thursday, October 23, 1975
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daity nebraskan
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Dear editor,
The article on the Centennial Education Program (Daily
Nebraskan, Oct. 16) was interesting, but somewhat shallow.
I'd like to expand on a project of mine, that was cited
in the article. No folks, it wasn't another college ripoff.
The two' credits (not three) involved setting up a poker
game in which four people were invited to play, A fifth
player was brought in, a semiprofessional magician, who
systematically stripped the unwary players of $50.
The game was recorded on video tape. Setting up the
game, assembling the equipment and weeding out tech
nicalities for this segment took two months.
" An interview segment also was taped. Scripting, research,
graphic productions, editing, audio and nailbiting took
more hours than I care to mention.
Yes, I learned how to cheat at cards, but more
importantly, I learned to spot a cheat at work and how to
classic stu
We did not know former Husker defensive end
Tom Pate. We can guess, though, from the
comments of UNL football coaches and players,
what kind of man he was. 1
Coach Osborne and the Husker players' sorrow
over Pate's death is itself a tribute to the man. The
concensus is that, while Tom Pate wasn't a super
star, his contributions to the UNL team-commitment,
warmth and a real love of football-make
him every bit as valuable as players whose
athletic abilities may have been more outstanding.
We'd like to see a Tom Pate Memorial Scholar
ship established, perhaps through the University
Foundation. It would fit Pate's character-a
scholastic scholarship for an aspiring athlete, for
"a fine student ... who really loves to play the
game."
, . .
It is an unusual variety of "white flight"; the
students, not the parents, want to flee a school in
a "trouble area."
The school is in Lincoln, according to the
Lincoln Star, some students of Southeast Nebraska
Technical Community College (SeTech) are refus
ing to attend classes at Whittier Junior High School
at 22nd and Vine streets.
SeTech Director David Buettner says the
problem is caused by tension in that area stemming -
avoid Deing cneaieu m & mkuwj , mm
The .renting half-hour video documentary has smce
faded into the night, but the things I learned with the pro
kct feUowmc Marsh (he learned too), on lighting and all
Sose oS wonderful things in visual production that you
hut never think about, have been invaluable in my
aTpredatiorof Ssion art and my later production; un
th? broadcast sequence of the School of Journalism.
Michael Zangan
Prisoner's fate
Nonough consideration is given to the man who leaves
prison and re-enters the free world. Money is spent to keep
him confined, but where is any money to help him when he
returns. Where is he to begin again? .
The trial and changes encountered in prison present
society with a man who has new perceptions, attitudes and
feelings. He needs new guidance, new hope, renewed
feelings of usefulness and new chances. He needs accept
ance, a plan, a trust. ... t i Se
Rehabilitation inside is not achieved. A universal plan is
not appropriate. An individual plan is desperately needed to
be flexible and able to adjust to the different and vital
needs of each man.
dent athlete
from the Sherdell Lewis shooting. SeTech Board
Chairman Robert Wekesser says the classes might
have to move somewhere else.
. Both statements are copouts.
If there is tension in this "trouble area," it did
not arise overnight with Lewis's death. The
tension, if it exists, is evidence of a problem for
Lincoln that is more far reaching than the Lewis
incident.
And moving away from the tension will not
reduce it, in the long run. SeTech officials, instead
of encouraging such avoidance of the problem,
should persuade their students to stay and
confront it. 'Trouble areas" don't improve any
other way.
Rebecca Brite
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Ham Toch. ST)eakin at UNL Thnrs
Nebraskan, Oct. 17), noted the need for prisoners to main
tain links with society. In this way the prisoneer does not
lose touch with the world to which he will someday return
and have to fit back into. This process of getting back into
society is a trauma-a tightrope upon which he is walking
The responsibility is upon those who have the power to
help these men adjust before re-eniering-the same who
often come to crying out to recapture these misguided said
affected lives.
The established system is trie deciding factor in guiding
these men back into our society-and this same system
therefore, holds a prisoner's fate.
"A Plea for Guidance"
Porno filth
Dear editor,
Come on, American males with brains, character, morals
stability and guts. Let's clean up this pornographic filth. We
don't need a Dane to tell us what affects our kids. Let's
help the perverted, sick-minded homo to grow into a male
with character and morals.
"A Honkie Taxpayer"
Appreciates Greeks
Dear editor,
After reading Tim Roesler's letter (Daily Nebraskan,
Oct. 1 5) I felt I should make my position known.
When I started school here, I also stereotyped the Greek
system. The reason: all I knew shout it was what I had
heard. But I no longer consider the entire Greek system a
bunch of "snobs".
Last year I started working for a fraternity, a rather
small one, but a group of very close guys. Since then I have
learned a great deal about the Greek system. Like anything
else, it has its advantages and disadvantages.
I, for one, am willing to admit that independents do
stereotype Greeks and should not.
1 am one independent who enjoys the work and efforts
that the Greeks go through at Homecoming and many other
times. As far as I'm concerned, the Greeks should stand up
and take 1 bow.
C.Cole
Lewis question unanswered
Dear editor,
I attended the open meeting of Oct. 17 dealing with the
shooting death of Arvid Sherdell Lewis, in hopes of getting
answers I sought.
' Unfortunately,' nothing was clarified other than what I
have already read in the Daily Nebraskan and the Lincoln
Journal.
I agree a grand jury investigation should be carried out,
but I don't believe people would respond seriously to it
from the bias displayed last Friday.
I am referring to the attitudes of State Sen. Ernie
Chambers, County Commissioner Bruce Hamilton and
members of the Justice for Lewis Committee, and to the
pep rally atmosphere displayed by the crowd.
Chambers" was out of line in calling County Atty. Ren
Lahners names. If Lahners is at fault, the facts will show
it. There is no need for Chambers to say things in public
which he can only contend, and not entirely prove.
By doing this, Chambers has, on one hand, stirred up the
emotions of the crowd, and on the other hand has supplied
no evidence to back his accusation.
Hamilton, though civil, also failed to shed any new light
on the matter.
Finally, I heard the Justice for Lewis Committee offer
nothing more significant than the fact that Lewis was un
justly slain. Just why Lewis was killed, no one knows. That
is the burden of the grand jury investigation, and I hope the
investigation wUl be carried out.
Richard Rolofson
Long hard climb
Laws directing morals reflect bygone en
There is disagreement on what a perfect society Is. Most
people would agree that a society which had just laws,
approved by the majority, would be a starting place.
Certainly laws should reflect the society they regulate.
This is not the case in Nebraska. Most laws governing
public morals were passed between 1899 and 11917 without
significant changes since. Included under this section are
laws concerning adultery, sodomy, obscenity and bartering
on Sundays.
Yes, folks, you can bring the public standards of
decency down by clipping hair on Sundays (and be fined
ten dollars). It is also against the law to play baseball or
enjcge hi public dancing on Sundays.
This was not unusual for 1917. At that time skirts had
not yet risen to the knee. The United States was just
entering its first world war. Social Security was not due for
another 20 years and most. people professed a Christian
faith whs fher or not it carried any conviction.
: Somehow deciding that the Sabbath for all people was
on Sunday and that the Sabbath meant something to all
people did net seem unreasonable then. It seems unreason
able now.
Another strange situation concerns the laws about
adultery, cohabitation and sodomy. Under the section con
cerning adultery, cohabitation is illegal Unfortunately,
cohabitation" has an ambiguous definition. It means
cither that a man and woman live together as husband and
wife without the legal ties or that they live together and
also engage in sexual intercourse.
Therefore it is all right for same sex roommates to live
together and not sleep together, but it is illegal for opposite
sex roommates to live together if they are engaging in inter
course or passing themselves off as married people. It is un
clear whether they can live together if they refuse to re
cognize each other on the street and have separate bed
rooms. r u.
In other states, cohabitation is against the law but
common-law marriage is recognized. Therefore if' two
people can manage to live together for the prescribed
amount of time dfegaDv without being arrested
marriage will become legal. u
Why is the state of Nebraska legislating moral behavior
when there is little azreerntnt strait what moral
behavior is?
And, why haven't the laws been changed?
The first question cm be answered simply by pointing 10
when the laws were passed. The second question cant ds
answered completely, but cm recent example comes to
mind. f '
Ust April, a bill was passed to revise Nebraska law on
sex crimes, which changed the penalty for forcible ps
from three to 20 years to one to 25 years. Sen. way
Goodrich of Omaha had premised to introduce an amcn-i-ment
legalizing heterosexual sex between consents
After being advised that hk amendment could jeoPC
the entire bill, Goodrich fkOed to introduce it. t f.
succeeded in removing a section of ilia bill which 1 jojm
wjtweaea in removing z v.cLoa 01 ma dw , -
have repealed the sodomy law except for promt's
e neea a system of juviicia review 01 iaw, y- ;
when they were passed by people who are now long oc
have fewer criminals (punished or tinptmislved) and we 1
would reflect the present society instead of a bygone
