baha'ism is shrouded in politi cal intrigues rather than spiritu al enlightenment. Politically, contrary to Baha'i claims, its leadurs have always l>eon engaged in reactionary pol itics detrimental to Iran and its people. Ironically, the very basis of Baha'i foundation was politi cal; it came into being in the 19th century when Iran was political ly in turmoil and weak, and Baha'ism was used to divide and exploit an already fragile coun try. Iranians have found the close ties between Baha’ism and Zion ism an unholy one. (The world headquarters of Baha’ism is locat ed in Haifa.) Prior to the 1979 Iranian rev olution. Baha'is invested millions of dollars in Israel. Furthermore, some of the prominent Iranian Baha'is were involved in the Shah's regime: in the much-hat ed SAVAK as well as other agen cies of the government that brought pain and agony to the masses in Iran. And this is the rest of the sto ry. T.J. Fooladi Eugene