Message from the editors
When a staff member first suggested the
idea of producing a “Vice” supplement in
the Emerald, it was kind of a joke — some
thing we thought would be fun to work
on, but it wasn’t on our schedule. But af
ter tossing the idea around for awhile, we
found that people on staff were enthusias
tic about it.
The stories in the supplement aren’t in
tended to promote or vilify student, faculty
and community member vices, or to help
people find new vices to try. Instead, our
aim was to explore the “lighter” side of vice
on campus.
We hope it is as fun to read as it was for
our staff to write.
We’d love to hear responses to this issue
and the topics it raises. Responses can be
sent to letters@dailyemerald.com. Letters to
the editor are limited to 250 words and
guest commentaries to 550 words.
So what’s your vice? Flip through these
pages and see if any of the people in our sto
ries seem just a little too familiar.
University administrators reveal their vices
■Campus officials admit
to welterweight vices, such as
coffee, fast food and books
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emerald
President Richard Nixon had his
tapes and his four-letter expletives.
President Ronald Reagan had his
jelly beans and his pie-in-the-sky
sci-fi nuclear defense plans. And
President Bill Clinton had his ci
gars and his interns.
As long as there have been ad
ministrators, there have been sto
ries about their self-indulgent vices.
Which leaves one to wonder
what sorts of vices the administra
tors of the University have.
Investigations of various high
ranking University officials failed
to turn up anything as juicy as the
vices of various world leaders, but
as any addiction specialist will tell
you, even the most benign activities
can become a problem when taken
to excess.
Health Center Director Dr. Gerald
Fleischli, a “packrat” in the words
of his assistant Kim Barker, admits
to having a penchant for fast food.
Thrice weekly, the 61-year-old
Fleischli pays a visit to McDon
ald’s, Burger King or Carl’s Jr. to in
dulge in a burger from the 99-cent
menu — a ritual he said he’s prac
ticed for nearly 20 years.
“But my cholesterol is only 201,”
he said, referring to his combined
HDL and LDL cholesterol level. “I
make up for it by eating fruit and
cereal for breakfast.”
Apparently the combination
works; the last time his cholesterol
was tested, Fleischli said, his HDL
was 57 — which puts him in the
American Medical Association’s
“healthy” range. As long as his
numbers stay good, his lunch hours
limited and the 99-cent menus
well-stocked, Fleischli says he’ll
continue his regular visits to the
grease pits of Eugene.
As for his packrat tendencies,
Fleischli said it’s less a vice than a
necessity in today’s information
dependent society. He said he
keeps his childhood immunization
records on his hard drive because,
“Who else could you get it from?”
Vice President for Student Af
fairs Anne Leavitt’s two worst vices
are a raging coffee addiction and an
all-consuming passion for collect
ing books. Leavitt admitted to being
one of those people who switch to
iced coffee in the summer and are
willing to get up early or be late for
appointments to get that perfect
cup of joe.
“I’ll stand in line way too long,”
she said with a laugh.
As bad as Leavitt’s coffee addic
Campus officials throw wide their closet doors
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tion is, though, it pales in compari
son to her book addiction. Almost
every wall in her house has a book
shelf, she said, and they fill up so
quickly that her husband, who, for
tunately, enjoys carpentry, has to
build a new one every few months.
But of all the vices of all the ad
ministrators at the University, the
most disturbing may be that of Pres
ident Dave Frohnmayer: clean liv
ing. Because of health concerns,
Frohnmayer said he has given up
cigars, alcohol and even caffeine in
recent years.
“I’ve become really disgusted at
my own lack of vices,” he said with
regret.
Of all his old vices, the former
Oregon attorney general most
lamented giving up “real” coffee.
“I used to take it intravenously,”
he joked. He described the decaf
feinated brew he drinks now as a
“pale shadow” of the hard stuff he
used to drink.
But while he has given up many
of his favorite vices and even started
exercising — students and faculty
arriving on campus before 8 a.m. can
sometimes see him power-walking
between Johnson Hall and other
buildings — Frohnmayer has one
indulgence left: his cluttered desk.
It’s not much, he admitted, but
it’s better than nothing.
E-mail higher education editor Leon Tovey
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
Castle Superstore offers a wide selection of bondage and leather goods for the enthusiast, and for these mannequins, love is pain.
Public parties dominate fetish scene
■A local sponsor offers
a chance to explore private
fetishes with an audience
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
University student Brandon
Yants said his ex-girlfriend had a
fetish for having sex in public.
“She was always pressuring me to
have sex in public places,” he said.
“She had a fascination with it.”
Fetishes are described by some
as any non-sexual objects that ex
cite erotic feelings or non-tradition
al sexual behavior that does not fol
low societal norms.
Stylus Grooves co-owner Jason
Kamras and an unnamed partner
have been throwing “Sin Parties” for
exploring fetishes since 1996, with
an estimated 50 to 150 people in at
tendance. The parties are held once
or twice a year and include stage
performances and a variety of mu
sic, including gothic and industrial.
“A fetish can be thought of
as something that is not
necessarily ‘all right’in the
eyes of most of society. ”
Jason Kamras
co-owner, Stylus Grooves
Kamras and his partner began
sponsoring the parties because the
Eugene area did not offer people
many opportunities to enjoy gothic
music or to explore fetishes.
“Once I did the first one, I
thought it was like what I wanted
raves to be like,” he said. “People
are really free, and a lot of people
experience life changes.”
At Kamras’ parties, people can
experience their fetishes in an en
vironment meant to make people
feel safe and ensure that they do
not fear being laughed at, Kamras
said.
“A fetish can be thought of as
something that is not necessarily
‘all right’ in the eyes of most of soci
ety,” he said. “It is usually prac
ticed behind closed doors by two
consenting adults. Consenting is
the most important part.”
At the parties, people can be tied
up, be dominated by someone or
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