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EDITORIAL Discrimination not a valid argument Oregon's quality of life is among the best in the nation. Relatively low crime, clean air and easy access to a vari ety of natural resources are a few' of the reasons new comers immigrate in droves to this state. Some move from Out-of-state to attend one of the eight public universi ties and colleges in Oregon. All of the above are excellent reasons to move here, but those coming for an education iA sddition to the benefits of a sound cm t al low crime should ex per t to pay the price. In this case, the increased cost of out-of-state tuition. Three students, all single women with children, are planning to take the Oregon State System of Higher Edu cation to court because they perceive the residency requirements in Oregon as discriminatory against sin gle parents and nontradJtional students. The argument is Interesting, but the substance for it is simply not there The students have been denied in state residency because the state system determined they moved here pri m.crilv to attend s; howl. Oregon residents pay one third of the actual costs of their odut ation, with the state paying the rest Out-of staters pay the full amount. The state system's reasoning is that ()regon should not subsidize educ ation for out-of staters who have not finam tally contributed to the state via taxes over the years. 1j - : - \ msl leu** mi their • Inidmn ■ fee ■ they all hail from California, the* state that passed Propo sition 9 nearly tft years ago Proposition 9 is the equiv alent oi Oregon's 1900 Measure r> which reduced prop erty taxes going to school', i he effec t of Proposition 9 vv.es tiie virtual collapse of c'-alifornia’s university system. I hey had noihiny* to lost? to conio to ()rt*^on, hut ti!0 niofi" ev to help them is just not here. The state system tightened residency rules in 1993 after it wits determined that students wore circumventing the requirements on a large sc ale and abuse was rampant Now, it is very di(!i< tilt for anyone to establish residen cy. whether they bo married, single, gay. with children or childless, Hv turning the residency requirements Into a discrim ination issue - something that the situation is definite ly not — the students planning to challenge the rules are taking the focus off themselves and placing it on a nonex istent ghost. Out*of-stators who moved to Oregon knew the rules and should have considered the consequences before relo cating, If a subsidized education is what they wanted, they should have stayed in their home state. In the wake of Measure 5. Oregon is having a hard enough time help ing its own get a college education. We can't afford to adopt anymore kids right now, no matter how much we would like to. Attacking the residency requirements through the invis ible specter of discrimination is a good strategy, and throw ing in the plight of single moms is even better. Unfortu nately. the proposition is doomed to failure. It's him! to sympathize with people who know the rules and now expect the system to change for their benefit. Onyon Daily Emerald l»0 00* im CUCINC 0*100* #M03 T»---0 '■ i *■<*> .*'• ’ ■!> <fcfc*y M --lay flv **»:/• * • -.la» d '**• -w:K» >«•»' and Tu£td6y and Thursday during th«* t>y ?*• Offgon Da*?* Croarad PybfetfW^Q Co t'W si* l»\o UrtfvWfl^y 0* O«gon, f UQ*T*. 0«^3o. Th4 f **'4*’A*? Cp****?®* ''XSnprrrvIfleifty (» ?fM& l/KvtH'fti) Urttfi OTNc.*** ,tJ S‘^M> 300 0? !?VB k’’ Mw-'" „s? U •- .4. -' ft 4 - «• {»• '’* t' ‘>.'iV -,.4!tt1 ('■‘f'r, T»^« # ‘•nfw,*sj t> prva?# property Th«t uniOwM removal 0# w*4 £>* pOpiTi «» |*N*i**:uUfltJJo Ust/ .s^.My i d-5or Editor MM Editor Now* An Edttor f r«*4anca Editor Editor-to-CM*! 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Phil Zut kennan false ly accuses Arafat of "slaughter ing his own people " The rest of hi* commentary is filled with half-truths and other deception* in order to distort the reality of the situation Zuckemtan claims Arafat "has gunned down Palestinians," even though he issued no orders for the police to fire, had no knowledge of the tragedy until well after the fad. and has quickly taken steps to try to rv< - tify the situation He claims that the world ignores the atrocities of dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Hafez iil-Assad. while focusing solely on Israel Does he really think the Unit ed Nations stood by silently as Iraq occupied Kuwait, that the world's press never covered the plight of the Kurds or Assad s brutal crushing of Syrian funds mentalisls in Hama? Ah in the cose of Iraq, the pare the i overage of the Kurdish plight in Iraq to that of Turkey (a t ■ S any, who has fiercely sup pressed Kurdish nationalism.) /.in kermart also distorts the truth when he compares the Palestinian police with Israeli soldiers on occupation duty in the West Hank and Gaza The difference, which Zucker ni,in apparently fails to sec. is that the Israeli military is in occupied Palestine illegally (according to international law) in order to suppress the national aspirations of the Palestinian people, whereas the Palestinian police are serving under terms of the agreement drawn up by the Israeli government and the PLQ, and are under pressure from the Israeli government to contain those who oppose the agreement It is the Israeli government, which talks of peace, yet main tains a force of 1,500 soldiers in Gaza (in order to protect approx imately 5.000 right-wing settlers w ho reside in almost 30 percent of the crowded strip that has been confisi uted for the use of lew s only) on which Zut kennnn should focus his anger A year after the peace agree ment. the wist majority of Pales tinians continue to live under occupation, or as refugees with no hope of returning to their homeland Those in refugee camps in Lebanon are still bombed by the Israeli air form, and Israel has given Palestinians another slap future of their Muslim and Christian shrines with King Hussein of Jordan. And Israel wonders why more Palestinians don’t support the peace accord. If anybody should be con demned for this tragedv. they are the governments of the US and Israel, who have for over a quar ter of a century supported the continued confiscation of indige nous Palestinian land and waged a program of cultural genocide against Palestinians through the repressive occupation, which has included torture, imprisonment without trial, deportations and indiscriminate killing Furthermore, it is the duty of every world citizen to expose such brutality, (especially when it is financed through their tax dollars) whether the perpetrator of abuse is the government of HI Salvador. Saudi Arabia. Iraq or Israel. Zuckarman is t orrei t when he condemns the policies of Arab dictators like Hussein and Assad, just as he is right when he criticizes the Israeli occupa tion of the West Bank and Gaze. Unfortunately, distortions of reality only serve to continue the cycle of distrust, which per petuates the killing and injus tice. Andy Harris is a senior!ultima lional Studies major. ■ LETTERS No Yuk Metz 1 can't say I've Ihnmi a particu lar Ian of Chris Metz's writing in the past, but his last piece was truly disgusting What Lind of mind can moan about the fact that University students no longer l*ash each other's teeth in after a football match? In my view it's bad enough that Oregonians call this in-state ntatch-up a Civil War. but does it have to be followed with real violence? In Metz's view appar ently it does. Don't get me wrong. I'm not against school spirit. One of the things I really like about American universities is the fact that they do form a real community of sorts (much more so than German universities, for example, do). But the only func tion he seems to he seeing in school pride is violence and destruction Celebrating a sports victory is a great thing, but beating up oth er people because of it is about as low as you tain get "You've got to love it,” Chris? I think it's sii k! Finally, if you are so upset that so few people come to |x»p rallies and if you really think that books-studying-no fun, maybe the University just isn't the right place for vour tremendous sports enthusiasm, which doesn't seem to hold a place for anything else. Ever thought aliout how many season tickets even one year of tuition will buy you* Then you could really go wild. Give it a thought. Joe bon Petzold English
