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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1995)
■ LETTERS Who to believe? The article bv Prime A I Fontana in the Knwmld of Feb H prompts me to ask the following questions When it comes to historic preservation. I confess my igno rance I know very little about this subj»* t Now let me get this straight. Interim President Frohnmayer (an attorney) and vice-president Dan Williams (.1 member of the landlord's Assn nation and a member of the Board of Directors of the largest landlord in Lane County, Sat red Heart Hospital) and Prime A f Fontana (a University student) all say that the Amazon Family Housing Props t is not worthy of historic preservation. On the other hand, the lingerie Historic Board, the Stale Historii Preser vation Office, and the National Historic Trust, people that I pre sumo have extensive knowledge of tills sublet t, say that it is I also know very little about construction and building reha bilitation The “loyvver," the "landlord" and the University student say that Amazon 1 a n’t be rehabilitated and maintained as low income student housing in a manner that is safe and cost effective But (University Direi - tor of Housing) Mike F.vster wrote u letter last y ear that states that the first engineering report the University commissioned concluded that Amazon yvas safe; the more comprehensive engineering report (F.mtex) also concluded that it was both safe and economically sound to reha bilitate Amazon, as do other art hitei (oral studies and local developers In fact, the St Vincent dePaul Society, a community leader in low-income housing develop ment, believes it can move and rehabilitate some of the units as low-income housing and a pri vate property management com panv believes that it t an mo vi and rehabilitate the building to rvnt at market rati*'. So who am 1 to believe? Hi* torn preservation dx^wtl.t. nt|i‘ neefs,,in Intis ts, experts in low income housing development and a mu i useful property man agement company or the "lawyer," the "landlord" and the I University student Wayne Ford Co-chair, Eugene Sprmgfteld Homeless Action Coalition Down-trodden Brian Womai k's knee jerk reactionary filth that appeared in ins Emerald column Fab 21 could be easily summed up m one simple phrase: Poor little Brian is afraid He won't yet that great journalism job after grade ating! Down-trodden Brian Worn at k. another victim of racism ami discrimination, How hitter, how wretched to be bom a mid dle (upper?) class white male in these days of sot h great injustice and crime (affirmative at lion)! Alas, cheer up. Brian, the "feud nn/.is. "him k racists' and "homosexual spe< ial-rightists" won't prevail Look around, it s still a white man s world (and Congress and Senate and Uni versify and...)! Womul k and other mactionar les like him (Hush. Newt and other oppressed millionaire white men) are twisting history right before our very eves In this new radical right 'revolu tion." white is black and war is peace According to Womack's world, tlie racists are the African-Americans, the sexists are the women and the poor oppressed victims white men This flagrant turning of oppres sion/privilege upside down, this subversion of < ivil rights rhetoric by the white right is not only comical h«t dnngt<roui When rear tionarv. white whin ers like Womai k use the words of Dr Martin l.other Kitty to support their twisted logic and self-serving politics, it is a sad day for those who truly know what those yvords mean and under what contest their senti ments ring with hope and hon or Phil Zuckerman Sociology Ms.? Then* is .1 r*« i|>t? fur ecnlogii at disaster. I’rov in J t .! 1 "For three things th»* earth is disqui eted, «nd fur four which it 1 an not heat for a sen ant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meal; for an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress." The directions are simple Take men whose heritage has prepared them to be followers and make them leaders through affirmative .« turn Then sails 1 those who are too foolish to make ends meet and keep them well-fed through fowl stamps instead of preparing a Miss to someday fas ome a Mrs , let Mil ly hoy marry a Ms who was a Ms when she was single and is still one married And instead of regarding a woman's |of> as sup plementnl to help nourish her family, let her sacrifice her unlHirn heir to prevent interior *nc e to her career If we do not know flow to con form our human so» uity to the natural order of life, we are hardly in 11 position to preserve our planet and we 1 ourt disaster despite our lofty goals of free dom, equality and universal prosperity. 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