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.