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EDITORIAL Court should allow officials to keep jobs Voters who approved a sot of drastic changes to the ASUO constitution in a special election earlier this month may have gotten more than they bargained for. depend ing on the outcome of a hearing scheduled for the ASUO Constitution Court this Friday. Student government representatives from the Student Senate, the Incidental Foe Committee and the EMU Board of Directors who were elected last year to two-year terms may find those terms shortened to one year eat h. if the Constitution Court does not agree to transfer those offi cials into the new student government structure. A tiny percentage of the University population turned out to approve the new government, which replaced the old system and its structures with a new overreaching Student Senate and a troika of lower bodies, responsible for the EMU. the athletic department and the various ASt JO programs. My revamping the structure tins way. the voters oner lively eliminated a number of positions, and replai ed those positions with new ones not precisely the same The voters put several representatives out of a job by eliin mating their positions. The court should agree to make a der ision on the mat ter. and that decision should be to make a plac e for those hapless officials in the new government Most of the posi tions have rough equivalents in the new system, so it should be a simple matter to plug the old representatives into the new positions. For instance, an Incidental Fee C Committee member could be given a post in the new Stu dent Senate's financial subcommittee. There art) only a few individuals who have been affect ed by the constitutional < hanges; those people who held one-year terms would have left office anyway. and sev eral of the two-year posts expired this year as well Only those who were elected to two-year seats in the past year have been impat ted by the government's radical make over. Because their numbers are small, there should be no problem moving them to new positions, if then so desire There are plenty of seats to go around It's important that the wishes of the student body , as expressed in hist spring's ASl’l) eiei lions, be faithfully followed. The voters elected these representatives with the understanding that they would serve two year terms The voters have not indie ated that they want their rep resentatives to lose their jobs, so the (^institution (lourt should respect the voters' original wishes and allow the officials to keep their positions. Doing so will help create a sense of continuity, from the old government to the new. That's the whole purpose of having two-year positions in the first place: to make sure that each successive year of government has some "veterans" from the previous year. It will take some time before the kinks of the new sys tem are worked out. the experience of these individu als will help make the process a little easier. Keeping these representatives is not only the fairest option, but it would also would help the new government get off on the right foot. Oregon Daily »0 bOO»S9 CUGtNC OAtGONV?«U The (>(V'V» f\i t f n't*4*k1 >.% put> shad (t* > Mi xki> fh»; / f ' lay ’ '•j ?h© *' ’ * year and Tuesday and Thursday dur<og th© jummr by fhr i ■•©-.; Oa > f "*f • » ’ (’lifeVufvg (...» irv il me Uiv.»*/•».!» of i>©gon l ugane. 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VJITVJ Joo CWA£/*jfU LETTERS No luxury I am writing in response to Damien K Marque? s letter {ODh Mart h -!H) attai king Snferide and feminism In his letter Marque? imp!: s that women are irresponsible for their own personal protei turn, and that Safende is ,i luxury In 1'1'lt). 1 took two women's studies i nurses to learn how to f»- responsible for ms sufets 1 took two self-defense courses the same sear I fiat summer ns I ssent for .1 lllght w ilk to get some air I ssas at costed lis a group of four men svfio svere apparentls coming from a parts I fles svere < learls illtoxir ated and invited me into their apart merit a short distance from the parts When I refused to go svtli ingiv. thes fuii lime menacing Despite ms efforts to defend myself, tiles oserpossered me, took me to their apartment and took turns brutally raping me ()l the Id women 1 knosv and .1111 close to Six fiase Imotl raped at some point m their lises All six of these friends of mine are strong, i upahle, responsible svomen |us! what ex,nils are s\ e supposed to die Mr Mar rjue? ‘ 1 am telling sou and I think I speak tor ms friends as svell Saforide is not a luxury Walk mg alone at night is a luxury Korin Gary Speech Walk and talk kathv Philips, chairwoman of Lane County Republii .ins and Oregon Citizens Alliam e. offi cially claims thorn's "little hope for an end to ‘her1 party's fac tional infighting" and thorn'll bn a "fight to tht* end" (Register Guard, March 9) In the same article Republican Jean Tate offers the olive branch, hoping fat tions will "set aside differ ences and com enlrate on t om mon interests." (Tate submitted tit) precinct committee post applications from in< lusive ore noted Republicans for the Mas 17 election.) So while Phelps continues to month the Hlind Airborne rhetoric, of tier boss. ( K A Direc tor I .on Mahon i ate x oil os what ,t growing number of Republic ans feel who abhor the ihviMveness plaguing our part\ Phelps and I.orettn Neel (anoth er ()( A employee w earing a Kepublii an offii nil's hat) i on tinues to promote groundless fears and politic al agendas tar geting homosexual Oregon i iti /eus And though the (X A says gays lime a "militaristic homo sexual agenda, one need only witness the storm the beui h head talk" (and walk) ol the ()( A to rei ugni/e wh.it is divid ing not pist Republic ans, but all of (tregon Republic ans should work together on problems of para mount legitimate i out erns (the ei.onornv, c rimes and sc.bools) and re|e< t lightning rod anti gay non issues dumped on our par tx by the (XIA I here's room under the (.(IP's Hig l ent lor all. even extremist conservatives Hut we cannot i ontinue to allow extremists to distrac t us from pressing issues nor divide tis We must shoxy (tregon y oters our priorities do not inc hide the ()( A s narrow agenda promoting legislation yvhic h disc riminates against any (fregon i itizen Carol Berg Eugene Ideal world? Regarding Damien h Mar quez's letter (()DE, Man li -!H) In an ideal world, half of the rapists, assailants and other thugs who perpetrate heinous crime against other people on i ampus would he females, thus eliminating the need for student groups who provided females with "special protection" stu fi as S,deride In ,1 perlei 1 soi lei \ everyone would equally, "enjoy the benefits of the soc iety " and share responsibility equally regardless of gender Hut this isn't thi' i ase in our society Welcome to Ainerii a, dude Maybe you haven't thought about this, Damien, but in our patriare bn I society, women are repressed in the economic soi ial. sexual and even ai adem ii spheres every day Which gender has to deal yy ith working twice as bard to make halt of what the opposite gender earns' Wbu h gender is systematically dented membership to many prestigious country i lulls-' Which gender has to worry nbouj having its sell-esteem in the classroom stunted just bee arise the other gender is too busy acting i ompetitiy ely fueled by its incessant testes terone’’ Which gender wasn't even eligible for the Rhodes Sc holarship just JO years ago' Whic h gender has to put up with the opposite gender telling it yvhat it can and cannot do yy ith its bodies' One* doesn't have to he a genius to figure out that if ally one's enjoying "the benefits of soc iety yvith no risk and little responsibility ." it c ertainlv isn't the females Working to attain equality and respec t does not equal a "rec ipe for a lac k of sue c ess, added nine parts y u Util ization." hut maybe your bite h mg about wanting to maintain vour hold on the soc iota! privi lege equals such As a male University student, until I am convinc ed that there are equal amounts of male and female thugs around campus, I would gladly give up my "spe c tal protection" and cadi ()t’S (or an escort home instead Mo Nlshiyama Eugene LETTERS The Oregon Daily Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topic s of interest to the University community The Tmero/dreserves the right to edit any letter for length or style.
