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EDITORIAL Romantic dinners and the'Emerald' She paced from room to room in her small apartment, waiting for her clock to strike seven. Passing her reflec tion in a bathroom mirror, she considered playing with her hair just one more time, thought better of it. and resumed pacing. Tonight was the big night, she thought. Her date with K. As she dropped herself heavily into her comfortable second-hand couch, she began to recall the others who had so recently flitted through her life. There was 1 and V and who could forgot C.v fust as she was beginning this mental checklist, she heard the slam of a car door outside her building. Rushing to tin* window and looking down toward the street, she saw him: Ho was black . and white. f*rom this distance, it all sort of blended together, into a sooth ing shade of gray, tinted yellow by the street lamps over head. She quickly retreated from the window*, lest he should see her looking at him. Patting herself and regaining her composure, she waited patiently as E, proceeded up the stairs and to her door. Ho knocked She couldn’t stand to delay any longer. In a second, she had opened the door. It was E. In his grip were a dozen roses, swaddled in baby's breath and fern. She invited him in, As she put the roses in a vase, he talked to her. His words were simple, direct, suave. He seemed like a black-and-white movie star, anachronis tic in this college student's run-down apartment. There was an airy grace in his form as he led her down tho stairs to his car. It's just the cover, she thought to herself. She had to find out what was Inside. As they drove to the elegant restaurant where E. had made reservations, she resumed her checklist of recent disasters. C. had boon nice enough, if a bit of a blowhard. Opin ionated, arrogant, he seemed to be around all of the time. She appreciated his wit. but couldn't get past his reputation. Her friends would’ve crucified her if she had gone out with him again. Her experience with I. hadn't been much better. After a couple of dates, he just disappeared. I. was like that, besides, she had a sneaking suspicion that his words weren’t exactly his own. And what could she say about V.? He was even hard er to track down than I. He had an easy-going nature but, like the others, ho couldn't compare with E. That was why she was so nervous tonight. Her anxiety evaporated during the meal however, under the heat of both candlelight and warm smiles from E. She felt comfortable with him, she trusted him to toll her the truth, without ornamentation. And she knew he was the kind of guy who would be there, day after day, filling the time between classes with careful words, spirited opinion, sports ... and even the weather. Yes. E. was exactly the kind of newspaper she was looking for. And she was never going to let him go ,,, Emerald PO 00* 31W SOGtKt Q*fG0m>HQ3 The 1 P.V't f ■"**. tk! > put” shed . Me • U) thr High 1 Jv>- *'VJ ’h* ye,»- and Tuesday and Thursday du^ng the summer by the Oregon Deny tmeraid Puw»*h»r\i Co . i-*H. at the Ur* ve<i»!y ot Oregon t age»'«. The r'^p.:*a/ operates KieperxJer'itiy ot the U’v«f€MS-ty w*th "es -»t Su-te -KX) ot the t »♦> Mem • ,ii Un.-on and *s .» ’>afnbei o’ the As»vx»ated Press Th« i mtvahl t* private property The unuW.. removal or .<v jt pape»* s proMKPtdfr* t>y tiW Editor-In-Chief Jafce Berg Managing Edit cm Editorial Editor Graphics Editor Frcwianca Editor C*tk*y Arxkwson 0«v*d Thorn Pastoy J«rt Wmt«r* Sports Editor Editorial Editor Photo Editor Supplements Editor Sievfl Mmt Jeff Ptcfcftardl KA'y SotO Nigh! Editor Kaly Solo Aaaociate Edllort. I deaid Kioptenstem Student Co#™*!! AcfvNw ReOecca Men " Comm,.n<r>. 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Nan thangviyt Clayton Yeo Nvwmrocwn. 6u*ln*u Offtc* J44-55I1 J44-S512 Display Advertising - 34*3712 Classified Advertising- 34*4343 .Wiimjuirvvnq l TV* OwkOWT MW ] Gu<ctv 9« p**So* J Of Oo»» IM^KTY. J LETTERS OCA is OK The purpose of this letter is to i ounter the lies and hysteria per petrated by Carol Berg and her group protesting against the Ore gon Citizens Alliance in front of the Valley River Center. I have seen Schindler's List, and it is indeed a fine movie it does not prove that the OCA uses the same hatred as Miller The (X1A does not hate, it loves Why else would it start a program aimed at helping homosexuals overcome their (fin iance? Want ing to preserve family values and protect children from brain washing by leftwing moralists does not put the (X .A on paral lel with Nazi-Gsnnany If you want an example of Nazi tai tics, take a look at a recent in< ident in San Francisco where a mob of homosexuals converged on a church, pounding on the walls and shouting obscenities at those Inside because they dart'd to speak out against homosexu ality That tadligerent action by homosexuals was true fascist behavior. T.K McDonald said, "Jewish luniks were burned in Nazi-tier many and the OCA is trying to ban books written by gay or les bian authors " Wrong. T K The OCA is not trying to bon any books or authors The f X \ is trying to Isin instilling in our < hildren that the gay lifestyle is viable and should be validated File (X A is try ing to tell us that the homosexual agenda includes mdo< trinnting young minds and that we as par ents have a right to decide what our children are taught All parents have a right to cen sor what their children read or see I don't want my children to he forced to read or listen to Heather Has Two Mommies or Daddy's Roommate. The OCA does not want to ban those books except in the classroom. If you want to buy them in a bookstore for your children, go ahead just don't read them to my children. Berg was wrong when she said the OCA. through Ballot Measure 9, attempted to remove profes sors Nowhere in Measure 9 was removal of professors or anyone else r ailed for If she can show me where in Measure 9 the OCA attempted to remove professors. I will carry the "Ban the OCA" sign for nine hours at Valley Riv er Center Please quit lying and mislead ing people If you oppose the (X'.A do it with some honor. The OCA has been lied about and maligned more than any other poliliuil group I know of in Ore gon Take the sign that reads (XIA off your Nazi straw man. James D. Patton Political science Lookalike I've been following the Ayn Rand controversy in tin* Emer ald for several months now and have come up with a bit of new information that I thought might be of interest, for the sake of per sonal reference if nothing else. While reading a literary journal a few weeks ago. 1 ran across an article about a new facet of the total Ayn Rand mystique, a new idea that has apparently cropped up in scholarly circles lately equaling her with Anne Rice Now, when 1 first glanced at the article, 1 thought, and with some reason to think, that the whole business was completely absurd But. reading further, they hud some reasons that weren't entirely questionable, if not completely sane It seems that the personal philosophies of the two authors are close if not identical, though Avn Rand's are perhaps a trifle more blunt!) stated She say*, if I understand it correctly, not having m tualiy read the stuff myself, that people are tree to do whatever they wish as long as they don't get in anyone else's wav and furthermore that man is the dominant species on the planet with a license to do what ever he wishes in order to facili tate his daily happiness. Actually, this is remarkably close to Anne Rice's themes in her vampire books, which I also have not read. According to the article, these vampires are inhu manly strong and "sensual." possessing the power to do pre cisely as they wish in any situa tion not involving other vam pires Doesn't it sound like Avn Rond's theories if one changes r the word vampire to human? The two novelists (who may or may not be identical) have simply taken opposite approaches (logical and emo tional) to the expression of the same basic goal. The authors also share the same initials Per haps this is a joke for the authors' friends or simply a con tinuation of a common practice of authors’ pen names. Eric McCready Jr. Aslan studies Jake not neat Come on. lake. What were you thinking in Wednesday's painfully long-winded and pointless article about student drinking on campus? Were you trying to prove you could write like a third-grader? I hate to remind you, but you tried this very stupid style a while back. That time you thought a person crashing on his hike was neat. Or, did the deadline come too soon and you couldn't write anything better than an exercise on simplistic and poorly edited writing? Or were you. for the third time in less than nine months, attempting to make a joke about alcohol consumption on this campus? The first time, you related your 21st birthday experience detailing every single brand of beer you consumed. No one I knew found this remotely important or entertaining. The second piece you wrote con i erned Alcohol Awareness Week You managed to utterly insult the people involved in the project You also proved your i hildish and witless sense of humor. (What was with the Bat man, Joker reference?) Jake, you insult us with these articles (not to mention the Emt-rald itself! We are not stu pid We understand complicat ed sentences and ideas, and maybe you should experiment. Try using all of those skills you learned in journalism school. Moe Reynolds English 1 LETTERS The Oregon Daily Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topics of interest to the University community.
