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VIEWPOINTS EDITORIALS. OPINIONS. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Citadel won’t release its foothold in the past ■ OUR OPINION Thfr? ,i mate policy in antiquated and unconstitutional Iho (dtadef military col* lege continued its quest to block the admission of its first female cadet Tuesday when it asked the I S Supreme Court to b!o< k Shannon Faulkner's admis sion to cadet training The college is seeking a Court ruling on the t mtstitutional itv of its male only policy. After 152 years of e\< Ind ing females, the (aladel needs (o lake a deep breath and let it go. Faulkner has been admit ted under the same guide lines as male i adets and is required lo meet the same standards An appellate court ruled that South Car olina needed to admit her to the c ollege or establish an equivalent college for women. The state has faii«rti to a< hieve that goal, and now it s time to pay the pipor, Faulkner is to begin < add training on Saturday after attending classes at the ( aladel sou « January 1 *»*#4 Fv on if tin* state had established a military col lege for women, it is mipos siblo to wpiaie a newly formed institution with the lengthy history ami prestige of the Citadel. It mas Im- pos siblo to build a college with the same dedir ation to ®xi ellem e. but an etjtliva lent reputation would take dec ades to establish The last minute appeal by the Citadel is little more than the final ( rv of a dying elephant Women have served in the military for doc ades Fxcluding them from any military institution is not only illogii at. it is indefensible Private hearings impart preference to Packwood ■ OUR OPINION: A :• a official gelling a private hearing is ultimate irony If a person holding publii office* has lieen charged with sexual harassment, in* or sin* should h<* held up to puhlir scrutiny. This logit was used with (durum e Thomas Melon'hi* was appointed to the .Supreme Court, hearings regarding sexual harassment i hargos made against lum took plat e before the publii eve A precedent was estab lished. today . a t hiited States senator stands at i used of 18 i mints ot sexual mist on dm t Logii ally, the ethics committee hearings should he publii . right? Wrong Instead, the Senate has voted to uphold the ethic s i ommittee's part\ line deci sion not to hold puhlit hear ings in the i ase against Ore gun Sen Mob Mat kwood Sen. Mat kwood is a public figure. As sue it. he not only represents Oregon, but the entire l billed Status And .is an elected ofTu ial. he is ac countable to that public those people. How can the public's voic e l>e heard in private hearings' t illiko Thomas, whose rpiestioned ac lions oc c urred prior to his appointment to the Supremo Court. I’ac k wood's alleged activities took plac e while he was employed as a representative of tin1 people’ Why should the ac lions of a sitting public offit ial come under less m rutiny than the ac lions of someone* merely applying for an mpiiv.dent position of power' In addition, holding the hearings behind closed doors will help keep sexual harassment out of the public sphere and further stigma tize the vie tints of this |ypt» of crime i'he only person being protec ted is the accused. (Ilaronc e answered sexual harassment accusations pub licly ; why can’t Hob' TNj O*gon Odtfy *• pM&kftbftd Omfy Monday though F ’.id, {junng !*« vfW >«w a#x3 T.Mfvxar *»d Thursday during ttv» *i*mm#* by tn# Oregon 0*> t^-waW f*yb£sn^g Co Inc «! ?N* at G»ego«\ Oegon TK* c Op#»S?«» xSe^vkwit > o* »N# U<-wvty w»m olfece# a! 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OPINION Jerry Garcia leaves a legacy of memories hilt! just rolled out of !«>d was a friend of mine who JLw.is on tin* mad in Atlanta and she was > ailing from a pay phone. 1 here was no ' Hello, how are you?" or any of the obliga tory phone introductions, lust simply, ”Jerry's dead " My initial reaction was. Yeah light How morn times hem* / heard tins before* So I turned on Headline News to see if it was true It was I didn't quite know what to do at that point I pis! kind of stood there staring out the window, thinking about past shows I d seen, places I'd been to see them and some of the people I'd met then? Hell, I had pist mail ordered In kets to see the Grateful Dead in Devore Calif onOit Hand 1 5 Those shows were sup posed to be my 4‘Mh and 50th My golden anniversary Then I thought of my es fiani ee ba< k in Florida We had seen the Dead more than .10 times together all over the country We even met for the first time at a show in Orlando bin k in 1991 I had to call her to see if she knew I grabbed the phone and looked at the dock — 9 38 a.m She could he on a lunch break hot k host I dialed anyway. She answered the phone with a melancholy tone. ”1 just want to go home,” she said We talked for a while alxmt all those places we had been, about things we had seen Jerry do on stage, songs we were for tunate enough to hear, and what his music meant to us. Call-waiting lieeped. and I clu ked over II was a friend from Denver who had just heard and didn't believe it was true I assured him Jerry had passed away, alone, in a drug rehab ranter, from a heart attack My friend was silent That's how the morning went Phone cull after phono t all from friends all over the country who couldn’t believe this day had finally come VV« all talked niton! happy instam.es at shows, but nobody laughed. Fans of the Grateful Dead knew jerry Was su k He col lapsed in late August 1992, suf fering from an enlarged heart and dialietes The fall tour was canceled that year, and every one realized, norhaos for the J Daniel Pearson firs! tinns, itial Jerry was wearing down. The Grateful I Vmid have a history of seri ous drug use. a fat l that def initely played a part in Gtir i ta's (loath lie w as addicted to nuroin ior must ui me iohos. was in and out of rehabu for the past seven years. and had a cig arette habit of up to two par ks a day And everyone knows about tin* fraud's experiments with LSD The Dead practically started tfu* tills psychedelic revolution single-handed The trand used to rent out ballrooms with the help of promoter Bill Graham and author Ken Resin , playing their style of improvised rock 'n' roll until the wee hours of the morning The Grateful Dead spent the next 30 years on the road, doing what they loved the most — playing music and making people dance. It wasn't until 1987, when "Touch of Grey " cracked the Billboard Top 10. that the band became popular Within a year they went from S.000-seat h.ilis to sold out football stadiums The Dead have bad a large impact on American culture, which has gone largely ignored In the press Most people laugh off the fact that thousands of people take off across the coun try seasonally to ms1 the band of aging hippies That's because they see something they simply don't understand Jerry's musii. and the t ulture surrounding it, was a celebra tion of life It wasn't about get ting high or learning anything sa< red about life from a group of musicians It was about liv ing. and traveling, and meeting new friends People have been bom at Dead shows, couples have been married, some folks have died Hie band Widespread Panic claims they named themselves after the state of mind Dead heads would lie in one e Garcia tlied No one lias vet pane ked. Kveryone is in a state of, "Now what?" Tins is not the first death tfiat has occurred within the Grateful Dead Keyboardists Ron "Pigpen" Mi kernan, Keith Godchauv and Brent Mvdland have all passed away over the sears, but none of them had .is profound an effect on the band's sound as Garcia. Jerry was the Dead It was his dis tint t guitar sound that gave the band its unique style Me i an't be replaced. The Dead were having prob lems of late really picking it up and slamming their songs home like they could in tlieir younger days Hut during tins last summer tour, they seemed to find that old pocket again The band was inspired. Set lists were changed up, and fans were fueling optinnstii about the upcoming fall tour I'm just glad that it ended on a positive note When tlie Dead played in Portland lust Mas, the set ond show ended with one of Gar cia's nesv compositions titled “Liberty," it seems mid now when 1 think bac k about that show The last words 1 heard Garcia sing were. "Leave me alone, to find my own v\ay home." / Daniel Pearson is a columnist for the Kmerald
