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EDITORIAL r Frohnmayer takes University’s wheel With little surprise, last Wednesday, a packed crowd at the Collier House Faculty Club welcomed the Uni versity's new head honcho, Dave Frohnmayer. Now, ox-l Diversity law school dean and new Uni versity interim president. Frohnmayer will fill Myles nranci s snoes as Brand loaves I ho University. his (raining grounds for bigger and better things, and heads to Indiana Universi ty nijxl fall. Fortunately for the University, there could not be a better person appointed to the position As Brand heads east, he leaves a battle zone behind. In the midst of Since taking the helm at the law school in 1992, he has made many positive things happen. nil hoi mini s tire fixing its way through University halts, there is some serious work lo he done. Although Brand did a commendable job keeping the University solvent through much of the Measure 5 cuts, there are many more coming. Measure r>. heading into its third biennium, will make ends hard to meet, to say the least. The forecasted bud get for the 1995-1997 academic years will be an estimated $100 5120 million less than 1993-1995 and $450-5500 million less than the 1990-1991 level for state General Fund support. But Frohnmayer’s track ret ord sheds a rav <>i hope on the l Jniversity'a money crunching fut Since taking the helm at the law school in 1992. he has made many positive inroads. Annual donations have increased 50 percent (whatever he was doing there will hopefully ( arry over here as the University launch es its most aggressive fund raising campaign in history), the student-teacher ratio has dropped, four endowed professorships have been created and the average GPA for incoming students has increased. llis term as president is supposed to last two years, but if offered the job indefinitely, will he stav? "If this job is something 1 can do well and succeed at, it is an option 1 will look at carefully,” Frohnmayer said. Certainly, ho is lit for the job. If the interim position were open lo other University administrators, there would be others who could sue coed But outside the University’s microcosm, Frohnrnayer's history surpass es many. ite served as Oregon's attorney general for 11 years, and he was a state representative for three terms, a talher apparent plus when the time comes to lobby for higher education funding. As the l niversity creeps ahead twisting, turning and transforming to moot the changes it must undergo dealing with constraints like Measure 5 it is nice to know there is someone more than able to handle the job. Frohnmayer has landed the position, and hopeful ly he will launch many great things at the University making the most out of his two term Interim. 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I bumped my bend on the steel framework of an «du< ational storehouse A beam protruded from a system I could not grasp, for I (ould not find <> wav into tlie structure — the frame lacked order and was dei (instructed main iouslv A fasi mating thing then occurred At niv feet t noticed that there were people moving about, entering and ending the structure Those entering were smashing polished mirror against the pavement, laughing, pulling and rushing Emerging from (fie framework were drasti cally changed |*eople They each wore colored masks now - black, white, green, purple, yel low, red. In their hands was a magazine Its title was IDEOLO GY. Today I will return to the framework with my power drills and grinder, wrench and chain saw M\ plea l.et us unite and disassemble the factory, let us build our roofs out of the m rap metal and free bolts' Plug in your tools and go to work Greg Demchak Model maker Ignorant ? 1 would like to make a correc tion concerning Catherine Hours' art it It- untitled "Interna tional students fatal AIDS aware ness in U S " [ODE, May I) 1 was misquoted us saying, "In the United Stules the infortna tion comes to you " However, what 1 actually said was that I feel it is harder to learn about AIDS in Japan than it is in the United States. I feel it is harder for Japanese to leant alxiut AIDS because many of us are especial ly concerned a (tout appearam cs when we inquire about AIDS. The disease has even greater negative connotations in Japan than in the United States. How ever, if one truly wants to edu cate oneself it is possible It is not that people are aware of AIDS because they are living in tJie United States or that the information just "comes to you." I'm doing tny own research m the issue of AIDS and so far it has shown that mom people ore ignorant i f t h«*\ don’t get involved and have no desire to learn. Fortunately. information about AIDS is available through out Kugene for those who c hose to educate themselves Choosing to lie either ignorant or informed is solely dependent on the indi vidual. Aki Hamada Undeclared Bad drugs Neuroleptic drugs such as 1'horazine, Haldol and Prolixin are used in the United States to treat millions of people with psychiatric problems While these drugs often eliminate or reduce psychotic symptoms, they do so by impairing an indi vidual's overall ability to think. In fact, these drugs produce a chemical lobotomy. chemically severing the same neural path ways that are surgii ally cut in a lobotomy, frequently leaving a patient in a zombie-like stupor. It has been known lor years that nourolemiL. drugs cause a ptmnanon! inovetnonl disorder called tardive dyskinesia While tardive dyskinesia is in itself brain damage, more recent evi dence shows that these drugs also cause permanent damage to the highest centers of the brain, the frontal lobes, producing per sistent cognitive dysfunction, dementia and psychosis. Patients are often started on these drugs in their late teens and early twenties, so this infor mation is of particular concern to college students Research has demonstrated the superiority of drug-free alter natives even for serious psychi atric problems The continued routine use of these drugs is 1 unconscionable. Oni* should not. however, abruptly quit In king psychiatric drugs; they nre ac tive and can cause; potentially dangerous withdrawal effects. Withdrawal should only he c onducted under the supervision of a profession al. To learn more about the psy chiatric drugging of Acneric a. call the Clearinghouse on Human Rights and Psychiatry at .141-0100 err visit our booth at the upcoming University street fair. Chuck Areford Eugene Better results I’he University Crew team would like to thank the Emerald staff for showing an interest in our sport by covering last Satur day's Dexter Regatta We appre ciate the press and are looking forward to inc reased coverage in the future There were, however, several mistakes made in the article. "Crew gets second and third in race" (ODE. May 12) that need corns ting The Oregon women's team took second place in the Women's Novice 8, losing to Wester if Washington by a mar gin of one tenth of a second, not ten seconds. The Oregon Women's Novice 4 finished fourth with time of 8 50.72, not tilth The Duc k men finished site on d in the Men’s Novice 8 behind Western Washington with a time of (> 54.36, not third. They did not race South Eugene High Sc hool (and if they did. they definitely would not have lost to them). Thanks once again to the Emerald and thank all of you who c ame out to support and cheer us on. Zohar Abramovitz Men s Novice Crew LETTERS POLICY Iht* Oregon Daily Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topics of interest to the University community. 1 he Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter for length or style. 3 *
