Fans should show more class
As an Oregon alumna (1977), football season ticket holder and former band member, I was extremely embarrassed and disappointed when I logged onto CNN Sports Illustrated’s Web site and saw that one of the college basketball articles was about how Oregon fans/students accosted USC coaches, including making personal insults at the head coach, after the USC game. I was similarly disappointed at the Fiesta Bowl, when a large group of fans in the endzone started taunting the Colorado fans near the end of the game.
It is unfortunate that many Oregon fans apparently do not have a fraction of the class that the coaches and members of Oregon sports teams have
— and I hope the University will take strong action to try to prevent this type of behavior. Not only is it embarrassing to the school, but it can result in retaliatory behavior against Oregon players and coaches when they are on the road, putting our own teams and coaches in danger.
Kathy Fowler
Hillsborough, Ore.
Education should be a priority
Currently, the Oregon Legislature is getting ready to go into Special Session to discuss the future of funding for Oregon students. They, instead of encouraging and supporting students, seem to be cutting more and more of our funding. So much for “our children are our future!” Whatever happened to prioritizing education? How much more can they possibly take away from us before they realize that we have textbooks that date back to the 1900s? Don’t they realize how many people depend on government grants?
One of the proposed cuts is to the Childcare Block Grant. If they are successful with these cuts, 1,200 to 3,000 students will lose the resources to go to college. That means 433 student families will be left without education! They want us to make something of ourselves, but then they turn around and take away the only opportunity some of us have for higher education. State legislatures need to prioritize funding — prioritize what’s important to society and its future.
Ola Duzha
freshman
international studies
