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EDITORIALS, OPINIONS. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR State’s deck stacked on gambling permits ■ OUR OPINION Native Americans operate casinos, other cities should be allowed to as well Another Amorit an Indian gambling casino will open next week near the town of brand Hondo. Ore The t asi no "Spirit Mountain" stands in the same area where hun dreds of Indians were fori ed lO settle by U S. soldiers some 150 years ago. M.tvbe some of the need ed income this gaming (en ter will bring to the Grand Rondo Tribe will help erase a tiny portion of that heartache from so long ago. Tlie tribe ex pot ts the 526 million i asino to finam e economic growth and < reate social programs that will foster quality nf-lift? improvements for the Indian community. It will probably help tribal members esc ape the vic ious spiral of poverty that many have struggled with The c asino will also help the tribe maintain their sov ereignty and will provide revenue that will contribute to their am iont cultural cus toms and practices With the existence of Indian-run c asinos and state controlled kono and lottery. Oregon has created a hypoc ritu al position for itself To he lair, the state should extend the right to open gaming centers to oth ei Or»j Hit but not give the tax-exempt status enjoyed by Oregon's Native Americans Since sex can now kill, education reform vital ■ OUR OPINION US should evaluate sex education in schools The world of sex mim .1 lion as we know it is going through some needed change. Some young people get the famous "birds and trees" talk front mom or dad. some find out about it from friends and there might even be some who lire "out side the knowledge curve" until they find themselves in bed with another person. Ament an public educa tion has tried! to educ ate young people about sex, but tilt' numbers of unplanned pregnant ies. sexually trans mitted diseases and victims of the HIV virus are still too high Kugene School District 4 I, as part «>f a stale law, has developed an "ago-appropri ate" health education c ur riculum for elementary, middle and high sc hool grades The programs cover ail the normal instruction in HIV and AIDS awareness, responsible? sexual behavior, and the usual, but there’s also something new. Now, abstinenc e is emphasized as one sure' way to avoid STDs, and young people will learn to have compassion for those who are sic k with AIDS. Finally, since sex odtu.a tion is still a controversial subjec t for many parents. 4 } is trj ing to bi lug parents into the educ ation c irc le '• ^Wje*** 0*#*! wr&i t% i'j■ti'S lfc*MHrr urvisag#; * *-<5*? a»-- «"4g 8» rt»*t ***J t „>«•}**** *«! 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" LETTERS Senate sell-out Many thanks to tho senators and congressmen who an* work ing diligently to gut our air and water quality laws, not to men tion relaxing guidelines on land uw and development We need loaders with this kind of vision — a vision that entails a megalopolis type sprawl with industries spewing toxicity and filth into water and air vv ithout those distracting reg ulations that might cut into prof it margins Many of these same politi cians have been heavily influ enced by corporations that have rented them with large campaign contributions They are working overtime to open the last 5 per cent of the old growth ecosys tems to logging with so-called salvage-rider hills, which are exempt from environmental laws Why whine about a few 500 to 1000-year-old trees and tho last vestiges of majestic beauty in our world? Let's finish tfie rajve job. Develop, exploit and move on Will we ever learn, or are we a culture so non-imaginative and dim-witted that vse have to sac rifice quality of life and irre placeable national treasures and call it an either/or issue of econ omy versus env ironment ' Cur rently in northern California, one of the last ancient redwood enclaves in the world contain ing several trvx-s more than idtXXl yeors-old has lost court protec tion How many sustainable g>l>s will this create? Finally, there is a proposal from the good senators to sell off our national parks What vision' Imagine Yellowstone and Yosomite filled with Dumbo the Elephant rides, laser light shows, ana fast food restaurants. Cod help us before these lunatn s destroy everything worth viv mg' Gerry Rem pel Graduate Music Corruption The Cold War was a titanic struggle of good versus evil — of democracy and freedom against godless communism The reality is quite different How can U.S support of brutal right-wing dictators such as Somoza. the Shah. Mobutu. Marcos. Trujillo. Pinochet and Suharto he equated with democracy and freedom? How um the massacre of over .5 million members of the Indonesian Communist Party and their families be called anything but one of the great human-rights violations of the 20th century7 I have a different theory. The ( old War was a struggle of the corporations to retain control of < heap labor and natural resources and to prevent six ial ism from succeeding anywhere because it threatens their tremendous wealth and power Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the passage of NAf 1 A and GATT, the cor porations are more powerful than ever How were the American peo ple so easily deceived? The corporations own the media and can promulgate the fairy tales of the ruling elite 24 hours a dav The greatest propaganda achievement of human history was convincing the American people that believers in a utopian ideology like commu nism were evil devils. The Cold War bankrupted the Soviet Union and put this country four trillion dollars m debt. Tltts folly occurred while millions of people starved to death, and the environment was polluted and destroyed An objective observer from another planet would have to conclude that there is no intel ligent life on earth Beam me up. Scotty! Gary Sudborough Bellflower, Calif Sssh! 1 hope University Director of Student Housing Mike Kyster doesn't find get wind of Cindy Long's front-page story {ODE, Oct 6). Long refers to the mag nanimous gift made to the School of Architecture and Allied Arts as the "third largest donation in the University's history." My concern for keeping this information front Mr. Eyster is that the gift includes the 4.500 square-foot Watzek House The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designed by the late Port land architect John Venn Recently, a set of structures that had also been designated as an historic site was crushed to splinters. Mr Eyster demanded the site cleared for the construction of a new housing facility that will rent for at least three times the cost of the historic property That historic housing was known as the Amazon Family Housing Complex and it to was designed bv a world-renowned architect, Pietro llelluschi. My fear is that if Mr. Evster hears of the Watzek house, designed in the antediluvian era of Hl tfi, it too will go the wav of Amazon. Mum's the word' Karl G Sorg Eugene Correction At the October 11 meeting of the Student Senate. I presented a special request to pay an oyer due bill from the Faculty Club incurred by the Family Center on December 4, 1993. The Fam ily Center, which as since been disbanded, never took action to pay the $425.47 that it owed Unfortunately, at the time of my presentation to the Student Senate 1 was unaware of the efforts of the Faculty Club to acquire compensation, and i inaccurately stated that the Family ("enter had never been hilled. This is entirely untrue; the Faculty Club has provided copies of several bills sent to the Family Center and is in no way responsible for the lack of payment. 1 apologize to the Fac ulty Club for any inconve nience my error may have caused. Zachary Kelton ASUO Vice President
