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Dear editor: The alterations currently being
wreaked upon the otherwise inoffensive and
occasionally useful visitors' parking lot between the
Nebraska Union and the Administration Building
bring to mind that famous bit of Vietnam humor
which implied that destroying a village in order to
save it was not an unreasonable course of action.
Could not these changes have been done more easily
and with less inconvenience for all concerned during
the summer?
Nosy Parker
What is a bloodbath
Dear editor:
Where on earth did you get Bruce Nelson? Does he
normally write like he did Monday? This is the first
time I can recall reading in a paper, any paper, that
the best thing that could happen to a people is a
massacre. Where did this guy grow up and who were
his friends-Vlad the Impaler? Does he really believe
what he so casually writes or was the headline and
several columns of loosely associated premises and
conclusions just something you inserted as filler?
Maybe he does? What's worse is that there may be
others that agree with his attitude.
What is a bloodbath anyway? Is it a beauty
treatment a country can take like a milkbath to get
rid of unsightly wrinkles in the populace to improve
the government's image? How many quarts are
necessary to wash the countryside? Who will supply
them? Men? Women? Children? Is one enough or are
additional treatments necessary such as purges or
"cultural revolutions?" -
If it's good for one country, will it help others as
well? If so maybe the. IRA could take one in north
Ireland. Or how abcut the PLO in Israel?
Could it do the United States any good? Mow
about one for the blacks in the south given by the
KKK? If one had been given in the fifties, there
would have been no riots in the sixties. Maybe we
should treat the Indians of Wounded Knee to one?
I'm sure that the more fanatical members of the SLA
and the YAF would like to have one on each other
sometime. Why not let them. It will solve their
differences once and for all.
I saw pictures on one "modest" bloodbath that
Black September had on a jetliner several years ago. I
heard one of the survivors say that a crewman only
had time to shout a warning to the passengers before
the grenades went off. This one required over four
hundred quarts. None of the donors could be reached
to verify this.
A bloodbath is a quick and simple solution for
one's problems. This is providing you are either the
initiator or a victim. For the survivors, it's another
story.
Nelson, you remind me of someone like Neville
Chamberlain or Pontius Pilate-a wishy-washy
politican who doesn't have the guts to protest truly
wanton slaughter. . Where are all those idealistic
humanitarians who demonstrated against the
bombing of Hanoi? Will they do the same if the NLF
turns on Saigon?
Anyone who comes out with statements like those
I read in the Daily Nebraskan last Monday should get
first hand experience before he opens his mouth. For
Nelson and anyone else who's saying, "I'll be glad
when its 'all over," 111 start a donation fund to
purchase one-way tickets over there in time for the
festivities.
Remember the Hue 1 ,500?
It could be that you ain't seen nothin yet.
C. B. Pelto
Clingenpee! history unsettled
Dear editor:
Now that Ron Clingenpeel is no longer ASUN
President and student regent, he may consider all of
his business completed and history. But there is one
bit of history that is still unsettled. This he tried to
sweep under the carpet, to hide in an anonymous
committee that was always "meeting and just about
ready to report on its findings."
What I am talking about is Josh. This paper.was
deluged with letters from Jesus freaks, atheists and
everyone else in between. Personally, I feel that the
Regents policy on religion is contradictory to other
statements on Ireeidom of speech and the freedom of
education in the university community.
I really doubt if the committee ever existed in the
first place. And secondly, I think that Clingenpeel did
not want this issue to tarnish his administration's
record. I am now publicly asking Ron Clingenpeel to
reveal his mysterious committee on Josh and the
finding of this committee to the university
community. I do not appreciate anybody making
decisions for me on what I should know and what is
in my best interest!
Tim Evensen
Two problems mixed
Dear editor:
I really enjoyed Chuck Strinz's letter (Daily
Nebraskan, April 7). Why make "Such an issue over a
harmless cartoon? It isn't worth all this mess! But it
gives us the opportunity of discussing relations
between foreign and American students. I would like
to add just a few points.
Yes, you're quite right, Chuck! There's nothing to
be upset about in this cartoon. And if you've read me
carefully, you would notice I made a point of saying
it in the first sentence of my second paragraph. I even
have to say I gently smiled when I read the Ralph in
question! Consequently, I also have to disagree with
Ms. SiLhasek's reaction.
"Equating the serious situation of political
propaganda in America's schools with the Ralph in
question is a little like comparing heroin and pot."
That's right, Chuck! I tell you what: for me this
cartoon was the opportunity to do a good English
exercise (you gave me a second one!) and to express
my "mental discomfort" about a political situation!
But I have to agree that it wasn't the perfect
opportunity.
Well, we are quite in accord, aren't we? Almost!
The only fact you may not realize is this: there is a
difference between European students, like me, and
Arabs or others. As for me, I never had to complain
about any prejudices because of being a foreign
student. But I know there are some prejudices against
non European student s
See, Chuck, the Ralph cartoon also mixed two
problems: one is funny and one is not.
. Ben Aymon
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