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MISSING THE POINT
I have the feeling I saw a different
play than did the reviewer of The Boys
Next Door. I did not come away with
the idea the playwright was trying
to manipulate me into thinking those with
developmental disabilities are especially
pure or wise. I thought the play did an
extraordinary job of showing that such
people can be annoying and deserving of
affection at the same time. The caretaker’s
role was especially poignant. He got angry
with the four, but that didn’t make him feel
good. He was frustrated by the fact that
no matter what he did they never changed.
To say the play lacked a plot is only to
say that the lives of the people depicted
(most lives, perhaps) lack a plot. That may
have been partly the point of the play. The
play provoked laughter in places, but that
only made it easier to accept the basically sad
state of affairs being played out before us.
In my opinion the acting and
direction were excellent. And the play
defi nitely illuminated the plight of those
like The Boys Next Door as well as those
assigned to look after them. I was reminded
that any society claiming to be enlightened
ought to be judged by how it treats its most
defenseless and neediest members.
Jim Dinsmore
Eugene
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RIGHTEN U P
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6 JUNE 30, 2011
On May 19 two friends and I carpooled
up to Portland to attend the U. S. Department
of Energy hearing on the proposal to
continue to truck high level nuclear waste
across the nation’s highways, including I-5
in Oregon, to bury at the Hanford Nuclear
reservation in Washington. It is estimated
that it will take 12,600 truckloads to
dispose of extremely radioactive waste,
mostly from nuclear reactors that will be
dismantled in the coming decades.
In attendance were 190 people, the
majority of whom oppose the DOE’s plan,
including Portland Mayor Sam Adams. So
do Sens. Wyden and Merkley, who have
stated that “trucking nuclear waste through
Oregon on its way to Hanford poses an
unacceptable risk to the health of Portland
citizens.” One would think that in the
wake of the unending nightmare and tragic
nuclear accident at Fukushima that our
government would consider a better way
to dispose of nuclear waste and not expose
thousands of us living in the Northwest to
our own potential Fukushima.
Hanford is still a Superfund site, still
contaminated from 40 years as a major
generator of plutonium for our nuclear
weapons. There are miles of unlined
trenches with containers leaking some of
the most toxic chemicals on the planet.
This contamination has been found in
the soil and the Columbia River which
is threatened by a uranium contaminated
groundwater plume, moving much faster
than the DOE’s projection of 125 years.
Hanford needs to be cleaned up before any
more high level nuclear waste is brought
and buried there.
More information is available at Heart
of America Northwest website, www.
hoanw.org
Eva Kronen
Eugene
intellectual disabilities, I am responding
to the approach by both the writer and the
editors of the (6/16) review of The Boys Next
Door. The review perfectly demonstrates how
to continue prejudice at many layers, from
disability to race to characterizing audience
members. Continue to promote the ignorance
by repeating the language and stereotyping.
One point to make about this review is the
truth about the R word can most effectively
be defi ned by people with intellectual
disabilities, not writers observing a play. If
anyone spends a few days with our clients,
you will gain real experience, not theater or
someone’s observation of theater. You can
also educate yourself on the movement to
end the usage of the R word, for starters at
www.r-word.org
People with intellectual and developmental
disabilities are one of the most abused groups
of citizens in our culture. They have a four
to 10 times higher risk of becoming victims
of crime when compared to those without
disabilities. One way to advocate as an ally
is to eliminate the negative language and
stereotyping. Responsible citizens will do
so; others will continue the language which
promotes an environment where this abuse
occurs, as unfortunately EW just did.
Margaret Theisen, CEO
Full Access
Eugene
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