Tuesday, November 20, 1934
Daily Nebraskan
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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'
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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
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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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