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daily nebraskan
friday, October 10, 1975
editorial piftfefi
1 guess you all out there can do something, about this
crippling problem, too. Not more signs, but something
anything. . m '
Let's all help Dr. Martin Luther King's dream come true,
that there will come a time when people will start to look
at people because of what they are. Let's pray for uhuru.
r Njoragi Njugi
Dear editor, -
In regard to your editorial entitled "Mute, Barbie Doll
characters plague TV," I can only say that it was complete
ly and totally inane. If you are the concerned feminist you
say you are, why do you not address yourself to problems
of substance?
Why have you not come out in support of the appoint
ment of a qualified woman to the post of chancellor for
UNL? Why did you not comment on the list of UNL and
NU administrators and their respective salaries that your
newspaper published two weeks ago? Does it not bother
you that of the 53 people listed only seven were women?
Does it not bother you that the men's salaries peaked
at $49,403 while the highest paid woman receives only
$28,031? Do issues such as these not concern you, or is it
that your sharp, alert, feminist mind is not able to perceive
issues of this nature?
Or could it be that you find sitting around and com
plaining about old movies easier than addressing yourself
to inequalities within the university system?
I would also like to comment on your opinion of the
depiction of women by the television industry. While there'
are certainly many inadequacies, the industry has in the
last few years made great improvements in its portrayal
of women.
Shows such as "Mary Tyler Moore," "Maude," "Kate
McShane," "Fay" and "Policewoman" are proof of this.
In addition, PBS is currently braodcasting a seven-part
biography of Lady Randolph Churchill and a six-part
series dealing with the suffrage movement in England at the
turn of the century. I suggest you see a few of these shows
Melinda Palmtag
Editor's note: The "editorial" Palmtag refers to is the
Oct. 2 "Long Hard Climb," a column written by Marsha
J ark. (Jark's byline was inadvertantly left off the column.)
"Long Hard Climb," like all Daily Nebraskan columns,
reflects opinions of its writer, not necessarily the editorial
stance of the paper.
For the record, we would very much favor the selection
turned
Gullibility appalling
rVar editor.
v .vt rv.no Durham, former narc
professional informant, appalled me for its gullibility ana
lack of investigation. AIM was formed to give Indian
People a way to fight Bureau of Indian Affairs bureau
cracy and a chance to gain racial equamy.
conspiracy involving Kissinger, the Rockefeller Foundation
and other government officials to stifle our liberty, accusing
AIM of being part of this is a little like accusing the Ku
Klux Klan and the Black Panthers of conspiring to force
busing for racial balance.
As a man paid to gather information on arms caches,
violent plans or anything else to discredit the American
Indian Movement's fight for freedom to determine their
own destiny, why didn't Durham remove those "sophisti
cated copper and sulfuric acid bombs" he knew so much
about? It would have been great for TV and might even put
his wages up to $ 1 ,000 & month.
The thing that surprises me most (next to this obvious
propaganda being published on the front page of any paper)
is that Durham actually expects people to believe this.
My only conclusion is the man apparently credits the
rwka, latms aim is nart of a conspiracy with the American oubhc with intelligence only slightly above that
government to "create dissension among the races so the 0f a retarded cow.
big shots can force more of their bureaucracy down our Only within the framework of a racist, right-wing
throats," to "create such a strain on the BIA and State extremist group like the John Birch Society could a police
Police that federal intervention would be the only alterna- department that guns down a man and his dogs for an
tive. . ." and that this "conspiracy exists nationally to usurp alleged $23 drug deal be praised for its "efficiency and
individual freedoms. . . by taking control from local pr0gressiveness ."
police." I think it's about time people started worrying about the
Why didn t Aim memoers welcome ieueiai uuciwiuuu rights ana ireeaoms guaranteed us in 1 to, instead ot our
fin the form of the FBI's mini-army) instead ot shooting Big Red White and Blue Plastic Birthday
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at them? While
I cannot discount the probability of a
Party in 1976.
Neil Terhune
As we sat down to write today's editorial (it was football game were to be used on, say community
to be a pithy commentary on the Yell Squad brou- projects.
haha), a feeling of de fa vu swept over us. Hadn't
this all been done before?
A quick check of the Daily Nebraskan's bound
volumes revealed no previous editorials on the Yell
Squad, but did uncover a spate of letters on the
subject in the fall of 1974.
Jane Owens, the editor that semester, had ig
nored the issue. Since our respect for her was great,
we were inclined at first to follow her example.
But a look into the Yell Squad controversy pro
vides a somewhat frightening view of students
of a woman as the new UNL chancellor. Assuming that a priorities this semester Something is greatly awry
woman would be chosen for her abilities, not her gender,
sucn a selection could greatly benefit the university.
Pray for freedom
Dear editor,
In the late '50s or early '60s, Zambian President Dr.
Kauanda wrote his famous book "Not Yet Uhuru." Uhuru
is a Swahili word meaning "freedom."
It has been quite a while since that book came out. Most
of us African youngsters then had high hopes that the days
of colonialism were over and independence and "uhuru"
for all mankind were finally here, that the thought and
practice of racial prejudice had been buried with the last
traces of colonialism.
But here we are in the mid -70s with university students
asking us whether we are blacks or Africans.
This is the greatest place ever inhabited by any living
creature. But I must hasten to add that its greatness would
have bloomed far beyond this land if racial and ethnic
problems had occupied low places on their priority list.
I see this happening in the not too distant future, when
people will start to appreciate or reject one another because
of what they are and not because of their skin color.
I read of people coming up with solutions to the race
problem. One. even suggested interracial marriages, so that
in the generation of our great-grandchildren, mankind would
not be faced with the problem that is keeping us (races)
so close yet so far apart. It would really be a wonderful
time, a heaven on earth.
But when one thinks back a little and realizes that we
still have people who think "I am superior to Joe Blow
because he is not of my skLn color" or of the notorious
professor r;ho said people not of his skin color are genet
when ASUN feels it must appoint a committee to
investigate such a matter in a time when school
spirit at football games should be the least of our
worries.
We're all Big Red fans on this bus. But we can't
help wondering what would be the impact on our
state if the energy-hours expended on one home
And we can't help wondering if the energy that
will be spent by ASUN's Yell Squad Committee
could not be turned instead to lobbying for
students' rights to alcohol on campus, or raising
UNL's academic quality, or examining legislative
spending priorities, or. . .
Rebecca Brite
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the word unheard
Nader violates Golden Rule
By Del Gustafson
Several years ago, Ralph "unsafe at any speed" Nader Soviet Union's newest, most comprehensive instrument for
launched an attack on a practice of the Book of the Month surveillance of foreign tourists and domestic dissidents may
Club known as negative option selling. Every month the be designed and installed by an American firm. Internation-
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Now it is rumored that the UNL P1RG, like its fellows,
also will request the $2 refundable fee as it will caoitalize
ically inferior, one's hopes are replaced by skepticism, upon student lethargy. While this method of financing is
pessimism and despair. certainly more just than UNL's conscriptive student fee
The UNL Foreign Student Office is doing a beautiful job system, it is not consistent with consumer principles
by putting up signs that read "Help Stamp Out Racism." and should be rejected by NUPIRG.
n is an ironic tnoute to American technology that the
A multi-million dollar deal has been negotiated between
Intourist, the Soviet travel agency, and IBM for installation
of an elaborate, nationwide hotel reservation computer
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officials maintain that safeguards exist to
prevent improper use of their system, it is sheer naivete to
believe that such a system, with its massive potential
for spying, will not be used by the Soviet police state and
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