LET TERS
The pace of such destruction is acceler-
ating and won’t stop without meaningful re-
sistance. The most recently released State of
the Birds report found that more than one-
third of North American birds are currently
at risk of extinction.
Despite the technological assault and
the injuries inflicted on the landscape in
the name of progress this place remains a
paradise, albeit a rapidly shrinking one. It
remains worth fighting for.
Ian Smith
Eugene
VOLLEYBALLS
Regarding Chad Anderson’s May 11
letter (“While Rome Burns”): I appreciate
your efforts as an ally to me and other wom-
en in our efforts towards liberation. We need
men to stand with us to end the oppression
that still privileges men at the expense of all
of our humanity.
However, I wish you would think twice
before criticizing a volleyball rule that
serves to give women equal touches on the
ball. Any rule intended to increase female
participation is in place because of the un-
conscious patterns that tend to creep in dur-
ing co-ed events.
Men tend to take up more space, speak
more, emote louder and go after the ball
more aggressively than women. Individual
people may be exceptions to this rule, but
the tendency still holds.
It seems to me that you are not actually
complaining about sexism. You are com-
plaining about an attempt to create equity in
the face of sexism. That equity rule requires
you to be aware of others in a way that
might be unfamiliar to you. It encourages
you to think of participation and connection
as more important than winning.
Kara Huntermoon
Eugene
billions of dollars to cleanup the most con-
taminated place in western hemisphere, and
we still see no end in sight.
In 1980, Oregon voters approved a mor-
atorium on the financing and construction
of nuclear power plants until a permanent
repository was established for the nuclear
waste that remains lethal for centuries.
Thirty-seven years later, the federal govern-
ment has yet to solve the problem.
Why then would the Oregon Legislature
be considering an exemption on the morato-
rium for nuclear reactors 300 megawatts or
smaller? Senate Bill 990 would bypass the
two requirements of that law: a permanent
repository for the waste and statewide voter
approval of any new proposed plant.
Representatives Paul Holvey and Phil
Barnhart sit on the House Committee on
Energy and Environment. Urge them to
reject SB 990. To send a message to your
representative, go to oregonwand.org and
press the action button.
For those interested in a personal account
of the health ravages caused by exposure to
radiation from Hanford, Oregon WAND
is sponsoring Hanford: A Conversation in
Poetry and Prose on May 25th. For more
information, visit oregonwand.org.
Susan Cundiff
Eugene
NO MORE FALSE TOTEMS
I would like to send a nod to the [Oregon]
Country Fair for not raising a totem pole.
You asked and we told you how it feels,
for us, to have acculturation and genocide
constantly in our lives.
I appreciate that they have the sensitivity
and ability to stop and consider.
Too often we are in a position of naming
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and then
killing him.
Jim Linwood
Lakeside
RADIATION SICKNESS
KIDS THESE DAYS
Hanford Nuclear Reservation sure has
been in the news recently. On May 9 we
learned of the collapsed tunnel exposing
train cars full of highly radioactive waste,
and eleven days later we learned that a
Hanford worker’s clothes were contami-
nated while working on a possible leak at an
underground storage tank.
More than three decades of effort and
The sad realization for the intelligence
community of our nation: giving top-secret
classified information to Trump is like giv-
ing a kitchen knife to a 3-year-old.
Ronald Blanton
Eugene
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