Prediction could come true
Some months ago, immediately following the University’s rather reluctant decision to join the Worker Rights Consortium, I predicted that it would not be long before Johnson Hall used the one-year trial period “get-out-of-jail-free card” as a way to back out of what many administrators perceived as a slap in the face of the University’s most famous sugar daddy.
Recent news articles regarding President [Dave] Frohnmayer’s “concerns” with the consortium’s slowness in getting on line and potential effectiveness overall, suggest that that augury may indeed have been right on the money. I take no pleasure in being right this time.

Bill Smee

University staff

Smoking ban a healthy choice
I am an exchange student from Puebla, Mexico here at the University. I have been reading the Oregon Daily Emerald frequently since I first got here.
I came across [Rebecca Newell’s] article about “Lifting the smoke screen from businesses.” (ODE, July 25) I must say that it was very interesting. Especially your concern about people exposed to second-hand smoke. I must say that cigarettes stink and make me sick.
Hopefully the Eugene ban will be put into effect.

Amado Correa

Student