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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1996)
LETTERS Voter power The editorial ‘•Senate rate stagnate* at grade-school level* IPfif'. |an R) touched on vary important issue* Oregon deserve more than m hoot-yard. name-calling campaigns in order to make educated t hoi« e* lor their neat senator. The candidates in Oregon * special Senate election have failed to bring up important issues concerning the students of Oregon such as the environ men! and higher education However, we do not have to accept that The fact It. H'» per' cent of people younger than 30 yean of age consider themselves environmentalists. The fact is. there are more than ftO.OOO full time students in the Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion "file fact it. there * power in numbers We must hold our candidate* accountable to the concerns of students by getting Involved with non-partisan, issue-based campaigns. Join the Youth Vme 'Oft. a coalition made up groups such as Oregon Student l.obhv. die United States Student Asso ciation. (ampus (irec-n Vote and the PUtGa This is a way to get involved and make sure other students can cast informed votes in this and alt elections of 190ft Sadie Rogers Undeclared Butting out Normally, t would not grace lort Bettinetki't opinion with a response I()l)fi IV* t) Howev er. Ms Buttinski referred lo lh« Commentator a* a "news" paper and our readers as "those of you who watte your tint* picking up Itte other mt4t nrt campus * The Commentator is a biweek ly journal ol opinion White we do carry new* clone*, m<>*« are written with *r tear intent to per suede (Xu reader* are those who here the patience to reed four page new* Uortei end two page t om montane* that reflet t a variety of viewpoint*, hut mo*l important Iv, do not reflett the watered down pseudo ideology of other, tea* hold campus publications Ms Buttinski went on to write that "theae publications lark both the (»|»riwu e and training stu dent* need to get into the held of journalism " Apparently. Union Mqattnr, the Ctockamo* Hmn* the Srn go/mre Sun, The /tegnter Cimni and the Shelter hland Heporter all disagree, having hired former staff members of the Omtmenta for M* Buttinski then wrote, pathetically “Honestly, what rep utable news publication is going to take a t lip from either of these two publication* seriouslyf* The clips of Friedrich Von Carp and |oe llarwooti from the Commentator were apparently good enough for last year's Fitter o/d editor, Italy Soto Both were hired in news and editurial positions Former Com nwnlator editor Fd (anon worked for the Oregon Voice a* well and as a result, obtained a job as the staff reporter for Hen son Mtgatiw I’erliapsa little re%ean.li would make Ms Buttinski feel U*s* lone ty and misunderstood Far rah L Bostic MnnaguiQ Editor Oregon Commntator Mean pea Gordon Gordon Smith wefc* to mtumv voter* that it not In hi* 'nature' But utitm* always »{>*ui louder than word* In recent week* Smith ha* advocated discrimination In hooting against ttliimt who am iesluan ot gav Denying thaw# uf txan* equal acce#* in thallet option* l*. (rankly, mean Smith aho i ampatgnad (or |a» Mg» of the jMivnUi nolifitaiion bill in the Oregon Senate la*l Slav Fortunately wiser and (ar more compassionate head* i>(* vailed, and thi* dangerous bill was defeated Sending teen girl* to hack alley abortion* to avoid telling their parent* of pregnan cy i», by anyone * yardtlic k. mean The majority of employee* at Smith * Frown h**h have little or no benefit* Many 'tret by" tm a subsistence wage of S3 per hour The*# employee* have made Smith’* annual pavt heck of $2 million possible Denying then dec ent wage* and benefits i* .. mean. (ktrdon Smith cannot < onttn ue to chum tlvat meanness i* * not in hi* nature " I'm voting for Ron Wyden. who*# legislative r»* ord show* far more empathy for worker*, the poor ami the elderly Ami you won't hear Ron Wyden prnrnot ing discrimination again*! any «itiren Thi*country could well founder on the < U**i« nt. evlrem i»t potlcie* of the young Turk Kepubticans dividing Congress We don’t need yet another pea in that pod Gordon Smith i* *uch a p*>« Carol Berg Eugene - - v, 'Vi rs Club & Colonial Inn Restaurant' Open to I hr Public » Ut'l Lynn and the Smokin' Soles performing Wed, Fri, Ac Sat ‘fcOOptn-l.HOOam —....I.. ..B... .1 ....... Tuefr-Fn, 11 *m- 2 pm • V* 00, VuK»r» W SO R»t Vlrnu Mno-Sil I) anKkxunK l ive Musk, Blue* A Ja/x: Wed. 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