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EDITORIAL Withdraw! policy limits class choices Without a doubt, the University’s decision to decrease the length of time students t an withdraw from a (lass without gaining the ugiy ”W” was a step to reduce '‘class-shopping” by students and open additional seats early in the quarter for high-demand courses. Adopted by the Undergraduate Council last Novem ber and implemented fall term, students who wish to exit a class and avoid a minor stain on their transcripts must do so after the first week of classes. In this rase. Or t. 3. Promptly withdrawing also saves $10 in hs-s Proponents of the new poll* y (relieve it will open more seats to truly dedicated students and penalize those who sign up for a class and don’t show up. Bv forcing students to choose qui< klv or pay the prir e. $10 plus a "\Y” re< orded on tin* transcript, the instances of class-shopping will probably decrease. This could make additional spai e in classes with over-filled waiting list-, early enough In the term that late entrants will have more success. But one week isn’t enough time for students to make a fully informed dor ision whether or not to shed a CPA killing class or tough it out. A lot happens during tint first week of th*- year, situations come up that are clear ly out of a student’s control. The first week offers very little in terms of getting n true reading of an instrui tor’s persona lit). 01 the work load of the course. Most classes moot briefly on the first day where syllabi are distributed before early adjourn ment. A syllabus arguably presents tins class workload, but not all of the intrkai ies needed to make an informed decision Such a judgment takes more time than one or two meetings, esper ially in crowded sections. The new policy also presents an interesting Catch-22. Students who are holding on to a class as a second or third choice while awaiting an opening in a top priority class pay a price. Even with the new policy, openings most likely won't come up until after the second week, if at all. This is too late for the student hedging against the system in the race for graduation. Some argue the new policy is aimed at eliminating such a situation, students should not hang on to a i lass as a second choice while waiting for another to open. However, such expectations are unrealistic. Students should have the choice and the opportuni ty to sample a class or two during the initial weeks of the term. By retaliating against students who like to shop around for their expensive education, the Univer sity is placing ill-conceived constraints on the students. While the reasons for the new policy are sound, its implementation is not. Instead of i hanging from a three week grace period to one, the University should trv for the middle ground. Two weeks would be more appro priate This will give students time to settle into a rou tine and make better decisions. In the rush of things, we often forget that the students are not here for the University; the University is here for us. 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What did the president actually expect' This whole Haiti affair seems so ill-conceived that they already talk in Congress of lim iting the troops' time there in the usual "quagmire " Can't yve plan any better' It appears that the not so saintly |unmv t arter tied American hands in an untenable deal yxith some real thugs and terrorists Sure, yve avoided a shooting-mate h inva sion, but we traded a gutless compromise (Clinton tradition) that yy ill ai ecuuplixh little 1 he terror of the old Tonton Macoutes and the attac lies will return the minute our troops leave A Somalia scene revisit ed! Does the CIA understand all of this? The ageni y appeared very busy a while hac k spread ing some blatant lies about the mental condition of Aristide Are there really only inept advisors in the Cabinet' Their policies are very opaque. )immy ( airier should be kept away from peacemaking missions and "observing" elections and should not be portrayed as the lily-white saint he is not He has always supported the elite and U S interests. Did the president really not know that all along Texaco was selling oil to the military in Haiti while he tried to enforce the embargo? All we saw were buckets of gas black marketed over the Dominican border We need some sirong and honest leadership Hilde K Cherry Eugene Needless death On Ocd. :t. 1077. Rosie Jiminez died in McAllen General Hospi lal in Texas whore she; had boon brought following on illegal, Imi k-alley abortion An unsteril i/.ed folloy i atheter (a long rub bt*r tube) had boon used by the abortionist Within 24 hours, she had control ted an infection similar to tetanus that progres sively worsened until her death Who was Rosie limine/.1’ She was a 27-vear-old Mexican Amernan woman, one of 12 children, the daughter of migrant workers she had been one as a ( hild. A mother, raising a child alone on wel fare and working part-time in an electronics plant A university student, six months from grad uating with a bachelor's degree in education She had a $700 scholarship t bet k in her ptx ket when she died She refused to use that i bee k for i legal abor tion because that would have meant abandoning her educa tion. The woman who performed the alxirtion was the means, but she was not the reason for Rosie's death. Rosie died because she did not have access to a funded, safe and legal abor tion She was tin* first known victim of the Hyde Amendment, w hu h denies women federal Medicaid funding for abortions. Unfortunately, she was not the Inst victim The conditions that foried her death still threaten many women's lives — espe cially the lives of poor women, young women and women of color. Both the Mouse of Representa tives and the Senate have recently voted to continue the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment is a direct threat to the lives and health of women. We must continue to oppose it in our ongoing struggle for reproductive freedom for all women We must let the leaders of this country know that we will no longer tolerate the inequality in access to abortion ami other health services. Sarah Sanford Chairwoman, Lane County NARA1, Mandi Hood Students for Choice OCA is fickle Not surprising that Oregon Citizen's Alliance Director l.on Mahon and OCA employee Loretta Neet have turned on Republican gubernatorial candi date Denny Smith when he rightly opposed the OCA's dis criminatory Ballot Measure lit In a suit, Neet huffed, "Smith doesn't stand a chance and we won't help his campaign.” How reminiscent of the (XIA's failed attempt to ns .ill 30 legislators (both Republican and Democrat) who passed House Bill 3500, legislation negating disi riminatory local measures. Similarly, the OCA tried (and failed) to recall Albany's mayor for bis efforts opposing the OCA Now the OCA aims its enmity at Denny Smith. Lane County Republican precinct i ommittee workers will elei t ,i new ( mitral Committee in November Currently, our "leadership” includes Neet and other OCA members such ns our chairwoman, Kathy Phelps Mainstream Republicans must take this opportunity to send these switch-hitting, single issue carpetbaggers packing. We must get our Republican Party working instead on valid con ( erns such as crime, education and jobs The OCA’s (Phelps, Neet & Co.) obsessive anti-gay ngendu has torn our party and our state apart. Denny Smith took the right, just stand in opposing Ballot Measure 13. lait's remember that the (X'A now turns against Smith on one issue. Precinct committee workers should espe cially remember this when the time comes to elect new leaders. Mainstream Republicans should get involved so that our party may never be afflicted again with the destructive, divisive ill doings by extremist, single-issue narrow groups like the OCA. We have far better concerns to address. Ciarol Berg Eugene
