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 Continued from Page 2 they don't vote, you won't henr politicians address their prob lems and try to alleviate their sit uation. Hut they're a growing demo graphical reality, and sooner or later the rest of the population will have to stop ignoring them. The Los Angeles riots provided a glimpse into a frightening future, in which a frustrated underclass protested against an unjust system with the only means it knew: blind violence. A ml. 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