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Tuesday, November 6,2001
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Jessica Blanchard
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Michael J. Kleckner
Editorial Editor:
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Jacquelyn lewis
Editorial
ASUO should create
a safe-haven far all
Over the years, Project Safari do has been criticized
for its women only driving and riding policy. The
federal Office of Civil Rights recently found the
program in violation ofTitla IX, and University President
Dave Fmhnmayer recently signed an agreement to he in
compliance with the law by March 20, 2002. title IX is a
! 1072 federal law that does not allow discrimination
based on sex in University programs that receive federal
financial assistance, and ironically, it was created to help
women gain equality In sports and academic programs.
Saferide must address this violation of "title IX. The
; program has a Few options: The University could estab
; lish a separate program just for men. Saferide could
; move to coed vans, or the program could add to its cur- •
i font service an additional van driven by men for male
, riders only. We favor the latter. Adding male-only vans to
I Saferide would make the program in compliance with
I tl'm 'aw, and it wouldn't establish an additional program,
j ‘.-Ditch could be potentially troublesome if construed as
| separate but equal." Additionally, men on campus
would have an opportunity to ride safely as their female
counterparts have done for years.
We're glad Saferide exists. Creating a shuttle service
for those who feel unsafe is both noble and supportive of
women taking a stand against potential violence. How
ever, there are many men who do not feel safe on cam
pus, and they have the right to enjoy the same benefits as
women,
We do, however, believe in women-only vans The
vans should remain segregated because the purpose of
’ the program is to offer women an alternative to walking
alone at night and risking sexual assault: allowing men in
the van could counteract Safaride's efforts by removing
the women-only space that makes riders feel protected
The University should be commended for promising
to find a solution to the discrimination by spring Cre
ating a shuttle strictly for men as a subsidiary of
Saferide is the best option if the project wants to con
tinue to use federal funds. The project should recog
nize men are vulnerable to sexual assault and violence,
just like women.
Moke your voice heard about Saferide in the Rnwr
aid's online poll. Visit wmvdnflyenwrald.com to vote,
Pol! Results
Every week, the Emerald prints the results of our online poll and
the poll question for next week. Hie poll can be accessed from the
main page of our Web site, www.dallyememld.com, We
Hieourage you to send us feedback about the poll questions and
results.
Lilt week s pail question:
How in Veil changing your
holiday travel plans because
of terrorism?
Results: 47 total votes
Talcing the train—
1 vote, or 2.1 percent
Staying home
'll votes, or 23,4 percent
Hitchhiking —
5 votes, or 10.6 percent
Keeping plans the eame—
27 votes, or 57.4 percent
Renting acar—
0 votes, or 0 percent
Taking the bus—
1 vote, or 2.1 percent
DontknowfHavem thought
about it—
2 votes, or 4.3 percent
Fortunately, the threat of
terrorism Is not changing the
travel plans of most of our
voters.
Fear of the unknown should
not deter Americans from
normal travel.
This week's poll question:
How should the University
deal with the Project Saferide
lawsuit settlement?
The choices:
Make Saferide vans coed
Make separate mala Saferide
vans
Make a separate program
for males
Keep lithe way it is
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End homegrown terrorism
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We are now embroi led, so the
president eays, In a war
against terror. While 1 believe
we must put an end to Osama bln Laden
and his al Oaeda organization, now Is
also the time to put an end.to a war we
thought finished In 1943. We have home*
Payne
Columnist
grown .neoNari
groups here in this
country, Given their
history, we should
declare neo~Na?ii
groups as Inherentl y
terrorist organ!?.a
tlonsatid act accord*
ingly and aggressive*
ly, as we would with
al Qaeda.
fly focusing lasers
tight on bln Laden,
we could be ignoring
the possibility that
the recent anthrax at
tacks may have been
a copycat ettort meant to draw attention
off the tall of a homegrown terrorist. It's
worrying that through kx security In
this country, through their own Ingenu
ity (It's dangerous to think of them all as
merely moonshlnln' rednecks), or
through an al-Qaeda "friend,” some of
these neo-Nazi groups could find access
to biologioal or chemical weaponry.
We hnve seen how these so-cal led
"militia" groups and those aligning
themselves with neo-Nazism and the
Klan have committed terrorist acts in
this country and have no compunction to
use violent means to further their goals,
in 1984, four young girls were killed in
Birmingham, Ala., when their church was
dynamited by Ku Klux Klan members.
Cltlter bombings in the area during tliatjpe
riod, instigated by the Klan. earned the city
the grim nickname‘'Bombingham."
in 1905, Timothy McVeigh, associated
with white-supremacist and anti-gov
ernment groups, detonated a bomb next
to the Alfred Murrell Federal Building in
Oklahoma City. More than IBS people,
including a large number of children,
died in the explosion,
In 1908, Erie Rudolph injured or
killed more than 150 people in bombing
attacks around the south, including an
abortion clinic In Birmingham, a gay bar
in Atlanta and the 1998 Olympics in At
lanta. He was later found to have ties to
white-supremacist groups. What if, in
stead of bombs, Runolph were running
around with anthrax?
It is a documented fact that numerous
white supremacist groups applauded
tile Sept 11 attacks, including the so
called Posse f inmitatus of Pennsyl vanta
and the National Alliance. Other groups,
such as many In the "mi Htla" move
ment, have conspired to overthrow what
they refer to as the "Zionist Occupied
Government"—the United States gov
ernment - through any means neces -
sary should an opportunity arise,
All this should he proof enough that
groups aligning themselves with neo
Nazism or neo fascism can be consid
ered terrorists, We can use UN. -Security
Council Resolution 1373 against them as
much asagalnstal-Qaeda. Deny them
money. Freeze their hatik accounts.
Freeze any attempts at financing their
terror campaigns on American soil. We
need to deny tnese homegrown terror
ists a base here from whicn to launch
their own dreams of racial jihad.
We have to hunt down and stop
Osama bin Laden. However, this is also
the time to finally put an end to a similar,
yet older terror, it’s time we finished the
job we began so long ago.
Pat Payne Is a columnist for the Oregon Dally
Emerald. His views do not necessarily reflect
those of the Emerald. He can be reached at
patpayne@dBllyemerald.com
US. military must retaliate to lessen
chance of repeated terrorist attacks
A 9wlthmost,lfnotnll,oftheBbll
Za Hon people populating the Earth,
jCjL one oftny great hopes Is that all
of the people inhabiting this planet can
live In peace, no matter gender, rail*
glon, race, whatever. 1 believe even
Osama bin Laden and his followers de
sire world peace at some level.
However, In the eyes of bin Laden
and his followers it somehow hap
pened that Americans encompass all
they hold to be evil. They have believed
this to the point where bin Laden has
demanded all true fol lowers of the Na
tion of Islam to join the fight against the
lews, Christians and Americans.
The history of our relationship with
the Middle East to this point hears little
importance now. What needs to be ad
dressed is: How do we deal with the sit
uation we are In now? Whi le peace
would obviously he the most desirable
option, to think it possible at this stage
would be ignoring the facts.
The terrorists' actions on Sept. 11
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Brown
were not an extended hmid of peace,
nor a final point mount to make all pre
vious disagreements simply water un
der the bridge or to make everything
even. The nttank against Amerina was
intended as just that — an action mode
with full intentions of escalating Amer
ica and the Middle East’s relationship
to a full-scale war.
Our only choice is military retalia
tion. The terrorists never had inten
tions of attacking on Sept. 11 and then
stopping: their goat is to eliminate
America, and those attacks are simply
the first phase. You don't do something
as horrific as those events without
plans of war..
Not attacking and "turning the other
cheek," so to say, would not quench the
terrorists' thirst to destroy America and
its beliefs. It wou Id not stop the terror
ists from planning future attacks; they
are willingly executing efforts to begin
a full-scale war. If America didn't retali
ate with military force, America's col
lective consciousness of safety would
sour, and we would turn into a country
hoping for peace and cooperation, hut
living in fear.
The bottom line is America needs to
counterattack because there is no other
answer. No matter what America does,
bin Laden and his supporters are still
going to attack, It is horrible to know
that we still live in a society where our
only option is to eliminate the threat
from existence, but that is the sad truth
America must face.
The lives lost on Sept. 11 can never
be returned, but with proper action, the
possibility of it being duplicated can be
lessened.
Josh Brown Is a Junior majoring In sociology.