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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 2004)
Beware of military recruiters As a graduating student from the University, I feel privileged to be the next phone number that is dialed to ask for money, the next e-mail ad dress that is spammed for surveys, and more ironically, the current ha rassee of the sad plight of a local army recruiter. Forget the signature hounds inter rupting the useless fart-cramming I'm trying to do on the way to class; Sgt. Ryan of the U.S. Army would like to _ talk to me about the "end1 ess ed ucation and _ career op portunities the Army has to offer!" While I can't argue that everyone in the Army is no doubt getting an education, I can't help but wonder if this is the kind they signed up for. "Mr. Ryan," I say, "please take me off your list, as there is no way in hell I'm joining any branch of the mili tary! " Sure that this would fend him off, I had my finger on the hang-up button ready to get on with my day. "Why do you hate the military?" he barked, catching me off guard. Not having remembered using the COMMENTARY word "hate" in my previous sen tence, I stumbled as I usually do with irrational telemarketers trying to change my mind. "What do you mean, why do I hate the military? Look at everything that is going on overseas! Like I would ever work for a commander in chief who has trou ble forming sentences!" Flashes of a bumper sticker reading, "No one died when Clinton lied" were vivid now, and all I could do was cut Sgt. Ryan off and vow to file suit when he called me again. It's spring now in our beautiful troubled town of Eugene. Our current identity crisis is only looking to get worse if the likes of Nancy Nathanson receives the anti-progressive mayoral torch. We are sheltered somewhat, of the atrocities being committed by our fellow Americans, and military re cruiters are trying to rally the ignorant and unaware, even in Eugene, to join their disgusting "crusade." Well, Mr. Ryan, I won't go! I will be the best patriot I know and fight for my country with thought and leadership rather than testosterone and a $400 billion purse. I will pray that those I love who chose the military under a non war-mongrel leader will not be drawn into the fruitless slaughter, maliciously guided by a spoiled "C" student! 1 am not fooled by Fox News. And though liberalism is under attack, even in our pseudo-pro gressive community, 1 am proud to be left-wing and to call the "right" wrong! Adrienne Stuart is a senior majoring in education. Email Passes issued on-site!!! E-mail: fares® luv2travel.com 1011 Harlow j 747-0909 ^Student Travel CAMPUS Tuesday • Arts and Sciences Lecture by 2003-04 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Lynn Stephen entitled "Terror at Home: Surveillance in the Lives of Mexican Immi grant Workers," Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall, 4-5:15 p.m. • Streisinger Memorial Lecture by Kathryn Anderson from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center entitled “Neural Patterning in the Mouse: Hedgehog and Beyond,” Willamette 100,4 p.m. • Bias Response Team Series featuring the documentary “The House We Live In," EMU Ben Linder Room, 6:30-8:30 p.m. • Foreign Policy Lecture featuring Ira Shorr, Physicians for So cial Responsibility national field director, on "SMART" alterna tives to current U.S. security policies and a political satire per formance, Lawrence 177,7 p.m. • Jeremiah Lecture by historian Mikael Adolphson from Harvard University entitled “In the Name of the Buddha: Armed Monks and Protestors in Heian and Kamakura Japan,” Browsing Room, Knight Library, 7 p.m. 012836 USE (d/S£LY® Every Watt Counts! SHUT OFF Classroom Lights Sponsored by the UO Campus Environmental Issues Committee OVEN TOASIED BY TWO LOCAL GUYS! Q CUiiziiosSub 013999 TOASTED SUBS • SOUPS • SALADS UO Campus at 13th & Alder (Inside Starbucks) 5th Street Public Market • Gateway Blvd. & Beltline Rd. 018164i Karaoke WEDNESDAYS 7pm-1 am Free Pool FRIDAYS Thursday ^ Ladies Night 484-1929^ ©. 25<t pool. always. t * g s Today's crossword solution North Campus 579 E. Broadway 686-1166 South Campus 2870 E. Willamette 686-1600 STUDENT ID SPECIALS • Show Your Student ID • Order by Number X-LARGE 1-TOPPING The Big New Yorker MEDIUM 3-TOPPING Pan, Thin ’N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 12 Wings X-LARGE 3-TOPPING The Big New Yorker g MEDIUM 1-TOPPINGS Pan, Thin ’N Crispy or Hand Tossed STICKS N WINGS 10 Breadsticks, 24 Wings $999 .9999 .9999 9H99 91J99 9H99 FREE 2-Liter of Soda with Any Above Order! Delivery charges may apply Need cash? Get a summer job. Career Center 220 Hendricks Hall • (541)346-3235 • http://uocareer.uoregon.edu o UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
