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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'
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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