Welcome back to your life in college. With any luck, you’re rested and ready for some more learning. With bad luck, you got so incapacitated that you can’t remember anything you learned winter term. The Emerald editorial board, in response to a week of slacking, decided to devote today to readers’ opinions, in order to catch up on the backlog caused by the ASUO election at the end of the term.
Which reminds us, the ASUO general election should be happening any time now. Please take a minute or two to refresh your memory and vote. Our endorsements (Nilda Brooklyn/Joy Nair for ASUO Executive, yes on OSPIRG, no on MCC) can be found by clicking the “Perspectives” section of our Web site.
There are a few other hot topics to watch in the coming weeks: the situation with Jody Runge’s contract renewal, the anniversary of last year’s Johnson Hall protest to join the Worker Rights Consortium, campaign finance reform in the U.S. Senate, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s potential trial for war crimes, the upcoming execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and continued wrangling over higher education funding in Oregon’s budget. Keep your eyes and ears open: It’s spring, and things are afoot.