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UNO dorm question
The recent move by students at the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha to investigate
the possibility of building private dormitories
near the UNO campus raises a question which
should be of interest to University students
and citizens of the state. Would the building
of dorms- subject to NU housing regulation
on or near the UNO campus be in the best
interest of all four campuses of the University
of Nebraska?
It is not yet clear if UNO students want
high rise dorms or merely want to attract
apartment-type buildings into the campus
area. Nevertheless, is should be the policy
of the University not to go on a dorm building
spree at UNO as it did here.
The argument of UNO students for build
ing dorms is that it is hard to attract students
from outside the Omaha area to attend UNO
because there are no residence facilities. But
would it be desirable to attract students to
UNO from the same market of high school
graduates the Lincoln campuses seek? To
transform UNO from a commuter, urban uni
versity into a residence university would be
duplicating the role of the Lincoln campuses.
It would be wasteful. It would be creating
two Lincolns and abandoning the uniqueness
of the UNO campus.
UNO, by its very location in the only
urban center in Nebraska, offers a totally
different learning environment from any
other educational institution in the state. It
provides a perfect opportunity to study all
the problems of our cities from pollution to
over-population to mass transit. Consequently,
it should maintain its commuter system with
students living in that urban environment
Furthermore the University of Nebraska
could hardly afford to build any dorms. With
the price of construction materials and present
interest rates, it would probably not only be
inadvisable to build dorms, but economically
impossible.
However, apartment buildings built by
private contractors would not be as bad as
University-sanctioned dorms. In fact, this
situation might combine the best of both
cases. It would maintain the urban, commuter
make-up of UNO while possibly attracting
Omaha area students who don't want to live
at home or out-of-state students who prefer
the urban campus to Lincoln.
Nevertheless, Nebraska has the oppor
tunity .to offer its students the choice of an
urban or non-urban university environment.
This choice should be preserved.
Jim Pcdersen
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by ARTHUR HOPPE
Oh, there's jubilation today in The Ant
Chinese Ballistic Missile Works of
Sheboygan, N.J. Mr. Nixon has decided
to build an Anti-Chinese .Ballistic Missile
System after all.
"I don't anticipate an attack by Com
munist China," the President told his latest
press conference. But the untested Anti
Chinese Ballistic Missile, he said, "is
virtually infallible against that kind of
potential attack."
And we'll all certainly sleep better each
night, knowing we have virtually infallible,
untested defense against the kind of attack
we don't anticipate. v
HAPPIEST OF ALL is the Chairman
of the A-CBM Works, Mr. Mordred Kruppe,
who gave reporters a tour of his humming
plant the other day.
"The A-CBM was invented by Defense
Secretary McNamara back in 1967," he
explained. "It was just a cheap, shoddy
little $3 billion system suitable only for
shooting down cheap, shoddy little Chinese
Ballistic Missiles. Here's a photograph of
an early model. We called it The Safeguard.
But it was never built."
"Why not?" inquired an inquiring
reporter,
"Lack of public demand," said Mr.
Kruppe, shaking his head sadly. "The
public just wouldn't buy the Anti-Chinese
Ballistic Missile. It was the Edsel of its
day. So we designed a brand new missile
for Mr. Nixon. Here's a photograph of
it."
"But that's the same photograph," ex
claimed a reporter. "It's exactly the same
missile."
"Oh, no," said Mr. Kruppe. "This isn't
the Safeguard Missile any more. This is
the Sentinel Missile. It's not an Anti-Chinese
Ballistic Missile any more. It's an Anti
Russian Ballistic Missile. And instead of
defending our cities, it'll defend our missile
sites which, after all, are much more
modern and up-to-date than our cities."
"What's the difference between these
two missile systems?" asked a reporter,
examining the photograph carefully.
"About $5 billion," said Mr. Kruppe
cheerfully. "But you can always sell the
public anything anti-Russian. So we're busy
re-tooling. Among the many major design
changes, we plan to paint the nose cones
red rather than yellow. But this all-new
Anti-Chinese Ballistic Missile is going to
be a real challenge."
"Do you have a photograph of this
all-new missile?" the same reporter ask
ed. "You're holding it in your hand," said
Mr. Kruppe. "And if you're going to ask
me again, 'What's the difference?' This
time it's about $40 billion."
"NOW, JUST A MINUTE," said a
young reporter angrily. "Do you mean to
say you re going to try to sell the public
the same old missile over and over
again?"
"Of course not," said Mr. Kruppe with
a frown. "We're going to give it an all-new
name. And we'll paint the nose-cones
yellow, rather than red. And, as the Presi
dent explained, it will guard our cities
rather than our missile sites and . . ."
"But that's nothing more than the
original Anti-Chinese Ballistic Missile
System," cried the reporter. "You're going
to sell the public the same missile they
rejected in 1967 and charge them ten times
the original price."
"It just shows you," said Mr. Kruppe
with a complacent smile, "how the threat
of an unanticipated attack has grown in
the past three years."
raw
RAPPING
Dear Editor:
I would like to offer this in response
to the article "Notes from the Oven" which
appeared in the Daily Nebraskan on
February 9, 1970.
Hello, Ken Wald. This is for you.
I would like to comment on your arti
cle, "Notes from the Oven."
I thought it was very good from one
standpoint, and yet quite bad from another.
The good was that in such a small space
it presented a large number of misconcep
tions, so that one could see at one glance
the ridiculousness of them. What was bad
was the statement, "I'm being logical,"
which anyone could see through. The article
was full of warped notions proportcd to
be factual, half-truths and had a general
tuira of spite and hostility bordering on
liule about it.
You say that Mr. Agnew was Governor
of Maryland so what does that prove?
It proves, my boy, that a majority of
the people of a progressive state such as
Maryland, nfter hnvlitLj ample time to look
over and scrutinize Kir. Agncw's merit
and qualifications felt confident enough to
entrust him with the responsible jMisition
of the governorship. Do you know what
responsibility, to someone other than
yourself, is? Mr. Agnew has said, "The
peaceniks and all their friends have lost
the values of a bygone America."
Perhaps these values such as decency,
patriotism, respect and reverence are
bygone. If they are, it is your kind who
has lost them to us and our future genera
tions. I will agree with you, lynching and
segregation exist and are wrong. However,
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
our leaders, for the past two decades, and
continuing in the present Administration,
have been trying to end these sufferings.
Your statement of the Vice President's
purpose on his recent Asian tour is totally
mistaken. Obviously you seem to know
better than our government what our Asian
intentions are. I wonder where you get
this Information? Perhaps from Radio
Hanoi or Travda?
The best way to understand a nation's
intentions is to listen to the statements
of its leaders, in our case that old liberal
Nemesis, Richard Nixon. Examine his
Vietnam statement of November 3, 1969,
and the "Nixon Doctrine" formulated on
Midway Island last Spring. This is where
our country stands. If you prefer the Com
munist's words as your Gospel over our
government's, it's up to you, but don't
try to shove that garbage at us.
You complain about the alleged Song
My murders. You have quite apparently
decided that Lieutenant Calley 13 guilty
of these murders. Some of us like to see
a man innocent until proven guilty. This
is why there is an inquiry and a trial.
The same applies to members of the Black
Panther Party. They are not being tried
for being Iil.iek Panthers, but because they
broke the law.
A lot of bull was crammed down many
throats in the 60s, including mine. If somo
of it is now regorging, I'm sorry, but
it's only a bodily process. Heaven foruid
should the Silent Majority speak!
Douglas Gene Vocgler
Member
NU Young Republicans
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 19701
