Letters to the editor
Olsen is his claim to being a good
downtown citizen. His bar, Doc’s
Pad, could be a place that gener
ates rowdy, drunken behavior.
Olsen ought to clean up his own
business before trying to run the
city.
I’d like to see more hard-hitting
journalism about who this candi
date really is.
Joy Marshall
Eugene resident
Genocide Project kills itself
So, Justice for All is planning on
bringing back the Genocide Project
to campus next year — I thought
that they would have learned from
their mistakes the first time.
If there is one thing that I
learned from last fall, it is that free
dom of speech comes with respon
sibility. There’s a difference be
tween showing one’s pro-life
views “to encourage discussion”
and organizing a horrifying show
of gruesome photographs, which it
can’t be denied, had the goal of
making people sick and angry. Ob
viously, abortion is a serious sub
ject and one that should not be tak
en lightly on both sides.
As a devout vegetarian and ani
mal rights activist, I have many op
tions when trying to get my ideas
across, and I have learned that the
more productive ones always in
volve respect for other people. If I
choose to stand on a street corner
and show photographs of animal
cruelty and encourage people to
talk, that is different from shoving
photographs of dead animals in
people’s face. But this is what GAP
does. Shock value has its place in
getting one’s views across, but it
infringes on the possibility of actu
al learning and dialogue.
So let JFA express its views. But
if it can’t do it in a mature, respon
sible and productive way that
shows the campus community
that it has something important to
say, then it should rethink its pur
pose. I hope that JFA and the cam
pus community realize this and
make sure that GAP is not brought
back next year.
Boris Dolin
linguistics
Freud analyses protests
Freud would'have a field day
with the current protests.
A high court ruled that students
can be charged incidental fees to
support groups they do not ap
prove of. Some in the “I agree with
Ryan” crowd may disapprove of
homosexuality, yet those students
must pay to support one such
group.
The “I agree with Phil” crowd
realizes that Nike CEO Phil Knight
does not have to donate to a Uni
versity that supports a group he
disapproves of. Knight’s disap
proval seems to stem from there
being no industry representation
in that group. Knight seems to sup
port “heterorepresentation.”
Everybody recognizes that gifts
of $30 million benefit the Univer
sity, and the product of heterosex
uality, children, benefits society.
There is also a growing realization
that both heterosexual relation
ships and hetero-represented
sweatshops include some degree
of oppression that needs to be
worked out and may drive some to
homo-whatever.
The interesting point, I believe,
is where Knight said the fabric of
trust was shredded by the Univer
sity. There is a certain fabric of
trust of sexuality when boy chas
ing girl will eventually produce
children in a stable relationship,
but boy chasing boy does not pro
duce that benefit and does not en
gender the same degree of trust.
Of course, Freud said that some
times a cigar is just a cigar, so
maybe there is no underlying mo
tivation behind recent controver
sies, and shoes are just shoes. On
the other hand, we are seeing a lot
of “Thank you Phil” shirts and on
the appropriate day a lot of Moth
er’s Day cards.
Earl Gosnell
Eugene resident
Knight's right
It appears that the staff at the
Emerald still does not have a clue
of what is going on. You are buying
into a bunch of crap that the union
and a bunch of left wing college
professors are trying to sell. How
about helping the people in this
country? It seems that this would
be a better cause. Going to south
east Asia to “help” the workers
there who are clambering for jobs
to feed themselves and their fami
lies could only mean a loss of
work if unrealistic wages were im
posed. Now at least they are in a
better position than they were be
fore they had a job.
By the way, Nike CEO Phil
Knight’s money is his to give or not
to give. He does not have to con
sult you or anyone else if he wants
to stop donating to the University.
Did anyone at the University give
him the courtesy of a call? Knight
is a person who has done a great
deal for the University. He got
short shrift from the University,
and now everyone is crying be
cause he pulled out his money.
As much as the loss hurts, I un
derstand Knight’s reasoning com
pletely. If I had been in his posi
tion I would have done the same
thing.
Richard Katz
reader
Alumnus backing students
As an alumnus (honors college,
1971), I would like to commend
the University for joining the
Worker Rights Consortium. The re
cent furor over this decision
painfully reminds us that we
alumni sometimes get to thinking
that our contributions to the Uni
versity should confer upon us
some special privilege or influence
on how the place is run.
In fact, the purpose of our con
tributions is not to promote our
own interests or egos but to help
provide students a liberal educa
tion. Such an education necessar
ily involves challenging the status
quo, not blindly endorsing it.
Students at the University have
a fine history of challenging the
power structure of the larger cul
ture and aligning with those seg
ments of society that have not been
treated justly by the powers that
be. Stick with your principles and
don’t be intimidated by the mil
lionaires or corporate America.
They don’t need the endorsements
of students and universities to
make money? Workers on the oth
er hand need all the help they can
get.
Terrel Templeman, Ph.D.
alumnus
Good riddance to Phil
So Nike CEO Phil Knight says
he’s going to take his millions and
go home if we don’t keep in step
behind his agenda. Good riddance
to him!
Knight’s donations to the Uni
versity — if they were freely given
gestures of philanthropy — have
been welcome. If, however, they
were given with the expectation
that we would sacrifice our free
dom of thought and our sense of
right and wrong in exchange for
some pretty buildings, then his
“donations” have no place at an
institution of higher learning. In
today’s money-driven society, the
academic world justifies its exis
tence by living and teaching that
knowledge, virtue and courage
have higher value than the desire
for money.
The Bible teaches that it profits
a man nothing to gain the world
and lose his soul. The University
may have given up $30 million of
the devil’s money, but it has kept
its integrity. In my book, that
means we’ve come out way ahead.
Andrew Ross
alumnus, law class of 1994
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