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
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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
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