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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
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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.