The Politics of Anger - Scholars - University of Oregon

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The Magazine of the University of Oregon Spring 2010
The Politics
of Anger
A Daughter’s Odyssey • Saul Zaik • Rose Bowl! • Michael Posner

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Editor’sNote | Guy Maynard, Editor
Free Speech, Hate, and Community
THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
SPRING 2010 • VOLUME 89 NUMbER 3
This winter term, the UO has hosted an open and free—and unplanned—colloquium
on that bedrock principle of our country and our university: free speech.
EDITOR
In case you haven’t heard, the University’s commitment to free speech has been
Guy Maynard
MANAGING EDITOR tested by a group called the Pacifica Forum, a “discussion” group founded by emeritus
Ross West professor Orville Etter, which meets weekly on campus. The group is in no way affiliated
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR with the University, but access to University facilities is one of the privileges granted
Susan Thelen
to emeritus faculty members. In recent years, this open discussion “on war and peace,
ART DIRECTOR
Tim Jordan militarism and pacifism, violence and nonviolence,” has become a safe haven for people
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS with blatantly racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic views. Following a December meeting at
Jack Liu, John bauguess
which a forum participant reportedly gave a Nazi salute, students launched a series of
OFFICE MANAGER
Shelly Cooper protests with some calling for the University to ban the group from meeting on campus.
PROOFREADERS In our Summer issue, we will present some student views of this controversy, which is
John Crosiar, Scott Skelton still being heatedly debated.
INTERN
But while the controversy continues, I want to salute the initial responses of student
Melissa Hoffman
leadership, the University administration, and the University community. The student
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Mark blaine. betsy boyd, Kathi O’Neil Dordevic, senate rejected a resolution that would have called for kicking the forum off campus, later
Kim Evans, David Funk, Kathleen Holt, Mark Johnson,
Ann Mack, Alexandra Mock, barbara West passing a resolution supporting the students who were protesting against the forum. The
wEBSITE administration condemned the content of the hateful speech coming out of the forum,
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but refused to use that as a pretense to ban it. To reduce tension, the administration
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204 Alder building wisely moved the forum meeting location from the EMU in proximity to student groups
818 East 15th Avenue who were threatened by the rhetoric coming out of the forum or angry about it (or both)
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Phone [phone] to Agate Hall on the southeastern edge of campus.
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And when the tension surrounding these issues was ratcheted up a notch by vandal-
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541-346-5047 ism—a swastika spray-painted into the carpet in the office of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
ADVERTISING Transgendered, and Queer Alliance—the University community responded swiftly, con-
541-346-5046 demning that act and offering support to the group who had been attacked through
SUBSCRIPTIONS statements, vigils, and marches. The Oregon Daily Emerald quoted a freshman staff
$30 per year domestic
$40 per year international person from LGBTQA: “Seeing the way this community has responded to this event and
E-MAIL the feeling of love . . . I know that, now, for every tear shed in the past couple of days,
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every time we felt broken, victimized , or sad . . . it was all worth it.”
oregon quarterly is published by the UO in
March, June, August, and November and distributed The spray painting is a crime for which the perpetrators should be prosecuted and
free to alumni. Printed in the USA on recycled paper.
Copyright 2010 University of Oregon. All rights punished. But free speech—even hateful speech—is a fundamental right of all Ameri-
reserved. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect cans and should be protected, especially in places that make their living on the vitality
the views of the UO administration.
of open discourse. Speech that challenges a community’s normative values is the speech
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acceptance of gays and lesbians was considered destructive and evil—hateful, even—in
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President: Richard Lariviere some American communities (see page 34; see also related stories on pages 18 and 38).
Senior Vice President and Provost: James C. bean;
An argument for banishing the Pacifica Forum is that the platform it provides for
Vice President for University Relations: Michael Redding;
Vice President for Finance and Administration: Frances nouveau Nazis and others make some students feel unsafe on campus. Unfortunately—or
Dyke; Vice President for Student Affairs: Robin Holmes;
Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies: fortunately, really—we can’t and shouldn’t try to make people feel safe by sheltering them
Richard Linton; Vice President for Institutional Equity and from ideas that make them uncomfortable. But we can and should try to make them
Diversity: Charles Martinez; Associate Vice President for
Public and Government Affairs: betsy boyd; Executive feel safe by responding as a community to those who preach hate and intolerance. If a
Director of the UO Alumni Association: Daniel Rodriguez
community does not stand up to rebuke purveyors of bigotry, then people should feel
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unsafe and we are all the lesser for it.
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But so far, through this unplanned real-world course of study, the UO has done well
in teaching all of us about the complexities of free speech and the power of a community
to defend its members from expressions of hate.
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Letters to the Editor
by the University. The prize: tuition and fees
paid for four years. How wonderful that they
“We believe this
will graduate with no student loans. I would
say in this economy that gives them a big step exclusion of our
up. Is the University also placing them in jobs
after graduation? As a resident of this state children because
for twenty years plus with two daughters who
graduated from the UO with student loans, we make too much
this giveaway annoys me. As middle class
money is economic
people who have worked and paid our bills
and taxes, we believe this exclusion of our
discrimination.”
children because we make too much money
is economic discrimination. Don’t you think
that, given the chance, I would have loved to
use my taxes specifically for my children so
they would not have to be in debt? Yet they the students—instead focus, as I believe all
are taken and the University dispenses them universities should, on educating students to
as it sees fit. Has the University ever heard be productive and worthy people who will
that when people are given things without ultimately make this world a better place.
Slim Memories
having to do anything for them they gener- Sheilah D. DeBlander
ally don’t appreciate the gift as much as if Salem
In 1986 I met Watermelon Slim [“Continu- they had worked for it? Now the University
Winter Pleasure
ing Education,” Winter 2009] at a blues jam at will retort that these lucky few have to keep
Taylor's, hosted by Roosterman, and we put a grades up and so on, but I say let them take
band together with Dick Robataille (drums) student loans out like a majority of students Your Winter 2009 issue was a pleasure.  It
and Low Robert (bass).  Slim sang and played and work a job as well as go to school. Hav- made so many faces and facets of the UO,
harmonica, and I played guitar. The band ing an income of less than $28,000 does not past and present, come alive.  “America’s
was called Blues Fuse. We did gigs at some mean that those students are less capable Amazon,” “Roman Holiday,” and “Where
of the smaller clubs in town. If you saw any of staying in school because in the article Have All the Lesbians Gone?” [UpFront]—
of those gigs you were fortunate. When he it states that “many of these students were all show that academics can be a joy to read.
was “on,” Slim was electrifying. I have some just as certain that they would find a way to Chris Dawe Bettis Adams ’68, M.L.S. ’69
tapes of those gigs and they make my hair attend college.” Why didn’t the University let Portland
stand on end! My son was three at the time them try?
and Slim found a teddy bear somewhere (I The second comment concerns the ad for I really enjoyed the article “Roman Holiday”
don’t want to know) that was about four feet a building to be used as “the dynamic new [Upfront]. Mary Jaeger did a nice job of tell-
high that he gave to him. It was a big hit. entry point to the University of Oregon cam- ing us about some of the history behind our
I’m so glad Slim is still out there work- pus . . .” Why is the University in these times holiday customs. It’s interesting to find out
ing. Thank you for sharing his story. pursuing the building boom? Especially for how far back in time that the origins of these
By the way, if anyone wants to get a flavor structures whose sole purpose is other than traditions go. I especially liked the part about
of what he does they should Google Water- educational? I realize that it is being funded the master reversed with the slaves at holiday
melon Slim and see his video of “Smokestack by former graduates who have done well but time. I know that when I was in the Army,
Lightning.” He is just amazingly authentic! why not concentrate on educating citizens the officers did serve the meal at holiday
Lawrence T. Ward Jr. ’87, M.U.P. ’94 without saddling them with ten or more years time. Thank you for having this article in the
Platteville, Wisconsin of debt? Quarterly.
A few suggestions from a taxpayer who Keith Neal
Middle Class Path?
would like my contribution used for the bet- Astoria
terment of the students, not the glory of the
The Winter issue arrived at our address University of Oregon and its administration.
Oregon Quarterly
since our daughter graduated from the UO Why not have a tuition-and-fee freeze for
but does not live at home. Two things stood middle-class students? Since the adminis- Letters Policy
out: one article entitled “A Pathway to Gradu- tration does not need to worry about the The magazine welcomes all letters, but
ation” [UpFront] and the ad for “A Place to wealthy paying their student’s bills and can reserves the right to edit for space and
Call Home.” provide tuition and fee costs for those mak- clarity. Send your comments to Editor,
The article indicates that a select group of ing under $28,000, it seems a fair treatment Oregon Quarterly, 5228 University of
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what I would call the “education lottery” with field for everyone? My last suggestion is, quit
the parameters (those being income) chosen building structures that do not directly serve
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Letters to the Editor
The Way We Weren't
The way you were not all of us were [“The
Way We Were,” Old Oregon, Winter 2009].
As curriculum director for McClymonds
High School and eight feeder schools in
DUCK GEAR FOR EVERY
Oakland, California, during the seventies,
I worked with Sandy Seale, wife of Bobbie
Seale, and had several meetings with Bobbie
SEASON OF THE YEAR. Seale of the Black Panther Party. As Sandy
and Bobbie told me one night, “That’s the
way you white guys act, come down here and
stand for nothing. It’s your responsibility to
stand for what will make our children suc-
cessful and it’s not the f**k word.” Sandy was
the department head of the English program
and one of the founders of the California
Writing Project.
Leslie G. Wolfe ’58, M.Ed. ’61
Aurora
EUGENE • PORTLAND • BEND More Klonoski
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I was a student of Mr. Klonoski’s [“Jim
Klonoski: Deep Questions and Gored Oxes,”
Autumn 2009, by Rita Radostitz] on several
occasions—only because he taught the bulk
SREgiStRAtuiON OPEN NOW m aaa.uoregon.edu/summmerinthecity er of the classes in my chosen subject area. He
was a partisan and he would readily admit
that. Anybody who holds an opinion to the
contrary is deluding themselves (this means
Radostitz). Klonoski liked putting the pres-
sure on students—some would bend and
in
some would break. I did not like him for his
city
partisan politics or actions in the classroom,
but I found it to be true of him, like the fic-
tional Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, “the
the more you hate me, the more you will learn.”
To quote Klonoski, running his right hand
through his white, thinning hair, his right
foot up on a front row desk, he punctuated
June–September 2010 the air with, “Are you with me?”
Stuart Pennington ’90
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