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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1996)
fOUORlAlS OPINIONS IflTtRS !Q TMt tDITOg Fast food puts student health in the slow lane ■ OUR OPINION: Students need a health** choice of food on campus Your •tonuK:h rudely reminded you during clans that your body need* more fuel You have one whole hour before your next class, so you head for the EMU's Fishbowl for some lunch You find bagel* and doughnuts, some bananas, pop and candy Others are in line at the deli. Taco Time and Uttle Caesar's. Craving some REAL food, you head for the EMU Main Omit Store. Pre made sand wiches. more candy, soft drinks, and popcorn are on the menu. You start to panic You want something healthy. something clow lo (be bank food group* With your belly grumbling, you sprint up lo the Skylight Cafe. but moit of their food It fried. You need « wholesome, tialanced moat But you won't find it in the EMU. With Us! year'* demise of the Fountain Court (af* (now home of the EMU Main Dock Storm), hungry and health const ious stu dents no longer have quick «.mi to something aa basic a* a good salad bar The University and EMU should continue looking into options that will pro vide students with better food choices. A student's body can't go very far on junk food alone. Fat substitute approved despite its side effects ■ OUR OPINION: Prock** and Gamble wants lo make synthetics the lifth food group "Good evening Super Mart shoppers Hi' *ur< to try our DRW laf-substitute potato chips, nwiillv approved by the Food and Drue Adminis tration. You will mid (host! 'delicious' dolic at te* on aisle four, bawwtii this l*«m prin and tin? Popto Bismol." What Amerii stu won't do to have it all — pleasure without pain. pay without work, health without fit ness, life without death. and most important. junk fowl without fat. Proctw and Gamble Go and the FDA are mure than willing lo oblige. After 25 years of research. PAG has launched Olestra on a nation of waist Him* watcher*. The fat-sub stitute is calorie Im and taste*. f*A(, yyi, like the old fashioned fat we've come to love and hate. Of course, it also strip* vita min* A, I), K and K from your system and may cause tramping ami diarrhea Charming. Food industry' analyst* predict that products made with the substance will tare* ate a $1 billion business This helps to explain why the FDA may have let the product slip into the market despite the unpleasant side effects. Money is often an effective lubricant. If the Qlestra does lake off. it will illustrate two fun damental truths about American life. One. profits are always more important than people And two. we'll give up bowel control before we'll give up Butterfingers. 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HAU fW «S ot* Tmt/ ‘Swoosh:’ human rights swept away A » the Oregon Athletic Department trie* /\ to make * multlmiUion -dollar deal f \ with Nike !ru »l*d like to raise mm JL JLi*»u»» surrounding this multinational corporation The UJS government and i umpanie* tike Mike, KmIma and Uwti have been supporting a dictatorial Suharto regime of Indonesia The military training program (tMffTI we* suspend «d, and the flow of small arm* wo halted after the Santa Crua massacre by the Indonesian mili tary in Has! Timor in 1991 despite fierce opposi tion* from < orporatum* and the Pentagon In 1995 the Clinton administration returned the limited IhJET and currently pursue* the tale of 17 F-1» )« fighter* to Indonesia Human light* violation* in plat e* like E**t Timor, Irian lata and Ache thould Indicate the nature of the Suharto regime and working con ditiont in Indonesia — including Nike factories indeed, working condtiiunt are vary bad in indonatia Free trade union* are illegal, and organising and even protesting can be deadly The minimum wage it alto fined below the poverty line Companies like Nike have (wen lured from South Korea and Taiwan (where wage* continue to rite), to Indonatia ami Thai land where it tan exploit th«ap tabor Physical attack* on worker*, cheating cm wage* and inad equate training am commonplace Thote who cnurageoutl) make demand* are beaten men i l*t»lv hy the local military command and even suspended without pay. Nike tayt it adopted a ‘voluntary* code of con duct in 1992. and ’memorandum* of under standing ** to ensure that it* supplier* in Indonesia comply with the adequate working standard However, mistreatment of worker* COMMENTARY still continues in Indonesia labor unreal and strikes, despite the dangers, have taken place I>ust> Kidd. Nika'* head of communication*. *ay». "W* can't dictate to government* how they run their laws " However. Nike and other corpo rations actually have an influence in Indonesia .Shell Oil Co could have used the same kind of influence to prevent the state murder of Ken Sam Wtw*. and the tragic exploitation of Ogotu land and it* people in Nigeria. Like Unocal in Myanmar (Burma) and Shell in Nigeria. Nike denies it* responsibility over the plight of work ars by putting emphasis on necessity for ‘eco nomic development* in those developing countries Workers at the Nike plants, however, think that thorn com panto* have enough influ ence to improve working conditions — If the companies wanted to The important question is. why is Nike in a country where a military dictatorship (under the pretense of a democracy) rules? One good rea son (for businesses like Nike) la that the repres sive regime can do a dirty gib by suppressing workers' right* while companies claim to let innocent bystanders as they concentrate on exploiting the cheap labor It means companies are taking advantage of the political environ ment Before the deal with Nike, there is something that we (as responsible consumers and students) should think about. Shin Yatui it Sociology major and it on the Stu dent Committee for World Peat* LETTERS I can’t hear you Why is a major wandal being reported on ih« Internet and not in our new* media? A scandal ihal include*: “rogue" CtA/NSA computer hacker* running around the country with a Cray Supercomputer, downloading file* and transfer ring billion* from Swiss bank account* held by top politi* cum. and tale* of an “avenging angel.' who ha* been visiting holder* of these accounts (which accounts for the high rate of congressional retirees ) This, plus tale* of espionage. murder, treason and link* to the major scandal* of the last 20 year* art* being Ignored by our national and local media. Why? it looks as if our media out lets are more beholden to their advertisers and the status quo than the truth How long does our local media intend to hide from their responsibilities? I have been told it is not within their “scope " When did national corruption on a mas sive scale become something not of interest to our communi tv? How long will they allow thugs to hide behind “national security”? How long will they ** uttle true discussion? I read l he paper* end hear the media talk about nothing of substance Why is there a huge eaodus of our elected official* from the Hou»e and Senate7 Could it bo that some turnout er hacker* are doing the jo® of our press? Are these hacker* •ending plain mantle envelope* to our representatives with evi dence of their corruption? Could that be why the people are deciding not to run for re election? What is going on? Why won't our media talk? Krt» fiigan No*
