David Kelly deserves support
David Kelly is a well-respected Eugene City Councilor and he deserves the University community’s support. He has always been the voice of reason tempered with compassion.
His insights into difficult situations have always helped me to understand all sides of the issues before the council. I applaud David Kelly’s efforts and the long hours he has given to public service. We should very thankful that he is still willing to serve the community.

Bonnie Ullmann

Institute of Neuroscience

Fraternities offer framework

for obesity, depression
University-sanctioned organizations should model healthy life-affirming habits. Despite Chris Alexander’s compelling commentary (“Don’t single out greek system to make point about
alcohol,” ODE May 1), I am not sure that fraternity binge drinking meets the criteria of healthy life-affirming habit.
Certainly, many students choose to “go a little nuts” during their college years, and fraternity keg parties do
present a model for friendship, brotherhood and an opportunity to get laid with little use of social skills.
However, binge drinking is not healthy. Alcohol, when used irresponsibly, is a life-destroying drug. When fraternities have alcohol parties, are they then encouraging a framework for obesity and depression later in life?
Maybe Mr. Alexander’s proposed Alcohol Awareness 101 should take a field trip to a local dive bar to drive this point home. Provided, or course, that the students are over 21.

John Muir O’Brien

junior

pre-journalism

Bit of FYI
In the May 2 edition, the Emerald reported that one of the complaints the employees of The Register-Guard have with their employer is the rule against using company e-mail for union business, even though it can be used for just about anything else (“Union rally marks third year of labor dispute,” May 2).
It might interest the Emerald’s
readership to know that the Oregon University System applies the same
stipulations to campus e-mail; thus is the SEIU, which represents university classified employees, apparently
equated in the minds of OUS administrators with pornography, threats of
violence, plagiarism and libel.

Bill Smee

University staff