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VIEWPOINTS tOlTOHIAt S OPINIONS. LCTfCRS TO INI fO.lTQH Environmental studies left with few choices ■ OUR OPINION: Debate has ended program must accept negatives There l» a new coni rover• sy rm campus that'* not about problems in the damm program or Cordon Smith'* campus visitations This controversy involve* the environment No. it dim not involve the Riverfront Riawit h Park, but the envi* momenta) studies depart* men ft plan to move horn Condon to the basement of Pacific At first gl«m«. it i« difft ■ cult tn tee why the environ mental studies program is not pleased with the move. After all. they will soon occupy not three rooms, hut four, nearly doubling their square footage to 2.400 — quite an improvement for a program that has only been In existence for one year. There is not an overabun dance of office space on campus, many organizations do not have any office »|mm e at all What am all of these environmentalists t om* plaining about? Well, the environment in the base moot of Pm ific. A« cording to Richard Gale, the program director, an atmosphere of gray unfinished cement blocks and fiuoresi ent fights, like the one in the basement* resembles a prison He'* cor* reel when he sav* that the University Spac e Committee could not have selected a more symbolically inappro priate location. It is definitely under standable how dirts ting prospective magus and pro fessors into n basement with tiny windows would limit the department's propensity for prestige. You can almost hear the (a< uIn advisor now, “Oh. so you want !o work outside. Iweathe fresh air and help save the anvi mnrmmt instead of destroy ing (I? Wall, hop on down into our dark «ave and breathe (he stale air while we sign you up for our pm gram The benefits of the new lot at ion, such as space, are outweighed by the location itself According to Gale, there is more to life than spa* «■ Apparently, the Uni* versify Spa*« Goinmittm did not inform Gala of the time when the relocation would he on their agenda Nonethole&s. the Universi ty Spin *• Committee has made its decision. It select ed a location to dxommo date the entire campus' used for more classroom space and the program's future growth The Universi ty lias allocated $10,000 for renovations of the basement. It has done its best to please all parlies Rut Gale said he would only be pleased if the program can stay in their current location until there is space available in the law School in three years But the registrar and the anthropology program an* reclaiming tire two rooms they donated to the program to transform them into class room*, leaving the program with only one room in Con* don. There is no way a pro gram this large will be able to function in only one room Although it is unclear why the new c lassrooms in Pa* ifii would not be suffi cient. the department should start a« cepling the* rehaation baoiusu unfortu nately. they have no other alternative ’»• '•**' MS I -mm . tuMMlM M». (fern** ..«• *,», «. ..»« M -MU, ** m « •» iwm>, «tk«w iW***"#*. * 1m »)>mni«i».w«iwMHiH>aMW|Wi «*««* 0 'Ml *»« ** I.s* Ukwt -Mm I Wt» O— »'mm% OaiMMiMMKiatfwnii ihw lUMM Da»M fro*«•*■*» flHSMIt iAatilMk s»i*i«*->!» *-■ - —- mjMRM -— - - u »__ « *.- -... *.-., a- « WWW. 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This column i* iltMiiiat«d to you. gentle reader, and to all that you do You who mock mif mission Mmmt unci belittle •mi You who flip to your Norn •cope and then don't even ncidi tin* remain •let 1 hi* >« far mil the hot.- mail you submitted, and for the (an latter* you didn't Thl* t* lor the Wipe*. the *lur*, the quips If* (or !na\ mx soggy pile* of out bonus Uu«m to collect antund the dispmtMrs It* (or every *o)ip*i»i« rain put rag that ever tailed >hmUmrmht amateurish II * far making Oregon Daily KnuothuicT stick Thl* it everything only a columnist can get away with j savin* I have been at thia University. oil and on. *m< n J«00 I have teen thoEmrmhl survive st* difierent editor* in chief and a half doatao |pm<r athin» at ttaller* I hav e teen small improve ment*. groat improvements Kw k*!ld«* and avalanche* Ju*l ihit year. I've teen th*l'mrmW take home a national award far Heat of Show I've alto teen it puhiith a hard hi It mg cover dory about quilt* — twfc* The Emeen/d hat been universally despised sin. e it* uu apt ion when it war begun a* a method at improving the commentary (tape** The campus network of paper* ha* established a finely tuned feeding chain patterned on |he tkonner party buffet devour dm fattest first The Kmrtola has always been at the bottom of the pyramid It's she harmfe**# herbivore, the bunny that never talk* bac k Mi splat nd dignity pro vent* it from responding to the cannibalism of tu counterpart* In iht> liumlxr |mi:iv ukf prim environment of ihe University. the Emerald is the square parent •andog healthy snacks to the kiddie* It in reviled, ridiculed end rituaUstkally lampooned by it* peer* It gets lees rasped bum the student body tnen Clinton gets (turn Congress The Emerald U heted to such a degree that critics wen t welly even under eny pressure to argue their case From time to time some sage announces “The Emerald sucks." and it's like saving Einstein was a genu is or atom bomb* hurl No one drops thetr hagel There's no con test but this one. complaining about the Emerald is like blaming a retarded child for not learning faster, except that there's hope for the child Here's why The Emenrld is that thing of tedium and utili ty a paper of record The unexciting task of reporting all that occurs on this unexciting cam pus fall* on the Amrafafs backpack-clad shoul ders Interesting new* happen* elsewhere, and elsewhere' lie* outside our domain We can't make joke* ur draw amusing picture*, wit isn't in an Emerald employee's iob dessription The only outlet for satire lies with the columnists, and nobody but columnists wad the op ed 66 —..— Tht* i# everything that only a columnist can jput away with saving. 99 peg** Hie ttmmltf\ perpetually tom raputation is parity a r»**ult of it# readership'* refusal to acknowledge the difference betw<«en the mi* *son» of the commentary paper* and it* own mundane mission a* a p*[>er of record. The Emrralti doesn't have to entertain, enlighten or intrigue (.onshiering the material at hand, it may not lie capable of it It'* a service machine, responsible for printing the classified*. the spun* w ow* and the absolutely uninspiring annual political endorsement* that you the wad er submit exp™ t to mw, and vet resent reading OPIMION Thia is the sort of domestic in funnel ton i he Kmt-rtild i hunts out 'tally The Mnwruld isn't obligated In t*o dynamite reading It s not even obligated to completely cover campus event* The nmmalist* who work at ihmRmemM cm pn i and choose their news stories Unfortunately, quilt*, endow Hu nts parking lots and the like «ntn 1 rubber malarial If » vmwi* -I-, though the Emerald b low superb ( ta», !>«> U.iti.li, Ism boilerplate, Pit , maybe that» iu*i U-s du«e H'» accurately re|M>rtitig University life People who don't blink an stye at the million* tptm! on spurts development nonetheless k vetch •tmut the $1211,000 subsidy allwited to the paper m which those sports events are announced Quack where that money goes It* paying the puny wage* of people who would otherwise uev« put in the number of hours It takes to keep the kmemld rummi# Partly leuuw to t*e with the fade t* to he ashamed, but mostly because it's work. Emerald editors can't choose to put something off because they're loo hung over to be bit here* i Writers can't submit rhap sodic filler about their girlfriend* Theoretically, a flaked deadline or a half-assed effort will coat you your job llu* Ememld servos its dreary prutO'profes sional purpose reliably and with a really dapper layout. Color me brainwashed. I Hit what more do you aspect? I hereby conclude my stint as an Emerald wag (kind night. S<>n/a Sherwomf. a senior ma/oring in lournahtm and English. was a columnist for the Emerald and may never recover cheenM%iml%Unu> uoregon edu
