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Tuesday, November 20, 1934 Daily Nebraskan Pago 5 '"V w USA 2(X Letters Residence halls Bishops prefer deserve cable TV 'human 9 capitalism In the Nov. ICth Issue, a letter from Kelly Richardson strongly supported cable television service in the residence halls. I person ally agree with the letter. Cable television i3 an important infor mational and entertainment ser vice that we deserve to have in the halls. Th problem b, for any major increase in residence hall servi ces to take place, an overwhelm ing number of hall residents have to favor the increase in costs. With cable, if only a majority of students favor having it, Univer sity Housing would be hard pres sed to boost everyone's housing rate $20 for next year. Realisti cally, we would have to show that some 75 to 80 percent of all hali residents, especially those resi dents vho will be returning next year, want cable television in their rooms and are willing to pay the additional cost. The survey was conducted to determine whether residence hall students wanted cable television or unlimited food. Cable was more popular by a wide margin, so hay ing the unlimited food option next year is no longer a viable possibility. But the survey results do not show an overwhelming desire for the price hike for cable service. Though these results are somewhat questionable, at this point the future of cable TV at UNL looks bleak. So, I don't bring the best of news, but the "fat lady" has not yet sung? Our RHA Senate is going to tackle the cable issue in open forum at our Nov. 29 meet ing, and I encourage you to attend. ; We'll decide then whether or not to continue the fight for cable, or whether we should push for an tenna hook ups to enhance the television reception we now re ceive in the halls. DaveEdward3 RIIA president senior tical science lam taking this opportunity to respond to Jim Rogars' editorial (Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 16) "American Bishops Draft Pastoral Letter on the Economy." Rogers begins nte editorial by boldly asserting that the Pastoral Draft is a "doomed attempt" at fashioning a "Christian apology" for the welfare state." This state ment b at best misleading. The central theme of the pastoral draft is that the goal of human activity, whether individually or in collaboration, must be the achievement of the common good, rather than the maximization of profit. "Drawing on core Biblical mo tifs of creation, covenant and community, the (pastoral draft) argues that the right to private property is not absolute, but limited by concern for the com mon good." This notion, that the goal of the society a.iid the state must be the achievement of the common good, is not one deve loped by "liberals" in the last few decades, as Rogers would have us believe. Rather, it re-echoes the voice of St Thomas Aquinas and 16th century Catholic humanists such as St. Thomas More. Within the context of this tra dition, the Bishops in essence ask that capitalist ideology be given a human face, reasserting that the hand of God is not the invisible hand of Adam Smith. As Pope John Paul II recently stated, "The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich; the rights of workers over maximiza tion of profits; the preservation of the environment over uncon trolled industrial expansion; pro-" duction to meet social needs over production for military purposes." Sadly, it appears that Rogers' VV 7 i 1 " 3 lit vy 'if (r 9k V-'V fX -Mild w .: '-t-w -m m- 3 m !. ostensive broad-based liberal arts education did not include a his tory of Catholic intellectual thought. Rogers also accuses the Bishop3 of advocating "statism." While the pastoral draft calls for a federal policy-making and coordinating role, such a limited role doe3 not equate with Stalinist communism or a derivative thereof Having witnessed the effects of commu nism in Eastern Europe, the Bishops are well aware of the dangers and disadvantages of centralized power. Continued on Paga 6 BILL MEEKS mi 1 KAza. BILL Bl! Wh m MPmPMM&m(m 3 k. V V Youns America But the pain of the unborn is hidden and the evidence of their suffering is secreted in the dump ster beind the abortion clinic. Hedonism tells us that abortion is good: if having a baby is not con venient, killing the chid is the solution. In fact, legalized abor tion is the summation of the ar rogance of hedonism: Innocent heraan life b legitimately sacri ficed on the later of pleasure. Abortion is viewed as simply one off the modern conveniences. Additionally, the statistics of the poll provide us with evidence that the extensive "legalism" of Western life also is changing. Legalism is the notion that "if it's legal, then it's right." Thus, the thought goes, if polluting is legal, the corporation should not under go popular censure. However, the poll indicates that perhaps America's youth, and certainly Nebraska's look beyond the "nask of the law, and this bodes well for a future political healthiness in the face of the ominous trends of culture. Ber- kely law professor John Noonan argues that legalized abortion is simply a branch of a perverse and all-encompassing root of a growth that severs the correspondence of law with reality; "whoever has the power to define the bearer of constitutional rights has a power that can make nonsense of any particular constitutional right. That this power belongs to the state itself if a point of view asso ciated in jursprudence with Hans Kelson..As he expresses it in The Pure Theory of Law," even the apparently natural physical per son is a construction of juristic thinking...(in this account) per sonhood depends on recognition by the law." Moonan goes on to correctly argue that the seeds of facist irrationalism are sown in this type of legal mythifying thought. Its rejection by the young genera tion indicates increased hope for sustaining a free society in the long run and in the short run, with the election of caring indi viduals to politcal office, the slaughter of the unborn will finally come to an overdue end. 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