Friday, October 26, 1984
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Daily Nebraskan
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Dedicated 'Boss' fans
wreak campus havoc,
cost university hundreds
All it takes Is $16.50. Yes, for
just $16.50 and a little
patience, you too can get a
Hruce Springsteen ticket.
At the same time you can join
more than 400 hungry fans and
block the way for pedestrians,
nearly close off the only Nebraska
Union entrance for handicapped
people, camp in the fire lane and
help destroy hundreds of dollars
of landscaping.
The grounds on the south side
of the union look like a refugee
camp. Sleeping bags, newspapers,
blankets and pillows are tossed
among bodies listening to The
Boss on headsets or playing back
gammon. Trucks have moved out
of parking stalls and now line the
fire lane. Some people have drag
ged their bedrooms to the cam
pus while others have unloaded
their living room sofas. Smart (or
more wealthy) campers have set
up tents. Others have huddled
under plastic shelters to escape
recent rain.
A UNL Police Department spokes
man said the crowd seems to be
well-behaved, but he said he has
some reservations about how the
weekend will go. Football
Saturday is rolling in and he said
he expects people from all over
the state to join the ticket vigil.
Behavior has nothing to do
with the damage that is being
done to the landscape. Bud Dasen
brock, director of the grounds
department, said the department
doesn't have enough money to
pick up litter, let alone to replace
the lawn and shrubbery that's been
lost.
"It could be a disaster in the
gains we've made in the last five
years," he said. This is not a
campground. There's already
hundreds of dollars worth of
damage and it could go into the
thousands. I consider it a disaster."
For the University Program
Council, sponsor of the Nov. 18
concert, and Bruce himself, the
landslide response is probably a
victory. Gail DiSabatino of the
council said she expected some
campers, but not as many as have
shown up. DiSabatino said the
council and the promoter did not
foresee problems when they de
cided to only sell tickets at the
Nebraska Union in order to court
student response.
But students are responding.
Are the campers really interested
in the Springsteen concert or are
they1 skipping classes and work
just so they can be part of the
mystique? Is this a 1980s inter
pretation of Woodstock? Are six
tickets, costing $16.50 a shot,
really worth disrupting pedestrian
traffic, blocking entrances, caus
ing fire hazards and destroying
university property?
If you're one of the campers,
the answer would probably be
yes. For the rest of the university,
no.
Kema Soderberg
Dally Nebraskan Senior Editor
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over. The season I'm ref
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nor the hunting season, although
Elizabeth
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we have been hunting for some
thing that's elusive. The almost
year-long election season is close
to its end. Let's see what the
voters may have learned.
Voters may have learned that
presidential and senatorial can
didates can spend millions of dol
lars in television advertising cam
paigns to do something that others
are allowed to do for free
throw insults at each other.
WeVe learned that the presi
dential and vice-presidential
candidate can stand for 90 min
utes and not fall on their faces (at
least not literally).
WeVe learned thai President
Reagan doesn't wear make-up on
television and Walter Mondale
does, and that both have a faith
ful following of hecklers.
We've learned that we can read
hundreds of polls before voters
go to the polls, and still know
nothing about the candidates.
What about the "substantive"
issues? On those weVe learned
what they're not going to do (sup
posedly). Reagan is not going to
raise taxes; Mondale is not going
to gouge social services. Reagan is
not too old; Mondale is not a
wimp. And so on.
I'd be really interested if one of
those number-crunching pollsters
could turn their research to ana
lyzing how many campaign state
ments are ever followed up.
This year, the networks also
have gotten into the "vote" act.
One CBS ad is particularly strik
ing. We see shots of the Iwo-Jima
statue depicting the raising of the
flag on the island and the narra
tor says, They've done the hard
part. All we have to is vote." It's
not as easy as one might think; it
would be easier if we really had
something to vote for.
WeVe learned nothing new.
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