The Taste of *• Germany, located at the comer of j 13th Avenue and | Alder St, offers a 1 variety of German r gormet beer and wine at a reason able price. WILSON CHAMrtor m« Taste of Germany on campus By Jeff K nay ml f or rrw t'Veotv CU'ty ( mertHd Achtung. habv1 Old World War II allies Germany and Italy are back together again, only this time they're enemies fighting for patrons on Alder Street. The Taste of Germany, a Bavarian restaurant and Iwr nestled txihind Guido's, opened last week. You may ask, "Isn't German food a little specialized for stu dents raised on burgers and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Yes. but that is exactly what owner Karen Snyder wants. She is aware that some people would rather eat yak meat than endure sauerkraut and garlit wurst. but her establishment fills a niche it is the only German restaurant in Eugene. Snyder, 50. who hails from Springfield hut lived in Germany for four years, has long dreamed of owning a restaurant A nurse for 1H years, she saved enough money to purchase the Chinese restaurant Bamboo Pavilion ear lier this year (You remember it the dimly lit. filthy place that you hated yourself for loving!) She renovated the building, turned up the lights, painted n German flag on the wall, and voila' The Taste of Germany has tasty food at decent prices. Although, the dinner menu may lie a streti Ji for budget-hound students (entrees range from SH.50 to $15.75). the worst menu is very accessible. Items such as knack Turn to GERMANY. Page 11 Consensual crime in free society, nobody’s business Dupending on your point of view, you can look at Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do. the latest book by Peter McWilliams, in three ways. If you tend to be morally conservative, a Christian fundamentalist, or a fan of Pat Robertson, you may find this book offensive, or at least a challenge to your values. If you favor the legalization of such things as marijuana use, public nudity, gambling, prostitution or bigamy, this book could lie the ultimate argument in favor of your cause. But if you consider yourself a casual observer of the various squabbles of our soci ety, you will find this book an entertaining, well-researched, and humorous comment on how silly our legal system has become as a result of imposed morality. McWilliams, a co-author of the popular, three-volume "Life 101" series, in the course of roughly 800 pages, challenges what he calls in the book’s subtitle "The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society." lie does it bluntly, convincingly, and in an enter taining fashion. As an adult member of our society. McWilliams argues, you should be allowed to do with your person and property what ever you choose, as long a you don't harm the person or property of another. Some of his statistics: 350,000 people cur rently in prison and another 1.5 million on probation or parole for consensual crimes; 4 million will be arrested this year for com mitting one of these crimes. $50 billion will !>e spent this year on prosecution and pun ishment for those crimes with an addition al $150 billion in lost tax revenue "Why cain’t we just live and lot live?" he asks in his view this would • Reduce personal income taxi’s by one third • Create 8 million tax-paying jobs • Free up law enforcement resources by A‘int Nobody’s Business If You Do ★★★★ AUTHOR Peter McWilliams PUBLISHER Prelude Press COST: S22 95 allowing them to pursue the real criminals, such as murderers, robbers and rapists • Unburden the clogged legal system • Double the amount of available prison space. One could ramble on for pages about some of the things that can l>e learned in the course of reading this txxik Did you know, for exam ple, that marijuana is only now referred to by that name because William Randolph Hears! used it to differentiate it from hemp, which was commonly used for many things until the 1930s? One product of hemp is paper, and Hears! owned several forests to maintain the paper supply for his publish ing empire Around the same time, cost-efftx live methods to make paper from hemp fifxir were developed, that could have made tra ditional wood-pulp paper obsolete. McWilliams says that Hears! newspapers began calling hemp by its Mexican name, marijuana, and reported "news” items like "Marijuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days ” No this doesn't mean that McWilliams actually encourages the reader to start smok ing pot. but he does make a logical argument for decriminalization It should be a matter of personal choice, he says. One will f>e no more likely to start smok ing [jot after reading tins Ixxik. but the his tory of how several drugs became illegal to be a fascinating comment on what influences our legal system Here's a hint It isn’t the voters Another chapter compares TV evangelists Pul Robertson and Jerry Fa I well to the Phar isees of the Bible: "They knew how to pos ture. thus appearing more righteous and, therefore, more deserving of leadership than others They took advantage of every photo opportunity. They were in the right place at the right time doing the piously right thing. Being political, the Pharisees cared more about how they appeared than what they did. They fasted twice a week, and thr no rid knew it 'Oh. those Pharisees they fust twice a week, what holy men!" Whether or not you agree fully, in part, or not at all with McWilliams and his argu ments. you will find this book informative, entertaining and a challenge to the way you view the lows of our society. The upper cor ner of each page highlights an unending bar rage of eloquent, humorous and relevant quotations taken from many sources Mere are some of my personal favorites • "Why doesn't everybody leave every body else the hull alone?"— Jimmy Durante • Ye shall now the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." — Aldous Huxely • "We don't seem to lie able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?" — Will Rogers • "As a heterosexual ballet dancer you develop a thick skin " — Ronald Reagan Jr Very little will change us a result of this book The war on drugs will continue, con servative Christian groups will still lobby the government to turn Dec k to (aid, and you will still get arrested for playing nude volley ball on a public beach. 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