Wednesday, September 3, 1975
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Dew editor,
I would first like to say that giving Del Gustafson
column in the Daily Nebraskan was a good idea. If your
intent was to evoke reader response, you will no doubt
succeed.
Rather than concerning himself with issues such as
UNL's deteriorating faculty, President Ford's elusive
employment improvement plans or countless other issues of
local and national importance, Gustafson stands like a
tenth-rate Joe McCarthy, as he discusses the pressing issue
of Susan Ford's sex life.
Mr. Gustafson, how many people on this campus do you
really believe are concerned with Susan Ford's private life?
Writing frorri a factual vacuum on the status of marriage
and premarital sex must be as difficult for you as you
suggest it is for Mrs. Ford. . .
Your anachronistic moralizing seems to ignore the
changes in sexual attitudes that have occured in the last
decade.
Most women stopped believing that chauvinist "sacred
honor" nonsense years ago. Sex researchers have shown
that, though many preached it, not very many practiced
"chastity." Don't you think women can decide things like
that by themselves?
I am greatly disappointed in both you and Mr. Hoppe as
champions of your respective views of "moral right." Both
of you have written articles that reek of the kind of
bathroom-wall sexual innuendo usually found in our more
spurious newspapers.
All in all, both articles were examples of shabby
journalism. I am thankful neither of you were around to
inform your readers of the importance of the illegitimate
children fathered by some of our past presidents. Who
knows how morally "unghied" we might have become?
As to Mrs. Ford's abortion opinions, a normally
intelligent person knows full well Mrs. Ford was speaking to
the difficulty in coming up with any decision at all on such
a controversial subject.
You may consider yourself a "commoner," but i
consider both myself and Mrs. Ford citizens with rights to
our own opinions. Tell me, Mr. Gustafson, who is going to
give a damn what she (or any other member of the Ford
family) says, if we all know it isn't what she really thinks?
Aren't honesty and truth, regardless of social position, part
of your "moral glue?"
I hope that in the future you will give somewhat more
substantial evidence of your sociopolitical statuteness.
There is much more to what makes America and Americans
moral (or immoral) in its own eyes as well as those of th
rest of the world, than the sex lives of the First Family.
Arthur S. Alexander
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