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
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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