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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1973)
editorial Hfcm Building a future V When students, administrators and staff speak of the quality of life at UNL, they seldom mention one of the most important aspects: the surroundings. The city campus is one of the least attractive elements of an already mediocre university. It is dotted with what must be the largest collection of architectural grotesqueries of any institution of higher learning in the country. It is a state-endorsed eyesore, a blight upon the city. It is enough to make Frank Lloyd Wright roll over, laughing, in his grave. For instance, who is guilty of approving the design for Oldfather Hall? The building is out of place and destroys the symmetry of the four-building complex next to which it stands. It is, in its severe inhumanity, an example of what Norman Mailer calls "welfare architecture." The 12-floor misfit is not an inviting classroom building but a symbol of the impersonal nature of the multiversity. Other examples are rife. Who was responsible for coupling the Administration and Teachers College Bldgs.? Who approved the discordant addition that is to join Love Library? Now it seems the days of this sort of architectural abuse might be numbered. The Board of Regents, in ""oToTTts most laudable actions this year, has established a position canea ine p"yu1 C0Tdheac0oordinator, in effect, will be a campus planner. He will examine ali capital construction proposals for suitability, make cost estimates and judge the compatibility to the rest of the campus of desiqns submitted for proposed buildings. The position will be at the system level and will cost about $42,000 a year, according to regents estimates. , , . . The position will aid the University by helping to save money. The coordinator is to make sure that master plans for the three camouses are followed. The University has commissioned at least three master plans for the Lincoln campus. Neither the 1920 plan, the Seymour plan of 1926, nor the 19b plan has been followed The cost of the three plans must total more than $1 million, although these figures are not available. Now that the position is established, the regents must make a thorough search for the right person to fill it. With the right person, the position could be a turning point for i campus mv.h abused by insensitive architects and short siqmou aummibirdiuii. Michael (O.J.) Nelson 1 Bli. fan - .,. J Mil G.vrjid camera .-. ,, j ; iihi."- gteat interest nor surprise the ,u.:.; ,! .:') (.-'ithned the views of Regent Ed !-v uk'ir u.i alcohol in the dormitories (Daily M. ir., .!-.,!., U--v :V I ike many students, I tire of the i,.nriij ri4?r, l-ko Schwartzkopf espouse ( ', ,. ., ..i.Hj' Mt ; iqhtS GO Ciirr'ptJS. ;!,: pi-.t.i ni; xt lo the article, however ii 'Mil!,', i,c-s ruptured this spirit of seeming .,"!, .-,1 ti... student. Schwartzkopf is pictured , ),.; : . i, t ;'.; head, which no doubt is swimming , t i. of student questions, with his r,.. : .! fini'jc fie i' ly f xe-id'.'d. i ii ijif i.'ujJ.; a thousand words. John Schmidt ,.:!,' ":'!' The photograph of Regent ,!,.'.-. n:h.-:' ii ) Daily Nebraskan file photo. It t.'in meeting. r:-i-: ,:cn ration 1 . , III ut , h,. , but i jy! Uon't you know there's an energy 'i'l'iin to eipgnrV in fashion nurtures the .',,;.v, 'wri':,n daydream that we can continue, as ,;. ( ..it ? t . rj world's population, usi ng 50 per ,, m :!,: wood's annual production of natural !.. out P'at's the waie theme as Cadillac's current ' (..- ..j ij:.. I:'s out of touch. You're trying to yin . .(.,;, ,.!u,!'.!,'t ?tk.? grat. vision to see an impending ii'.,' 't.' i'.'Oi oatt keep warm economically John A. Hansen Co!cn:jl dreams s 1 arr'-i should have? worn his glasses . ,-Hin.fj o the "finr? print" in your "All's . 1 1 r in I (Daily Nsbraska'n, Nov. 8). I, f.'.r i', ii'ii ftmiliar with the events which i ,nv foiiuwfcd tlwj 1967 Mideast War. Israel's ,:.! ; sn'i.-tt ,ir l.ni jn; of the sovereignty and .ii,.: fiteqriry of th Arab countries is a disgrace ,-. ,(r.;u.i IfiW. 3'nce when dos Israel deserve ..! "inviolable" territorial rights when she has ti-.nied thi-m to the Arabs? It is not the .!) In-'!' epanded their borders to i, i lod'ii n.ure leadily any new influx of rf rit'.. !', ' i")!n,;ro" of the Arab countries both by . I try rmdh-tj parties and her dictatorial '.. in! i w,n .! the wnfines of intprnational law Urit'..' rj, it ions' resolutions, deprive her of all !. ..? t'iut.'-.t ut Arab retaliation, i p ; started fjerause ot the massive oi l,rjl! forces on th Syrian lxider, to 'i th" m;jI) ccuntrirs responded. The military , : , i, i .vliic h Krr.cl co"i a:s her neighbors may . ' i1 : '. Z.i-vJ- i, hut he, and for that matter, 1 i., t .i-ji.i' th.it Israel only cun expect reciprocal treatment from the Arabs. If Zariski believes there can be any lasting peace without the settlement of the Palestinian problem, I suggest that he is dreaming old colonial dreams. The extermination of the Palestinian nation and the liquidation of the Palestinian identity are not light matters to be discarded by the world's conscience simply because they do not fit into the Zionist scheme. Israeli Premier Golda Meir's statement that Palestinians do not exist is surely a sign of Israel's morally criminal perspective. The settlement or the Palestinian problem does not mean, nor ever has meant, an extermination of the Jews in Israel. The Arabs are willing to leave that system of social injustice to Israel's posterity, since it has been a part of her sociai policies in the past 25 years. "Handing Israel over to the Palestinian guerrillas," indeed! Zariski should take a closer look at the Palestinians: a sad people, torn and scattered by Zionist ambitions and destitute almost beyond hope. The Palestinians are an entire nation, with women, children, old, young and all the other components of a full society. If Zariski means, by the guerrillas, the terrorists, he should feel part of the shame which this world must share for the sheer dejection and hopelessness which has led to this horrible desperation. The Arabs do not condone terrorism in any form. But they under-tand that Poif.stinian terrorism is the direct result of 20 years of indifference and neglect by a powerful We.iem world wh'ch sings of peace while swinging the sword. Once Palestinian misery is ended, so will end their icar and thus the terrorism of this people For Zai iski'r. information, a just and equitable peace is one in winch the Arubs aie not buried beneath Zionism's r;ta.,t ambitions, and in which Arab and Jew una' ago in can live side by side by equals, as they have done through history. The specter oi war and -nilitarism now reigning must be exorcised. Respect for the human l ights of all men is surely the magi;:. Ihsar. Rochid V Tim D-Vly' Nrf'"v!l. r. i uMfrh.vt' by tho Piji;!'ra'ir.n', C.o;ii'ii:U'-' o.i Mcnriay, Wcdriovday. '''hurstl.iy i:nu r't',tJ-?v 'I toiiybo-. t 1M' fintufin piirJ spring v:iti.; ',, ,.H''t i o'i iiolkVys or:' tltirin'i vacations, Copyiis'.t. 19:, ll n Doilv UtibrarUnr.. Mi,;rU "y (!()ri r ,i ' vlrtiout i.cni)5ii)i i- at trtlwted to thfi D.Jily W'-.fir.tskl. f-xr.-fjur.tj rui.rr it owproi bv another f cv rl.l: t. Second f in'.-. .osi.v,-2 p.it'-J '.T Liiitc'ln, N-U. Addr,ss : T r. Diiv f.Jbr;ska n, Mh.r.v' r Union 34. 14ti aw. I( St.'., L.ii r.i.-lr N.-r.r. f,fi:..;e ",'! phnpr-402-47? ?.b'U. siting- fwrtv bodcv'. . . youp seme &r im.tu BACK TD HET BO&oeRl J 0 81 HI i m I V r . X ASWXI 3KI IK 1111 V i E lllf IlUll U lit ' 'I J" y f i daily nebraskan vvodr. r,t;'j?v, novotitxir 14, HD73
