Oregon daily emerald., March 19, 2001, Page 3, Image 3

Letter to the editor
Preseason tickets not
a done deal
I would like to clarify the infor
mation in the ODE article, “Presea
son tickets no longer available for
free” (March 14).
, The information in the article is
currently the offer on the table and
negotiations are in progress. Noth
ing has been decided on this issue
to date, and the four students on the
Athletic Department Finance Com
mittee are working hard to come to
an agreement with the Athletic De
partment that is in the best interests
of the students.
Students do not currently pay
for the preseason tickets with inci
dental fees. Incidental fees only
pay for conference games. The
Athletic Department has provided
preseason tickets free of charge to
students for several years and feels
it is no longer capable of doing
this.
Fifty percent of the fair market
value has been a benchmark for the
amount that students would pay in
incidental fees to the Athletic De
partment. Ticket prices are going up
significantly next season for both
football and men’s basketball
games. The incidental fee allocated
to the Athletic Department will not
cover 50 percent of the fair market
value. This is why the Athletic De
partment has offered to let students
retain the seating for conference
games during football season and
basketball games and take away the
preseason game football seats to in
crease their revenue.
If you would like more informa
tion, or would like to express your
opinion to the ADFC about this is
sue, please e-mail the committee at
adfin@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
Jennifer Greenough
senior
political science
ADFC chair
Bergerson
continued from page 2
or scream at people from a podi
um. Jesus drew people to him with
his gentle grace, abundant love
and quiet dignity. And there’s
nothing graceful or dignified about
parading down 13th Avenue wear
ing a sandwich board and yelling
about hell, fire and brimstone at
the top of your voice.
Bible Jim received all kinds of at
tention for being an obnoxious Jesus
freak, while Doug is barely noticed
for his quiet commitment to God.
Now Doug would be the first to
tell you that he is no saint because
he is just doing what he feek the
Lord asked him to do. But that is
what makes his presence on cam
pus such a blessing. He is following
his heart, having faith in God and
doing what Jesus would do. Doug is
one man who seems to know what
it means to be a Christian.
Jayna Bergerson is a columnist for the Oregon
Daily Emerald. Her viewsdo not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald . She can be
reached at bjay@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
Kleckner
continued from page 2
sionate about their beliefs, may en
joy the thrill of having a great enemy
to fight. No matter which side
they’re on, the other side appears to
be destroying the world.
But that sense of “us vs. them,”
of “good vs. evil,” doesn’t work in
everyone’s best interest. Actually,
it helps bad things continue to
happen, because we become un
able to work together to change
anything. Knowing how to sit
down at the table together, armed
with correct information, and sort
out where everyone can agree, is
more than just good community
building. It’s actually the ultimate
revolutionary act.
* One of my favorite hard-edged
techno bands, Meat Beat Manifesto,
released an album in 1992, “Satyri
con,” that was both danceable and
filled with biting social commen
tary. One of my favorite lines ex
plains how hard it is to break out of
the “either-or” mentality:
“Yes/all our life is spent/in this
permanent brainwashed con
tempt/Yes/all our life is spent/in
perpetuated malcontent.”
If we’re going to be a part of our
world, and if the world is ever to
change, we all need to be revolu
tionaries, break out of our brain
washing and start to see others in
the civic discourse as nothing
more than people. No one is the
enemy, except the brainwashers
who tell us that we can’t get along
with different ideologies. And
even the brainwashers aren’t the
enemy; we just need to prove them
wrong.
Being involved, finding com
mon ground and doing the re
search aren’t necessarily easy
tasks. And they don’t eliminate the
hard decisions in the world. As
Bettman found, sometimes they
don’t win you the most fans. But
they’re necessary if we’re ever go
ing to build a real community.
Michael J. Kleckner is the editorial editor
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. His views do
not necessarily represent those of the
Emerald. He can be reached at opededi
tor@journalist.com.
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