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compromising our watershed and the Fern
Ridge Reservoir issued by the Oregon De-
partment of Environmental Quality, the
Willamette River Keepers and Eugene’s
Oregon Clean Water Action Project.
Something to consider as we choose
what we wish to support through our food
purchases.
Diana Huntington
Eugene
SOFT-CORE TERRORISM
In response to Alyssa Jacinto’s letter on
Black Lives Matter [Letters, 11/3], saying
that Michael Brown’s death was a murder is
like saying Jerry Sandusky was just playfully
flirting with young boys on the PSU campus.
I am not naive to the fact that there are
bad cops out there doing bad things, but a
lot of the problems going on with the black
community is of their own doing. The
BLM is nothing more than a soft-core ter-
rorism group.
Devin Mitchell
Eugene
STEP UP AND LISTEN
It is unacceptably common in bars, apart-
ments, frat houses, behind Dumpsters or in
homes across the country for women to be
touched without their consent, raped, physi-
cally assaulted or even murdered by men. It is
up to men as a whole to step up, listen to wom-
en and challenge other men who treat women
as objects to be exploited for their own plea-
sure — and those who excuse this behavior.
The latest arrest of a male athlete from
the University of Oregon indicates there’s
an atmosphere of toxic masculinity that
is going unchallenged. With two current
football players suspended from the team
for allegedly abusing women, it is time
for the coaches and the athletic director to
stand up and declare that violence against
women is unacceptable — to unequivo-
cally state that no player will be on their
roster if he treats women as sexual objects
and not human beings.
In her book Unsportsmanlike Conduct:
College Football and the Politics of Rape,
sportswriter Jessica Luther outlines ways
that programs can foster an atmosphere
that encourages personal responsibility,
educates men about consent and bystand-
er intervention and creates a space where
men don’t have to perform our current dys-
functional model of masculinity.
But, Luther cautions, this has to start
from the top down, with the coaches espe-
cially. If a coach doesn’t take the epidemic
of rape on college campuses seriously and
doesn’t give full support to programs that
combat it, then the players won’t take it
seriously.
Since there are few to no women in-
volved in the insular male sports world at
the university, it is too easy for players and
coaches to defend their faux-brotherhood
instead of challenging the violent or preda-
tory behaviors of some of their fellow men.
It is up to the University of Oregon to
help create a safe campus and community.
Perhaps the football team can wear the
same uniforms for two games in a row and
instead spend that money to bring in Jack-
son Katz’s Mentors in Violence Prevention
program or buy every student, coach and
employee Jessica Luther’s book. It is ap-
parent that something concrete needs to be
done, now.
Ryan Mishap
Eugene
LEAF REMINDER
It’s time to put leaves out for pickup. I
would like to add the reminder that it is for
only leaves, not brush or debris that would
otherwise go into the gray can. The large
majority of the leaves go to the city garden
site, FOOD for Lane County gardens and
homeowners requesting leaves for their
gardens.
Please be responsible and not pass on
your yard debris.
Don French
Eugene
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