opinion
Vote: honor
the priviledge
Registered Oregon voters will be faced with
some very important issues on the Nov. 7 ballot.
If you are not registered to vote, then do it
today. There are measures on this year’s ballot
that will affect each and every one of us.
If you don’t think you know enough about the
issues, and the candidates on the ballot, there is
no time like the present to learn about them.
Speeches, candidate fairs and posters are
available to you for information. The voters’ pam
phlet is an excellent source to get to know the
issues.
People are not exercising their right. In
Clackamas County during the May Primary elec
tion there was a very poor turnout of registered
voters.
Of 1,003 registered 18-year-old voters, only 462
voted and only 414 19-year-olds out of 1,570
voted. The numbers don’t get better with age.
There were 2,792 registered 26-year-olds with
only 589 voting. Of 40-year-olds, 966 voted and
1,297 did not; and 889 50-year-old registered
voters voted with 891 not exercising their right to
vote.
Have people forgotten they have a right to vote?
Or are the issues not important enough to vote
on?
It seems to us that measures concerning the
death penalty, state funded abortions, limitations
on public utility rate base, property taxes,
regulation practice of dental technology and
vehicle registration and fee increases are of im
portance to everyone.
Students should know what’s going on
politically before the election date. Informed
voters make better decisions about candidates
and issues.
Still don’t get the picture? Pick up a voters’
pamphlet and start reading. Contact the local
county election board and find out what you have
to do to register to vote. But, most importantly,
vote in the Nov. 7 election.
FRANKLY SPEAKING
by phil frani
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the case where having a child a literal bloody mess than to feel that our voice does make a all,
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would cause death. Abortion, take the responsibility for our difference. We must remem Democrat/Republican /Tol
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ber, and take the firm attitude, Whig/what-have-you). The i
Sevareid or Howard K. Smith;
too general tendency in our
Third on my list is voting and that these legislators are elected st words of the Constitution!
nevertheless, I’d like to com society-wanting to have all the political elections. I think that
by us to represent us. It is our the United States are, “We ths
ment on a few social issues of priviledges (fun and games) the main reason for the ex
own fault if we allow apathy people . . .” And we.lthi
today that deeply interest and without any of the respon tremes of corruption in gover
and indifference to take away people, also need to be united
disturb me.
sibilities. We want our sexual nment and business is that we our rights. We are to blame if in seeing that “government!
First is the use of artificial freedom, but if we happen to have forgotten, or are no
we vote—or put into office the people, for the people f
stimulants to achieve a tem get pregnant through our own longer interested in, a “gover
through not voting-the most of the people, shall not perT
porary state of happiness. 1 am carelessness or licentiousness, nment by the people, of the
popular candidate, or the one from the earth.”
reminded of a quote from a or if we happen to get someone people and for the people.”
of our party affiliation. (After Eugene Lawson
good friend, “happiness else pregnant, to heck with We are willing to gripe and
depends on happenings, but having children. Get an abor complain about bureaucracy
joy endures through any cir tion; destroy the evidence. I and federal spending, but
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abused. We must not make the the pill—the women of the
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or application, with the other.
birth control. In plain, simple
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