LETTERS
Afta NAFTA
For decades the environmen
tal community lias fought for a
i lean and safe environment. If
enacted, tfte North American Fret
Trade Agreement will signifi
cantly weaken or reverse these
efforts
In the next few weeks the
Mouse of Representatives will
vote on the fate of NAFTA If
NAFTA posses, recycling laws,
chemical bans and food safety
legislation will all bo held up as
barriers to free trade As a result,
companies will naturally relocate
to areas where both standards
and enforcement are lax. Simply
to keep those corporations in
their communities, local and state
regulators within the United
States will he pressured to give
in to industry demands in envi
ron men! a I regu lot ion.
Help stop NAFTA before it's
too late. It's critical that your
voice bo heard. Write your news
paper, Representative Wyden and
Senator Hatfield today.
Don't think NAFTA won't
effect vou. For information, con
tact OSPIRG at 346-4377.
Amy Wachmann
OSPIRG
Standards
I emphatically embrace all
major accusations made against
me by Jerry Russel and Paul Iver
son (ODE Oct. 20, Oct, 28). Yes.
I do apply reason to economics,
culture, art and morality, espe
cially morality. I do approach
those subjects exactly as I do
physics — certainly not as the
province of mystic edicts from
the Bible or mindless prattle of
college bull-sessions
Ayn Rond Hid Him over objt* -
tivu standards of action — stan
dards by which one < an live con
fidently and successfully, not
blindly From where do these
standards come7 Your nature as
a human being determines which
action von must take to gain the
ultimate value which is your life
You are free not to identify those
actions, but you are not able to
live well without performing
them Lastly. I agree with Ayn
Rand that exploitation of nature
is the noblest activity one can
perform Profit-seeking produi -
tion is the com rate process of
achieving one's life happiness.
Ayn Rand's validation of these
principles makes her one of
mankind's greatest heroes and
benefactors.
Damon A. Cole
Mathematics
SStop hiding
In response to art article about
University of Washington play
ers arrested for burglary and
attempted rape, (()/>/-,'Nov. 1), the
Hmrrnld staff and those students
who read the article might need
a little clarification.
being locked in a room alone
with three men who are expos
ing their genitals and threatening
you is obviously a crime. Their
arrest was warranted indeed. The
disgusting opinion of the writer
that follows is what concerns me,
"The victims were not harmed
Whether the writer meant that
the victims were not "physical
ly" harmed, to say they were not
harmed at all is grossly unjusti
fied and disturbing I bis irre
sponsible journalism and editing
perpetuates the inaccurate belief
that sexual assault. l*s ause of no
physical scars on the outside,
does no damage to the victim on
the inside.
How i nn we dispel the myth
that sexual assault is not a seri
ous offense when our source of
information tells us that vie tims
of it are not harmed' Hey
reporter, if the victims weren't
harmed, whv did the m i used go
to jail? Please stop the ignorant
effort to take two steps Ixk k when
our understanding of sexual
assault is nisi beginning to take
one step forward
Joseph Borton
Economics
Safe facts
Wo would like to thank the
Emt'rahi and Edward klopfen
stein for the comprehensive arti
cle printed about Saferule and the
services we provide We would,
however, like to correct some
misinformation contained in the
article.
We run three vehicles, only
one of vvhii h is restricted to cam
pus and the surrounding area
The other two, the off-campus
vehicles, travel much farther and
prov ide rules several miles from
i ampus As for the vans, we had
always had two vans operating,
but were forced to turn awav
women because both vans were
full, not broken down We would
also like to point out that the dis
patchers are hired staff and are
not volunteers
Angharad Freeman-Jones
Shaley Howard
and two other co-signers
Project Saferide
OPINION
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later the rest of the population
will have to stop ignoring them.
The Los Angeles riots provided
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lysts with a broader understand
ing of history and economics
knew that the l.A riots weren't
only symptomatic of a justice sys
tem gone wrong. They were
symptomatic of u society gone
wrong.
Could the United States be
ripped apart like the former
Yugoslavia? Not in the foresee
able future.
Hut the seams that keep this
country together aren't as strong
as they were just 20 years ugo. If
Americans don't begin to fill the
canyon between the "haves" and
the "have-nots." this country may
soon begin to grasp the full mean
ing of the word "balkanization '’
Marius Melami is a columnist
for the Emerald.
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