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And as for God's canon, what is it but one book made by men (not God) almost 2,000 years ago? The Bible is no more the word of God than this letter. If your God lives and thinks only as one old book surmis es, Ms. Wagner, he is as dead as the trees that make up its pages. And rightfully so, if he has nothing better to do than condemn those who have the courage to love each other in these times. For what it's worth, I be lieve that for a living God to exist in our world, God must be in those moments where we are brave enough to love one another and have compassion without judgment, without prejudice, without some il lusion of God as a judge, jury, and executioner who condemns and kills in accordance with our own flawed morals. Matt Chorpenning senior theatre arts Emerald ignores fraternity services As a fraternity member, I am very dis traught that the Emerald, an unbiased organization, would only print one side of the story ("Fraternity incidents elude University sanctions," ODE, March 12). Only until the end of the ar ticle did you even remotely mention community service, scholarship and philanthropy. These are the bases of all fraternal organizations on campus and nationwide One mistake shouldn't rise to the top of the headlines and over shadow the greater good that we achieve for the community. If you report on our mistakes, at least have the decency to report on the good that the greek community is doing as well. Running an article on greek phi lanthropy will only help the charity in volved. All of the proceeds go to such good causes, and the Emerald constant ly demeans that by running articles that almost demand looking down upon greek organizations. The greek commu nity does make mistakes, just like any other group of students; but the fact of the matter is, because members of fra ternities and sororities make up more than 11 percent of the undergraduate student body, our flaws show up more than those of a smaller group of stu dents would. 1 am not one to sugarcoat things; mistakes have been made and repercussions have been felt. I am not trying to "change the system," but in stead I am asking you to open your eyes and your mind, and glance at the other aspect of greek life, the good side. Walter Jones freshman undeclared Emerald Board right in criticizing Illinois mascot Chief Illiniwek On behalf of thousands of stu dents, faculty and alumni at the Uni versity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham paign, I would like to thank the editorial board of the Emerald for its efforts to end the racial stereotyping in sports that is inherent in the Uni versity of Illinois' sports mascot, Chief Illiniwek ("Oregon takes back ward step by scheduling Illinois game," ODE, March 1). Your advo _cacy that GUEST COMMENTARY the Univer sity of Ore gon not -- compete with the University of Illinois on the sports fields sends a clear and important message to those empowered to end this form of invidious discrimina tion. Racial stereotyping has no place in our educational institutions or elsewhere. We truly welcome this support from Oregon. We sincerely hope that Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer joins Illinois Chancellor Nancy Cantor, UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl, former Illinois President Stanley Ikenberry, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the NAACP and the hundreds of addi tional national and local organiza tions that urge an end to these prac tices. As stated by the NCAA Minority Opportunities Committee, "Member institutions with Indian mascots that promote Indian carica tures and mimic ceremonial rites do not comply with the NCAA's com mitment to ethnic student welfare. The use of these symbols and mas cots is not respectful to Native Amer ican culture and is considered by that culture to be sacrilegious. The continuation of this practice sends a clear message that administrators, who have the responsibility of nur turing our students, have an insensi tive disregard for the native culture of this country." Your advocacy has made a substan tial impact in this debate and your continued efforts to see this issue through are essential and greatly ap preciated. Stephen Kaufman is an Illinois resident and a biology professor at the University of Illinois. GOT A STORY IDEA? give us a call o_j| at 346-5511. • Q Q i Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished daily Monday through Friday during the school year by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates inde pendently of the University with of fices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private prop erty. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law. 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