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Commentary LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Age discrimination unfair at venues 1 was turned away from another music venue yesterday because of a characteristic of myself that is beyond my control. When I was told that al cohol was served inside, 1 thought it to be completely irrelevant. 1 was only thinking of the blues. At another club/bar, 1 noticed a sign stating that no one younger than 21 could enter unless accompa nied by a spouse of legal age. I mo mentarily felt that I was the only ra tional person in the country. The bar and lawmakers were openly admit ting a mistake, a contradiction. Clearly, this exception was made be cause it seems a bit too preposterous for a person not to be able to go out with their own spouse, but where is the line to be drawn? Is it justice if a band playing some where is one 1 love, and I cannot en ter to hear them while someone who wouldn't care if they never heard a record in their life can enter freely? What is right and wrong, and who is to decide? I say I am to decide be cause I am all I know. Mow can I be expected to be excited when 1 turn 21 ? 1 will have done nothing but aged in a country which has made that age a right — a right to be accepted into public places, to be good enough for everyone and everywhere, to be old enough not to have my liver rot away or make bad decisions. If something doesn't make sense you must fight it. Katia Sussman sophomore physics DPS' first duty should be safety Recently, the Department of Pub lic Safety was granted the right to is sue citations for possession of alco hol and less than an ounce of marijuana. It is the job of DPS to en sure our safety on campus. I would be surprised if someone informed me of any situation in which DPS was even in the vicinity of any of the campus rapes, attacks, or caught a masturbator. They already have the power to enforce and patrol for our safety, but it is an area of jurisdiction 1 have yet to see make a decent impact on cam pus. I'm not against controlling drug and alcohol usage on campus. I just don't think these are powers DPS should have at this time. With these new powers, what do we have the resident assistants for? The majority of drug and alcohol is sues on campus have to do with stu dents in the dorms, which is the whole purpose of RAs living in, and having a close watch over those stay ing on campus. I think that before DPS is given this authority, they should work on improving their relationship and trust with the students. We are not working as a unit to improve cam pus, and instead constantly butt heads over minuscule issues. In addition, I would like to see DPS work on making good use of and responsibility executing the ob ligations they are already committed to — like keeping our campus safe. Nicole Karalekas freshman pre-journalism I-— Israel, United States share aggressive policies I am somewhat surprised by the strong reaction to Steve Baggs' car toon published Oct. 13 ("The Mid dle East's wonderful future," ODE). Cries from the Jewish community on campus insisting that the cartoon is not only anti-Semitic, but some how represents Jews as less than hu man are ridiculous. While one may question Steve's taste in dialogue, with "You're my bitch, ain't-cha Georgie," one cannot deny that he is bringing up a very real and very seri ous issue. The actions of the United States in Iraq, and the Bush administration's heightened rhetoric toward Syria fol low an eerily similar path to policies considered by Israel's Likud party as far back as 1996. Some of the prin ciple authors of the aggressive, pre emptive strike policy considered by Sharon's Likud party? None other than that shoot-first, ask-questions later posse of "neoconservative hawks" in and around the Pentagon. The United States and Israel share an unquestionable link in regards to their aggressive militaristic policies in the Middle East. These policies are criticized not because they are per ceived as part of a greater Zionist conspiracy, but because there is a justifiable concern that these actions are counterproductive. If one wants religious conspiracies, then they should look no further than Presi dent Bush and what his evangelical Christian faith says about Israel and the Apocalypse. Peter Utsey former Emerald illustrator Eugene Federal government's 'secretive' methods apparent with Tenet visit It's a good thing I read the papers, or I wouldn't have known about the secret visit to the University campus by a public official. George Tenet, di rector of the CIA, spoke at a meeting of the AAU on the University cam pus, and the University administra tion complied with his request "not to tell people who didn't need to know" (Register-Guard, Oct. 29). This is not good news, either for American democracy or for "shared governance" on campus. Since when does the American peo ple's right to know matter less than the CIA director's preferences or judgment of its "need to know"? Since when is a university in the business of protecting a government official from embarrass ing questions? And why does the Uni versity community— students, faculty, staff — have to find out about things like this not in advance and from our administration, but in the local papers and after the fact? Just this week, the Senate Intelli gence Committee subpoenaed docu ments from the CIA regarding the agency's faulty and distorted intelli gence in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Why was the CIA director allowed to sneak in and out of the EMU without any public knowledge or access, and protected by armed guards? It looks like the secretive and imperious meth ods of the current federal government are beginning to show up on the local level as well. 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