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Oregon 97403 ONLINE EDITION: www.uoregon.edu/~ode Perspectives EDITOR IN CHIEF Sarah Kickler EDITORIAL EDITOR Mike Schmierbach NIGHT EDITOR Mike Schmierbach What a long, strange diatribe it’s been The Emerald crams a year of editorials into one simple, easy to-read block of text * ^ • Tobacco deal stinks: The new agreement, negotiated l>etween attorneys for states and individuals and major tobacco com panies, gives too many concessions to tobacco manufacturers to be effective. • Hyundai hurts community: The chip man ufacturing company should give more back to Lane County. • Tepid Legislature: The Oregon Legislature helped schools a little and hurt the state a bit. • Topless women: The Register-Guard’s re porters spent too much time talking about bud and breasts at the Oregon Country Fair. • Net police: Programs designed to block ac cess to “illicit” Internet content don’t work very well.* Cinema crap: The new crop of chil dren’s movies are insulting. • Corporate budget: As usual, Congress helped the “big” people a lot and screwed over the average citizen during their last session. • Cop bashing: Police officers should ex plain their actions on June 1. • Strike!: We hope UPS wins, for all of us. • Trigger happy: A new Louisiana law al lowing tile shooting of carjackers could lead to a redneck rampage. • Drunken master Exercise common sense when drinking. • Schedule confusion: University failing to mail grades and schedules is a bad idea. • On deadly ground: The United States should approve the convention to ban land mines. ong year. Long opinions. You might have missed some of them. So, here they are in short form: • Blanket code: The University student con duct code needs a broad scope to work. • Leaving a trail of slime...: Janet Reno should use a special prosecutor to investigate campaign finance charges against Clinton. • The price of printing: Charging to print on University equipment is a bad idea. • Constitutional quandary: The line-item veto is a legally and practically flawed law. • Corporate bondage: Creswell will suffer when a chain newspaper moves into town. • Measure 51, Part 1: The Legislature should have trusted Oregon voters’ decision on Mea sure 16. • Measure 51, Part 2: Assisted suicide is good. • Systematic education: Oregon should keep its own tuition money; we need a statewide plan. • Double down: The University Senate shouldn’t stop allowing students to “double up” on credits. • Many faces: The University needs more minority faculty members. • Free trade has price: Don’t expand NAFTA. • Saving the rich: Savings accounts for schools will only help those who can afford private education. • The wages of war: Stop selling arms CHRIS HUTCHINSON/EmeraH w AH EMERALD EDITORIAL overseas. • You will be tested on this: Standardized testing, implemented properly, could be help ful. • Feeling blue: Sky-colored M&Ms distort our vision of the Universe. • Red China rhapsody: We don’t think Chi na should become a new Cold War enemy. • Counting heads: Allowing people of mixed race to mark multiple categories on the census is one of the few good things the U.S. government has done. • Sustained radicalism: Telling businesses environmentalism can save them money cre ates a false rhetoric. • Media games: Monopolies are bad, no matter what local news tells us. • Fix financing: We need comprehensive campaign finance reform, including a constitu tional amendment. • The real U.S. debt: Ship Jesse Helms off to the Arctic and pay our U.N. dues. • Riot, the unbeatable high: The Register-Guard should acknowledge that many rioters weren’t stu dents. • False argument: Congressional bickering hid its pro-corporate compromises. • Wall of shame: The donor wall proposal only shows how tied to business tire Universi ty has become. • Shameful stumps: It’s time to admit log ging costs money. • A real park: Stop developing the River front Research Park. • It’s getting hot: Clinton’s warming plan will only funder efforts to negotiate an effective warming treaty in Kyoto. • Twelve days: Finals week tribute. • Sexism: The Guard edit page perpetuated rape myths (see also: Jeff Shaw's column). • Boy oh boy: The Scouts should stop dis criminating over religion and sexual orienta tion. • Caring for children: Clinton’s childcare plan doesn’t do enough. • Separation of powers: University Senate votes show faculty and students are divided on issues where they should unite. • Bail out while you can: The International Monetary Fund and The New York Times are both hurting Indonesia. • Ride on: Golfer Casey Martin should get a cart. • Upsetting the Commentator: Only rape ac cusers should decide the forum for their charges. • The voice of labor Union dues should continue to go to political causes. • Too many techies: University training for high-tech jobs helps business but hurts stu dents. • Remaking the enemy: NATO expansion is expensive and dangerous. • Dealing with the devil: Land swaps to save valuable land are a bad deal for the govern ment. • More on mothers: The United States has a pitiful record of helping pregnant women. • Watch the watchers: We need a police re view board. • Party on, dude!: Continue the Eugene Cel ebration. • Expensive bath: Charging for using the Terwilliger Hot Springs is part of a flawed poli cy trend. • Immigrant bashing environmentalists: The Sierra Club should reject a proposal to come out against immigration. • Breaking and entering: Limitations on > search and seizure powers for the police should be restored. • Run away! Run away!: 10 reasons to leave Eugene. • Fatal fee: A one-time matriculation fee would be unfair for students. • What price survival?: The cost of living is n’t as low as a study indicates. • Low bid: Factors other than price need to be considered when awarding state contracts to companies. • Freedom of choice: For all its talk about states’ rights, the GOP is doing a poor job of re specting the decisions of voters in Oregon and elsewhere. • Look closely at Clinton: Feminists should n’t be so hasty to "stand by their man.” • The GTF shuffle: Graduate teaching fel lows deserve more respect from the University. • ASUO pick: Once again, the Emerald en dorsed “two white guys.” • Vote, dammit: Ignore the balloons and worry about your wallets. • More ASUO picks: After a scuffle, the Emerald decided what it thought about the bal lot measures; OSPIRG: no recommendation. • Swapping points: The government should support hypodermic needle exchanges. • Love comes in many forms: Domestic part ner benefits for state employees are long over due. • Grievance world: Something needs to be done to make ASUO elections work better. • We love you, Bill: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Sizemore should stay in the race. • No votes for the lazy: Voters should ap prove Ballot Measure 53. • “I’m a political man": Bob Tieman should lose the election for Oregon Supreme Court justice for being such a politically oriented hack. • Whose guests are they?: So-called guest worker programs hurt laborers, both domestic and migrant. • small statement: A flag on Skinner Butte isn’t inherently bad, but it should be a moder ate gesture. • Quiet reading: Eugene should build a new library oriented toward storing and collecting books. • Helping the hungry: Gov. John Kitzhaber’s decision not to apply for a federal waiver for food stamps is inexplicable and foolish. • Mail me, baby: Voting by mail saves time and money, so why aren’t we using it for all elections? • Percolating controversy: The EMU’s coffee vendor should be determined by something other than marketing savvy. • Playing politics: The Thurston shooting shouldn’t turn into another opportunity for ad vocates to preach their causes. • Rescue our rivers: Oregon waterways need immediate and coordinated action to save them. • Crime and the community: The Register Guard was wrong again; solving crime in Eu gene will require better allocating our re sources, not building more prisons. • Drink Coke; play again: The message on the bottom of Sunday’s bottle cap. This editorial represents a year’s worth ofopinions of the Emerald editorial board combined u nth the questionable wit of editorial editor Mihe Schmier bach. Responses can be sent down a well. HEADERS’ VOICES Why are you here? “I wanted to ride her bike. She had a sweet bike." Ira Wright CIS “I'm going to go study for a fi nal in my office.” Mark Stater Graduate Student “I'm just go ing to study with a friend." Andre Kop Environmental Studies/Spanish “There’s no reason, really. It’s because I grew up here, and it just added up.” Jodi Stockman Anthropology “I like the campus, but I'm transferringte cause they don't have engineering here.” Muir Cohen CIS “I’m studying. I like the interna tional atmos phere." Yoshi Arakaki Business “I could tell you, There was this girl who was going to school here, and she talked me into coming here.”’ Craig Vanhoutte English CORRECTION In “1)0 bike co ordinator works to make Eugene the ‘City of Bicy cles’” (ODE, June 5), the contact phone number for David Niles should have been 346-5425. The Emerald regrets the error.
