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
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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
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an llellver s arrest uppenred mi
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himeralcl. alter the letter tuni
been w ritten
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