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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1995)
■ LETTERS OSPIRG bloated What could $m too buv today ' VVhat ( ould wo as a stu dent body do with Si 15.3(H)' Student* would probably want to put this money toward good use; increasing child care subsi dies. increasing availability of financial aid to those who need it, improving public safety, the list goes on and on This amount is exactly the part of our incidental fees we blindly throw at OSPIRG, self proclaimed defenders of the environment and voice of the student populous here and at three other schools in Oregon Yet what do we see here locally' Student Senator Sarah Kerch says precious little, and I have to agree It seems our $1,15.300 dis appear* into a bloated stale agency that does little for the public interest and a lot for OSPIRG henchman Joel Ario. In a later letter, Brian Jmus said this money gets us the largest student meeting ever, displays in the KMU, and the numerous leaflets and announcements that are reli giously placed on tables around campus. These must Im» expen sive pamphlets' is it all that dif ficult to see we aren't getting our money's worth hen*? Finally. OSPtRC should listen to its own sermon on environ mental responsibility If they did. they would wake up and nwllt!« they nre the ones that are wasting reams of paper, ink and energy on signs, pamphlets and other propaganda that are not truly in the student public inter est Aaron Ray Planning, Public Polcy and Management Sacramen talized fust a couple points of clarifi cation regarding the article on the "Catholic Bible Study" pro gram While it does begin at noon in the KMt ’ Century Room K. it is only offered on Tuesday. And my comment should have rend "... (iatholii kids am s.h ra mentaii/od but sometimes not evangelized,'' as opposed to "internalized but not evange lized " Again, thanks to Jaime Pope for the article Jordan Vajda, O P Newman Center Get a life You s.iid, "Get a jab." 1 said "Ctit ii life " 1 apologize Maybe I was thinking afxwt (ill (ho poo pin 1 meet who don't pit k tln< {With they are on Maybe I way thinking about how hard the University tries to present a multicultural!)’ diverse atmos phere to anyone wanting an edm atton May be 1 was just sur prised In the three years I have on isionallv walked around campus picking up bottles and cans try ing to make ends meet and the literally thousands of people I have passed. 1 have never had a student say any thing ev en remotely rude to me Maybe it's time 1 say thank y ou Thanks to the people who have tossed me a can and said. “Here's a mi kol.” Thanks to the (MHiple who throw any beverage container in the recycling bin Thanks to the people who have said. It's 4 20, let's have a dis mission " Thanks to the people who only had a sunny smile on a cloudy day. Thanks to the )«•<> pie who put in so much effort College isn't easy You may be here and now. hut you ore also the future Thanks Those espe riences are worth more than any number of bottles and cans I could ever pi< k up I had a job paying the fug bucks at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Some mornings, more than a billion dollars worth of yon. D-mark. fran« s and othor foreign currency contracts would pass through my hands Indore 7:20 a nt when the mar kets would open High pay High stress I thought I would take a couple of weeks off to make sure it's what I wanted to do with my life That was JtMW You said, "Get a )ob I said "Gel a life *’ Again I apologize Please open your eyes to this beautiful and diverse Earth we live on And by the was I have a job. I work w uh Gary kutc her and the Forest Conservation Council. Wo irv to vsalk that frayed tightrope between saving the environment and providing jobs it doesn't pay much, how ever. the rewards are greater than I ever hod lieing "financial ly secure" with money as inv goal But I guess everyone fig ures something like that out somewhere down the line, don't they. Thank you, and go Ducks' Martin Anthony Johnston Eugene Rural Oregon C onfronts tlu* Right Marcy Wester line. lotnuler, itie Kur.il Oumih/iih' Project Tuesday, Feh. 7 t p m Cedar Room I f Ml X to pm I »i\t ( on^tc,>.uu>*ui Church. 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