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EDITORIAL Couple of condoms and a burger, please it % S-iSex Week. t■ <i tins is li d..\ It seems noarh every day there is a new bout in tin' ongoing fight to lesson the threat of sexually transmitted diseases. There are condoms for men available, it seems. nearly everywhere .sew i ondoms for women are now available at the Stu dent Health Center for those interested, dot now condoms are not just for sex anymore. In the true spirit of pro looting Sale! Sex Week, many in< al restaurants are It’s hard to not be reminded of sex, especially at the University. offering food deals if customers simply show the wait er or waitress a couple of condoms 1’erfet t. After enjoy ing a few beers at Rennie's landing, a couple can spend the night between the sheets and head to a two-for-one breakfast at the same plat e; that’s almost romantic. Not that it's necessarily bad. depending on how you chose to look at it; the campaign to promote safe sex may actually promote more people to have sex. I he two-for-one food deal is a perfect example. Walking around nil day long with condoms creating a bulge iu many pockets simply to get a free burger seems to promote the idea of having sex. hut at least it would most likely be prolet ted. Sitting in class digging deep into a pocket for. let's say. a pen and pulling out a cou ple ol condoms instead, could very well cause the inter ost of the person sitting next to wane from the profes sor's intended topic At least you can get a two-for-one deal at Rennie's. Its hard to not he reminded of sex, espec tally at the University The l tnrmlH alone has had two front-page storms dealing w ith sex in the last half-do/.on issues. Strolling through the front doors ol the KMl will plant you eye to eye with an HIV awareness and edm alion table. ()ne study done when sex educ ation began infiltrating junior high schools, at what many thought was a much too early age. argued the education process was actual ly causing lean pregnane ies and the number ol sexual ly transmitted diseases to rise 1 he education in class rooms seemed to promote an interest in sox at a younger age. in< reusing the amount of people having sex 1 lie fuel behind the fire of Safer Sex Week at the I ni versity is to raise awareness that ( ollege students ages It! to 24 face a great risk of contracting the HIV virus Awareness is more of a matter of promoting the practke ol safe sex. More than awareness, it is almost bombard meet The bombardment is scheduled to continue through the week with activities ending with the grand finale, (iondom (amt ert. in the KMl! Ballroom I riday night With a disease as devastating as AIDS, awareness (bom bardment) is necessary, and weeks like Safer Sex Week should continue, espet ialtv if they have two-for-one deals Emerald ()tt i>on l)ail\ m\.vm\tM\L*L:Eznn i r it I • "*1 ' •• " Tuesday and Thursday dw ’j '* «* summer ? , t* )(;,'. In.; at |hfl Up.rt«4^ I ! V,vj | . ,U**>e ’ m.rv.|:<prt».ttr*s ^Wp^'Vjfeliy • !h® t verity * *f' ■’ a! Uo«on a»yj *s a memb«* ■** the Assoc-.tted P*«jsa Da > f > Managing Editor Editorial Editor Graphics Fdtlor Freelance Editor Associate Editors * Nkws Staff Ma ■> t; i O,vtxV'"Mu Amy Co’umbo f *»he«. Sva* Henderson, 7 Rottwt Reeves '■■•.•*'<• M n,.,e 7 n • . n Advertising Director Ma - A Advertising {< a • i \u ... • , Mu M • t- ' Classified H«* •. M** Distribution »■ : , ; Business * •■" Production Dee M* Newsroom Business Office Editor-In-Chief »-e ; u- , , a Sports Editor a* *Tfv- Editorial Editor » . if’i l» i . a, Photo Editor M . " *,• Suppiements Editor - . 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" WWED.ITt>ft OP LAQC>£ STOCK PORTFOLIO'££PMS LIKE 7T|E oNLY Possibility UBFT. m If W 8‘**+u) *•/fwj / Da* r T*Kl Mt 'Vyf '$f $(**&*(, OvS) CH'lOetAiS \, iMHtmrANO.' *S 4COOOJ/6^ t. 1 ' /i J LETTERS ‘1984’ lives Today as I walked In n i lass room with its door open, I hoard a student s win i• that demanded my attention There were ahout to students m the room and they were obviously freshmen and sophomores The hoy was saving, in the most malter-of fac t cool and i aim voice him we are all entirely susceptible to subtle, poisoning influent es at every turn of the day in adver tising especially We are all so easily swayed into Iteiioving every thing we see and hear espei willy ij someone is already prejuda ed toward the opinion," he droned on met twin It ally like a t omputer This yvas folloyved hy a tom inent from the professor to the effei t that si iem e is dei eiving all into helteying things we don't want to. You < an t trust anyone's motives these days was .1 phrase This was then fol lowed hy some simplified, gar bled ai i mint ol the nature nut lure debate folloyved hy a torrent of "sm lety is to blame for everything comments I hen I left What is this I < ouldn t believe my ears It was straight from 1 v« I What's next. I ho tight i rime/ ()h. I guess u e already have it i ailed Hale (.nine What's next \exxsjn d. Oh, yy e've got that too. pul it u a I correctness I he whole scene si ared me If all are so passive, so easily yx mil tossed by opinion .ind if all ate so hollow that they ei ho every drumbeat, then I'd suggest renting the horrifu ally imprte. wye movie version of TW-) it might lie like liMiking in the mir ror in the morning ()r I letter yet get a hold of some of those 1 u (tts (.erman propaganda films They run on the Dim m erv Channel now and again Matt Fox Greek Jake sux Hey. writers and journalism students' (let busy and apply for the editor position at the Titter aid Our "student" newspaper is m desperate need ill fresh blood. !.1 lent and. especially. people who i arc about the world I he Fnx'ruld has sunk to new lows of medior rity and i nuser v at ism this year under editor lake Berg Ills lug contribution to the paper lias consisted of several carefully c rafted pier cs on getting drunk and (ailing down Basil ally he |ust doesn't give a damn. In spite ol the fact that student funds subsidize tins paper with more than $ 100,000 each ye.u it has (mm ome sui li an inlellei trial vacuum that the paper is hardly worth opening People like Stephanie Sisson have taken ad\antage of this Who i ares ' attitude to use the paper as a vehicle for her own right wing, fundamentalist (Christian view points We are in u hat may In- the most interesting e\< itmg and challenging period in human history There .ire real things happening in this world hut you'd never know it from read irig our student paper It's as though the entire news and edi torial staff were operating in a dense log I he ! :nrmii/ i ould he a great resouri e, instead of pis! a waste of resouri es V on i ould make a difference Do it' Apply today! (Deadline is Friday ) If you doubt your qualifli atious. pist look it the current editor Eben Fodor Environmental Studies. Urban Planning Racial bias I or the past lory months the l.nunnhi Inis put great effort into defending" tins campus com miinitv as not having a rai nil bias It has, in several artii les. brought forth people to voii e the opinion th.it multii ulturalism is alive and well Leslie Warren and Hobby Lee, two people whom I believe have sold out to the establishment, i rune to mind Your paper ''featured' front page artic.les with pictures ot two different incidents, f irst was ( his S< a Thorough, at the time a Uni versity Office ol Public Safety uffii er. who had his "life histo ry'' spread across your paper Although I have never been a Ian ot Nt; Si arhoroitgh. this treat ment was unfair Hut he is black, so you must have felt justified I'hen i ame the incident with the three t :imersit\ of Washing ton students at the University Inn Again you spread their pic tures and the story on your front page IH itself tills would not i mi so me that inui h concern, hut because the\ were blaik. you seemed to give it more importance l ull weekends ago. the sports information director at the f in versitv Steve Heilyer, was arrested hv Kugene polfi e tor domestic violence '' Your paper did not even run anything afiout it In the past you have run something sailed While V ui Were (ione ' but it seems to me to usually have involved something that benefited the administration II Steve Heilyer is a threat to a woman (or women m general), shouldn't Ins picture grace the front page as a warmng to women on < am pus' Oh, I forgot1 He is a mem ber of the "administration' and is also white Jerry Carson History b'DITOH S' V()ll- t/i (illicit' an llellver s arrest uppenred mi tli«• '.''ill! /> n;r ■' the V/or. /1 himeralcl. alter the letter tuni been w ritten LETTERS The Oregon Daily hurrah! will attempt to print all letters i ontaining comments on topii s ol interest to the UniversiH community The F.snrrald reserves the right to edit ,m\ letter for length or s!\ le
