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EDITORIAL K-12 aid package will hurt colleges As has often boon the case recently, the t ost of edu cation may well be on the way up — again. The Oregon House passed a $3.55 billion package to help pay for kindergarten through 12th grade education Tuesday While giving more money to k 12 edut ation might seem laudable, higher education may suffer from the move I’ seems that the legislature ts giving younger students more money to prepare them for a college education that will he of poorer quality . Giving more money to K 12 education looks good on paper, but it will bn disastrous in practice. The Legislature helps subsidize education costs for resident students. If legislators are not able to fully fund higher education, the remainder of the money wifi have to come from somewhere More specifically, students will pay higher tuition Students will only pay so much for an Oregon educa tion. At some point, budget cuts will raise tuition to a level that will send students out of state for their edu cation. While Oregon has lx*en a relatively affordable plat e for Oregonians to attend classes. repeated im maxes in tuition will cause students to leave Eugene and Ore gon to go somewhere cheaper. (living more money to K 12 is not necessarily a bad '■do.i ( )l -V..M M he M Cs > .i-hmtelv suffered sox ■• Me.i sure 5. a property-tax limitation measure, passed in 1990. However, ali students from kindergartners to dot; (oral candidates have been alfet ted by the cuts. To heip students in a limited number of schools at the expense of others is foolish and shortsighted K 12 education is important and should bo funded to the fullest extent possible However, in the tight budget times that have become a common reality in Oregon, available hinds should be spread around as evenly as possible. While the House hits already passed the K 12 budget, it will i onsidor the higher education budget in the next two weeks Now. more than ever, legislators must ret og nizo the importance of higher education And now more than ever students must act on the alarming possibility of drastic cuts to the system and < ali their legislators and House representatives They must urge legislators to add back funds to the suffering sys tem K-12 education is crucial to a person's well-being and future, but it is not tho end of his or her learning High er education is another step in the process of lifelong learning and cutting it will not only hurt college stu dents. but Oregon as a whole It's unwise to favor one facet of the educational system over another Funding K-12 education might make young children winners in the short run. but with less money going to higher education and the resulting dete rioration of state universities, ail Oregonians will lose. 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Nan-Republi cans. of course If you are reading this. Mr Womack, you strategically shaved monkey, you had better realize that most other people dis agree with you This is not due to ''moral relativism." To the con trary, it is due to firm beliefs on what is right and wrong All. except for a handful of nght-to ltfers. would agree that killing someone is wrong Most Ameri cans believe that abort ion should lw kept safe and legal Morality is present in America but exists in a manner which right-wing radicals cannot grasp M> ndyii e. Mr Womai k is to stop Inviting people over the head with your Bible and read it. you cretin Philbert Paluch Biology Truly sad I am writing in regard to the University radio station. MWAs (88 1 FMJ tiii ision to reduce its only bilingual (Spanish-English) and hicultural radio station by one hour. I am curious to know what the masons were that neces sitated such an ai lion. As a stu dent and a concerned member o( the community, I find it frustrat ing and even angering that Jose Luis Balderas, Andres Barajas, Toney Castillo and the other radio personalities that comprise the show would be axed so eas ily. This show attempted to fill a void in an area in the mass media that has been ignored for far too long. Instead of facilitating and inter ing to the growing Latino com munity in the Eugene area, the KVVVA administration has dw id ed to take on the role of a bureau cratic ogre As it was. the show was only allotted a mere three hours on Sunday's from 2 to 5 l> m However, m that short peri od of time the show was always filled w ith a variety of program ming that ranged from political talk radio that nffet ts the latino community to Imnda salsa, old school rap and < lassie oldies musk It has a little bit of enter tainment for everybody. It was (and Is to a smaller extent) an out let where loc al Latino owned husuuMtsmt could ad vertise their products or events if they chose to do so KWV'A should expand the show s hour, not cut them, but 1 hast- a sad feeling that that will not happen. People would probably say to a person like me, "He happy with what you have, be content with the scraps we leave you." I say U S . enough with being apathetic and sub missive In an era that is tx-coming less and less tolerant and more con servative, it does not surprise me in the least that these- measures have l»»«n taken It only goes to show how i ertain segments of society can only see what is immediately in front of them much like a hors*- with blinders on. They have absolutely no peripheral vision to see the greater picture. That is truly sad Javier Cervantes Journalism Political Science Go, Joe! Way logo, Joe' By stripping the bark off the ASUO executive campaigns {ODE, April 14), columnist Joe Harwood exposes the elm lions for what they art; a microcosm of real-world poli tics. where empty and unrealis tit promises abound Reading some of the candidates positions, i found myseif harking bat k to elementary school, when student council "candidates" promised kids t hocolate liars and more recess time in return for votes. Keep tt up. Jo# It's about time tlit* Opinion slot snaps awake with some witty, insightful, no* hokls-barred muckraking. Randy Lemmerman Journalism Just ask Mv father found me after tH year* through DMV records I am glad he did. as wo are now good friends, but I am equally glad for the way it happened While traveling through Ari zona. he went to the DMV' to see if I had a driver’s license (Me had reason to believe I lived there.) He was told 1 did, but that my address could not be released to him. He was also told that his legislator could request m v address (He also dis covered. .is his first contact with me. that I had received a speed ing tit Vet ) Several months later 1 received a letter from a New York official with two pages spelling out my rights My father would not he informed of my whereabouts, but a letter from him was enclosed and I < ould contact him if 1 chose to I here is no reason anyone should be able to walk in and get mv address from the DMV If 1 am trying to shake a stalker, I tan get a post office bos and unlisted number, but 1 can't stop driving Anne Moser Kornfeld asserts [ODE. April 7) that DMV n*< ords are an important source of infor mation and cites several business related reasons;- Surely, the police w ill still have aci ess to search for drunken driving charges or hhh members. She states that there is an exemption for "specific busi ness related” purposes, This would seem to include employ ers, credit agencies and, unfor tunately. direct marketers She concludes that "the fight to keep information available to ordinary people has only just begun " I agree that it is critical lor peo ple to have access to their own files, but if you want nn address, l suggest you ask me for it Shasta Willson Physics ■ LETTERS POLICY The Oregon Daily Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing comments on topit •, of interest to the University community The Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter for length or style.
