After the fall
Thirty-five months ago, the UNL campus
was an ordinary place. Students attended
classes, frequented bars, amassed at rock
concerts and even attended football games on
weekends.
But since that time the Dlace haschanaed.
Step by step, slowly it turned away from
normalcy to Big Red Territory.
When Big Red's monstrous winning streak
began in October, 1969, the transition
started. Suddenly red became the national
color. Students stopped studying Dante and
Freud and began studying Devaney. Bars and
restaurants turned into Big Red palaces.
Alumni and constituency who for years had
ignored the existence of a state university
suddenly became avid newspaper readers, in
the hope of gleaning a tidbit of Husker
knowledge from the newsprint. Football had
succeeded in becoming an obsession.
Rapidly, however, it became apparent
something was wrong. The obsession went
further than it was supposed to go. Suddenly
freshmen were seniors and they couldn't
remember the football team ever losing a
game. More and more people jumped on the
scarlet bandwagon and it began to bow under
the pressure. Games were no longer games,
but Roman spectacles. They became not so
much battles between two teams, but Cecil B.
DeMille epics with multitudes clad in
blood-red regalia. Wiming the next game
became the life-and-death aim of the entire
campus-and the entire state. Big Red had
succeeded in becoming a mania.
Saturday, the lunacy came to a screeching,
unpious halt. A humiliating defeat for the
team. A shocked silence from avid fans. A
disaster.
But in several ways, a needed disaster. For
too long UNL has been existing in a
vermillion cloud of euphoria.
Perhaps the loss will erase some of the
mystique around Nebraska football. Perhaps
some of the Big Red enthusiasm will be
transferred back to education. Perhaps UNL
can once again watch football as a game and
The zone allows a student to take 12 to 16
hours without paying additional money.
Outside the zone, classes are paid for on a
strictly per-hour basis.
The net effect of any of the three plans
would be to discourage students from taking
additional hours, as they would have to pay
extra money for each hour above 12 they
wich tn take.
This would only increase the University's
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I I WW 4-vl Iv7 1 1 COC4u encouraging students to enroll for fewer hours
and take longer to graduate. I his is clearly
contrary to the interests of the University as a
whole.
At least for the present, it appears the best
possible move would be to continue current
free zone policies.
Jim Gray
nothing more. And perhaps Nebraska can
enjoy football, rather than live it.
True, Saturday's defeat was an incredible
disappointment. Thousands of hopes were
crushed by a single game. It was a sad day for
Nebraska.
But the sun will rise tomorrow. And the
next game is Saturday. jjm Qray
Of primary interest at Monday's Board of
Regents meeting will be the action taken on
proposals for tuition systems for the 1973-74
school year.
Four plans have been proposed, three of
which would abolish the current "free zone".
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editing.
D ear editor,
Can we take it from the YAF's failure to endorse
Congressman Charles Thone that Thone is less
conservative than the rest of Nebraska's
Congressmen? Hardly.
A closer examination of the record shows that
Thone is a political disciple of his former boss, Sen.
Hruska. Specifically, he has voted against all women's
rights legislation (including child care); all
end-the-war amendments; all efforts to establish
budgetary control over military spending; the clean
water amendments to the water pollution control act;
and attempts to strengthen the proposed Consumer
Protection Agency.
Thone.points to his votes against the SST and the
Lockheed loan to show that he does not always
swallow the party line.
This type of showmanship may fool the YAF, but
it shouldn't fool the voters in November.
David Bun tain
Crib incident
Dear editor,
This letter is directed the concerned black student
of the Sept. 7 issue.
It seems that actions have been misrepresented on
campus.
The attitude of incoming freshmen towards blacks
is not created by any cartoon or ASUN action or
apology. The attitude is created by blacks themselves.
For example, Sept. 1 in the Nebraska Union, a few
black students threw dishes out of a trash tray and
then pushed it into the main lounge which shows not
only disrespect for UNL but toward students,
particularly students who work in the Crib.
For two years, I have seen students run the
gauntlet of blacks each day in order to get to the Crib
entrance. I was under the impression that one doesn't
come to college to isolate or segregate themselves, but
rather to promote brotherhood and understanding. It
seems the former is the objective of the blacks here.
As for the athletic department, I wish I had the
academic and social opportunities black athletes or
athletes in general have.
As for the threatening tone in which this person
speaks-he ought to concern himself with the idea
that revolution works two ways and is liable to be
countered with a vicious backlash.
I consider it an opportunity to attend this
University and if people don't care for the UNL
tradition, there are alternative universities and
colleges where they can spread their threats. It was
their choice to attend here.
Respect comes when each party involved attains
the same level of respect towards the other.
John L. Portis
Huh?
Dear editor,
It appears that the left-wing majority of the
University of Nebraska have now only the Lincoln
Gazette to mirror humanity and common sense,
because I saw in last Thursday's Daily Nebraskan a
caricature of Angela Davis and depiction of an
unhealthy soviet writer as the underdog.
This phony cartoon of Angela, who is a beautiful
revolutionary black person, should not have been
displayed by a letter from a black brother about the
inhuman picture of a black "boy" in that book to
freshmen at UNL.
I object to the grotesque cartoons in that booklet,
for they make students look like monsters, and not
adult human beings going to an institution of higher
learning. Why can't we be depicted as human? As
adult students in a changing world?
So now McGovern and the new Democratic Party
will be ignored and students will be exposed to the
same old right wing crap that the John Birch society
and YAF have been trying to put over on us for
years.
Vote for McGovern as a man who might bring
peace after years of war, inflation and racism.
CM. Max Dalrymple
Parking problems continued
Dear editor,
It seems idiotic for a student to waste from half an
hour to 45 minutes every day trying to find a parking
place in one of the student parking lots.
The campus Security and Traffic Department has
done a poor job of alloting parking permits without
any consideration of available space.
How does it make sense for a student with a
parking permit for area 20 to go through areas 20, 21,
22 etc . . . trying to find a parking space and then
finally going to the Fairgrounds parking lot? The
shuttle bus service is not as efficient as mentioned in
the brochure issued by Campus security.
Could not Campus security do a better job by
assigning only a specified parking lot to each parking
permit holder according to his choice so that he can
park his car in that parking lot alone.
Of course, it will require a count of available
spaces in each parking lot which campus security, I
believe, can do.
Yudh Vir Singh Jain
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