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EDITORIAL Election day is a day to get rid of the IFC Today is election day, and thorn aro a coupio of moa snros that students should pay particular attention to This spe< la I uloction provides a unique opportunity to rid students of the infamous Incidental Fee Committee for good In an effort to restructure the I Ft Ballot Measure 2 was created The IK lias tripped and blundered its was through finam ial decisions for quite some time. The stu dents. as well as the administration, have inquired into their methods of disbursing ovei $4 million in student funds The administration is losing its fire dealing with H i; inadequacies and has shown interest in gaining con trol of student funds Students should maintain < ontrol of their money A vote to approve* Measure 2 maintains control of stu dent funds but scraps the IK. I he student senate will take over as the fee alloc ating bod\ The student senate would he broken down into two groups of nine members each. One of the groups would take the place of the cur rent group, while the other would work on the inciden tal fee budget. These two groups would oversee three sub i ornmittoes. The proposed plan is not fool proof, but it could not bo any worse than the IFC is now. Control of student funds, under the proposed measures, would bo better managed and provide for n closer watch of the allocation of money The elet lion is a "spec ial elca tion”. The day the bal lots are counted is the* day the results go into affect This poses a:, interesting possibility it Ballot Measure 1 does not pass and Ballot Measure 2 passes, the IFC would he el i in nut tec 1 i m met! latel v Ballot Measure 1 allows for a suspension <d the disposal of the IH until May 2 > Simply put. voting no on 1 and yes on 2 would pro vide the' immediate el i ini nation of the IH . forcing the ( ^institution (iourt to hear I Ft I issues If the IH ■ can't ade cpiatelv do their job. having the Constitutional Court < ail ing the* shots could make for some amusing allocation of student funds. It would be m the student's best interests to avoid the potential of this fiasc o and vote in favor of both Why the potential was presented in the first place, no one knows. As for thcc other five ballot measure's, they are all self explanatory. For those with an interest to impeach the student body president, pay particular attention to Bal lot Measure J It changes the vote from two-thirds to three quarters. It’s probably a good idea. At least it makes it harder to impeach the president than it does to pass n budget. It is expected that only 5 pore enl of students will be voting in tins election. Faeb student pays approximate ly $.100 a year in incidental fee's. Today and tomorrow students have the opportunity to do something benefi cial with the direction of then money. Voting in favor of Measure 1 (and Measure 1 because the alternatives are uglv) are in students best interest The current I1C stinks, and they have had control of a lot of money (your money) that has been questionably spent. Better i ontrol must be introduced, and this new measure is a start. 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I DevrTtoVE0 BYUnflAL \ DEstroveo BV HABITAT LOSS. t >Om B« **v.i ( h t DON'T Sff UNUT TUl5 has to do Ninr ^ COMMENTARY Initiative will preserve ozone By Mai*- Stye- met Gary of ' . e Houser ii Monday leb 1. tin* V_-/ against the lugene ()/onr I’rotei lion Initiative I tit1 editors opposed the mill.i tu e tinst'd on their belief that ilif U S Clean Air Ad would protii l the ozone layer and that them's no need to speed the phase out of ozone-depleting t hemicals We think the editors don’t understand the tug pi< tore A group of l.f>70 leading world st lentists and HI4 Nolle! Prize w inners who do understand tlie reality of ozone depletion identified exposure to uu rttased ultraviolet radiation t aused In ozone depletion is the pritnarv environmental threat today The ozone laser thinned to rtn orti low levels around the earth in loot Ai f ording to the National (>< 011111 and Atmos pherii Administration past releases of i hlorofluoroi arfiotts (( I t st and other ozone-deplet mg 1 hemic.als resulted in a 15 pen en! to 1H peri etit ttumung ot the ozone Inter over Maine \ irginia. r olorado and Caltior nia last w inter and spring NOAA also reported that the ozone layer was depleted 25 peri ent over (tanada. Si andi navta and Russia and an all time record 70 pen ent over Antarctii a in 1003 These numbers mean that our damaged ozone layer is allow ing dangerous quantities ol harmful ultraviolet radiation to strike the Earth. Km essive UV radiation is correlated with skm 1.1111 ei 1 ataracts. weaken mg ol tiie immune system and damage to crops and phyto plankton. the base of the 01 eau u food 1 ham \ loo 1 I \ l.nvironment Program study found that ultraviolet radiation was penetrating t>5 meters into Antarctii waters and decrees mg local phytoplankton pro ductivity by 25 percent Columnist |a< k Anderson reports that melanoma skin i ant er (fiscs have doubled among Australians during the past seven years Skin cancer rates are also skyrot kelmg in the United States Passing the hiigene Ozone Initiative and speeding up the phase out of ozone-depleting chemicals is a very responsible thing to do given the reality of rei ord ozone depletion and the inrre lated damage to human and e< osyslem health i he Emerald editors also dis missed the I.ugene Initiative on the grounds that the U S (dean Air Art would adequately pro tei t the ozone layer The Enter nld editors are ill informed about the massive loopholes in the Ulenn Air Act They are also foolishly trusting of big government and dangerously ignorant of the extent of corpo rate power When the Clean Air At t and the Montreal Protoi ol got negotiated. DuPont and Dow didn't just sit on the side lines and hope for the lies! DuPont lobbyists threatened to end research and develop men! of alternatives to (.! ( s unless the corporation was allowed to make ozone-depict mg hvdrcx hlorufluorot arbons for dis udes to t ome And that's pist what they got l'fie (dean Air Act allows production of ozone depleting ilCFC S for )t> years, until the year 2030 DuPont, Dow and other i Inimical giants are switching at least t() to -in per cent of their production of (dCsto HCFCs I lie chemical corporations will push another generation of ozone-depleting chemicals on the world unless i itizens ire sm i essful m stop ping them The Emerald editorial also implied that the huge lie Ozone Initialise isn't ms essary bet ause implementation of the ( lean Air Ac t is in good hands with the environmental Protei tion Agency in fact, even though Congress dins ted the Id ’A to ensure that all ( It Ire on from car air conditioners is rec vi led. only 1 peri tint of fre mi hus been recycled When .1 freon shortage developed last year, the KPA asked DuPont to make more freon for a year p.ist DuPont's 1995 scheduled end of < 1C produi tion! l he KPA has also promoted the use of ozone-depleting MC.KCs for ( ooling, insulating, and industrial cleaning prod ui ts are available for each of these industries The KPA has repeatedly lacked the will to enforce the ( lean Air Ai t The citizen enfori ement clause in the Eugene Ozone Initiative would give citizens legal ui i ess to enforce ozone protection law when the KPA fails to Now the same heavy hitters who se attai ked the Earth's ozone layer with their 1 hlori nated i uinpounds are going after the Eugene Ozone Protei tion Initiative iv ith big hui ks The Amerii an Plastic s (iouncil. a national lobbying group fronting for DuPont. Dow. t anon ( artmle Exxon and 20 other oil and chemical corpora tions. is using some of its $50 million budget to try to defeat the Eugene Ozone Initiative I 1 an t believe the Emerald edi tors real I v want to side with these slimv Earth-destroying corporations against a local ini tiative which will reduce releases of ozone-depleting i hemicals and will send a posi tive message The Emerald editors should incorporate the above informa tion into their thinking on the ozone issue and should endorse the Eugene Ozone Ini tiative Likewise, on Slav 17. University students and otfier Eugene voters should do the right thing, fight the corporate power and pass Measure 20-0 1, tin* Eugene Ozone Protection Initiative Mark Sigel and Gary Spruc e Houser are l oardmu tors 0/ the Eugene Ozone Protei turn Campaign
