out
September
Opinions and morality
Are your orders of the day
Forcing others around you
To walk your narrow way
Dead wrong
&
To t h e E d it o r :
Your intolerance is intolerable
1 wish that it would quit
Yet, does not my now saying so
Make, of me, a hypocrite?
The love of God you cannot see
And you present yourself a fool
When you cannot practice what you preach
About the Golden Rule
G eorge L. J ohnson
Portland
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To t h e E d it o r :
I’m writing regarding the latest Oregon
Citizens Alliance onslaught, the Student Pro­
tection Act.
When I was a child during the 1930s in the
Columbia Gorge, we had a neighbor, Mr.
Jones, whose favorite quotation was, “The
best way to attract someone’s attention is to
hit them in the pocketbook.” You no doubt
recall Nevada getting upset when the Nation­
al Organization for Women boycotted the
state for refusing to ratify the Equal Rights
Amendment.
O C A members and other neo-Nazi types
have economic interests, small businesses, cor­
poration management jobs, etc. I’m not familiar
with legal ramifications of boycotts in 2000, but
“hitting ’em in the pocketbook” remains an
effective tool.
R ollin Z awistowski
Lake Oswego
I have a lot of respect for the journalism in
Just Out. That’s why 1 must comment on numer­
ous errors in a story written by Andy Mangels in
the Sept. 1 issue.
In a story ironically titled “Overstepping
Bounds," Mangels writes about the controversy
between Don Horn, the managing director of
triangle productions!, and Steffen Silvis, the
theater critic for Willamette Week, who has
written unflattering reviews of Horn’s produc­
tions. Silvis has also contacted philanthropic
organizations (like the Meyer Memorial Trust)
that have supported Horn to inquire about
their criteria for funding.
Mangels points'out that Horn and his lawyer
met with me to discuss Silvis, which is true and
which was reported earlier in the Portland Busi­
ness Journal. He then writes, “Although Zusman
agreed some of the complaints have merit:—
including, according to a Business Journal article,
the point that Silvis overstepped hounds in call­
ing the funding organizations—no examination,
article or apology has been published in the
paper to date.” Huh?
Mangels never called me in preparation for
his story. He never called Silvis.
And his reading of the Business Journal story
is dead wrong. That story clearly states, “Zus­
man supports Silvis, who is the main theater
critic for the weekly,” and adds that I am per­
fectly comfortable in having Silvis call funding
organizations.
I am accurately quoted as saying that it’s “not
inappropriate for him [Silvis] to call up [funders]
and identify why some theaters get money and
not [others].” Mangels is free to disagree with
Silvis and Willamette Week, but shouldn’t he
have checked his facts?
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c o r r e c tio n
In the Sept. 1 article “Out on Stage,” it mis­
takenly was reported in the story about triangle
productions! that Willamette Week editor Mark
Zusman felt Steffen Silvis had overstepped
bounds in calling the funding organizations
mentioned. In fact, Zusman was quoted in the
Business Journal as saying it was “not inappropri­
ate” for Silvis to have called the various funding
sources. Just Out regrets the error.
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