EDITORIAL
Let us give thanks
Woil. Thanksgiving is upon us one® again. Without
getting into all of the political implications this day has.
wb at the Emerald would Hk«r* to give thanks for many
things this season.
First we would like to thank the Oregon Ducks for a
dream season. You have given us a reason to hope and
to believe. At the beginning of the season the national
media discounted Oregon, they even went so far as to
rank the Ducks dead last We thank you once again. w«
know you could do it. Good luck at the Rose Bowl.
Second we would like to thank the University admin
istration for moving the beginning of the term back to
(an. 3 to accommodate the Ducks Rose Bowl berth We
thought it would never happen. We figured nothing
shott at Armageddon would mtks administrators give
us a day off.
Third we would like to thank the voters for turning
down Measures 15 and 13. With all kinds of crazy laws
passing in other states its good to know that the hearts
and heads of Oregonians are in the right plat®.
Those are the things we are most thankful for. Now
here's n list of others that did not make our top 3:
• For our ad and production staffs and for Kathy and
both of our Judys
• Our families are happy and healthy
• We get three weeks off for winter break
• We are thankful that the EMU stopped turning the
heal off on weekends
• We got new computer equipment
• People are still writing letters to the editor
• Ed Carson is LA's problem now
• School is out for Turkey Day
• The University will map marly benefits from being
in the Rose Howl
• Ace Frehloy played the Mill Camp
• Pasadena is warmer than $h reeve port
• Taco Time in the EMU
• The I EC has been abolished
• We beat OSU in the Civil War
• Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have reunited
• Our mascot is not a beaver
• Vis Comm, is almost over
• Memories
For tho sake of balance here is a list of things that we
are not so thankful for:
• Taco Time in the EMU
• People are still writing letters to the editor
• We have to go to school in December and Lewis
and Clark doesn't
• Newt Gingrich. Jesse Helms and Bob Packwood
• That guy on ESPN who said that Penn State is
"playing a nobody” in the Rose Bowl
So folks there you have it. The good, the bad and the
ugly.
Basically we are all just thankful to be here at the Uni
versity in 1994 basking in the glow of a great football
season and looking forward to a great basketball season
(from the women anyway).
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■ LETTERS
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the wild turkey
and the passenger pigeons, des
tined to he shit out through
wholesome Americans guts
Thanks for a continent to
despoil and poison Thanks for
the Indians to provide a mod
icum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving can .asses to
rot Thanks for bounties on
wolves and coyotes Thanks for
the American Dream, to vulgar
ire and falsify until the bare lies
shine through For decent
chun h-goin' women, and their
mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces
Thanks for a “Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers Thanks for lab
oratory AIDS Thanks for Prohi
bition and the war against
drugs Thanks for a country
where nobody's allowed to
mind their own business
Thanks for a nation of finks
Yes. thanks for all the memories
— all right let's see your arms'
You always were a headache
and you always were a bore
Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams
William S. Burroughs
School Prayer
Brian Wont at k's Nov 18 col
umn (Majority favors sc hoot
prayer) is absolutely ludic rous
To suggest that Bill Clinton is
some sort of radic al who has
"proposed a government
takeover of one-seventh of the
« onomy" is ridiculous And to
say that radii al right-wingers
like Newt Gingrich are "on tar
get" is no less than atrocious
When are people going to
realize that the inc rease in vio
lence and the breakdown of
families in this c ountrv have lit
tle if anything to do with the fact
that we don't have prayer in our
public school? Conservatives
try to make this connection in
order to avoid the real issues
The fac t of the matter is that it
is conservatives like Gingrich
who are to be blamed for the
moral breakdown in this nation.
By creating the polit ies that
have It'd to the widening of the
gap between ric h and poor, con
servative* have promoted the
destructive idea that enriching
yourself at the expensive of oth
ers is perfectly acceptable.
In a sex iety where this wealth
iest and most influential indi
viduals show nothing hut con
tempt for the more
downtrodden elements, a moral
breakdown is hound to occur.
Tlie elites elements of our society
have taught us by example to
think only of ourselves, not (if
our six iety as a whole
Newt Gingrich will continue
to rant and rave about the moral
breakdow n that the "countercul
ture" has perpetrated upon this
nation He will also continue to
point to the poor mother on wel
fare as everything that is wrong
with this country But the fact of
the matter is that it is people
like Newt Gingrich and his
wealthy constituents that are
most responsible for the greed
and selfishness that have led to
a breakdown of this nation's
moral core
Justin Descour
History
Extreme action
!'m writing concerning the
Nov 1H ODE opinion column by
Anne Moser Korn fold.
She makes the claim that
killing a t hild is extreme.” and
that there is "no rationalization”
fur Susan Smith's killing of her
two soil'. Was Anne there?
While admitting that in most
cases, actions such as Smith's
should lx? frowned upon. 1 quits
lion whether Anne really under
stands just how irritating chil
dren. esjiot ially at that age, t an
be Unruly children can l*e a mat
trial
The ancient Romans knew
this, and in ancient Roman civ
ilization the taking of a child's
life was left up to the discretion
of the parents
I'm not saying that everyone
should lie allowed to kill chil
dren But when it's someone's
own children, the justification
for this “extreme action" might
exist From our limited perspsc
lives, wo cannot know what
Susan Smith was going through.
This is something only the
parent. Susan Smith, could
know Mosor ICom fold's preten
sion that she is able to make
moral judgments on this situa
tion is the height of arrogance
Fred O. Roelllg
Student
Editor's note Anne Moser Kornfekl
<s the mother ot a 3-year old boy
Rationality
We applaud ihe appeal to
rationality made by Mr F.< k
Doerry in the Nov. 21 ODE. Two
points might add to the bal
anced analysis invoked—if not
expressed—by his invective.
First, we might entertain the
notion that racism may grow
from the effect of policy as well
as the intention. Proposition 187
hurts many people one might
summarize as different from the
population at large in California
A separation of peoples charac
terized by ethinicity, language
and culture, and by epidermal
hue. has become categorized a*
racism Prop 187 may therefore
lie termed "racist ”
Second, we must ask if a com
petitive m onomy is as necessary
us we've lawn led to believe. If it
is not. then perhaps more folks
could !>e admitted in behind the
pale of humanity US citizens
currently sequester for them
selves In addition, and despite
Mr Doerry's advice to overlook
the past, we should not forget
history
The US government and US
corporations, backed by the US
Army , wrested a great deal of
land and treasure from the peo
ples now south of an arbitrary
iwrder. Some may vilify the con
cept of justice as just another
obsession of the self-annointed
politically correct, hut then alt
law becomes force. No ethics.
No morality Might is right
Which is all fine if you're king
of the hill. How long until the
law turns on you ? We would In*
better served to unite with the
people of the world.
Chris Brady
The Student Insurgent