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LETTERS Saferide Pro jet I Saferide was t rented in on effort to make the Univer sity campus ,i safer place after dark It is a free, easy to use rape-prevention shuttle service specifically intended for use by female University students, staff and faculty. Prior to Saferide s existence, the Office of Public Safety rei eivod calls from up to 100 women per night requesting an escort In contrast. OPS received approximately three calls from male students requesting this service during that entire year. By servicing University women. Project Saferide allows OPS to focus its attention on its other duties. <)PS still provides an escort service for both male and female students who are concerned for their safety. Any student, staff or faculty can request an esi ort from OPS at any time by calling extension 6 54-44 Project Saferide could not continue to operate without its dedicated team of volunteers, both male and female We wel come new volunteers through out the year, and are always available to answer questions and participate in seminars and workshops. We encourage those who are not familiar with our operation or services to visit us in the ASUO Women's Center, or contact us at extension 6 0653. Jen Reed Leyla Farah Co-Directors Saferide Lynch Berg Recently you ran an article on the Star Trek Information Coun cil, which mentioned our sci-fi talk show in it. Although we appreciate all the free publicity we can get. yve must take issue with vour story. The show in question, whii h airs at 6 p in. Sunday evenings on KWVA 88.1 I’M, was listed in vimr pages as Trek Talk, it is fact t ailed Star Talk Once again the Emerald staff shows its ineptness Does |he "Editor" lake Iterg do anything' Certainly not fnct-chei king Indeed, he has ont e again shown his callousness to tin* student body 's concerns It is common knowledge that Star Trek is the only issue that unites everyone on campus Perhaps if lake spent a little more time editing the Emerald and yvaU fl ing TV. and a little less walking around campus looking for hike yvre< ks and squirrels, the paper would refits.I everyone's interest in the greatest television show over Captain Zane Adams Ensign Farm Boy Grand Moff Tetsuo Chief Niemonlc Star Talk hosts Do we learn? We diligently attend < lasses and yvorkshops to examine rat ism and bigotry We see the need to start education on hoxv to get along, early in life, is in kindergarten Hosvever, I believe there are many other fat tors in bigotry that bring about alienat ed, hate filled skinheads and others taking potshots at minori ties. (reeling an opening for an Oregon (ati/ens Alliant e and its holier-than-thou preai hmgs which divide our communities It appears that we are in a period of great turmoil to which is added the deteriorating condi tion of tile whole planet, loss of forest cover, polluted land and seas, acid rain, global "warm ing" and the thinning ozone lay er Kids see their parents strug gling in ill-paid, inferior jobs, losing them and becoming homeless; parents who have no dei ent health < are in this sup posedly "great country of USA parents who are finding that jobs are non-existent or being replaced by computers and automation How can voung people have ambitions to 'make it lug" when there is no place to go' Who cares' With the lm k of meaningful education and their feelings of weakness and inferi ority. they pit k on others of a minority and fantasize them selves to he superior or even blame them for their situation They c reate (demonize) their enemies and so rm ism and Ing ot ry are born Do we learn' No1 Hut we could, with some better under standing of the causes, a decent minimum wage. a government sympathetic: to labor and the environment and less c one ern w ith greed and capitalism Hilde K Cherry Eugene Saddened I was deeply saddened when I learned of the rec ent death of Ms I.eah kirker I had the plea sure ol being in her World His tory disc ussion group two years ago She was intelligent and informative, and she far dilated c lass disc ussions beautifully, keeping everyone involved and engaged with the material She also had the kind of gentle per sonalitv that made her easy to approac h for personal corisulta tion and which, for me at least, commanded a natural sense of affection I have no doubt that she would have made an ev el lent teac her at any level The University community is worse for having lost a bright mind and a wonderful human tieing Mark Radermacher Snohomish, Wash Ferret > Dave This is a strange story, but I ask that vou believe it as it is true l.ast week my ferret escaped, and meticulously arranged his johnny fiat to spell out. on the carped of rnv apart men! building's lobby. a state ment uf his philosophy on whv ferrets are superior to people I took issue with his logo . and I told him su in great detail "Had ferret tinmans good Humans smart Humans make machines Humans make environment Ih>i ter for humans " The next dav he had printed my rebuttal, again m Johnny Cat, faithfully reproducing mv argument. Several davs later lie laid out another diatribe, this time xav mg that be was right all along He used mv name spei ifii ally . with a bowdlerized version of mv argument to prove bis point Of course I objected, and told bun once again where he had misunderstood mv argument I didn't convince him that I was right, hut next dav. there it was my opinion spelled out in John ny ( at He bad enough respec t for me to recognize that if ho used mv name in bis editorial and spec ifn allv attai ked mv argument, that he also bad the ethical obligation to print mv response I guess that makes mv ferret superior to Dave Thorn, who failed to find room for mv rebuttal to Ins latest mangling of mv argument regarding file relu live superiority or inferiority of i ritters ( an a ferret apply tor editor ill-chief? Stove Close English Not possible l have been raped, and I don’t agree that every man is a poten ii.il rapist. I am married, now , to a man who would never rape His father would never ra|H>, nor would mv fathei 1 have male friends w ho would never rape On the other hand, I regard all other men with suspicion and fear After all. w hat does a rapist look like' In mv support group, the men who raped us were voting, old, tall, short, heavy, thin, black, while I'hev were single men, married men, col lege students, professional men, men who Were unemployed How do rapists behave? Mine were openly lutinac ing and hos tile Some were friends with their victims for venrs Others were in relationships with their victims tliev were lender, thoughtful, considerate, lov ing, and then suddenly, inexplica bly. turned vu ions, brutal, vio lent. So. you walk around campus, surrounded In men Is be a rapist' Is be' Whet about bun' "l ou just don't know Any man might be a rapist, and until lie proves himself to be otherwise I'm not trusting him to drive me home I'he problem is. gaming mv trust takes years' And ev en if a man proved himself to me. be would still have to lie trusted by every woman who uses Saferide That’s |iist not possible If men want to start their own safe shuttle. I will support them 1 .mi willing to pay higher fees, if they think thev need the serv e e Korin Gary Cognitive Decision Sciences LETTERS The Oregon Daily Hmrmltl will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topics of interest to the I Iniversity community. 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