fice-raising donor dollars remain above the
fray, safe and unpicked.
To wit: Seventy-five professors without
due-process rights are getting the ax. In-
state students face a 10.6-percent tuition
hike. Student food service workers are
required to pay for previously free shift
meals. Disabled persons must purchase
UO permits in order to park in ADA dis-
abled parking spaces.
Meanwhile, President Schill earns
$798,400 per year — ninth-highest paid
of 220 public university leaders. The UO
athletic department spends more than $100
million annually, more than a third on
coaching staff compensation. Phil Knight
is donating $500 million towards construc-
tion of a $1-billion eponymous science
complex.
Common sense and a sense of fair-
ness should lead UO administrators to
real money that can really solve budget
woes. The tree of knowledge was said to
contain both good and evil. Pickers need
to get back on the ladder, climb higher, and
find the good: a kinder, gentler, smarter ap-
proach to financial sustainability.
Benton Elliott
Eugene
POISON DRIFT
I am writing in support of SB 892, a bill
that would provide advanced notification
before an aerial herbicide spray and infor-
mation about what was sprayed.
Exposing unsuspecting citizens to pos-
sible carcinogens without fair warning is
inhumane.
Allowing aerial spraying should be a
crime in itself; but subjecting individuals
to these aerial assaults without warning is
criminal. Even an aerial spray that is car-
ried out according to the Oregon Forest
Practices Act and Pesticide Law can result
in drift to nearby properties.
By the time citizens like me report the
problem to a state agency and an investi-
gation is done, the harm to our health has
already occurred.
Having advanced notification would go
a long way to alleviating this problem.
The state has an obligation to protect its
citizens. Please pass this bill.
I have documentation to support my al-
legations.
Jim Sweeney
Gold Beach
OVERTURN DEVOS
I reside one mile east of the city of Gold
Beach, Oregon, and have been exposed to
aerial spraying over the past years. I have
encountered serious illness while on my
property during aerial herbicide applica-
tions.
I have incurred thousands of dollars in
medical expenses in addition to a loss of
a productive life while recovering from
these herbicide exposures.
If I had been given advanced warn-
ing, I could have left my property to avoid
the up-wind chemical drift. In some cases
there was barely enough time for me to run
back inside and to close the windows in my
home.
Betsy DeVos as the U.S. Secretary of
Education — what a joke! She has very
little or no public education experience but
is worth millions! Money is probably her
only claim to fame!
I agree with Mary Leighton and Jerry
Rosiek. Hopefully, U.S. voters and our
congresspersons will overturn the appoint-
ment of Betsy DeVos!
Stace Webb
Eugene
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