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bob russell Now I wouldn't go quite so far as to call Paris the Millard, Neb. of France, but let me make a few comparisons between the "queen of cities" and my home town. I would like to compare the towers, airports and restaurants of these two fine cities. Paris has some five million odd residents, while Millard has grown from farm size 391 in 1950 to 10,000 in 1970, and was finally annexed by Omaha. When, one thinks of Paris, one thinks first of the Eiffel Tower. My first reaction to the tower was, "Well, what's it for?" Apparently the designer went wild with his erector set. Millard has a comparable wonder, the Millard Municipal Water Tower. And what's it for? Well, the guys on the Millard High School football team periodically purchase some red spray paint' and climb the water tower in order to paint some appropriate number or obscenity on the tower. This, in turn, creates employment for the city maintenance crew, bolstering the local economy. When one flies to Paris, the first thing one sees is Orly Airport, a nice place. However, there is one catch. After getting off the plane at Orly, my body gave certain tell-tale signs of nature indicating certain biological functions must be performed. It is assumed that all travelers coming into Orly are explorers and pathfinders by nature and therefore can find the restroom easily. But this not being the case with me, I wandered for some time before I pulled a "Columbus" and stumbled upon the john. . Low and behold, once done with this biological function, I tried to take leave of the dooley, but some lady at the door demanded a dooley fee. From all appearances, the money the lady collected was to pay her for collecting it. I need only make a short statement about the restrooms at the Millard Airport. They are free and easily found. And a last word about food in Millard and Paris. Admittedly Paris offers a fine selection of foods from all over the world. But what about water? When one goes into a restaurant in Paris, it is sometimes impossible to get a glass of water without ordering something else to drink. Or else they try to sell you mineral water at soda pop prices. In Millard, Neb., the waiter or waitress at a respectable restaurant will ram a glass of water down your throat-whether or not you are hydrophobic or have kidney problems or whatever. Besides, I appreciate a good glass of water at a restaurant. I like to take a bite of bread, then a drink of water, and then watch all the bread remnants swim around in the glass. FlfL Development dilmma ' Dear editor: I'm confused. My dilemma results from two articles appearing in the March 20th Daily Nebraskan entitled, "Becker-Long marriage commitment unnecessary" and "Students get chance to draft beer." . Becker maintains that traditional marriage among "young people" is not likely to work because "young people aren't fully developed in terms of their final personality. They continue to change as the years go by. . ." Since my "final personality is not fully developed" I resolutely resolved not to make any decisions at the present that might affect my later life since my personality will have changed "as the years go by." (i.e. occupation, place of residence, field of study etc.) I was just ready to assume a do-not hing-o n-t he-ground s-that-I'm-not-ready sta nee when I turned the page and discovered much to my surprise that "college students are adult enough to take care of themselves" (to quote Ron Burrus in the "beer" article). I was overjoyed to see that my "final personality" was mature enough to make a decision concerning the use of alcoholic beverages and that "there would not be any major impact economically" (bankruptcy, business failure due to alcoholism, for example), "sociologically" (loss of job, divorce due to alcoholism), or "ecologically" (beer cans strewn from one end of the earth to the other, and possibly soon, on the moon). Am I grown up or not? Is this an attempt by the Daily Nebraskan to revive journalistic objectivity? Or is it a sinister plot to confuse non-fully-developed, impressionable youngsters like me? Robert May Loser leaders Dear editor: After hearing the debate of the Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate, I'd say Nebraska's best bet is Wally Peterson. At least he seemed to remain concerned with the task at hand-answering nationally-oriented questions and expreaiig definite personal opinions. In the rest of the debate, I saw remains of campaign tactics of the 40's or 50's-with one candidate saying in so many words "Let me make this perfectly clear, I am a Democrat." I laughed with the audience at a great deal of the whole debate-"little black boys are already marrying little white girls. . ." and 'That really is a fine question. . but I started to throw up when I thought about the kind of leadership in this state from both parties. Now that we have the vote, I hope we can stop the trend of good leadership being forced to move to a different state to be heard. "I am a Democrat," but sometimes it's embarrassing. Jean Stihvell Super-Mother vs. Super-Jock Dear editor: A recent article in your newspaper when a University student stated that "women are just not women if they participate in sports - they are just female' jocks," was found by me to be totally repugnant and lacking in intelligence. I had thought we were making some progress on a humanistic level in realizing that people have certain rights which allows them to choose a life style and live by it. Not every female wishes to be a "Super-Mother" any more than every male wishes to be a "Super-Jock." There just happens to be too much to life to limit one's existence to one aspect -whatever that might be. Why then, do some people persist in attempting to make judgments of others because they do not conform to the ways of the past? Milt Woody Ballot box bummer Dear editor: We were appalled that there was no sealed ballot box, or any ballot box at all at the East Campus Union voting place Wed., March 22, for the ASUN election. One of us voted about 9 a.m., another at 10 a.m., the third at 2 p.m. and the last near 6 p.m. There was no ballot box present at any of the mentioned times. When we asked where to put the ballots the voter assistants just took the ballots and placed them in an open box on the table. There was no hint of a secret ballot policy. Is this any way to run an election? Can the election be valid when there is no guarantee of a secret, untampered balloting procedure? We think not. Dick Coffman Altan Lenwick JerryW.Felt Alfred Stork entitled "Beecher, Baldwin dominate final debate,' dealt with a discussion amone the four ASUN) presidential candidates held at the Abel-Sandoz cafeteria. After reading it, I couldn't believe it was the same debate I attended the night before. One would have thought Bruce Beecher was the only candidate who bothered to show up or that he alone dominated the discussion, neither of which was the case. The reporter did a good job of selective reporting of the facts. Nothing in the article wasn't true, but many points of discussion had been conveniently left out, mostly points made by the other three candidates. It represented a very distorted picture, Vince Sutton Fraternity, equality? Distorted reporting Dear editor: I am writing in regard to a front page article in the Daily Nebraska on Wed., March 22. The article. Dear editor: Recently try-outs were held for an opening on the male yell squad. The applicants were supposedly judged on the basis of 1) general appearance, 2) projection, 3) overall ability and 4) knowledge of the cheers, but the candidate who showed obvious superiority was not chosen. The "winner", oddly enough, belonged to the same fraternity as the two existing members of the squad. The three will combine to make next year's squad entirely Theta Xi fraternity. As long as the selection of new squad members is largely based on the voting of present members, how can the choice be objective? Clearly the position is based on politics, so why not admit it and stop wasting the time of people who don't care to play "the game." It's too bad that both yell squads and the cheerleaders are subject to domination by those in power. Dana W id strom Gred Murgatroyd Tim Schafersman Gene Kidder ; i " v f WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1972 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 5
