VIEWPOINTS
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Guess what everybody?
High school has ended
■ OUR OPINION: Violent
pari tors need to grow up
Allhough college students
mb legally * onsidered
adult*, it appears many of
u* an* unc I«ar on ih«* defini
tion of tho word
Ideally, a* adult* wo are
supposed to have wmo
understanding of maturity
and responsibility But threw*
<(incept* eluded party-goers
on lliiyard street during the
University Bookatort*'* 75th
anniversary celebration
Becaiiwt of it* large num
ber of student habitation*,
lliiyard wemi to be a quite
common location for week
end parties
Thia would be perfectly
fine if the student* who
choose to consume mass
quantities of slcohoi at these
parties did not often act like
a group of hormonally chal
lenged high school students
whose parents are out of
town for the weekend.
On May 31. i 50 to 200
people attending a party at
1571 lliiyard Si. moved into
the parking garage of 715
1/2 E. 10th Ave. From 11
pm. until 12 p m., the
sound of breaking bottles
waa reported, and a police
officer was disjtalched to
assess the situation.
Fortunately, the crowd
dispersed before the officer
had to request their depar
ture,
Thia occurrence luckily
had a peaceful outcome. But
past incidents did not con
clude so calmly.
I.a*t Oct 30, tear gas was
used to break up a party on
the 600 block of E 17th
Ave. Officer* told the crowd
to d>s|Mirs<* five time* or
they would be gassed. After
the crowd failed to comply
and the tear go* was thrown,
many party-goers moved
into a different corner of the
intersection
li took three police
sweep* in rio? formation *o
roniml the situation.
Unfortunately. tear gas
seams to be an ongoing
theme at many University
students' parties At a party
on 707 E. 17th Ave. on May
19, 1905, about five tan ti
ters of tear gas were
released.
Apparently, after observ
ing urea being set, street
signs being pulled up and
tart ties flying toward civil
ians and cars. officers felt tt
necessary to break up the
party, imagine that.
What is so amazing about
these events is that the stu
dents who inhabit those off
campus apartments and
bouses are usually not fresh
men
They are not the stereo
typical fraternity members
either. There is no ageist
excuse for these events,
though we often do not
observe our parents throw
ing laser bottles in our front
yards.
What separates the way
we release tension on week
ends from the way our par
ents rotas? Maturity.
ft ally *6n» of those volatile
jrarty-goers that insisted on
ruining everyone else's
night knew anything about
respect for cither people and
their belongings, there
wouldn't be riots or broken
up parties
Either students, parents or
some other generous indi
vidual is paying for this
expensive education. We are ;
here because we c hoose to
Ire, we want to have a
future
Whether we like it or not. 1
we ore adults Why don’t we
stop ignoring the responsi
bility and maturity that this
title encompasses
2 Oregon Omfy Emtrata MMnMAy JuM V 1996
wi CAN'T
ADOPT A KID
wt MAEAOyy
It’s Dead Week, and the rivers are calling
The girl at Fred Mn* who rang up my
groceries looked at me funny when I
•aid to my buddy that the weather
should make for a nit» evening Ashing
She said it w» nk* out. but she certainly
wouldn't be FISHING
Sometimes I forget that I'm living in the King
dom of PT, and people aren't CORRECT if they
hurt critter*
Without going into bar customer service faux
pat, though, ril tell you why I fish
Fishing is more than fust s trout in the pan
over e« evening campfire, I haven't actually had
« pan fried trout few a Iona time |*d guess that of
this last thousand or so fish I've caught. I've
killed maybe e half dosen IF* not eating them
that keeps me fishing
In fact, it's not even catching them that makes
fishing what it is.
If you leant to move quietly smi fluidly in the
outdoor*, whether you're trout fishing or elk
hunting or winter trekking or fust out for a pte*
*»*<-. you'll see more birds, bobcats, deer, herons,
badgers and other critters
I've watched a wolverine end heard beavers
»«ng I’ve wan bed elk splashing in a pond like
kids at a pool party Fishing is not just about
fish — watching kingfisher* perform their acro
batic mating dance heats a limit of trout any
day
Whan you are fishing, though, you have to
pu**ie out challenge* that you don't faat in
town My favorite stunt was the Leader Round
The-Stick trick
I w«» wading upstream m a little t reek when I
tenut upon a deep dark pool with brush and
hawthorne hanging over it Sometime* you look
at a hole like this and you |ust KNOW them * a
big iruut finning in the shadows
U»gj*m at the head of it. narrow fast riffi*
below, submerged log, steep rocky hank. weedy
bottom Proscription for turning Junker
But no wav to cast The head of the pool, fust
below a snarl of togs and branc hes, looked to be
tha place to drop s fly. but sticking out from the
logjam was a tangle of branc hes that would sure
ly intercept the cast.
This was one of those set-ups that the fish
gods seem to enjoy dropping on fishermen. On*
owl was all I was going to get — if I messed it
up that trout was gone l visual trod the fly sail
ing over the pool, and I could see there was no
way to land it where I wanted it without hitting
sticks
Then it dawned on me that hitting sticks on
purpos* was the way In do It I estimated that if
1 could bit the closest branch with the leader. 10
or 12 inches above the fly. it might ring around
the branch, then un-ctng itself and drop inno
cently on the trout's nose
1 pulled out enough line to reach the down
stream edge of the pool and sent a few sideartn
a*U up that way. flicking the line back and
forth maybe a foot above the water.
I let out a few more feet aimed far the branch
tangle, guesstimated 12 inches up the leader
from the fly. then pinched th«* tins
ft »*M picture-perfect. The leader collided
gently with the brush, and the tippet wrapped
itaelf around the branch The fly sailed around
and around the branch till it stopped
Then it started back the other way. like a teth
er ball wrapping and then unwrapping itaelf
around a pole. I'm sure the trout was watching
in fascination as this psychotic fly zoomed
around in circles
The trout was ready when the bug suffered
pilot emir and spiatted on the surface The
water erupted, and a 14-inch rainbow slammed
into the fly.
The trout had only one escape option because
of the upstream logjam He could only come
down toward me. which he did — at a high rate
of speed
mmm
I was amazed that the cast
had worked like I'd planned it
— not too amazed to set the
hook, but evidently too amazed
to react to the downstream
charge He'd lost the hook by
the time he passed m«
It’s this connection with the
land and the wildlife that
keep outdoorsmen coming
back for more It's a different
kind of foaming from what
we v» been getting in ciftiisrooms thi» term, and
l*m looking forward to the switch
And besides. what other sport offers you the
possibility of hooking yourself in the ear with a
green wienie or a rat faced MatDougsl*
Though lake fishing is a marvelous way to
recover from the overload of a too busy term, it's
the creek* and nears that really call to me
Water ousel* bob along rocky bank.*: ro«r
gan»«rs and wood ducks cruise the river *
sparkling surface Rising front the forested banks
are tall snags where eagle* sit. Heron* wade in
the shallows, rattling kingfishers skydive over
the bank.
Whether you're wading the stream stalking
trout or Just resting on a rock in the sun. watch
|yn osprey fish is one of life's tup rated high
You spot the osprey atop a snag It sails from
its watcnpost. angled wings and ruddered tail
skidding the bird to a near halt 40 feet above the
river * surface It hovers almost motionless,
watching and waiting, then plummets.
Hitting the water with a splash that makes
your head hurt, it reappears with a (at 14-inch
rainbow. Heaving and struggling, it lift* off from
the water, struggling to right itself with the
writhing fish in its talons.
Now THAT'S fishing
Kelly Andenmn. a senior in faumalum. it a
t olumnut for the Emerald She write* regularly
for Washington-Oregon Game A Fish, and ha*
also written fat the Rocky Ml Elk Foundation *
Bugle and Wapiti mogmunes. Bowhunter. Ami
cus )uum«l. High Country News. Country lour
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