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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1996)
VIEWPOINTS fOHORUtS QPitOQN'S UTURS TO T Mi fDsTOR Jerry Rust represents student interests best ■ OUR OPINION: Jerry Rust ms the best U $ Senate democratic candidate Them am five U S. Senate Unmixmtie candidates: Bill Dwyer. Marry Umsdale, Anna Nevenlch. Tom Brug gem and Jerry Rust Jerry Rust u the candidate who will heat represent students' interests. Because we need a realist who will work for change and not a self-fulfilling politician. Rust is the best Democratic alternative Me has not been trained to be a politician, but he is an environmentalist who understands the importance of education Money and major corporations am not his main concern. Rust believes in boosting the education budget, and that Oregon should stop dis investing education H*« plans lo increase edu ration monies by cutting deep into military spending and the tobacco industry. In addition to Rust's strong stance on education, he will actually confront environmental issues Ha is not afraid to condemn the government for ignoring the currant geological crises. Rust supports advertising this crises, starting with improving ecological condi tions in the Northwest by reauthorizing th« Clean Water Act and the Endan gered Species Act. Other issues Rust sup ports are increasing the minimum wage, supporting Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, respect ing a woman's decision to cIwmmmi, and keeping public lands public. smith: best alternative for Republican voters ■ OUR OPINION: Gordon Smith is the best Senate Republican candidate There are five Republican Senatorial candidates- Kirby Brumfield, Robert Fenton. J«*ft ljuwi*. lain Malum and Cordon Smith Smith is the beat aenatorial candidate if you choose to vote Republi can. Smith is the only candi date who does not have many blatant flaws. Brum field has “no illusions of winning,~ Fenton, age 67. has made no comment on education Lewis desires to administer standardized tests to all high school grad uates. though the SAT and ACT are sufficient enough Mahon dosed-mindedly ■ays that homosexuality, pornography and abortion are wrong. While ail of Smith's oppo nents have weak stances on education, Smith says he might support a tuition freeze He also supports a $500 tax credit for educa tion, which would help par ents until their children have graduated from col* lege Smith also supports bal ancing the budget but cut* ting military spending and prioritizing federal spending fur Social Security and Medicare. Further, he believes we need more power in Oregon and less control from Wash ington wwcrsco** be tour Running anate? Stranger rape: Take back the stereotype II was Itke a Kama fnxrn a horror film, only ww* The sexual assault of the 19 year old University student that occurred in the shaping hours of .Sunday hat t mated a whirlpool ©I emotion In which we alt now *pln. We envision the young woman screaming aa aha t* dragged into Pioneer Cemetery and *exu ally assault mi. and immediately we explode with anger Mow could this happen’ In the aftermath of (he attack, fingers have pointed In every direc tion imaginable Although these expressions of anger have proems personalty cathartic for many, by final ing on last Sunday's attack we reinforce the cul tural understanding of sexual assault that limits the definition of rape to a "strangertnthebush es” image In the process, we ignore the tong standing national studies that report SO to 90 percent of tape victims are acquainted with their attackers Women are taught that safety means touting self-defense danse*, carrying a whistle and kerning how lo use pepper spray Meanwhile they stay home al night, avoid dimly lit corridor* and look over their shoulders as they walk Certainly these are self protective realities. However, if the discourse stops hero, then rope education will have only addressed 10 per cent of sexual assaults, while the silence sur rounding acquaintance rape will remain Since last September there have been aero official reports of 'unwanted sexual behavior" filed with the .Student Conduct Program in Koran 304 Oregon Hall “While rope* by strangers are still underre ported. rapes by acquaintances are virtually non reported," says Robin Warshaw. author of / Merer Gaffed ft Rope. “Not only do women shy away from reporting sexual assault to authuriu five bodies like the police, but 42 percent of rape victims tell no one about their assault " Many survivors never discus* their expert' ences because University and public policies continue to fixate on stranger rape prevention, while marginalizing all other forms of assault. ~()n college campuses, when a woman is raped, university officials announce new plans for better lighting and expanded hours for escort services." Warsaw says, "(These are! positive safety precautions that have nothing to do with stopping acquaintance repo" Programs like Pnjact Saferiae. while crucial to pro moting safety on campus, pro vide a misguided sense of security to their riders. A haven from stereotypical stranger rape is guaranteed, yet the passenger is delivered to the place where she is most likely to become the victim of sexual assault; it is a 'safe ride" from the stranger and a wuvwy iu im ai nuamitim n Thi« evening at 8, University wonutn and men mil gather in the EMU Courtyard fur "Taka Beck (ho Night," During the event, lh« group will walk through Pioneer Cemetery. the «ii» of hut Sunday * attack. But what will be taken back if we continue to focu* on isolated instance* of stranger rape, while turning our beck* to all other form* of MMult? We canned take beck the streets. am women with mate and truthfully claim that our rape prevention work is done We must take back our houae*. take back our bedroom* and take back the way* we continue to define rape in term* of the mythic Granger, Only then will every fortn of eexual assault be seen as the horror show that it is. Keith Cunningham, o teniar mafonng in English. it a columnist far the Emerald Hit e mail address is keithc&aeegan uamgtm edu I f T T f R S I disagree with the editor's note following a letter to the editor about Keith Cunning' ham's "springtime* column {ODE. May U|. 1 must say that ! found the column to be fairly tasteless and sexist, but I am used to illogical, distorted and unclear arguments in this section. I was lust glad that the introduction, body and conclusion of this piece supported each other. However. I did reed Cunning ham's piece as a straightfor ward account of his feelings about the season. Now. I *m confuted lo find out it w«t intended u "pure hmiiu' Sarcasm about what? Doean’t **ne*m have to be about aome thing? Doean’t a journal tat have a reapontibUily to hit reader to be dear about what he it being aarcaatic about? Doea the editorial tuff of the Ememid feel any raaponaibility to print quality work? Anne TiWnghMt Comparative literature Unfair festival The Willamette Folk Fmtival. sponsored partially by Univer ■lly studenU will be held this weekend on the EMU lien Thu U the perfect opportunity for student* to sell crsft* and moke a little cash, if the student has an extra $75 to shell out (or space The only alternative is to he a strolling vendor for $30 Many established companies that can afford the coat wilt have booths, expecting to make a nice profit from the student* and consumers However, the representation of crafts from student* is likely to be very low. Lynch
