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
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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