Out-of-control football fan behavior is intolerable
Please add my name to those who are disappointed and disgusted at the obnoxious and boorish behavior of some of our football fans. This rudeness cannot and should not be tolerated by a well-respected university like ours.
When we played the Huskies several weeks ago, I was embarrassed during the entire game at some of the scenes that were demonstrated. They even booed the band! What kind of nonsense was that? I was equally embarrassed when their black drum major tossed his baton in the air, missed catching it, and was then booed for his effort. As an African-American, I was personally proud of him and the entire Washington band, because their performance both musically and visually was outstanding as usual. They looked like a marching band and played marches – unlike our band who looks like rejects from the Wizard of Oz wearing military helmets.
The abhorrent behavior of some of these students is out of control, and should not be tolerated.
E.L. Coleman
Emeritus Professor of English
 
Advertising supplement spreads tired untruths
Wow. I hope the Emerald got a good chunk of change for that 12-page we’re-down-with-the-youth-culture anti-choice insert in the Nov. 3 Emerald. Just in case the women of the University of Oregon can’t decide for themselves whether or not to continue a pregnancy, we have the likes of David C. Reardon and his Human Life Alliance cronies to help us out. Of course, he probably thinks we’re all a little soft in the head for attending a university when we could have done as he did and buy a PhD in bioethics from an unaccredited correspondence school (sorry, it’s no longer being offered).
The insert cover asks, “Tired yet?” In fact, yes, I’m tired of hearing the same lies over and over from the religious right – that abortion causes breast cancer, infertility, depression, cervical cancer, it might even make you left-handed. Spouting this nonsense over and over again, even with a lot of pretty pictures and funky cartoons, doesn’t make it so.
Jocelyn Warren
Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Women in Society