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EDITORIAL The Save Our Ozone initiative full of hotair There is a new initiative in town, and it is supposed to stop the sale or use of ozone-depleting chemicals in Eugene — it will probably pass, but it shouldn't. There is an old initiative in town that is supposed to stop the sale or use of ozone-depleting chemicals in Eugene, and it already has passed. The new initiative. Save Our Ozone, will appear on the May 17 city ballot. If passed, it would prohibit the sole of styrotoammanuiao turod products with ozone depleting chomic als and spray foam insulation products that use ozone depleting i homicals for application. All new auto mobiles sold in Eugene would have to have ozone safe coolants used in their air-conditioning systems. The other difference (similarity) between the two is a tattletale clause. Haion. a chemical in fire extinguishers, would no longer be available to the pub lic. The other initiative, the federal Clean Air Act. is already taking effect. It already prohibits the sale of sty rofoam-manufactured products with ozone-deploting ( hemicals. Spray foam insulation products that use ozone-depleting chemicals for application will be banned. All new automobiles sold in the nation will have to have ozone-safe coolants used in their air-con ditioning systems, lialon costs have increased beyond the public's willingness to pay The other difference (similarity) between the two is a tattletale clause l Indet the Save ()ur ()zone initiative, a consume! who finds an ozone-depleting chemical in use m Kugetie < an tell the authorities, and due process will follow The guilty party could find itself in court The Clean Air Act has something similar If a < on suiner finds an ozone-depleting i hemic al in use in the country, the consumer can call the Environmental Pro tection Agency and file a complaint. So why bother duplicating? To beat the EPA to the punch. The Save Our Ozone initiative, if passed, will begin to go into effect as early as August. Enforcement under the Clean Air Act will tako progressively •longer. but the ('lean Air Act also is nationwide. The main difference between the two is time, at most a couple of years. Passing the initiative in Eugene will simply provide essentially everything the Clean Air Act does, just a bit sooner. Ozone depletion is an old prob lom, and a couple of years will not make much of a dif ference. A couple of years might make a difference if it was a nationwide initiative, but a couple of years in Eugene would make less than the slightest change. A better idea may bo to prepare for the Clean Air Act and its full effects. Beginning now and educating the community as to the changes that await would make the most out of the Clean Air Act, as well as save a lot of hot air wasted on the Save Our Ozone initiative. 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OPINION ‘Insurgent’ excuses inadequate Rokbii Rmhs n a quest to know ever more aliout the t Iniversity i ommu Jl mts and to pass the time between classes. I derided to mad tin* rei ent issue of the Student Insurgent I’ve tried to read it lie fore, but the Insurgent has only appeared four times since September And because of this irregularity in publication, the Incidental Fee Committee is reviewing the fund ing that the Insurgent receives Well, with all of this going for it, I decided that as soon as 1 located a copy. I hud to read the Feb 15 issue of the Insurgent And what an interesting road It was indeed In an editorial, the Insurgent lashed out at the Emerald and the Oregon Commentator for ques tioning why there has Imen a lack of publication on the part of the Insurgent. I he Insurgent < laiined that it didn't publish very often because of a lac k of staff mem bers The editorial also stated that the “Insurgent tries to follow good journalistic etiquette by retraining the urge to just opin ionate' our ideals or simply make fun of others It also mentioned that students having to depend on the Emerald and the Com mentator alone for the news would lie "a scary thought.'' see ing as the "(lilac k Student Union) has to fonnalh demand space for multicultural issues Perhaps the Insurgent should realize that groups wanting spac e in a newspaper (such as the Emerald) should create new s rather than demand spac e first It's the was that it has been working tor a while Think about it After reading the eight-page Insurgent. I counted only throe or four '.tunes that were any where near objective (and ! use the word 'near" liberally) There - nuthmg wrong with writ ing i bunch of opinion stories, o\i opt when the paper explicit ly states that it "retrains from the urge to just opinionate " A minor bit of hypocrisy, perhaps'’ In fait, one of my favorite "oh|<H tive" stories in the Insur gent was a front page stun on the resignation of ASUQ multicul tural advocate Kden Ajrian Omari Me got to write part of a story on Ins own resignation, apparently, since his name was m the byline lust think what sort of a precedent this could set. What if Richard Nixon had writ ten the Watergate stories in 77ie Washington Post? Maybe it would lie better if the Insurgent just dropped ail claims to objectivity, and called itself something else Another option might be to put all of the opinion stories in one place in the news paper li e the first seven |>ages of the eight-page paper) and find somewhere else for the objective stories While the i onlent of some of the stories was interesting, the stories themselves were rather difficult to read. A number of the sentences just sort of ended mid-sentence I won’t even men tion things like capitalization, misspellings, or the jerky layout. After all, why get picky? The Insurgent is definitely a voice for the left on campus. There is no doubt about that However, if the Insurgent i an't stick to a regular schedule, the financial support that comes from the IK. needs to be si aled back, and the stipends for the editors need to be axed If the editors can’t produce a newspaper regu larlv. then they should not receive a pavcheck Invariably, someone will com plain that cutting the money that the li t gives to the Insurgent will effectively crush the paper. Non sense Sell .1 couple of ads and actively i ampaign for subsi rip tions in the h'ugene-Springfield community If done conscien If the ‘Insurgent’ cant stick to a regular schedule, the financial support that comes from the IFC needs to be scaled back. tiously. tins could cover printing and equipment costs. True, no one would get rich in the scheme, but I doubt that that is the goal of the Insurgent. 1 have no problem with fund ing the Insurgent if the editors could come out with a paper, say. overy month or so, mini mum. In fact, if they could proofread the paper beforehand. I might even go before the IFC to ask for an increase in its fund ing Hut if the Insurgent is going to come out here and then), adher ing to no regular schedule, it would be best if it just gets its funding from a non-University source. My goal here isn't to get the Insurgent to stop publication or for it to become more like the Emerald. 1 wouldn't want either of those things to happen. The Emerald and the Insurgent servo different, valid purposes on campus. My point is to show that the Insurgent, when it is published, contradicts itself, and that people should take a look at it to see what their mon ey is funding. It should be understood that running a student publication is difficult, as claimed by editors of the Insurgent However, this is complicated even further when readers of the paper aren't sure when, or if, there will he anoth er paper. It's kind of hard to draw an audience when there is no show. Or. for that matter, when the show has so little credibility that it isn't worth watching. Hobble beeves is a columnist for the Emerald.
