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'LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ODE?s story about KWVA
could be misleading
1 feel that I must respond to your
news item ("KWVA receives alloca
tion to update equipment," ODE,
Feb. 19) describing the ASUO's allo
cation of $31,794 to KWVA. The re
porter, Chuck Slothower, did a poor
job in presenting both sides of the
discussion. Sens. Harding and Curtin
are quoted, and both of their state
ments are critical of the station. What
Slothower, not unlike these two sen
ators, failed to acknowledge was that
station General Manager Charlotte
Nisser did account for the budget
discrepancies, and did directly re
spond to each of their queries in a
straightforward way. Slothower also
failed to report that these senators
admitted that they did not research
the issue before the meeting, despite
the fact that Nisser gave them the fig
ures a week in advance with an invi
tation to contact her. They entered
the meeting without knowledge of
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how radio works (which they freely
admitted), did not tour the facilities
at the station to have an idea of what
Nisser was requesting, and did not
acknowledge her explanation of how
the previous money was spent.
Slothower said nothing of the
many positive statements made by
several other senators in support of
the station and its request. In short,
the article could lead the unin
formed to believe that KWVA has
done something wrong, or that it
was in some way dishonest in its
dealings with the ASUO and Univer
sity in general. This could not be fur
ther from the truth.
Nikolas Voll
senior
journalism
production director, KWVA
Conservatives should allow
private lives to stay private
What is it with the Republican Party
and its ongoing fascination with other
people's genitalia? We spent the bet
ter part of three years obsessing over
Bill Clinton's package and what mari
tal indiscretions occurred thereon. Is
n't it time we moved on from what
other people may or may not be do
ing behind closed doors?
How does it change things if the
lesbians down the block, with their
adopted child, also happen to have a
marriage certificate? Is the GOP afraid
that soccer moms are going to start
running away with Dykes on Bikes?
That their sons and daughters might
start listening with more brevityto
Leviticus 19:18 and 19:34, or
Matthew 5:34 and 19:19, or Mark
12:31, rather than Leviticus 18:22?
Fortunately, I think that most
Christian Republicans are inherently
good-natured people who have been
led astray by deranged, vindictive lu
natics who think that God hates gays
and that Jesus meant cut taxes and
starve the welfare system when he said
"sell what thou hast, and give to the
poor."
Ethan Firpo
sophomore
anthropology
Emerald must drop mascot
issue, smoke weed instead
What a truly ignorant article your
editorial board has written about the
tradition of Chief Illiniwek at the Uni
versity of Illinois.
I am an Illinois grad. It's really none
of your business what my university
decides to do. My first suggestion is
that you learn to mind your own busi
ness. You must have something better
to do than attempting to run the Uni
versity of Illinois from 2,500 miles
away. I hear they've got very good
weed in Oregon. Why don't you
smoke some and try to get your prior
ities straight?
Your suggestion that Oregon not
schedule Illinois is PC idiocy. You are
not accomplishing anything, nor do
you intend to. Your editorial is part of
the wretched tradition of halo preen
ing. Please stop it. You're just making
asses out of yourselves. When you
don't have anything to say, as is evi
dent in this case, I suggest that you say
nothing.
And, yes, the Fighting Illini basket
ball team will kick Oregon's ass from
here to the other side of the world.
Progressive means Marxist, which
isn't very progressive at all. In fact, it's
hard to imagine any ideology that is
more backward. Let me be the first to
inform you that the Soviet Union is
defunct, and that communism failed
throughout the world.
Anybody on your staff ready for the
21st century?
Stephen Thomas
Jersey City, NJ.
No draft doesn't ensure
voluntary service
I read David Jagemauth's column
concerning the draft ("The Draft,"
ODE, March 4). And I agree that the
draft is not the answer to our civic and
logistical problems, in a time of glob
al and national crisis.
The draft is a weak excuse for civic
duty, requiring service only from
those who've been unlucky enough to
be drawn in a lottery-style selection
process. A truly equitable and far
more beneficial program would be
one of universal conscription —
where everybody has to serve.
Jagemauth and others who oppose
mandatory military service are con
cerned by the obviously undemocrat
ic organization of the military and the
prospect of people having to fight a
war they don't believe in. Here's a bit
of news for those who oppose univer
sal conscription: There are already
people being forced to fight a war they
don't believe in.
Most of the men and women cur
rently serving in Iraq joined the mili
tary before the decision was made to
invade Iraq, and many of them were
personally opposed to the decision.
On the other side of the coin there
were many fat and happy "patriots"
who enthusiastically supported an in
vasion, in comfort and safety, know
ing that they would not be required to
fight themselves.
By requiring every citizen, who is
eligible to vote, to put their (or their
loved ones') butts on the line in sup
port of a war, universal conscription
could prevent the reckless initiation
of war more easily and effectively
than any peace rally could ever hope
to do.
Paul Griffes
senior
geography
Bush must face his critics
in public campaign settings
"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did
you kill today?"
Few Americans over 50 will ever
forget that chant — or that it led to
President Johnson's decision not to
run in 1968.
It's a memory not lost on the Bush
White House either. And it explains
why the president's travel schedule is
as secret as the makings of the atom
bomb. It explains why thousands of
protesters are kept "a country mile"
from every site where Bush goes to
campaign. It explains why Bush can
not visit a single foreign country any
where in the world — not even Lon
don, where a million angry citizens
gathered late last year to protest his
presence in their land.
What would happen if American
protesters were allowed their First
Amendment rights of assembly? How
many thousands would "greet" the
president at each stop? How many
more at the next one? And the one af
ter that?
We know the answer. Thousands
would grow to tens of thousands. The
images would appear regularly on na
tional television — all red meat to lions
determined to ensure Bush's defeat.
What would Bush do?
Would he dare to hunker down in
side the White House from now until
November? Or would he brave the
chants — "Hey, hey, Bush, how many
jobs did you lose today?"
Here is a story that needs to be told.
John Hibbs
Eugene
Marginalization
of Sharpton, Kucinich
should concern Americans
Perhaps for the first time in histo
ry, two politicians were attempting to
give simple ‘yes' and 'no' answers.
But when Al Sharpton asked why the
other two, John Kerry and John Ed
wards, were receiving all the atten
tion, Dan Rather — moderating
CBS's debates, billed as "Helping
America Decide" — justified the ex
clusion by announcing, "The voters
have already decided."
Hmm.
In both debates leading up to Super
Tuesday, co-moderators abandoned
all pretense of fairness, not once ac
knowledging the two lesser known
candidates, or as Rather might have
called them — losers. Counting
CNN's debate earlier that week, Con
gressman Kucinich was allowed to
speak for seven of 150 minutes,
Sharpton just marginally more.
Super Tuesday was crowded with
news about Kerry and Edwards, but
the real story should have been the
suppression of the two candidates
voters knew least about.
What does it say about our democ
racy when four equals two on nation
alTV?
To those elected, it says that deadly
choices and mistakes will go unchal
lenged, that the people are far re
moved from power, distanced and
controlled by news media excessively
geared to maintain intimate relation
ships with government policymakers
and generate profit rather than hon
est information for an honest
democracy.
I think most Americans would
agree that, in a democracy, candidates
should have equal time and newscast
ers shouldn't play God.
Brian Bogart
graduate student
peace studies
ODE's take on Mini mascot
is baseless and silly
So playing the Illini is racist ("Ore
gon takes backward step by schedul
ing Illinois game," ODE, March 1)?
Sports Illustrated did an article on
this topic a while back and found
that a full 80 percent of Native Amer
icans weren't at all offended by the
use of their tribal names as college
mascots and, for the most part, took
pride in that usage. So, what we're re
ally talking about here is an elite
group of white liberals "watching out
for" their Native American brethren.
Another way of saying "these poor,
ignorant, naive people don't even
know they are being subjected to
racism and we (white liberal estab
lishment) are going to protea
them." What a joke.
Keith Sparks
Beaverton
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