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Nov. 3 — It was hard to keep my
eyes open as I stumbled in the general
direction of the Emerald office. I had
stayed up nearly all night eating cake
and watching the returns. Long after
my wife had gone to bed, I was down
stairs with just the light of the TV, load
ing up on sugar and caffeine to keep
awake for any breaking developments.
When consciousness finally left me,
I slumped down on the couch for a few
hours of rest, still not 100 percent cer
tain if President Bush had been re-elect
ed. Little did I know that I was about to
get one of the best wake-up calls of my
life. I snapped awake as Dan Rather an
nounced that John Kerry was about to
concede — and he had the memos to
prove it.
I ran upstairs to wake my wife and
share the good news. Though she
didn’t share my level of early-morning
enthusiasm, she managed a thumbs
up and a hug. I polished off the rest of
our election-night cake and headed for
the office.
All around me, people moved like
zombies. I’m sure they had stayed up
late as well. I collapsed on my desk, ex
hausted. No way was I going to class
today. At long last the election was
over, and my horse had won. I needed
about a week and a half of vacation.
Fast forward two and a half months,
GABE BRADLEY
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
and I am pumped. President Bush is
going to be sworn in to his second term
Thursday. The three day, $30 million
GOP end-zone dance is a chance for
Bush supporters to chant “four more
years” for the last time until Jeb runs
for re-election in 2012.
In 2000, Geoige Bush wasn’t my first
choice for president. He wasn’t even
my second or third. I was for John Mc
Cain all the way. But Bush is what we
got, and if you ask me, he ain’t half
bad. I know that statement is bound to
get me in trouble on this tolerant and
accepting campus, but I’ll take the risk.
I’m not a Republican, and I’ve never
voted a straight ticket for either party.
But there was no competition between
the two candidates for president this
year. Is Bush my ideal pick for leader of
the free world? No. But until those
clowns at the DNC can scrounge up a
halfway-respectable candidate, I will
continue to stand by my man, G-Dub.
I am as upset and outraged as the
next guy about the extremely disap
pointing choices presented to the vot
ers in the national elections lately. But I
don’t get too hung up on the lesser-of
two-evils issue, because I’m trying to
make peace with the reality of Ameri
can politics — you go to the polls with
the candidates you have, not the candi
dates you’d like to have.
So here’s to four more years of Presi
dent George Walker Bush. Here’s to So
cial Security reform and a frustrating
lack of press conferences. Here’s to tax
code simplification and four more
“Bushisms” calendars. Here’s to final
ly getting Osama and spending
political capital.
And think of the side benefits. Four
more years of George Bush means four
more years of Laura Bush, who will
eventually learn to control the crush
she has on me.
The worst thing for me about four
more years of Bush? It’s a toss up be
tween stunning deficit growth and the
Bush twins. I pine for the days when
you could trust Republicans with mon
ey — back when they were the party of
fiscal responsibility.
Anyway, here’s to you, Dubya. Don’t
disappoint me.
gabebradley® dailyemerld. com
INBOX
ASUO's integrity hinges on
incidental fee repayment
The ASUO representatives who at
tended the finance retreat need to pay
back the incidental fees used. I find the
new self-punishment that makes no at
tempt to replace the fees to be void of
merit. The ASUO representatives have
broken the trust placed in them by mis
using the fees. They are breaking the
trust again by refusing to follow
through on their earlier commitment.
Clearly the self-punishment process
has not worked. Their failure to ade
quately take responsibility raises signif
icant questions of whether ASUO rep
resentatives are able to successfully
fulfill their appointed duties. The first
step to rebuilding trust is to replace all
incidental fees used for the retreat. If
they don’t, I encourage all fellow stu
dents to vote out the current ASUO rep
resentatives in the coming election and
show them that integrity matters.
Sol Hart
Graduate Student
■ Editorial
OUS, state
handgun
policies need
reconciling
When Brian Stubbs fought the Oregon Uni
versity System’s anti-concealed handgun poli
cy, he exposed a serious conflict between OUS
and Oregon law, a conflict that has yet to
be resolved.
It is a classic dilemma: How do we balance
individual rights with the safety of the com
munity? Is it worthwhile to infringe on the
rights of 4.1 percent of Lane County residents
that hold Concealed Handgun Licenses in or
der to provide for the safety of the rest of the
campus? Does doing so really increase safety,
or would allowing trained gun users to carry
their weapons actually be the safety
conscious thing to do?
These are important questions that the cam
pus community must debate. The motivating
factor should be the safety of students. One
thing is clear: The legal conflict between the
OUS policy banning handguns on campus and
the Oregon statue that allows them on campus
needs to be reconciled.
One opinion would be for a Concealed Hand
gun License holder to bite the bullet — so to
speak — and openly violate the concealed
weapons ban. The University has yet to enforce
the policy, and pushing them to do so would
force the courts to make a ruling one way or the
other. The courts managed to dodge the issue
in the Stubbs case because he begrudgingly
chose to comply with the ban.
Another opinion would be for anti-gun
groups to lobby the state to change Oregon law.
Allowing the OUS to simply ignore a state law
seems to be a poor way to deal with an issue
this emotional. If the university system wants
to ban firearms in the classroom, more power
to it, but it should do so in a legitimate way, by
amending state statutes.
■ Out loud
“I would’ve either blacked out or thrown
up.” — Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, on why she
walked out in the middle of a talk by Harvard
University President Lawrence H. Summers, in
which he suggested that “innate differences”
might explain why fewer women succeed in
math and science.
“They should use on him the same torture
methods he used on others.” — Ahmed Ali, a
van driver in Baghdad, reacting to news that
Charles Graner will serve 10 years in prison for
his role in abuse at Abu Ghraib.
“I think one of the things I’ve learned is that
sometimes words have consequences you don’t
intend them to mean. ‘Bring them on’ is a clas
sic example.” — President Bush, sort of admit
ting he made a mistake by baiting terrorists to
attack U.S. forces in July 2003.
— Quotes compiled from
various news sources
CORRECTION
In the Jan. 14 article "East Wing remodeling underway inside
EMU,” the headline and summary were inaccurate. The
EMU administration’s Master Plan to remodel the wing was
halted due to a shortage of funds. Sections of the east wing
have been renovated, but not as part of the Master Plan.
Also, in the photo accompanying the Jan. 14 article
Eugeneans back LTD drivers at demonstration," Justin
Kamerer’s name was misspelled as Kemerer.
The Emerald regrets the errors.