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friday, October 20, 1972
Dear Editor,
I have never before questioned the use of student fees for
the Daily Nebraskan, but I vigorously protest the use of these
funds to print the radical propaganda of John Vihstadt
I am an independent and believe a college newspaper should
present a forum of ideas and issues of importance to the
student body, but I am becoming increasingly upset over the
lopsided amount of coverage given to Vihstadt and the Grand
Old Party.
I respect Vihstadt's thorough research and ability to present
one side of an issue with authority, but I think your readers
deserve an account of the other side's position.
It might be of interest to some readers that Nixon was
nearly dropped from his party's ticket in 1972 due to charges
of corruption. He also was attcked in 1964 on the basis of a
$205,000 loan from the Hughes Tool Company, a major
defense contractor during Nixon's term as vice-president, to
his brother. This was on of the issues that cost him the
election for governor in his home state of California.
Another note of interest is that it cost Nixon $24 million
be be elected in 1968, a record figure, and that big business
has contributed heavily to his campaign sincVftis early days in
California politics.
Add to this the Watergate episode, the ITT fiasco and the
"secret" contributions of $10 million and the red, white and
blue picture of Richard Nixon becomes a little discolored. It is
a credit to his committee for re-election that Nixon has been
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white-washed cleaner than Gene McCarthy. This would Indeed
seem to be a monumental task. . ,
Larry Bobclz
Editor's note: Vihstadt's column runs weekly in the Daily
Nebraskan. 7770 newspaper has two more-liberal columnists,
Arthur Hoddc and Michelle Covle. iio also
Editorial commentary runs daily and guest opinion columns '
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ana starr opinion columns run on a weekly basis. Letters to
the editor usually run twice a week.
Harmless prank?
Dear editor,
I noted with some interest your comments about the
"harmless prank" foisted off on all of us by the card section
last Saturday, I agree. The messages were harmless. But the
results certainly may not turn out to be so free from harm.
In, the first place, the person who designed the card show
that was supposed to go on last Saturady initially was blamed
by many who had no reason to believe that he had not
designed the flashes. His reputation, however great or small the
injury to it was, was besmirched.
We in our band try very hard to maintain the best of
relations with other bands in this conference, so that when we
visit their campus we can at least hope to get civilized
treatment Whatever the Marching Mizzou thought, if the card
show in any way was in the nature of ill will, our band was to
some extent injured.
If those jerks who pulled this prank hadn't done it in the
first place, then Kiewit's mouthpiece would have had nothing
more than usual to disseminate round the state on how many
long-haired, hippy, radical anarchists are trying to take over
our beloved University or disparage Big Red.
What if next time they spread f--k all over the card section
in bright red letters 40 rows high on a bright yellow
background? Now that might not offend you. It offends me.
But what you or I think doesn't make a whole lot of
difference.
What is important is a lot of those wonderful Big Red fans
who gripe when they think they're going to have to put out
those tax dollars for an addition to academia around here, are
going to be offended.
Harmless prank? Look beyond your nose to all the possible
ramifications. Clearly,, we can't allow this to happen again.
Tom Simpson
UNL band
Ecological zeros
Dear editor,
I do not understand why any of the college age voters
would want to vote for the incumbents in the congressional
delegation or the state legislature.
A recent issue of "Outdoor Life" magazine ranked the
Nebraska congressional delegation at the bottom of the barrel
rationally becauseof the" delegation's attitude in the areas of
conservation and ecology.
But, leave it to uninformed Nebraskans to stand in apathy
while their most beautiful scenery is completely wiped out in
projects that will provide welfare for the rich at the taxpayers'
expense-projects introduced and fully supported by Curtis,
Hruska, Thone, Martin and McCollister.
Although voting out the present state and federal senators
and representatives would be a negative approach to the
problem, it would set the stage for selecting conservation and
ecologically-minded state and federal representatives from
both parties in the next election.
Loren W. Wilson
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