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Dear editor:
Ron Wylie deserves considerable praise for his
stories in the Midweek section of the April 2 Daily
Nebraskan.
In finding out about actual Police practices with
regard to reports of harassment, Wylie made the
effort to talk to and even spend time with people
who had first hand knowledge of police procedures
and policy. I have yet to see such a fair job of
reporting on this subject in the Lincoln newspaper to
which I subscribe.
It is unfortunate that rumor and hearsay have
provided the basis for much of the criticism against
the Lincoln Police .Department. It is also unfortunate
that many Lincoln citizens probably did not have the
opportunity to read Wylie's stories in the Daily
Nebraskan.
Mary Wilson
Reviews one-sided
Dear editor:
I send this letter in defense of the music-loving
people that must read your paper's reviews. You can
knock some of the unknowns all you want, but when
you start on noted musicians you also knock the
people that enjoy their music. Your reviews are too
one-sided, not taking in what someone else that has
heard their other albums and knows what they're
talking about can say.
When you recommend that we don't buy an
album, I usually do because it is good no matter what
your closed mind says. Of course, I am talking about
the Led Zeppelin review. They were around before
you and wUl be here after you. They know music
better and what the people want to hear more .than
any group around in my opinion.
I have their new album and several of the old ones.
They have not decreased in ability but increased in
flexibility. There is not one person that I have talked
to that heard it that doesn't like it in one way or
another. I even took it to the bar I work at and
played it on the sound system and all it took was a
few songs and everyone was asking me what it was I
played.
You judge far too fast and don't listen to the
people or what they like.
Mack Clark
Not taken in
Dear editor:
It should be plain to anyone who read Wylie's
whole account of the police-D.W.I. matter that the
reporter wasn't taken in by anyone, as Gary
Papenhagen suggests in his letter of last week. After
all Wylie does say- that the policemen were
manufactured by Jack Webb.
In another section also, Wylie as much as says that
a police inspector is a liar.
I think a negative reaction to your coverage of the
police procedures can only be because reporter Wylie
didn't say what many people want to hear.
Rob Dark
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Pampered prejudice
Dear editor:
Very little except the "Oly" commercials ever
catch my attention in the student newspaper,
however that record was broken when I read Ralph in
the April 1 1 issue of the Daily Nebraskan.
What I take issue with is the last name of Ralph's
"major minority" friends and their appearance. I feel
the last name and description are such obvious
indicators of the characters' race that I . took
immediate offense to the cartoon.
And as if that was not enough, the physical
characteristics only added insult to injury. The
chocolate brothers? (the cartoon seems so busy in
other departments that kinship is not established
clearly in my mind). Thick lips and kinky hair? All
they need are tap shoes and pieces of watermelon in
their hands!!!
That's all they need, that is to complete the
stereotype of black people. While I seemed to have
discerned the point of the cartoon as being that all
black people don't talk in idioms all the time, my
point is that neigher do they all look or dress alike.
It would seem to me to be enough that most white
people on this campus have negative feelings toward
black people and other minorities as it is without the
student newspaper pampering these feelings under the
guise of humor.
Claudette Merrell
Paulette Merrell
Marijuana reform
Dear editor:
Marijuana is fast becoming an issue of major
importance among dissenting opinioned youths and
others and increasingly a thorn in the side of the
establishment. When will the lawmakers realize the
time has long past for imprisoning and furthermore
punishing the members of society who do not wish to
corrupt society, rather only hear the beat of a
different drummer and are marching to it? When are
the people in power going to assume their role as
leaders and try to patch the differences between their
fellow brothers and sisters and start treating them like
brothers and sisters?
The time has come for a reasonable form of
government action on the issue of reforming the
marijuana laws in this state and this country. Heeding
the cries of the American youth is not surrender of
vanity but a sign of understanding reality and dealing
with it in the best interests of all Americans.
Marijuana is an issue which is fast becoming an item
pitting people of all walks of life against one another.
This is simply a request for the lawmakers to patch
the wounds our legal narrow-mindedness" is causing
and start the healing process. How American political
leaders can sleep at night when these divisions in
policy and reality grow wider apart day by day,
without institution corrective legislation, is beyond
my comprehension.
Dennis M. Johnson
Two alternatives
Dear editor: ,
I have just completed reading Joe Dreesen's
column in today's Daily Nebraskan. Having traveled
from one coast to the other on three different
occasions, I have enjoyed the opportunity to visit
many campuses of higher educational institutions as a
tourist. With this experience I feel free to offer
limited support to Dreesen's opinion concerning the
beauty of our campus at LOSfL.
If Dreesen honestly believes his education here
parallels his opinion of the beauty of our campus, I
would like to offer two alternatives: the application
of more personal effort or another campus.
' Bill Zook
Functional eyesore
Dear editor:
Concerning the editorial by Joe Dreesen entitled
"Beauty Forgotten on Campus", I say a "puke!"
What's all this crap about beauty on campus? What
this campus needs isn't mure beauty-what it needs
are more parking lots! Guys like Dreesen just don't
seem to be able to see the forest for the trees. What
trees? There aren't any. This campus has been ugly
for a long, long time and no amount of plopped-in
flowers and trees are going to help it one bit. As long
as UNL is going to be an eyesore, it might as well be a
functional eyesore .
When I and countless other commuter students
drive to school in the morning and are actually able
to find a place to park, well, to us, that's beauty.
May Truth, Beauty and Wisdom fill up that
parking stall you otherwise would have gotten, Joe
Dreesen.
Dusty Rhodes
Attention lacking
Dear editor:
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy
the interval and once again the Daily Nebraskan has
managed to mess everT this up by pushing aside the
1,500 students in the College of Engineering and
Technology as well as many others who worked to
make E-Week '75 a success.
E-Week is that week on the UNL campus when the
College of Engineering and Technology opens its
doors to a crowd exceeded on this campus only by
Big Red football. It is a time when engineering
students exhibit projects ranging from tractor testing
to agricultural developments and from solar power
and computer mechanics to materials testing, all new
designs for the future showing the competency and
imagination of tomorrow's engineers-attributes
which seem to be lacking on the Daily Nebraskan
staff.
The activities of E-Week were published statewide
so hat future students, students from other
universities and other interested parties might attend.
E-Week is as much in the'realm of campus life as are
D.W.I., university budgets and parking problems yet I
don't recall the Daily Nebraskan giving E-Week its
deserved attention during its progress or after its
completion.
So let's get on with it people, old news is not
news. E-Week was concluded Saturday night at the
annual E-Week banquet with awards given for many
and varied accomplishments. Other newspapers were
ready to carry the results and had them tabulated in
their Monday editions.
Ralph isn't the only one at the Daily Nebraskan
moving slow enough for the birds.
I join the birds in expressing my opinion of the
Daily Nebraskan's coverage of E-Week.
B. John Pcirx;
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Wednesday, april 16, 1975
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