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ainting pledges
It's most gratifying that Omaha's Joslyn Art
..Museum's board of trustees has elected to pay its bills
by trying to raise money within Omaha rather than sell
some of its most valuable paintings as originally
planned.
But it's unfortunate that the community had to be
virtually goaded into pledging financial help for Joslyn,
which is likely to suffer a $74,200 budget deficit this
year.
The paintings that were to be sold were from an old
masters collection. A trustee of the museum leaked
word that the Joslyn executive committee had
recommended the sale of the masterpieces, which
triggered community protest.
In turn, the public response apparently prompted the
decision to declare a moratorium on plans to put the
paintings up for sale, although some have speculated
that the sale scare was intended to gain publicity for
Joslyn 's financial plight.
The museum can safety claim that its collection,
particularly that of Renaissance art,, is the best in
Nebraska, if not the Midwest. The decision not to sell
the art does not remedy the museum's financial woes,
however, for no concrete plans have yet been
formulated to raise the needed funds. And there's no
guarantee that Omaha interests by themselves can
generate the amount needed to maintain both the
museum and the quality of its art.
Hopefully, assistance will be offered by patrons of
the arts throughout the Midwest, not only in the Omaha
area. And the means of sustenance must not be a 1-time
affair. One official has predicted that the Joslyn deficit
could be as much as $189,950 by 1979.
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Double duty?
Dear editor,
So Tim Evensen, is now Residence Hail Assoc.
(RHA) president. Hopefully, he will do as good a job
as Carolyn Grice, and I wish him luck, because
Carolyn did a great job. But he also Is an ASUN
rmmr:' Rapefutfy he will do as good a Job there, f
don't think he will.
The job of an ASUN senator is immense. Weekly
. senate meetings, numerous committee meetings,
discussions with members of his college (constituents)
all pile up. Most senators who resigned last year said
something like, "Boy, I didn't think it would take
that much time."
And then there is RHA. Grice probably would
advise him to drop ASUN, because RHA needs more
time than ASUN does. Being president of 5,000
residence hall residents is almost a full-time Job itself.
Meetings with the chancellor, Housing Office
officials, regents. Council on Student Life, complex
v. program directors, and everyone' brother pi us
weekly RHA meetings. It all adds up.
And Evensen proposes to do both. I'm not saying
he can't. Not knowing him well enough to judge, I
give him all benefits of the doubt. He probably will
make a valiant effort to do both.
But he also is running for regent. Is it possible to
do all three? And be a student? If he does a good job
in his offices, he'll flunk out, or if he minds his
studies, he'll louse up his other commitments.
It is not fair to Evensen or his constituents for him
to hold three or maybe two of these positions. Before
everything gets underway and it's too late, for the
sake of ASUN, RHA, the Board of Regents, his
constituents and himself, he should reconsider his
goals, abilities, time schedule and efficiency and, if
necessary, resign from the pmt-4ewt"4mpwtO'
him. It is better to resign now and later find that you
didn't have to, then not to resign and be forced out in
midstream. fee! it would be to the advantage of Us
all.
Clay Statmore
Stating the facts
Dear editor.
At a time when the importance of Impartial
reporting is becoming increasingly recognized, I was
very disappointed to note an editorial and a column
regarding the current controversy at the University
Health Center (Daily Nebraska n, M.ch 18).
Although this controversy has been in existence for at
least a year, there have been no articles in the Daily
Nebraskan that have attempted to look at the
problem, and separate facts from personal opinions
and perspectives. And yet, despite this lack of news
coverage, both the editor of the Daily Nebraskan and
one of the paper's regular columnists, John O'Shea,
have editorialized on the Issue in an attempt to sway
student opinion. O'Shea in particular has presented
an obviously-biased column without bothering to
provide the student body with the facts from which
they may form their own opinions. The presentation
he gives Indicates that perhaps he did not even bother
to discover all of the facts for himself.
Although the editorial staff of a . newspaper is
certainly allowed to express an opinion on an issue, it
-not that papeTrryi',fomt"m opinion for its
readers. In the future I hope the Daily Nebraskan will
adequately present an issue (including e!l the
perspectives) before arty, attempt, is made to
editorialize on that issue.
Ann K. Henry
Editor's note: The Daily Nebraskan does not
include forming an opinion for its readers among its
responsibilities. Editorials and columns represent the
opinion of the person who signs them. They are not
bound to the journalistic ideal of impartiality and are
most effective if they stimulate thought or action,
which was the intent of the March 18 editorial and
column.
America's love affair with Howard Coseli
Howard CoseSI has announced he is considering
becoming a United States senator from New York,
And quite rightly.
ttZnt "T " sportscastcr, " CoseSI has ' acquired V
tremendous ' following among sports fans-most of
them, when it comes to Coseli, rabid.
- Moreover, he says he is "getting literally thousands
of letters from all over the country" urging him to
run for senator in New York, several of which may
even have come from New York.
His qualifications are unassailable. "I feci I am
U extremely knowledgeable," he says modestly, "shout
very avtnue of life." Which just shows the
' educational value of Monday night football.
v" The only question, then, is that with all Coseli has
" ' " ' g.,ing for him as a political leader, why is he willing to
start at the very bottom as a humble United States
' senator? '
'1 ?f As might be expected, Coseli replies that he is
, making this great self-sacrifice for the good of the
country.
f " 8m a deeply sensitive man," he says, and that is
a fact that he has never once attempted to hide. "I
.'fhmk the country need? nonpartisan organization
Vi :.,.'p&M. people with sound moral backgrounds, people
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with soma idealism, people who care. I think the
country desperates y needs such people."
And after all, there aren't many such people lika
CoseSI around.
orthur hoppe
But should a grateful nation allow Coseli to toss
aside his brilliant caieer commenting on the legs of
the middle linebacker in return for the demeaning
obscurity of a U.S. senatorship?
Should his fdmlliar voice which has riveted
millions of Americans on Monday nights echo
forevermore only in the empty chambers of the
Senate? Is this, then, the office ha should run for?
"It wouldn't be fair," cries one of his millions of
fans. "Due to an unfortunate accident of geography,
only tb people of New York would have an
diiiy ncbr.'ka,-)
opportunity to vote against him."
Nol It is clear that duo to his ingrained humility,
Cosfcll has set his sighjtt too tow. ii should shoot, at
the very least, for the presidency.
As a candidate for president, Coseli is the man for
the times. He is precisely what this unexty country
needs.
In the past decade, the majority of us have elected
in landslides of love presidents whom the majority of
us have come to hate.
Nothing is more unsettling than to cuss out a
president only to be reminded you vctsd for him in
the first place. This is destroying our faith in our
political judgment. With our faith in our political
judgment eroded, is it any wonder we're losing faith
in the 'other politicians we've elected? Is it any'
wonder the pofls show wa trut our politicians even
less than our used car salesmen?
Our fragile democracy cannot survive the
disappointment md disillusionment of joyously
ejecting another president we wM only come to hate,
' . Therefore, I say, draft Howard Coseli for
president. He's the one man in the country who
won't disappoint us. : ....
(Copy'ljht CHrwlc. f fubllshirto Co.
friday, march 22, 1974
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