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▼ EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Steven Asbury MANAGING EDITOR: Thom Schoenbom NIGHT EDITOR: Steven Asbury EDITORIAL EDITORS: Mhley Bach & Brian Diamond editorials, letters, commentary and perspective NEWSROOM: (541)346-5511 DISPLAY ADVERTISING: (541)346-3712 BUSINESS OFFICE: (541)346-5512 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: (541)346-4343 Rubber Revelations Condoms can enhance sexual enjoyment in many ways for students of every major Valentine’s Day is the start of National Con dom Week, when you’re likely to get a lot of in sistent reminders of the dangers of sex — the risk of HIV, herpes and other sexually transmitted in fections; the possibility of unwant ed pregnancy; you’ll end up in Hell — you luiow the drill. No question, it’s a tough world out there. But you can take respon sibility and make your own deci sions. Without just adding to the list of “don’t’s,” here’s some more helpful information from the ex perts at Planned Parenthood, your “protection connection.” Condoms can not only help you avoid anxiety but can enhance sexual enjoyment in other ways — helping improve partner com munication, increase intimacy, enhance sexual pleasures and strengthen relationships. And sex can be a whole lot more fun when you know that your risk of pregnancy and disease is sub stantially reduced. That’s what a little latex can do for you. What could be more romantic for Valen tine’s Day? In fact, whatever your point of view, whatever your interests and whatever your area of study this semester, condoms make sense. Think about fitting them into just about any course cata , log you can imagine. PARTICLE PHYSICS: Avoid an unexpected quantum event. You don’t need to under stand charmed quarks or super colliders to know about the path of sperm on their way upstream. Condoms stop those little guys right in their tracks. COMMENTARY BoBin Irish INFORMATION SCIENCE: User friendly interface, terrific virus protec tion and a fire wall against an unautho rized break-in. Plus, great compati bility, after all, condoms work on all hard drives. COMMUNICATIONS: If you can’t handle condom ne gotiation with your part ner, how can you ever pass that broadcast jour nalism seminar? Embar rassed to ask for condoms at the drugstore? Get over it! ENGINEERING: Low tech design, reli able under stress, a masterpiece of ap plied mechanics. And forget about that myth that “condoms don’t work.” Used cor rectly, condoms offer extremely ef fective protection — the best there is. That is, if you’ve decided to put engineering principles (friction, torque, leverage, fluid mechanics etc.) into practice. ARCHITECTURE: Elegant form, clean geometric lines, effi cient functionality. Whatever the size or shape of your archi tectural substruc ture, latex is the ma terial of choice for a durable, weather-resistant skin. CHEMISTRY: Latex is amazing stuff. The surface of a latex condom is free of holes when inspected un der a scanning electron micro scope at 30,000 magnification power. (But sex shouldn’t be a lab experiment. Use water-based lubricants only because oils break down latex and reduce condom in tegrity by 80 percent.) FINE ARTS: Nice colors and tex tures, too. And they can help you an your partner make beautiful music to gether. BUSINESS: Condoms let you close the deal. And they’re publicly traded stock that pays big divi dends. For less than half a buck, you and your partner can stay healthy, avoid preg nancy and enjoy sex with peace of mind. Is there a better invest ment? This Valentine’s Day, have fun, be romantic and enjoy being inti mate with someone you care about. One more thing: Don’t for get your rubbers when you go out to play. (Hey, your parents did have good advice after all.) Robin Irish is a Board Member of Planned Parenthood and a guest columnist for the Emerald. Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper. Overheard “I certainly don’t condone that type of be havior. But evidently this is what some peo ple want. We have nude dancing here in town, too." Jeffrey Bean, mayor of Fitchburg, MA, on the upcoming Marilyn Manson concert there. "It was a little surreal, but it feels good to be validated, to be acknowledged. For a while, I was one of the scapegoats for the whole Slacker/Generation X thing.” Grammy-nominated rocker Beck, in Entertainment Weekly. “We just might get lucky and catch this son of-a-bitch. Ruin him for 76. It’s going to be fun.” Then-President Richard Nixon, referring to surveillance of Sen. Ted Kennedy in a Sep. 7,1972 meeting, according to White House recordings. “I tried to do what I thought was the right thing." 63-year-old Sylvia Stayton, after being ar rested for placing change in two strangers' overdue parking meters in Cincinnati, OH. “It's a tragedy, but if the tragedy helps us learn from it, maybe some kind of benefit can result. Maybe there are areas we just shouldn’t touch.” Ward Armstrong, director of the Oregon Forest Industries Council, in reference to recent logging-related landslides, in The Register-Guard on Feb. 9. --- “I've always had a crush on him my whole j life. Up till I was seven, it was Ted Koppel. j Then one night, I put on the wrong channel. ! Ted has intellect, but Dave has intellect and I humor.” Actress Drew Barrymore on 1Late Show” \ host David Letterman, in US Magazine, j “You know when I’ll get married? I’ll get married when somebody like John Kennedy j Jr. gets married." Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, j on CBS' “60 Minutes.” I LETTERS Be like Jerry When UCLA hired Steve Lavin as its head coach relatively late in the season, Oregon coach Jerry Green congratulated him and of fered him any assistance he might need in his new position. Coach Green's sportsmanlike conduct is a great example of how people involved in sports as par ticipants, coaches or fans should behave. Unfortunately, basketball fans at the University are not fol lowing his lead. At the end of the Jan. 30 home game, hostile Duck fans rushed the UCLA bench screaming, pointing and even grabbing UCLA warm-ups. This may have been the most obvious example of rude behavior at games, but it was certainly not an isolated event. Aggressive be havior is escalating at games as fans constantly yell and rudely gesture toward opposing teams and their individual players. These actions reflect on the en tire student body, and, personal ly, I am embarrassed. Though the Ducks face similar behavior from opposing fans at some away games, that doesn't give us the right to act uncivilized. Wouldn’t it be more effective to yell sup portive expressions to our team and fire up the Ducks rather than the opponent? The Oregon program would benefit from Oregon fans follow ing the classy example set by Jer ry Green. The Ducks did a great job against UCLA. Let’s not mar their performance by inappropri ate behavior. Kortni Kauffman Business Administration Understanding fans As loyal fans of Duck basket ball, we were somewhat dis turbed by the claims made in var ious articles published in both the Emerald and the Register-Guard earlier this week concerning the racist behavior of University stu dents at the men’s basketball game held on Jan. 30 versus UCLA. Contrary to popular belief, al though we are Duck fans, we most decidedly are not racists. We were outside, in line, at 3 p.m. last Thursday for the UCLA game in order to get our favorite seats (court-side, underneath the South-end hoop). Sitting as close as we do to the players, we con sider it our duty as fans (read ‘fa natics’) to cheer for the Ducks and occasionally heckle the opposing players. At no time during the game did we or anyone near us make any comments regarding race. The fact that some individual students may have decided to demonstrate their stupidity and ignorance by using racial slurs is not grounds for stereotyping all of the students in attendance as racists. If Kris Johnson feels, as was re ported by the Register-Guard, that he was treated unfairly by the crowd because of the color of his skin, then let us be the first to apologize to him on behalf of the entire student body. Having said that, we sincerely hope that the recent publicity about Duck fans will not silence McArthur Court. A screaming, yelling student section in close proximity to the action is what makes our home court one of the most unique and formidable are nas in the nation. If we chide Charles O’Bannon about his socks or Toby Bailey about his haircut to the point that these players lose their concentra tion or miss a crucial shot, then we have done our duty in helping our team to victory. For their part, the UCLA players encouraged such banter from warm-ups all the way to the final buzzer in overtime. On a final note, any game against UCLA is important what ever the rankings or records. An intense rivalry has been building between the two universities for sometime, and a victory over the talented UCLA team is an accom plishment everyone at the Uni versity should be proud of. It is because of this rivalry that many students rushed the court at the end of the game, not the result of some desire to hurt UCLA play ers. If Duck fans acted in poor judgment by rushing the court, then so be it. But we, like many of the fans present at the UCLA game, re member only too well the actions of the UCLA players the last time they celebrated a victory at Mac Court. Anyone who fails to recall what occurred at the end of that game should do some research, and they will soon realize why Duck fans are so hostile to Bruins. James R. Driscoll Naliko K. Market Business No excuse for bigotry We strongly express our out rage at the conduct exhibited by some basketball fans at the recent UCLA men’s game. Sports rivalry is no excuse for uncivil and de humanizing behavior such as the derogatory racist comments screamed at UCLA players by University student spectators. That type of “Sixth Man” must not be condoned by the Universi ty We are painfully aware that racial bigotry and hate are com mon to only some members of our campus community. However, the public demonstration of that behavior, without reprisals, casts a damning shadow on the entire student body and the University community. We implore everyone to take a stand to stop the public display of bigotry at athletic or any other campus events. There is no legiti mate justification to do otherwise. Jack Orozco & 15 co-signers Race Task Force
