new slate of board members than this very
old guard.
Candidates like Kevin Cronin and
Colin Farnsworth are desperately needed
to help guide 4J into the next decade; they
represent our future. The board needs new
and younger energy and ideas. It’s a shame
you wouldn’t endorse them for the future
of our kids.
Jules DeGiulio
Eugene
QUEER’S COMEBACK
Regarding your cover story “The
Hammered Lamb” May 14, by all means,
let’s “hammer out some semantics.” I’m an
elderly straight male, so undoubtedly I’m
out of touch, but for most of my life calling
someone a queer was a particularly vicious
insult. Now it’s on the cover of EW. In my
lifetime we’ve gone from faggot to queer
to homosexual to gay — and now back to
queer? How did this happen? Was there a
referendum that I was excluded from, and
queer was voted back in? Obviously it is
not up to me, but I respectfully suggest that
this does not seem to cohere with Darwin’s
theory of evolution.
And now I have to wonder, if queer can
make such an unexpected comeback, are
other discredited relics, nigger and spic
come to mind, waiting in the wings, ready
and eager to be reinstated? I know that
sounds ridiculous, but honestly, fi ve years
ago did you even think it conceivable that
that you’d be proclaiming queer on your
cover?
Mike Kopf
Eugene
EDITOR'S NOTE: As stated in the story, “queer” is now
an oft-used umbrella term for LGBTQA. Many consider
the terms “gay” and “homosexual” as marginalizing to
those in the LGBTQA community who are not males at-
tracted to the same sex e.g., trans and intersex people,
lesbians, bisexuals and others. In addition, our sources
requested that EW use “queer.”
SALES TAX OPTION
Kudos to Gerry Merritt [Letters, 5/14]
for daring to mention the ST phrase: sales
tax as a solution to our budget woes instead
of suggesting PERS workers just crawl off
and die. I would especially hate to see our
fi nal old growth logged in order to save our
schools.
Stephen Cole
Eugene
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