EDITORIAL
Students should
use or lose tickets
It’s almost been a year since the seating fiasco at
McArthur Court. Basketball-crazed students were angry'
and embittered when the seats they paid for with iheir
nol-so incidentai foes wore taken away by then-athletic
director Rich Brooks.
Ah. what can happen in a year.
Now the problem at Mac Court is that students aren’t
using the s«rats they are given This year, student tick
els for football and basket
ball games were available
in par kages that allowed
students to got tickets for
all the games at once. Many
students took advantage of
the now policy and got
their season tickets but are
just not attending the
games. We could under
stand if the Ducks were
having an awful season.
We could under
stand if the
Ducks were having
an awful season, hut
the truth of the mat
ter is that they are
having a better than
pretty good season
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ter Ilian pretty good season, Oregon is even ranked in
the Associated Press Top 25 They could very possibly
Iks on their way to a berth in the NCAA tournament.
This situation leads us to believe that there are stu
dents out there who did not pick up their season tickets
but still long to see the Ducks in action.
In order to accommodate those students, the ticket
office at Mai Court has come up with a new policy
Hunt Molsapple, ticket sains dint tor. said that his office
will release tit kets 15 minutes before a home game if the
third balcony is less than half full Additional general
admission ticket# would (hen be sold for only that bal
cony. And additional third-balcony student tickets
would become available for Oregon students without a
tii ket but with a current Oregon student identification
card
HoUapple said the problem became painfully appar
ent when Oregon played Oregon State University lie
said students crowded into the seats on the floor, but the
balcony seemed almost empty.
Hoisapple said that of the 3.651 seats reserved for stu
dents about 500 were vacant during the Civil War game.
l.et’s think about that for a minute. That means that dur
ing a game that has traditionally been one of the most
Important games of the season — even when the team
was not so successful — 500 students who sat at home
wishing they could have gone to the game actually
could have gone to the game
That's why we think this new policy is such a great
idea, it takes nothing away from students. As a matter of
fact, it gives some students an opportunity they may not
otherwise have had. We also think this policy should
remain In place after the season ends.
So if you have your season tickets, you should plan on
using them or you will lose them
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Taiwanese
One of the worse evils is to
separate a people from its cul
ture Taiwan, isolated in the
huge shadow of mainland C'.ht
na. must fight riailv against this
threat of jots of national and
(ruminal identity
Yet one doesn't have to look
farther than the campus of the
University ol Oregon and the
communitv of Eugene to see
how easily well-meaning, good
people can cooperate to the
stopping away of cultural pride
and awareness
On Jan, 1?, the Taiwanese
Student Organization was grant
ed recognition as an association
However, what should have
been a simple matter of deter
mining the worthiness of the
goals of the group became a
compelling need to educate
those involved in the differences
between Taiwan and China
since certain individual* felt
Taiwan could lie represented by
the Chinese Student Associa
tion Thanks to the understand
ing within in the ASl '-O. the Tai
wanese students now have a
place where they gather to t ele
brate their unique and impor
tant culture
Yet, the recognition of the
I SO is only symptomatic of a
deeply rooted problem For
instance. Anne Moser-Komfeld.
in a thought-provoking artu le
{ODE Jan 30). falls into the trap
of assoc lating Taiwan with Chi
na Night, sponsored by the Chi
nese Student Association She
goes on to fault the event for not
having "general interest publi
cation's! on Chinese culture."
Later {The Regi&ter-Guard
Feb 3). in a story on a dance
troupe from the National Insti
tute of the Arts in Taipei, the
reporter t ormtlv points out that
the group will perform native
dances, but then goes on to
focus on only the Chinese
aspects of the goals of the group
While some Taiwanese may
have Chinese ancestry and some
Taiwanese culture may be root
ed in China, couldn't the same
be said for the United States?
Hut the United States is too far
from that gigantic red shadow to
be too concerned Taiwan is not
Taiwan needs the help of good
people everywhere in rocogniz
mg. thereby preserving, its
national identity and culture. If
you want to help or are simply
curious about us as a people, a
good place to star! would be to
visit one of the perfarmam <ms of
t ales of the Mountains and the
Seas,"
When you finish viewing the
performance you should bo able
to begin to see how we are, in
fact, a sovereign nation filled
with a rich and diverse are and
history But please do not call us
Chinese We are proud of our
nationality We are Taiwanese
Shing-Jye Chen
President, Taiwanese
Students Organization
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