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Oppose McDonald's zoning
"Where have all the rodents gone?"
This question, borrowed from a front-page story from
the Feb. 5 edition of the Daily Nebraskan, applies to
another front-page story of the same edition, the
McDonald's story.
I cannot believe that the Nebraska Book Co. actually
has the audacity to condone such an architectural
monstrosity-frying up its ratburger fare-only yards away
from the lawn of newly-remodeled Love Library. Do we
want McDonald's sacks littering our campus? Or golden
arches juxtaposed against the red roses of the library
lawn? We may be the only campus on earth to cohabitate
with Ronald McDonald. It's another example of American
cultural barbarism-to replace a student co-op with a
soybean slop shop.
I miss Henry's place- greasy, lovable, but human Henry
and his wife were replaced by plastic, impersonal smiles,
not to mention plants. Dave's was hit next by the
corporate death gas. Suddenly we are left without those
comfortable, personable places where we could go for
conversation and coffee at reasonable prices. We could
also write $2 checks without bringing in a dossier of
identification.
But there's still hope. The area has not yet been
rczoned for business-that's what the zoning hearings are
for. The City Clerk's office has information about the
time and place of these hearings.
It's worth a try, but I don't know; not where fast
bucks from gastronomic nightmares ar at stake. It seems
corporate sterility has triumphed again, once more govern
ing the environment where 20,000 students receive their
education.
Barb Ang
Young's topes high for U ML
Roy Young is leaving the tall evergreens and
mountains of Oregon to come to the plains 01
Nebraska.
Geography aside, Young will be entering an
environment in Lincoln similar to the one he
leaves behind in Corvallis.
Young, who has enjoyed a distinguished career
as a scientist and administrator at one land-grand
university, will assume the chief administrative
post at UNL, another land-grand university.
His experience in the seven campus Oregon
system will undoubtedly help him deal with the
growing pains of the three-campus Nebraska
University.
He appears to be a man of high standards, un
compromising perserverance and forceful speech.
Those qualities should stand tall in the chambers
of the Nebraska Legislature and in the Chancellor s
office.
He also seems to be a man of great personal
charm and forthright conviction.
UNL faces many serious questions about the
future quality of academics. It would not be
unreasonable for Nebraska to commit itself to
quality education, to, as the phrase goes, real
excellence, upon Young's arrival.
Young apparently has high hopes for Nebraska.
Students and faculty hold similar hopes. It sounds
like an unbeatable combination..
In announcing Young's appointment as
chancellor candidate, NU President D.B. Varner
complimented the Daily Nebraskan on its
journalistic ability and persistence. We were not
the first to break the story, but we believe we
gave our readers the best conceived and most
accurate coverage. It is significant that through
a series of car trips ending at the Lincoln
Municipal Airport, we talked to Young, however
briefly, and obtained the only photograph of him
during his visit. '
Vince Boucher
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Sloganeering press wrong
on Reagan's proposed cuts
By Del Gustafson
The conventional wisdom of the press (as distinguished
from the wisdom of the people, and bearing no relation
at all to Wisdom) is that Ronald Reagan cut his caveman
throat when he informed New Hampshire voters that he
would, if elected, cut federal spending by $90 billion.
New Hampshire citizens pay no state sales or income
tax. Reagan's program of transferring the administrative
authority of social welfare programs to state and local
governments would probably mean higher state and local
taxes. Ergo, Reagan is defeated in New Hampshire.
Reagan's plan deserves more thought than the sloganeer
ing press can give.
The budget of the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW) has increased 6,000 per cent since
HEW's inception in 1954, yet the poor remain with us
always.
The reason for this anomaly is simple-most money for
social welfare goes to pay middle class administrators of
the welfare program, instead of the destitute.
Vast army
Yet, while all decry the abuses of the system, the
monolithic welfare structure of the federal government
resists reform. The vast army of HEW bureaucrats has an
interest in expanding the welfare rolls and increasing the
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amount of taxpayer's money flung ineffectually at the
poverty problem. The larger HEW grows, the greater the
pressure to increase HEW's budget, and the more difficult
it becomes to establish control over the agency.
If total responsibility for local welfare programs would
devolve to lower levels of government, political
responsibility for the performance of the welfare system
would be more clearly fixed. Moreover, the diverse
economic and social needs of each community could be
met more efficiently by the community than by a
uniform federal program.
Taxpayer spared
The probable result: a welfare system in which the
benefits to the needy increase, the benefits to the greedy
decrease, and the nCedy taxpayer has more than the usual
amount of change in his pocket after tax-time.
Reagan's proposed slashing of federal spending, and
thereby the federal deficit, would also decrease inflation.
Moreover, it would serve to debilitate the awesome power
of the central government, which, if one may believe such
venerables as Madison and de Tocqueville, has always been
a menace to liberty. Therefore, I support Reagan's $90
billion plan, although, come to think of it, it may be a
little modest.
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