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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■ LETTERS
Shaved
That blithering idiot, Brian
Womat k, never fails to offend
me Ttie moral stale of our groat
nation is crumbling, he states
{ODE. April 4), IxsjiUNt- we tin not
adhere to his religious principles
Unlike tlie bygone days, jwopte
today take illegal drugs, abandon
the traditional family structure
ji e deadbeat dads) and neglect
their duty to their country Those
of you who read the news know
who I am talking about • Newt
Gingrich He has confessed to
twins a pot smoking, draft-dodg
mg di ldtwat dad Who does Mr
VVornai k 11lame for our collet five
moral dilemma? 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
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