editorio
Longer interim needed
U,it Chancel lor James Zumbcrge has
given Ins "sweater speech," and if heating oil
shortages continue ho might be forced tc
deliver an "overcoat address." If he does, one
of the vvi-.esi measures he could announce
that wo1.
-.v:.r:kr.
In conserve energy would be the
if ;!;; mtPiim by at least two
Sue'-.
a i-'ove, which reportedly is beinq
cos '.sidered, coulc! save the University as many
as LuO,000 gallons of fuel. It also would save
r,.'y',t'y on electricity, since ionger days at the
end uf ti
I. '!U'n; lev
lengthened school year would
it1 ri lights.
Gi' iir-i ;,a vinos could be brought about
t: r- '.'( ,) !l,s-) consolidation of all Saturday and
riMKu cic'.isfes into a few buildings. The longer
;i!terin; should provide more time for
! ) ! . v o rs ty adiTiinistrators and academic
..jviP'TS to do this.
Other evergy-saving benefits would come
from the lengthened school year. Better
weather during more of the year would mean
students could bicycle, hitchhike or walk to
school, thus saving gasoline.
The lengthened interim and subsequent
energy savings also would be a gesture of
goodwill by the University toward the people
of Nebraska, since it would free more heating
oil for home use.
While this plan has its advantages, it also
has its drawbacks. Students wouldn't have an
early summer vacation and so would have less
time to earn money for the next year.
But the merits of such a move outweigh
the drawbacks. If the University faces the sort
of fuei shortage that has been predicted,
lengthening the interim would be one of the
wisest measures possible.
Michael (O.J.) Nelson
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Don 1 just sit there; Lincoln
in winter offers diversity
'"i. (. S'.'fjii.mlier, whon a list of thing'", to
'o 1 1. 'rti, n; ),)'.'.) i.-i this space, a lot of
?f ,!.. iv.'. :;!Hi'i-:j'ifi. Trui- to expectations,
'! f W'ainot f.jr (ro".'n increasingly colder,
ti- .- :(! sea. ion ho drawn nearly to a
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8t:-to;nc; i! jl.v iys wu. t.hwhile in winter
nd L:i;f.i.ilu lias some gie.'n bookstores. The
'u ' .s oti c :i'r.pi. ?rn't bad. Akirlmia, for
iMr.M".j .iii :o fasci ting.
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dancers at the Morocco to a six pack to ao
are a dozen great places to meat people. The
idea 01 hundreds of students, truck drivers,
and janitors getting together on one street to
learn from each other is tremendously
appealing.
The Nebraska Union, for all its
imperfections, is still worth visiting. The
coffee in the little machine on the west side
of tl; Crib serving line makes better coffee
than the big machine for some reason. It's a
hassle having to get a cup from the other
side, but at 16 cents no one should have to
dunk cotfe'j from a foam container.
Lincoln's taxi system is surprisingly
efficient and inexpensive. That's worth
remembering if it's Saturday night and home
is somewhere besides downtown. A cab also
is a way of alleviating one of the most
ludicrous sights in the city: people who have
spent ten minutes getting downtown driving
for half an hour to find a parking space.
LiticuM has some u the tirost buildings
in Nebraska and the great thing about being
an architecture fan is that it doesn't cost
anything. The Capitol Building is a free
lesson in high quality visual art for aryoe.
Tall (jlass rectangles are lazy arcl'titO'CUm:-,
the County -City Building, Use NU
Systems Suilding and the First National
Sank are iwst ignored. Go, instead, to
Sheldon Art Gallery and see how a museum
director and an architect reconciled their
differences. Norman Gesky and Philip
Johnson have produced a useful building
that also is one of the most beautiful in
Nebi aska.
The Charhe Chaplin films in that
building, by the way, are said to be all they
should b;;; a careful look at one of America's
gieat geniuses If college means anything, it
means discovering other people's ideas of
tiuth. Chaplin's views afe among the finest
and are as masterful today as they were
when his films were made.
Doing nothing is no longer ; good
suggestion. Theio's enough of doing nothing
going on a!;eady and it's a bore. Do
something, somewhere, and do it well.
fin tJir5KSfe- '
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.f-WsF ) " Ufj
Maternal slavery
Dear editor,
Pat Bouse of Family Services was reported as saying that
the rights of the father who may want to adopt his child while
the mother desires an abortion, are still in question. I am sure
this is true in Nebraska.
However, this past summer in Florida a judge ruled that
forcing a woman to carry a child was involuntary servitude,
which is unconstitutional and comes frighteningly close to
slavery.
When will people realize that abortion is to be a matter
between a woman and her doctor?
Jim Baiters
Last word
Dear editor,
I want to call you to task for an editorial sin you
committed in the Nov. 2 issue. In it, a letter from Allen
Zimmerman accused your editorship of political bias and
rldiiting the news, citing specifically a public opinion poll the
Daily IMebraskan had conducted and published concerning the
demise of the Nixon regime.
Your printed response to that letter was similar to the
double-talk fmm the White House which you so rightly and
skillfully criticise.
You didn't respond to the general charges of bias and
slanting the news. You are biased. If you discovered
information about Nixon that when published would add the
very last straw to the back of th presidency, you'd lie awake
all night relishing your victory.
Zimmei man's specific criticism of your unscientific
(therefore possibly biased) polling lechuiaue was intended as
an example of slanting the news. He's right: if you were
pro-Nixon the poll would have had an entirely different tone.
Zimmerman's charges show nothing but his own naivete.
Of course an editor is biased. And any human work is shaped
from the biases of its maker.
Zimmerman's charges stem from a naive belief in
objectivity. Behind his charges however, was the tone of
complaint that your editorship is steamrolling his views. The
complaint of steami oiling could have been nullified by simply
printing the lettci and letting it stand.
Instead, you choose to squash Mr. Zimmerman with a
doubletalking last word on the subject. A complaining letter
writer always has the disadvantage. Having the last word is an
editor's prerogative and the use of that power displays the
editor's basic sense of fairness.
In your "Editor's note" you said, "It (the poll) was based
on random man-on-the-street interviews." Overlooking the
vagueness of the verb "was based," this sentence states in
essence, "We were fair."
But in the very next sentence you state, "In no way should
the survey be considered a scientific sampling." This tone is
obnoxious, as if to say: "You idiot (Zimmerman), do you
think the Daily Nebraskan can hire George Gallup?" And it
contradicts the phrase in the sentence before it: "random
man-on-the-street interviews." Was the poll random or not?
Scientifically random or "intuitively" random?
Your editor's note is double talk. It's supercilious, and it's
defensive where no defense is necessary. It exemplifies the
kind of steamroller posture Zimmerman was complaining
about.
I hope that you and editots across the nation will press the
attack on Nixon until that scoundrel and his cronies are put
out to pasture.
mm
Willie Morrissey
daily nebraskan
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