HUMAN
SHIELD...
Letters to the Editor
Atime to question
I am writing in response to attending the
Neuroscience open house. I went to discov
er in more detail the research conducted at
the University and ask specific questions re
garding individual's research.
When I was guided to Barbara Gordon
Lickey's lab, whose research involves the
- suturing of rats’ eyes, I respectfully listened
to her speak about her general interests.
When I asked about specific questions re
garding her research, she immediately be
came defensive and told me she couldn’t
answer my questions, such as how many
rats she uses a year, and what was written
on her protocol.
She eventually went into another room
and shut the door so she would not have to
answer real questions and concerns about
the scientific validity of her work.
At a presentation on neuroscience later in
the day, animal rights concerns were tossed
to the side. The presenter kept saying that
these issues would be addressed later and to
hold on to our questions and concerns.
At the end of the lecture, when animal
rights questions were asked, the presenter
instantly became defensive saying he would
only confront this issue once. He insisted
that the lecture wasn’t the place for an ani
mal rights discussion. Researchers have
been asked on numerous occasions to dis
cuss the use of animals in research and will
not do so.
The vivisectors (those who cut up and re
search on live animals) refuse to be account
able to the public's concerns and create a
time and place to have a discussion.
Chelsea Lincoln
SETA
Don’t ask, don’t tell
The Emerald’s story on ROTC (ODE,
April 7) is ridiculously biased. It only gives
positive aspects of ROTC without even hint
ing the bigotry and homophobia that ROTC
embodies.
ROTC, like all subsidiaries of the U.S.
military, will not accept openly gay mem
bers. And, therefore, openly gay, lesbian
and bisexual students are discharged from
ROTC or denied admission. And students
who accept ROTC scholarships and then
come out are required to repay all scholar
ship moneys.
The University’s claim to be “committed
to equal opportunity in education... to
everyone on campus," rings hallow when
the University actively supports discrimi
nation by letting Military Science classes be
conducted in University buildings, espe
cially since many of them are closed to cer
tain students.
According to the ROTC Web page, “be
fore entering the Advance Course [upper di
vision], ROTC cadets must sign contracts
that certify an understanding of their future
Army service obligation.”
Because of this, MIL 321, 322, 323, 421,
422 and 423 are closed to openly gay stu
dents.
This situation is unacceptable at a Uni
versity that values diversity and does not
condone discrimination. Would the Univer
sity of Oregon grant use of its premises to a
group which discriminated against women
or persons of a particular racial or religious
minority?
Would it allow the English department to
refuse admission to Latinos or Latinas or al
low the history departments to close its
courses to Jewish students?
Or would it say, even as ROTC does, that
those students could enroll as long as the
students weren’t openly Latino, Latina or
Jewish?
An organization that discriminates
against gays has no place on campus.
Heath B. Hutto
English
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