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EDITORIAL Public TV worthy of federal funding When Republican* took control of Congress, ideas for budget cuts bounced around Washington. Budget cutting in Washington may claim a victim familiar to many Americans: the Public Broadcasting Service. PBS. locally broadcast through Oregon Public Broad casting. provides Americans with programs such as Nova and Masterpiece Theater. Children know PBS bet ter by such hits .is Sesame Street and Mister finger's Neighborhood. It's a shame that PBS is being considered for cuts because public broadcasting is one of the few things that Washington is doing right. Funding that supports public broadt asting helps to bring Americans a nomine of edu cational and entertaining programs that can"! readily lx* found elsewhere. If the funding for PBS were cut, some programs could probably survive on commercial television. However, others would not succeed and would have to cease broadcasting. Is it really the wish of the Congress to take this chance? Would Sesame Street be the same w ith com mercial breaks? A number of people have complained in the media that!louse Speaker Newt Gingrich is trying to kill Big Bird oi Mister Rogers, two characters well known to chil (Iron. Although the st are tat lies may be juvenile, the threat remains. Public broadcasting is in trouble. Some in Congress may argue that cutting PBS would save money It probably would. However, tho cut would be largely symbolic, with little monetary impact. If PBS isn't on television one day. many Americans will get the impression that something, good or bad. is getting done in Washington. Compared to many other programs that Congress funds, public broadcasting is inexpensive. If Congress wants to save money, it should look at oth er programs with bigger price tags, such as social securi ty. Cutting PBS would be the easy way out of a difficult problem. Congress must find another way to save money with out sacrificing public broadcasting. Although some may argue that public broadcasting has some ideological bias, it must bo conceded that PBS is a valuable educational tool. Two generations of Americans have learned about everything from tho alphabet to nuclear physics from PBS. Even though other educational and current events pro gramming exists commercially on television today, it is neither the quality nor tho quantity of that found on pub lic: broadcasting today. Public broadcasting must be spared the brunt of bud get cuts in Congress. Too many people depend on the excellent programming that the service provides for the cut to bo worthwhile. Oregon Daily Emerald *>o »o« >m iucihc o«coon*’«>j Th» f>*r> f «•*) a pubsmad dw>> M.osat through f •**., dunry its* school >»*f and Tuasday and Thursday during th# lummy by ih* Dragon D*''t TmaraMi Pubashaso Co, Inc , at a* UravarsAy ol Oagon E ugwta. 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En*GaGE IN KT RfCKLXJI SPfCUlATfOy SCMtVJFS. *5 0 U*T TO BIT THAT 50004 ^KUP'TN wiu 0f -rutflt <n 40 Appearance attracts attention ^ .. j I Anny MosKH-KouNmi) The Associated Press re ported that J 8-year-olds entering college are lew involved in politics than any previous generation. Very few students really care about government dec isions, even those dirt* tly affet ting education Appearances mean more to us now than anything else at this time in our lives If anyone thinks for one moment that the student body spends all its time studying and pays little attention to fashion, go to Knight Library and check the shelves, like call number CT 525 We love fluff With fashion hooks, the good ones gel checked out ns soon as they're through processing When John Kitzhaber wore faded, 50t button fly jeans, cow boy boots and a Jerry Garcia print tie to his gubernatorial inauguration. The Oregonian suggested that he is a man total ly secure with himself We are all a story of what we did or did not wear w hen wo left home in the morning People dress to advertise We wear what we wear to evoke respons es from other people The theatrical world of fash ion proves this c learly with the amazing salt* of the Wonderbra and the response to Robert Alt man's recent film Heady to Wear (originally titled Fret a Porter) Oscar Wilde wrote that only shallow people do not judge by appearances So let’s get on with it then and talk about the Won derbra Wonderbra is a hoot A former NASA scientist. Dr Lawrence Kuznetz currently of Singapore, will Uigin manufac - turing and retailing a jiggle proof version of Wonderbra in Mart.h for about Sri) Vu Iona's S*m ret could bn re I*. keep the bras in sto< k during the holiday season after it came out with its own version. Miracle Bra. for $19, But can we talk about fabric quality and the human rights violations of tin* mostly "Made in China" clothing sold at the Earner-1. i m i t ed - V i ct o r i a' s Secret -E xpreas-1 ne Bryant con glomerate'' lust remember. Won derbra is what's in. not cheap imitations. Dress serves as visual metaphor and communicates subtleties in our personalities. Most of this is implicit. Each of us knows how certain colors, material and accessories make us feel when we wear them. Fashion goes in cycles. This year softer fabrics like satin, vel vet or floral prints will he big Reflecting light and moving away from neutral colors head line the spring collections. But what do I know , was I in Paris' No. but Julie Hatfield of The Boslon Globe was. and she wrote in a Jan. 0 column that Altman got Heady to tVeor right The fun of Heady to IVeor. play ing at the Bijou and Movies 12. is entirely superficial and to sug gest otherwise misses the point altogether Go see it for the soundtrack. Seit-N Pupa's "Here We Come” and Ini Kainoze's "Here Comes the Hotstepper," that's where the fun is. Stay for the credits. The list of designers, houses and apparel needed to dress the models., incredible. Miramax went so far as publish a soft-cov er, behind-the-scenes scrapbook for $19.95 and took even more digs at the raunchy world of fashion Still, everyone knows that clothes mean something and that we communicate to one another through dress. To sug gest otherwise is a lie Antifashion and countercul ture-intult-drag belong to fash ion as much as designer wear sets down trends Clothing frames what we see when we see one another Our clothes say things about our corporeal strives I love large survey classes. Sit in the bark of the hall and when the lecture gets boring, check it out ~ (here's always the fashion show Fashion fixates on youth, eroticism and thin builds The most deadly sin in fashion is to grow old. Retirement communities are home to populations of senior citizens wearing clothes sugges tive of the last time they did any real shopping or the last time they circulated in a fashion con scious setting. The same can be said for the attire worn by many tenured professors at the Uni versity Their income surely jus tifies a new sweater or a pair of slacks. These were the best of times and we know that by the shoes or jackets someone fools especially partial to wearing on a daily basis. Back to the books; Bo Didley wrote "You Can't Judge a Book by Cooking at Its Cover" He was talking about hooks, not people. People r are about what we "ear. and fashion can be a total fix. Calculated errors, like beard stubble or wrinkled shirts, absorb college male fashions. The waif look is history, but pink is the color of the season, say it isn't so Life for the most part is frivo lous, but it's always worth a look. Taking things too serious ly negates the fact that we’re constantly living in the future arid change is around us every where With Wonderbra, we can be sure to be uplifted. With fash ion, well, she who laughs, lasts. By the way. the grad student who has checked out On fash ion (1994) can expect a recall notice — I hate grad students' right to horde material for months on end and their right to keep the best (looks locked up in little rooms on the third floor, out of general circulation. P S Red lipstick is still hot. Anne Moser Kornfeld is a columnist for the Emerald.
