Christa and Greg have
leadership experience
Christa Shively and Greg Bae have what it takes to be an effective team for ASUO Executive. Succeeding in student government requires experience and leadership, and Christa and Greg will work hard, ensuring that their experience and leadership make the University a better place for you to go to school.
Shively and Bae have been very involved with our student government. Christa, for example, has worked as the ASUO Community Outreach Director, she has served on the Associated Students Presidential Advisory Committee, and she is the EMU Board chair for the third year in a row. Greg also has been very involved, as he has worked as the programs director for the Multicultural Center, as a board member for OSPIRG, and served as the treasurer for our fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi.
Christa and Greg know how important leadership is and will further the creation of a Leadership Development Center, which will benefit all students looking to become better leaders. This is just one of their many great platform ideas, which are outlined at http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~gbae/. Christa and Greg are the most qualified candidates for ASUO Executive. Please join me in voting for Christa Shively and Greg Bae.

Justin F. Zuiker

senior

business administration

Stop hating Christian
fundamentalists
I’m disappointed in Jerome Garger’s letter (“Free speech in classes shouldn’t be stifled,” ODE, April 2). As I was reading, I was thinking, this was going to be a rational letter regarding intellectual freedom. However, I was saddened by the hate-filled and intolerant rant against so called “Christian fundamentalists” that ended the piece.
While not religious myself, I have respect for those who are, and despite what the media and our Dead Kennedys’ records have told us, many “Christian fundamentalists” are very thoughtful, kind and intelligent people. Even when I was at the height of my radical days, I was never treated as anything less than equal by the so-called “American Taliban.”
My conservative aunt never “preached” about hellfire and damnation but invited me to reach my own conclusions through logic and reason, not “indoctrination” or “intimidation.” Sure, there are conservative Christians who are nauseating people, but name a group that doesn’t have these people within its ranks.
I’m disappointed at the intolerance shown toward these people. I’m further disappointed that this kind of hate speech goes unchallenged. In the spirit of equality, diversity and tolerance, let’s stop the hatred of “fundamentalist Christians.”

Lucas Szabo

junior

political science