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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Iiust don't understand how
people can not be in love
with this incredibly beau
tiful time of year
As I sit here typing this col
umn. 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
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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