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Joe opposes inheritance
Dear President: I, Joe Sikspak, American, take
pen in hand to stick a fly in your ointment. I
think you should ought to do away with this
inherited wealth.
I am down to Paddy's Place when the tee-vee
says -how Aristotle On as sis has gone to his
reward. "And how does that make you feel,
Paddy T says I.
"Not good, not bad, Joe," says Paddy. "He
may have been the finest man in the world, for
all I know. But he was rich. And that's two
strikes against him."
"You don't want to be rich, Paddy?" says I.
"In life, it is fine thing, Joe," says Paddy,
"But when the Grim Reaper comes for you, it is
decided handicap. You remember when Banker
Billswort passed on? There wasn't a wet eye in
the house."
"We didn't none of us know him, Paddy."
"That we didn't, Joe. But we knew he was the
richest man in five states. And our grief was
Automatically tempered by the suspicion he
didn't get that way by . practicing The Golden
Rule."
"You're right about that, Paddy," says I. "But
it don't seem fair. As I remember, he left a wife
and kids like many before him."
"That he did, Joe. And after he expired
following his long illness, his bereaved wife flew
all the way home from Miami Beach, where she
had been recuperating from his suffering, to be
here for the funeral and the will reading."
"Surely, Paddy," says I, "she was grateful for
all the things he done for her."
"Particularly that he didn't do anything
foolish," says Paddy, "like leaving his money to
charity."
"Well, Paddy, it's like the poet says, death is
the Great Equalizer."
"The poet's wrong there, Joe. Death is the
Great Unequalizer. You recall that three-day
wake we held when Dooley Doolittle shuffled off
this mortal coil?"
"Ah, good old Dooley," says I, raising my
glass. "When I think of that same elephant joke
he always told and the way. . ."
"You see, Joe? You didn't think of him as a
rich man or as a poor man. You thought of him
as a human being with human failings and human
virtues. We'll be talking fondly of old Dooley
long after Banker Billswort is only a brass plaque
on the bank."
"And Dooley's missus and the kids was at his
bedside," says I.
"That they were, Joe. And there was enough
weeping and wailing between them to insure St.
Peter would be holding open the Pearly Gates
when Dooley arrived."
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"He must have been a fine husband and
father," says I, "to stir up such grief in his loved
ones."
"That, joe," says Paddy, nodding, "and the
fact he didn't leave them a bean."
So that's what I got against inherited wealth,
President. The trouble with it, like Paddy says, is
that when you go it leaves everybody, including
your survivors, with mixed feelings.
Truly Yours,
Joe Sikspak, American
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1975)
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Editorialists pegged
as political cowards
Editor's note: The following is the opinion of Vince Powers.
Like many other students, I spent a pleasant spring break
visiting friends who attend other universities. Noticing the great
differences between campuses, I decided to find out why UNL is so
backward. The Daily Nebraskan has provided the answers for me.
The remarks of Ken Bader, the Council on Student Life's
rejection of 24-hour visitation and the editorials and columnists in
the Daily Nebraskan all demonstrate adequately why this campus is
in sad shape.
The most important outlet for student opinion is the student
newspaper and the most important tool for instituting change on a
campus is student government. Unfortunately, we have no student
government at UNL, and instead of helping to attain
self-government the political cowards on the Daily Nebraskan
would rather kick ASUN while it's down.
Students have a right to self-government. They do not have to
ask the regents for anything because we are the university-without
us, Bader, you would be on the street looking for a job along with
a few landlords, bar owners, restaurant owners, cops, etc. Bader
does not identify what the best interests of the community are, but
it is easy enough to see it is the administrators and groups such as
the Alumni Association who were the beneficiaries of $20,000 of
student fees money over the objections of the Fees Allocation
Board. Until students demand that the ASUN Senate be given
control over the Fees Allocation Board, there will be no student
government.
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The students on CSL can best be described as sellouts. Instead
of telling the dormies to fight for their rights they told them to
wait. Twenty-four hour visitation and alcohol on campus are trivial
issues which should have been decided years ago. CSL should
advise dormies to grab a few kegs of beer, a couple hundred people,
a good dancing band and head over to any women's residence hall
for an all night party. Civil disobedience can be a lot of fun.
Thus the problem comes down to the Daily Nebraskan. Does
the editor advise the ASUN Senate to meet in the chancellor's
office, since he's the man who makes the final decisions? No, he
writes about important issues like religious preference cards. With
the exception of Amy Struthers, there is not one editorialist who is
willing to fight for a change. The rest of the staff is content to
solve the problems of the world.
Well, the world thanks you for your advice now how about the
problems of this University? I can excuse the amateur job of
reporting in the paper, but I cannot excuse political cowardice.
This university will remain in a time warp until the staff of the
Daily Nebraskan realizes that we, as students, can not liberate the
world. But we can liberate the ground we stand upon.
Vince Powers
1432 Rose St.
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