Union offers far more
than Cokes and coffee
Today marks the beginning of Union
Week and the four center pages of The Ne
braskan are devoted to explaining the week's
and the Union's activities. Free and contin
uous films, a speech by Senator Birch Bayh
(D-Ind.) and a free foreign film for freshmen
highlight the week's events.
More than $11 of each full-time student's
fees goes to the Union to pay for speaker and
entertainment programs, as well as pay for
the costs of building expansion. Union week
is an effort to show students where their
money is spent. ,
The Union is far more than just a place
for coffee or a Coke this week's programs
offer students a chance to become acquainted
with and involved in the direction it will take.
Got a problem?
Dial-an-Answer
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Got a problem? Everything from per
sonal problems to the correct problems of
spelling of zymurgy to the exact amount of
. the university budget that's the daily fare
of Help Line, a program set up to help any
one with any difficulty.
All calls are taken in total confidence
and usually the name of the caller is not
known. Help line received over 4,300 queries
last year despite the fact it first began oper
ating in October.
Three people will staff the phones (472
3311, 3312) for 77 hours a week to handle
problems or refer the callers to people who
can help.
The Help Line is open Monday-Thursday
from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m., Saturday from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., and
Sunday from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Help Line serves a vital function as
safety value and information service. It is a
convenience for those who need facts and an
invaluable help for people with personal pro
blems. As the university, grows larger and
more complex it is comforting to know that
there is someplace you can turn for help.
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Seizure
by MARY AL1NDER
The love cliche.
What has it been like for us
(my husband, Jim, and me)
that you can't understand?
Violence and fear. It started for
us in 1966. We were active
against the war. We are gentle
people. Our house was watched
for eight months. The in
telligence squad would come
and question us.
Fear is so complete and
physical. All these things that
could make us dead with all of
their accumulation of fear.
Peacefully picketing. And peo
ple yelling and screeching and
reaching through police lines to
beat us.
Nebraska. Safety. We went
camping last summer with
friends, thirty miles from Lin
coln. At 1:30 a.m. as we are
sleeping a gang of rednecks,
seventeen of them or so, pour
kerosene and light fires next to
our tents. We were about five
men and six women and two
little kids. They wanted to get
us because of how we looked.
We were so scared. Do people
in this country hate you enough
to kill you just because of ho.v
you look? They do.
Last night we ran out of gas
on our way home from CitUwi
Kane. We were super high jn
the camera work and lighting
and all the intricacies. We
walked seven blocks for gas
and on our way back six guys
piled out of a car and started
shouting and suggesting,
foulness. We keep walking.
We're a block from the car now
and this kid comes running
towards us. He wore a black
leather jacket and was gripping
a long, coiled, braided leather
whip. We were scared from the
threats a few blocks back but
this kid's fear was even bigger.
He ran up to us and asked if
we'd seen cops. We told him we
had and where. He took off on
down the road. Why did he ask
t0 W
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us? I would never ask him
questions, a w hip. Afld yet he
looks at us and knows we are
outside of that stuff, too. "We
are ALL outlaws in the eyes of
America."
I could tell jou about more
fear, on and on. It's happening
to so many of us. Fear doesn't
take time. It hits instantly.
Down in the stomach. I huddle
so the smallest amount of me is
exposed to the outside. Fear is
not selfish. I knew that I can be
more scared of what is hap
pening to someone else than to
myself. Fear teaches a lot. It
teaches that if you can't break
it off of you then they, those
who brought the fear, will
destroy us.. In every crisis
situation we have faced of this
sort the threats and violence
have always been from them,
the bad ones.
The only way we can cope
with fear, Jim and I," is to
analyze it, break it off, cleanly
off. We can only break it off by
remembering love and hap
piness and then relaxing
enough to realize love and then
work love out of us. to outside
of us again, to around us.
For us, life here in America
Is simple. It Is simple because
for Jim and me violence is bad.
Violence is in so many. Thev
distort and destroy themselves.
But they aim at destroying us.
I know that. Everyting is down
to fear and violence. And it is
simple for me.
Is this all too personal? No.
Because it's iwt us. It is ml
me, Mary, or me, Jim. It is us
as we represent you. It is you
when we fear. They would
destroy us, all of us, not know
ing us. Not knowing that you,
dead with the hair, are for
Nixon, or you, who survives
with the erewcut, are a
weatherman.
Am I being stalked? Read
"you,, for my "I". When I am
threatened, when I am dead,
soon you will be too.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1970
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