letters
TO THE EDITOR
have allowed bailouts from taxpayers with
impunity, and continue to give executives
exorbitant bonuses.
We have allowed our food supply
to be poisoned through negligence, and
undermined the farming system through
monopolization. We have allowed them
to hold students hostage with tens of
thousands of dollars of debt on education,
which is, in itself, a human right.
I believe that anything, including
wording, that causes any kind of
polarization in thought word or deed is
counterproductive and should be avoided.
In part that is what has gotten us all into the
mess we are currently in in the fi rst place.
Jon S. Shisler
Seal Rock
cannot attend the occupation full time, but
I can go there, meet the people, and fi nd
someone whom I can help to get through
the coming winter. Any positive act to
make the occupation strong and safe is a
direct response against greed and division.
Bill Ganser
Eugene
OCCUPY THE LEGISLATURE
Lia Gladstone’s “Shared Teacher”
letter (10/20) is full of inaccuracies
and misstatements. I sympathize wiith
parents whose children are in two-grade
classrooms. Because of inadequate
state funding over a number of years,
McKenzie has had to make drastic cuts in
its programs and services. We have lost our
school nurse, librarian, art teacher, shop
and home economics classes, and most
electives at the high school level. Since it
was impossible to make further cuts at the
high school/middle school and maintain a
standard school, the only option remaining
was to double up the elementary classes.
Gladstone seems to think that if
we cut the superintendent’s salary, it
would resolve all of our problems. Even
drastically cutting her salary (which will
not happen) would not pay to add another
teacher to the staff.
Everyone seems to be ignoring the
real gorilla in the room. The solution for
this problem lies in Salem with the state
and the Legislature. Oregon is at the low
end of school funding in the U.S. The
McKenzie School Board, with the help of
TO FLOYD PROZANSKI:
its Budget Committee, has made the best
decisions possible for our students. If you
want to resolve this problem, occupy the
Legislature.
Kathleen Shelley
Vida
POLARIZING WORDS
I was handed a paper stating the objec-
tions/complaints of the people protesting
the current state of affairs when I was at
the Saturday Market here in Eugene. I am
in agreement with most of the statements
listed, but I disagree with the way the state-
ments are worded and I believe it is im-
portant.
A few examples: “They have taken
bailouts from taxpayers with impunity,
and continue to give executives exorbitant
bonuses.” “They have poisoned the
food supply through negligence, and
undermined the farming system through
monopolization.” “They have held
students hostage with tens of thousands of
dollars of debt on education, which is, in
itself, a human right.”
I think the wording should read “We
have allowed” instead of “They have.” We
Thank you for betraying the students
of the UO and teaching us not to vote
Democrat anymore. Your recent blunder
of supporting the campus police to have
guns is not just appalling, it’s frightening.
Students know that DPS offi cers are
primarily responsible for handing out MIPs
and open container fi nes to unsuspecting
freshman. The idea that they need guns is
the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
In the last three years, DPS gave out
3,432 “disciplinary referrals” for liquor
law violations, and zero for weapons
violations — zero! For an area about one
third the size of Central Park, DPS already
employs 99 people. Students who have
dealt with DPS know that they are cocky
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