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EDITORIAL Releasing criminals? ‘Not in my backyard’ A few v.irs ago. mi unusual story raptured the nation's attention. A sea-going barge, laden with tons of garbage, was traveling from port to port, trying to find a place to dump its unwelcome contents 1 Insurprisinglv. the barge was turned away time and time again, and for a while, no one could sav where it would finally end up In C '.alifornia this week, a similar drama has been tak ing place This time, the garbage nobody wants is not a boatload of banana peels and coffee grounds, but some thing even more i ontemptible: convicted serial rapist Melvin Alfred (Tuter The state has had a predictably diffh ult time finding a home for ( drier, who has served less than half of his . year jail sentence lie was originally supposed to be released in the county where he was com ic tori, as state law dictates, but when the residents of that county protested. Coy Pete Wilson ordered him b.mished "out in the wilderness someplace " As a result, (drier is being lodged in a minimum seen r it y fiu Hits in Modor County, a remote and sparsely populated part of the state that has proved not quite remote and sparsely populated enough Many of the county's 10,000 residents have expressed outrage at their county s being t boson as the dumping ground for Cartel. although none of them have < time lorvv.ud with an alternative place for him to live Where ( al ter will end up is not the big question here He has to live s<imewhore, public mitt ry notwithstand ing The important question is. why is he out of jail already, just 12 years after being sentem ed to 2.V lly any reasonable definition, (drier has not paid his debt to society He was convicted of 2d crimes, includ ing rape, assault, burglary and attempted burglary Hut Ins r.onvit lions don't tel! the half of it. Carter has con lessod to raping more than 100 women Prisoners are routinely released sooner than they should be (drter. like many other inmates, was reward ed for good behavior and for his labor in prison, and the reward < ame in the form of an early parole. [• \er\ state in the union is suffering from prison over c rowding The lac k of jail spat e is forcing < riminals hac k into soc ietv long before they have served their lull sentence, and often long before so< iety wants them bac k This was the case with Carter. The residents of Modoc County will probably have to resign thomselves to Carter s presence Aside from kil ling him (which some of them have threatened), there is no way to force the state to move him. and there is no place for him to go any way If they really want to put their rage to good use. how ever, they should take this opportunity to push for c hango in the justice system, requiring more mandato ry sentem es for violent and repeat offenders, and for the funding of more prisons to hold those offenders once they're convicted. That ill fated garbage barge, foul as it was, had to eventually end up somewhere. And so must criminals like* Carter, unless the system undergoes some serious changes in California and elsewhere Emerald PO 110* jm EUGENE OWEGO* 97403 T*'f V,v.- Pj , / * day M ►'lily r- .-/■ I Jay ^ IN* vf - year and Tuesday and Thursday during tr>e summer by the Oregon l>* y [me'atd Pu6*»*h</tQ Co Inc at the Un-ve*vty O* (>e/fi f u^ene Ooj/’ The / .^jtw independently of the U< »«'vty w*th yh" e» at Su«te 300 at the l ft) Mem,)' .1 Un w rxJ <9 a mett** <>* the Aasc* atod Press The t m&stk] ■•% prwa’e property the untaremoval or u94* •? paper* is prosecutable by taw Editof-ln-ChteC Jaee Be* a Managing Editor Editortal Editor Graphic# Editor Fraaianca Editor ('a «*> Afvkvvm David Thorn Jt*" f'a&iay J«h W.nUws Sport* Editor Mfirt* Editorial Editor P<*hardt Photo Editor ^ had Sh*x2*w Sopplameoti Editor Kjrfy Soto Night Editor: l>av*j Thorn Associate Editor-1 t d**vd Kioptenstwn Sh*k»'t Go«rwn«r'! fTatwxa Mernt! Ccvnmun.ty Jui*e Sw*ns«n. Educmbon>AdrrumstfMon News Staff Mandy flaucum. i rK Bocfchatter. A ion Chan Dave hartooneau Amy Cotumbo. Jm Da>n». Mag DedcXph. Amy Davenport Can EcNHi I Mafea f*kH Martin Fisher S^ah H^VN^'e Hanes Y<n Lang leong Ma/uS Maiand. Tr.yta Non i. vii^th Reenaspma RoMse Reeves L«a Safocoa. Scoff Srmonsor Slapharn Stases S* r Steffens Jui*e Swenson. M«rhe*e Thompson Aguwr Kev* Tripp. Amy Van Tu, Dii ' Oi Am? General Manager tody R*«*J Advert!atng Director MaA Aafter Production Manager Mchete Ross Advertising B- an Da vs Sutxr Duff a N . c T mesa Hat** e J*M M.i - «ve-"y Mav M h.w M*«e«e Rachael Tf„ii. Ke*s«*> W«*•*-; Classified fleesy Mr*.-, ha--* AM agnr V*1or Me.-a. S*m T.*« Ttx> Distribution Andy fta'vey l-^n long. Graham &mp*on Business K.H’ty Cartxmn Superv >.>/ A*.Jy ('.onnoiiy Production Ob* M COPftMnMOt M M, Greg [Desmond. Tara ,1 • r*v B*ad *-*• V.I. , M* -.Mr It • 1 • Naff Tha-;* ' n Yee Nffwvoom Bu»ine*>« Offic* 346-*311 34^5512 Display ^overusing Classified Advertising 346 4343 /g5***ggl I VS * G«AT IP*A' Lets co TU-Mfe W> ,u $*** MON* -VsiO fJAKl COO*>6$~ LETTERS Male kingdom Regarding Oaiiiel Wes! \ arti i hi about tin* AM II women's . I, t V i .1 all’ Mil Parks. tll'Tli are si'\ i*ral points with whii h 1 . r '■ ,i Ono. tin* .isM'itmn th.it 'ill un derrepresented groups urn in .m unsafe environment is riilit iiIons 1 h»*t tImt in African Amtirii .m female is safer at the University than in. for example. (:hn ago Ms I'.uks made tin* vers good point that the University cele brains "different types of w hite diversity " Hut she should hast* qualified the statement hv adding the word "liberal Peo ple at the University think that a nose nng and a bumper stii ker i elehrate diversity . but have no idea ol how to deal with the real thing That's win the rail si demands and comments by so many people of "i olor are to! erated A good example of this is Ms Parks' assertion that the m strm tor of an ethnir studies i lass must tie ideiltii alls matched in the rai e and ethm i itv to the subjei t under disr Us sum While I agree that this is indeed a valuable pefspei live, it is rai sst m two ways Hie strict adherent e to sin h a code would reinfori e racial and ethnir stereotypes, and two. it negates the view of anybody not tnilong mg to the rai nil or etlmii group in question. If that were the i ase, Ms Parks would have no business commenting on this white male kingdom Damien E Marquez Eugene Fill in the blanks Mikti Shannon's letter (ODt. Mari h 10) perfectly demon strated the flaws of multicultur a 11sin Multiculturalism i laiins to teach sensitivity, but rather blatantly indoctrinates racism and nationalism What many litieral multirulturalists forget is that this is America. Ihe (‘.re.it Melting Pot. not America, the Culturally Factionalized Stew We are all Americans; y es. 1 am also white, but 1 am not Euro Amerii an (like there's anything wrong with being Euro-Ameri can) So here is the perfect multi national letter of whatever na tionsditv vuu .in' if you're com posed n! in 1 x«-*i nationalities (hemon forbid) thou just fill in tin* different nationality oa< it diiv 'tos. I .nn whito but I .1111 not I.uroAineruaiu I ant [national) tv) Amorii an, As a (.same) American student. 1 hnvo on countered numerous injustii os ill tin* I Adversity There ts tin (sumo) studont union horo Thom is no (some) representation in the ASIA) \nd 1 am damn tirnd ol lining stereotyped as a fnuy number of racial labels that apply). So as a moitibur ol an op pressed minority at tllo tamer sit y, I would like to proposo a (nationality) history month to r.nso tho awareness of tin* (//is Inin natiniuiht\) pooplo Alsu, thoro needs to ho more (same! instructors on 1 atnpus I would also like to so** at least one (some) history 1 lass added to tho required curriculum lor IdniversiU students It's time for tho (some) minor itv t" fight tor an end to this op pression {ft pu/nr Xationahstii A1 claim)'. Ted Assur Russian Out of context I want to address a quote that w as published ((>Ph March 111 l! was tile story about me re leasing funds for the t !NSA con ference in Washington, DC. The quote read If we told the lead ership (of the ASt'O programs) that they had to work w ithin rules, that would stifle eat ti' group's i reutivity so much that no one would want to lead " The quote was taken totally out of i untext. Then* should not be a comma after the word "rules” because I was referring to the rules that were unneces sarily bureaucratic to the extent that the rules vs mild la* counter productive to their original intended effects. I tlid not mean that groups should not follow rules for the sake of creativity and "iin clici ked” leadership. I went fur ther into dis< ussion with Kd Klopfenstem. the ODE reporter about the fine line ol leadership and personal ethics, it was in that context that I said those words Obviously it was a dis i iissinii !hat I d was not eypec ! in;.; Ho misinterpreted my [M'r solid! perspective to be my of 1 i i iii 1 stain i' on tin- ! SNA ni.ittt-r. when, in fact I was reb*rring in generic terms. This misunder standing was also till* conse queue i« of a 1m L iii niutiial mo dus i oniimtnique between l.d and tin soli, an issue we since both ba\ e resolved Note that my dei ision to re lease funds for tile t'SSA yvas based solely on the potential y able added to the l adversity 's student body growth through tlie representation of our student delegates on a national level The out* tune of the initial ilives ligation on tin* alleged misoon duct ysitlnn the USSA is not substantial enough to justify encumbrance to the potential value id this trip to the I aiivei sity Francis Neo ASUO Finance Coordinator Moms’ money The l 'Diversity of (Iregon's Mothers was established in l'U-l Over the ensuing years the i lul) h.is assisted thousands of students with si holurships and emergent \ loans through the Financial Aid (>fh< e While not as at live, the club continues to award scholar ships Fills year we will he se ie< ting undergraduate students to receive the Golda Parker Wit kham Award, named for the former Dean of Women, in the amount of $ 1 .500 This award is given to an outstanding student and puts emphasis on < ivic activities, need and scholarship. 1'he Opal and Robert I) Clark, named for the former University president and his wife, will he awarded in the amount of $1,000. This award is given to an outstanding student and plat es emphasis on volunteer servit e. scholarship and need. The Theresa Kelly James Award will he presented for $500, and there are several gen eral awards for $750 each. Applic atoms may he picked up in Room tti-i Oregon Hall or at any of the dean's offices We encourage all full-time under graduate students to submit ap ple .items Alice Dugan Scholarship Chair University Mothers' Club
