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Our society has to be kind. Vote yes on
Measure 101.
Katrina Bowser
Eugene
PLASTIC PLANET
If the average Eugenian consumes just
one item in a plastic container a day, that
adds up to 160,000-plus plastic contain-
ers every day, 1.6 million every ten days,
16 million-plus every 100 days, over 50
million every year in Eugene alone (not to
mention everywhere else)! We are about to
see how fast that adds up!
Rick Moser
Eugene
STANDING BY PLANNED
PARENTHOOD
My name is Wyatt Anderlie-Higbee,
and I am a senior at South Eugene High
School taking contemporary world history.
President Donald Trump is trying to cut
federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
He has offered to keep funding if Planned
Parenthood stops providing abortions;
this is a violation of women’s rights, and
Planned Parenthood has declined his pro-
posal and will continue to provide abortion
services.
I support Planned Parenthood because
it’s a women’s right to be pro-life or pro-
choice, and the organization provides a
safe option for abortion and shouldn’t al-
low Trump to push them around. Accord-
ing to The New York Times, Planned Par-
enthood receives $500 million in federal
funding, but none of that money pays for
abortions. That money is spent on other
services provided by Planned Parenthood
so trying to take away funding because
they provide abortions is completely opin-
ionated and unjust.
According to media reports, the Trump
Administration is pro-life and doesn’t sup-
port abortions. This is very ridiculous and
not fair.
As a solution, Planned Parenthood will
continue to provide abortion services and
risk funding being cut. In that case, the
60 percent of private funding will have to
increase and more people will have to ad-
vocate and keep Planned Parenthood run-
ning. By 2018 all of Planned Parenthood
will be private funding if Trump success-
fully cuts federal funding.
Wyatt Anderlie-Higbee
Eugene
Shedd
Theatricals
2017
Singin' In
The Rain
December 7-17
UNDER GOD
My name is Khayman Lister. I am a
senior at South Eugene High School and
I believe the phrase “under God” puts stu-
dents in an uncomfortable position and
contradicts the Pledge of Allegiance.
In the Pledge of Allegiance, the line
“under God” should be removed and not
recited in a public school. The line puts
non-religious students in an uncomfortable
position where they have to defy their be-
liefs to fit in with their peers or protest by
sitting down.
One reason to keep the phrase is be-
cause reciting “under God” has been a
tradition since 1954. It is now state man-
dated that Oregon students are given the
opportunity at least once a week to recite
the Pledge (oregonlaws.org).
If students choose to sit it could make
them feel less patriotic than their religious
peers due to the absence of their participa-
tion. I have personally experienced this
exclusion, and I also know many of my
classmates have.
Before the pledge was changed, it read
“one nation indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.” I believe “indivisible”
means being inseparable.
When the United States added “under
God” to the Pledge of Allegiance it con-
tradicted the word “indivisible.” It makes
it impossible for everyone to be truly free
to express their allegiance for this country
and their beliefs at the same time. The line
“under God” needs to be removed from
the Pledge of Allegiance by the start of the
2018-2019 school year.
Khayman Lister
Eugene
A Jazz Kings Christmas at The Shedd 2017
The Brockett
Family
An Old-Fashioned
Christmas
Sun, Dec 10, 3:00 pm
Tue, Dec 12 Corvallis
Wed, Dec 13 Florence
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12.22
1.11
1.13
1.19
A Night For Sight 2017
K. Beamer & H. Kapono
Victor Wooten Trio
Woideck: Latin Trane, etc.
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1.24 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
1.25 David Grisman Quintet
2.3 Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues
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