friday, novernber 21, 1975
page 4
daily nebraskan
editorial
ame tua of war for HuskerSooner
For a person who was born in Norman, Okla.,
but reared mostly in Nebraska, the annual end-of-season
meeting between the irresistable force
and the immovable object-the Cornhuskers and
Sooners-is a time of conflicting loyalties.
(We mean, of course, a certain student news
paper editor who persists in using the first person
plural for editorials. It is all very awkward.)
Imagine, then, the agony of that editor's father,
who, reared in Tulsa and educated at the
University of Oklahoma, has been the most faith
ful of Husker fans for 1 6 years-always excepting
that end-of-season struggle.
For 16 years, this man has braved the fury of
his hitherto-fellow Cornhusker fans to sit in the
Nebraska stands and root for his first home team.
(It must be admitted that this excercise in
fidelity affords him a certain amount of enjoy
ment. It must also be said that he stands well
over six feet and weighs. . .well, over 200 pounds.
The old man (we use the term only figuratively,
staff opinion
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I oo many doubts
about JFK death
There is something morbid about being concerned with
the veracity of the Warren Commission report on the
assassination of President Kennedy.
It would be so much easier to let those volumes of tes
timony moulder on library shelves. Would we as a nation
be remiss in forgetting one of the most tragic events in
American history?
The question is moot because not one of us who can
remember those days will ever forget them. Nor will we
ever stop wondering if the truth is as simple as the
Warren report would have it.
The Assassination Information Bureau would have us
believe that the Warren report is, at best, a piecemeal
declaration based on incomplete and sometimes
shoddy investigating.
Although there are several popular theories variously
pointing the finger of guilt at the Soviet. KGB, agents of
Castro's Cuba, middle-echelon CIA operatives, the
American left and right wings, the immediate question is
whether or not the Warren report is correct.
Anyone who has viewed the Zapruder film of the
assassination can plainly see one fact. John F. Kennedy and
John Connally were not both hit by the "magic bullet"
that was discovered, undamaged, on a stretcher in Parkland
Hospital.
What was Lee Harvey Oswald's relationship with the FBI?
If Clay Shaw was not the "Clay Bertrand" who called
Dallas attorney Dean Andrews and asked him to defend
Oswald, who did?
Why did Oswald's pro-Castro leaflets bear the address
of a fanatically anti-Castro organization.
The proceedings and report of the Warren report en
shrined in Love Memorial Library do not resolve those and
many others.
Dick PiersoJ,
Daily Nebraskan reporter
to the
Dear editor,
As chairman of the Committee for the Propagation of
Quality Football (we consist of members from each of the
Big 8 conference's six states), I am asking that anyone who
would rather see quality football instead of the Sugar Bowl
to put pressure on local ABC affiliate television stations to
pre-empt broadcast of the Sugar Bowl and run instead (for
example) this season's Big 8 highlights.
Since many of you are going home for Thanksgiving,
discuss this with people in your home town and with your
respective home town newspapers. It would be the most
effective way to let the Sugar Bowl and ABC television
officials know our feelings about their mediocrity. For
further information write me at 504 Franklin, Spring Hill,
Kan. 66083.
Jim Golden
Business enterprise
Dear editor,
Our thanks goes to Del Gustafson for reporting some
financial figures concerning the Daily Nebraskan (Nov. 14).
As a student newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan receives
monies from student fees through the Fees Allocation
Board. It is considered to be a nonprofit organization, just
as any student supported organization, and as such has i
tax exempt status.
and with great affection) is on his way to Norman
today for a football game that we know will play
tug of war with his loyalties more than any since
the 1971 "Game of the Century."
He really loves the Huskers, you see, and he
wants very much for Nebraska to go to the Orange
Bowl with a good bid at the national champion
ship. But Robert N. Brite will be yelling for the
Sooners Saturday. We would bet on it.
As a matter of fact. Bob Brite's eldest child
herself has a small wager (not monetary, of course)
on the team of her home town (which she hasn't
visited since she was 6 years old). She cannot help
14 Privately, she is sure her school, Nebraska, will
win. But she is her father's daughter.
Readers who caught Robert Thurber's review
Thursday of the Studio Theatre's Tango may have
thought Thurber was slandering the playwrights
of all time, when he said Tango 's "excess of self
indulgence on the writer's part" was "as it is with
most plays."
It should have read, "As it is with most absurd
plays. . . ." The word "absurd" was omitted in
typesetting.
Rebecca Brite
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UN s racist aeTinmons vary
By Del Gustafson
Last week the United Nations General Assembly (soon
to be annexed by Egypt, so the rumor goes) passed a resolu
tion condemning Zionism as racist.
The vote demonstrated conclusively the increasingly
apparent proposition that any connection between a Gen
eral Assembly resolution and the idealistic principles found
in the NU character is purely coincidental.
Zionism, or the movement to form a Jewish state in
Palestine, is in large part a reaction to racism. After endur
ing a few centuries of real old-fashioned anti-Semitism, a
few Jewish leaders of the late 19th century came to the not
very startling conclusion that the Jewish people might be
more secure in their own state than languishing in European
ghettos.
It seems those reformers were overly optimistic. Anti
Semitism lives; the UN resolution attests to its survival.
The UN has always defined racism in a tricky manner. If
a state such as South Africa oppresses blacks, the UN con
demns that state as racist. If, however, a state such as
Uganda or Tanzania systematically denies whites elemental
human freedoms, the UN is silent.
The Soviet Union cracks the oppressor's whip upon the
backs of Christians and Jews regularly, but the UN says
little.
However, let Israel limit the rights of a people with
whom they are at war-war which has elevated terrorism to
a fine art-and the nations of the Third World controlling
the Genera! Assembly, will rise under the leadership of
diplomat Baroody of Saudi Arabia (whose fellow citizens
would not recognize a human right if they were hit over the
head with it) and proclaim that racism is alive and well and
Jewish.
I think it fair to conclude that the UN uses two criteria
to judge if a state is racist: 1) if the rulers of that state are
white and oppress blacks or 2) if the state is Jewish.
The General Assembly has become a propagandizing
weapon for the Third World and the sooner the United
States refuses to vote, lending a certain legitimacy to the
assembly's outrageous and provincial resolutions, the
better.
The UN does, however, have one redeeming attribute at
present: Daniel Moynihan, U.S. delegate to the UN.
Moynihan has a low Irish tolerance for crap, which
would seem to disqualify him for his current position (the
UN being the world's largest producer of crap). Yet it seems
a deal has been struck between the U.S. State Dept. and
Moynihan that, in broad terms, obliges the delegate to
generally restrain himself, but allows for occasional erup
tions from Mount Moynihan.
And erupt it did, after the passage of the anti-Zionist re
solution. While slamming the podium, his notes and the
General Assembly, Moynihan attacked the resolution as
something akin to a compact with Lucifer.
In this age of detente, in which our leaders teach that we
must not only love our enemies, but also refer to them in
terms of affection and praise usually reserved for Shirley
Temple, it is imperative that someone reawaken, on
occasion, America's moral vision, and sense of moral pur
pose in this world. Hail Moynihan, the Grand Repristinator.
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Due to these facts the Nebraskan has tint. Anrt ntvtr uU
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earn a profit. Over the past four years our student news
paper has been given more money to work with than was
required from their expenses.
Hence during this four year period the paper has ended
up with between $5,000 and $16,000 in savings. This
organization has accumulated some $46,000 in retained
earnings. A part of this money has been used annually to
purchase new equipment in the form of desks, typewriters
and type-setting items.
However, a residual amount has been retained in cash
items, and t question arises as to whether this sum belongs
to the paper or whether it should be returned to FAB from
whence it came.
We suggest that the latter course is more equitable be
cause the money in the Daily Nebraskan account is student
money and does not represent the profits of a business
enterprise.
It is very important that this matter be cleared up, since
this business-type attitude has resulted in what some might
consider questionable pay outs.
In at least one case during the previous year an adver
tising manager received a monthly salary as well as a com
mission on the total volume of the paper's advertising. This
person's gross earnings as reported by the business manager
of the Daily Nebraskan came to a little over $12,000.
A. Frank Thompson Jr!
Dave Keegan
Ted J. Kessler
Randy Jauken
Editor'a note: The Daly Nebraskan's status as a non
profit, tax exempt organization has been in limbo for about
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for clarification.
The $46,000 in retained earnings referred to in the letter
is the Daily Nebraskan net worth. The figure includes ail
office furniture, equipment and supplies.
It also includes $17373 in a passbook savings account at
State Federal Savings and Loan, which is earning interest at
a rate of five and one-quarter per cent.
This money is used for no other purpose than the stu
dent newspaper; it is an emergency fund as wefl as a re
source for purchasing equipment to increase the paper's
efficiency. It does not go into anyone's private pocket.
The Daily Nebraskan advertising manager referred to re
ceived, over a 10-month period in 1974-75, $400month
salary plus commission on total ad sales.
This person (whose gross earnings were precisely
$12,252) doubled the Daily Nebraskan's advertising
revenue from the previous publishing year.
The paper generates mere than SO per cent of its in
come. Of die $6150 paid in fees this semester per student,
73 cents was allocated to the Daily Nebraskan. That
amount to 12 cents per issue per student.
The Dally Nebraskan would appreciate hearfasg students
views about these and other matters concerning the paper.