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Exon baits the hook
Nebraska Gov. J. James Exon held out the bait
Monday and the Unicameral nearly bit off his arm in
its rush to take it. Exon spoke to the senators'
morning session and offered the possibility of lower
state sales and income tax rates if the Legislature will
accept his budget recommendations, LB259,
unamended.
The senators then proceeded to advance the
appropriations measure to final reading, the last step
before enactment into law. Legislators also approved
a resolution introduced bv Scottsbluff Sen. Terry
Carpenter which calls for final adjournment of the
Unicameral for the year after the budget bill and two
state salary bills have been approved.
If Monday's vote stands and the senators go home
for good at the end of this week, more than 200
pieces of legislation would be left pending until the
Unicameral reconvenes in 1974. Included among
those measures still awaiting legislative action are a
state minimum wage proposal, the student regent bill
and other measures dealing with capital punishment,
child abuse, penal reform abortion regulations,
additional state aid to schools and a reorganization
of the state's vocational technical colleges. There
would be no funding for capital improvements in the
coming fiscal year. The University of Nebraska
appropriation would be more than $1 million below
the recommendation of the Appropriations
Committee.
Carpenter and his compatriots appear determined
to make their point with Exon and let him and "the
people understand what a frugal government is. "I
don't think they really want it, but this is the only
way to find out," Carpenter said Monday. If the
senators continue on their present course, they just
might impress their point of view upon the chief
executive. But their point will be made at the expense
of Nebraska's citizens and to the detriment of
whatever reality or chance of progressive government
exists in this state.
Tom Lansworth
Sick of life ?
Make it more
make-believe
As Shaman Jack Vinson has tt-vuulod to us,
existence ir, ically a "low budget" movie peopled
mostly by androids. We few humans aie unwitting
character s in tdi', Miovii- dner.ted by "them," the
pet petr ators of tin.- ho.'i ' of r x i ' tence.
T hi; Shim."i 1 1 il'.o revealed to us th.it a great deal of
the UNL Campus is ,..( t, illy hoioqtams, 3D images
projected by laser beams. He named Henhk Hall and
the Administration Builditm .is t he most prominent
hologi ;ims on campus.
Most Stil'iciits .VOtlld jfiei; with 1 he Shaman that
the Uniw.it is a "low budget movie." Students
don't like to stud, take tests 01 do much of anything
('it .'ill. fJeve' t hel"ss, we (got. ten: to put up with these
i nr;cjn V'-I'i '0 r iCC'S .
The citizens of the statu of Nebraska think the
University is a high budget movie, what with all the
English professors with long hair lounging about with
their students, free love, demonstrations and the like.
They aie sick of this high budget movie. What is the
answer to this dilemma? How can we make
have buildings ten times taller than buildings
r.nvwhere else in the world!
Third, hologiarn piojertion equipment would cost
only a fraction of what the present operating costs of
thtf University die What savings for the citizens of
Nebraska'
Fourthly, and most important, is Nebraska
football. Presently we luive such an incompetent
coaching staff that we lost; a game now and then.
Also, the games tend to be veiy boring, with
Nebiaska slaughtering the other team 70 0 or with
Nebraska getting beat in a low-scoring defensive
battle. With a hologram football team the impossible
would become the; hue hoax of reality. Nebraska
could be down 56 0 with two minutes left and then
win with ten ninety yard hologram TD passes.
With such fantastic possibilities for the University
through the use of holograms, mu can hardly keep
from speculating about the use of holograms in other
areas, for example, in our state of Nebraska.
It is well known that Nebr3skans have an
inferiority complex, and with good reason! After all,
we don't have any great ocean fooaches, ski slopes,
etc. And are any great scandals, crimes, immorality
and other such things of high culture likely to happen
in a state populated mainly by farmers? Of course
not.
Remember, with holograms and in Hollywood,
anything is possible! We can go out and take a picture
of the best of the Swiss Alps and Rocky Mountains
and flash these as hologram mountains anywhere he
want. We can have a hologram Riviera, Mount
Everest, glacier, ram forest or whatever. We can have
skiing, beaches, jungles and the Arctic Ocean within
minutes of each other! We can replace Zero Street in
Lincoln with Champs-Elysees, the state capitol with
the Eiffel Tower1 And people think Disney World is
exciting.
Of course, Nebraska will become the envy of the
whole world. If a certain power-hungry individual
would desire our state, all we need do is threaten to
bomb him with our air force of hologram B-52's.
From the time Nebraska becomes the first
hologram state, Nebraskans can shed their inferiority
complex and become the masters of the world.
Anyone who speaks ill of Nebraska will have to eat
their words, among other things.
bob russell
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everybody happy?
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the directors of this
'evdents of the hologram
H' n't the culpiits. After all,
e .ind bodies to run simple
rent.
what to rlo with the
lo.v budget mo; v. AM ve must do is elaborate on an
idea "them" f,s'i"d to devc'np. Why not turn the
Whole Uni.eisity bu: d.-igs, students and all - into a
g;ant hologMm' flviik of the possibilities,
Fust of all, the ti ein nrlou , :r:convcn ionce of
having people on campus will be eliminated.
Hologram people v.sll be m n.h cheaper and more
efficient than andioids. To satisfy the citizens of
Nebraska, all the hologi .un students can be nicely
dressed and have neatly , mimed hair. Howevei, as
politician1; need (amp.rgu issues and as the people
must be entertained and magnd from time to time,
demonstrations, ladical speaker, and sex oigies in the
dorrns can bo staged, as tu-i be.
Secondly, the architectural horrors present on the
campus can be eliminated and replaced with beautiful
hologram buildings. As am- r.y is possible in
Hollywood, several of the buildings could be a
thousand or more stories high so that Lincoln would
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d.tily n.'brj',k,iri
Wednesday, april 18, 1973