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VIEWPOINTS EDITORIALS. OPINIONS. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Amazon complex: Uu should move forward ■ OUR OPINION: Amazon Coalition fights a losing battle over buildings that should come down So nanjf of us. from our presc hool years all (he way up to adulthood. have been caught in that nasty and often self-defeating web called the "little white lie." The little white lie could be characterized as a tiny untruth told In a hurried response to an inconvenient question. The problem begins when the toiler of that tim half truth has to tell another lie to help cover, or validate, the 1 iisi one The result is that the first he. a tiny germ of falsity, soon begins to evolve, divide' and grow like some rabid amoeba Those feisty amoebas < an turn into huge snarling < matures that seriously injure feelings and da matte human values sue h torical building Amazon Housing is an eyesore. Deady Hail has ivy and ornate moldings while Ihe Amazon Housing complex is falling-down ugly and probably has mold We feel it is time for the Amazon Coalition to take a deep breath arid let it go, l or too long, the 1 Jniversi ty has I men held responsible for providing low-income housing for a portion of the student body. The school is unique in this aspect as it is one of few institutions that does offer housing options to students who lac k extra bundles of t ash. Students attending Port land State, Washington and California colleges pay pre mium market prices for housing Those same stu dents would probably die of shock or jealousy if they knew of the relatively inex pensive costs of student housing we have at and around this sc hool. Win should the Universe as trust and honor. While we do not want to make any bold accusations, we belicv i» that converting the Amazon Family Housing ( omplex into a monument of history Is not the real rea son behind the Save Ama zon Coalition's efforts to have the low-income apart moots successfully placed on the National Registry of Historii Places, As of last Friday, a state hoard of his torii preservation experts has Amazon Housing on the books as a historic place. Save Amazon Coalition merely wants the University to keep and recondition the World War II era buildings and is trying to use the new designation as leverage to do so. As far being plai ed on the National Registry of Historic Places7 Dnadv Hall is a his tv ht? the suit* provider of student housing instead of the city or the county ' Ideal ly . one solution could lx* a partnership among the three to house students Maybe the Amazon (audition should focus its efforts on this kind of angle. There's no time like tin* present as the Kugene City Council t urrentlv has low income housing on its agen da — a perfect opening for the Amazon i kxuition. The coalition should work with the city and other go\ eminent agent ios to come up with realistic proposals for student housing. The coalition should also stop faulting the University for being insensitive about a complex that should have been torn down years ago. 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I tan look out the win dow over the KMU courtyard and see a variety of trees com pletely blazing with color, Hues of red. gold, copper, brow n, orange and yellow lit erally glow on this sunny October afternoon. I'm reasonable though. There art* several legitimate reasons why people may not enjoy the fall. It's a season tainted by a bittersweet, melancholy feeling It's os if summer reached down and yanked away the welcome mat of sunshine and long lazy days —- at least we ian land on a soft pile of leaves The days do get shorter »» i 111 -11 Uliana a iui Hllf shins — something ws not'd for our physical and emotional well being. So, with shorter days and less daylight, people tend to get a little down. An occasional case of the blues aside, autumn is my favorite time o( year because there are so many incredible transformations in the land scape and in people ns well. It seems that many of my "major" life experiences have taken place in the fall. The first time I can remain iw'i tvlwiling against authority happened one fall while I lived with my family in Cali fornia My dear Mom wanted me to wear, as 1 had obediently done so many times Indore, my stu pid. uncomfortable yellow raincoat for the walk to my ele mentary school. For some rea son. the last thing 1 wanted to look like as a hip first-grader that day was an overgrown du< k. Something must have been ticking in my little mind on that monumental morning because 1 remember being THE Air IS Tbo CUEAV. 'A you'll HAVf TO START BURNING Hour Regulations. rH£ PtPvf >S MfAT/WG VP Off 15 < ^ r TUf U.09AL CtlMATf ? Autumn season offers change in landscape, challenges for people determined not to wear the thin# i distinctly recall walk ing out of the house, whipping that dumb coat off my hack, and throwing it into the juniper hushes on the side of the house oversized tags My eighth and ninth grade football days were my glory years I was n football player — a first-string defen sive end. I was number 7-0 and big number seventy lived to ki( k butt every Friday after noon at 4:00. i was even voted second toughest on the team 1 can still smell that same grass-and-mud smell and feel the cold bite in the air of those Octolier-football afternoons. Of course, after school, the clouds dumped buckets of rain on me during the OPINION I've also had some recent autumn experiences. Three years ago I sat in a lawn chair surrounded by a carpet of multi-colored leaves at my folks' house in the coun try. and opened a letter from my biological mother whom I had found after a four-year search My parents sold that country home this summer It was the house where I spent the major ity of my life growing up and fulling in love with this state. I've seen autumn in other regions of the U S as well. In northern Maine I saw ires nome. i remember thinking as 1 shivered and sloshed along, that one. throw ing the raincoat in the juniper bushes wasn't the greatest idea after all. and two. I was in big trouble i rememoer walking with my parents through Stanford Uni versity's campus and kicking up huge leaves that the large oak and maple trees had shed We strolled many times across those Palo Alto grounds in the direction of the football stadi um. Hie bai k yard of our Califor nia home was Tilled with apri cot trees that got heavy with golden apricots late in August My sister and 1 would “help" Dad rake up all the fruit that had fallen from the trees and sometimes we would attack each other with the rotten, gooey apricots. uiikw Mruiigr ami DeatltllUiiy bizarre northern lights. I climbed mountains there and looked down on low rolling foothills covered with colorful patchwork quilts of autumn. When it's niie out, take a quick break and go for a walk across campus or some other equally tree-filled area. Watch the squirrels gather their good ies while they frantically scoot all over the ground like little brown slinky* Grab a friend and drink hot chocolate, or walk with the crowd over the Aut/.en footbridge to a game at the stadium. Whatever you do, don't let the magical changes of autumn pass you by. The season is too mysterious and wonderful to not embrace. David Bartlett is an editorial ydityr JarJheJiaierald i nuy siuui. ami u was no fun when one landed on you In junior high (by this time the family had moved to Ore gon), l tried out for and made the final cut on my eighth grade football team. Tackle football — with black football shoes, shoulder pads, arm pads, thigh pads, knee pads, hip pads, a tail bone pad. black jerseys with gold num bers, and white helmets and pants We felt like real football players but probably looked more like short lumpy kids in
