mcndcy, cctcbcr 23, 1970 c!y r r UNL -parking gsrogo oonocessoiy I -; - leicers Nebraska Union Director AI Dennett's ur tion at last week's Council on Student Life (CSL) meeting that UNL needs a hli-ricc pcikin;; enr age has not yet bcoms a fcTrml proposal. If end when it does, it should be received with a hcclihy dose of skepticism by students end the rest of the UNL community. Bennett chimed the 2rr2 would provide cn ecnonucslly sound future" for the Nebraska Union. It seems Dennett is having trouble attract ing Iincohutes outdde the campus community to union events anil he is blaming the lack of parking space. Hih rise prees within a few blocks of the union provide hundreds of parkkg spaces. Unless we want a parking &jz& built in the center of campus, UNL's garage would be at least as far away as the nearest downtown parking building. There is evidence also, that when someone or something is important enough, the community does hot let parking stand in its way. Even if a parking zpizcz would substantiaUy increase union use, it wouldn't be vcrth it. Dennett's prediction of the cost of a 650 car tizz" seems about rcht. Last spring, in another discussion of parking csragss, Kay Coffey, UNL's assistant business and finance manager, estimated the cost of such a building at about $3,000 per vehicle space. This cost would be absorbed by the students. Unless hvildisz financing policies have changed, the fact that the uawn could be built from bond surplus would net eliminate student costs, as Dennett told CSL. The Nebraska East Union is being paid for with bond surplus. Student fees wi3 be $5 higher beginning next fa3 to pay back the money. A parking garage is not essential to the union's financial future. The students have paid for the union since it was buEt in 1 933 and we will continue to do so as long as the union is respon sive to the day to day needs of the UNL com munity and students. on on w P ' shows media's unconscious bias By Nicholas Von Hoffman By our standards putting Chiang Ching, Mao Tse tung's old lady, in the slammer would be Eke locking up Martha Washington. If you speak Chinese and live in a commune, what's happening there probably makes perfectly good sense, It makes none to occidentals of the American stripe, but while the reporting on the affair sheds no intelligible light on what is transpiring in Peking it reveals the unconscious biases of our mass media. There can be no other way to explain the description of Chiang Ching and her crowd as leftist leaders." What is a leftist leader in a nation where everything down to the last safety pin is nationalized and the property of the state? You can also hear Chiang Ching's people called Ideologically motivated" and "radicals" on the radio and television cere. The New York Times does make an effort at defining some of this nomenclature. Thus Fox Butterfield writing from Hong Kong tells us that: The radicals, a generally sidewise young group, came to power ia the Cultural Revohitbn because of their backing for Mao's attacks on entrenched power-holders in the party and their support for reforms in education, the economy and the party. Among other things, the reforms barred bonuses and wags raises for workers, required party officials to spend more time at manual labor and made millions of city youth resettle in the countryside after finishing schooL" . At the same time, many other news dispatches refer to the government or the people that Chiang Ching is apparently fighting as 'soderates,'' "middle of the readers," or "pragaatists. Undoubtedly, the American news writers using these terms think cf them as descriptive, and they are descriptive; they describe the unconscious political maps inside cf cur journalists kesds. The people writing these dispatches aren't ia Chst; they know so little about the country they ccnlda't even hxsapackedttQafewvedatsQi - . 7rtfcre the afjsctrves they use ia essenh: political factions axe tut a prelection cf their view of our own desttsxis pcdltscs. Thus the moderates are the ones who cccrpy cOMal rticns-crcdentialed persons, persons hece cpiininns are sanctioned by prtstics people and institiiticnx Moderates, ycuH notice, also carries the susstlsa cf pecple who are ncswlyttamJc, who are cpiet, stationary er.d net given to chsrs. People ia the Tsntcs' dispatch who are labeled reds!s are those who favor "reforms in education, the economy. . ." Radicals originally got their alarming reputations because they were people who went to the radix, the root of matters, and therefore advocated causing upheavals. The word still has that connotation, but notice how it is applied to persons advocating far less drastic measures summed up in the word "reform." In the news columns of -the Times, radicals and reformers are the same people. This kind of thing isn't deliberate. It probably passes through- the hands of the editors and the copy readers unremarked on because that's how they think; that's their mind-set. WMe they're too sophisticated to agree that all reformers are radicals, they'll print that very assertion if the words radical and reformer are separated by a clause or two. Along the same lines the people who oppose doing such things as making "party officials. . . spend more rime at manual labor" are regarded as pragmatists. Even if this totally communist, coHectivist society is one which nobody on the staff on any Americaa news gathering agency could stand living in, the Chmese.whom the journalists conceive of as defending a hierarchies! social structure are the ones on whom the favorable word "prpssatist" is used. They are the ones who, ia the language of the Times, "put economic growth and orderly sdminstratioa .; above ideclcgscd campaigns j-d revolutionary purity." The practical, moderate and hard-headed folks who get results against the wild, irmrse&a!, fanatics who would rather spout dreams than grow bread. Whether or sot such divisions exist in China they are a perfect paradigm cf how our own politics is described to us by our news people. . As a consequence, a premium is given to the pclitidaa most able to extrude an unbroken paste cf insipid sincerity. The stance for winning the behest approval is immobile,, quiet and cotton casdy-fcenfa. The other cloud-wrapped Eric (the Wise) Scvareid rebuked Jsainy Peanut for revesleg "an instinct for the deliberate iasult, the loaded phrsse and the bread innuendo." To conduct a campaa without so much as a losdsd phrase or an innuendo of broad or narrow dimension is to be a modem moderate, a middle cf the rosder suitable for the Columbia Broadcast System, a perfectly ccntrcSed functicnsiy. From Demosthenes through Pitt and Cuxke all te wry down to limy Truman, the Issus cf democratic debate has been' psssknate, insults and ferpirins. With Sevsreid we must hre a politics vfithcut "pssslaa, without forensiss, without the prmfVty cf ezprcssh3 a fzir hope or freshening vision. - At Ciessmetime&eSeYsific(cq)scf thiswerii areduIL SSsnd pat, stsy dear and act prtnstss, and vrhea the voters form circles and dance ia the dust, calling for issues Lhs Indisns prying for rain, 1st all fcsdsrs evscuste their Utiif mil i -iJ m mmm LJM.4wkA W Mjr-mA.f fc lnat ticro pzfcng not cti-jilzn The rrcblcm facing the Residence IIs!l Association in re-ard to parkir fpace is ssn2sr to the trailic Ccm prchleni facing the people of Lincoln. One asks where dc we put a3 these cars and the other asks where csa all the efficiency. The srnHarity lies ia the fact that there axe cosr and will be ia the future too many can for theexist fcg available spice. . Our solution lies ia either cresting new space for can or somehow reducing the number of cars. The Residence IIsH Association suggests the creation cf a parking lot where there now stands a mllo-iniZet field. The city of Lincoln proposes the construction of a highway through Wilderness Park. Both involve costly outlays and irrevers ible, action. I think the simpler and more efficient alterna tive is a reduction in the number of cars on the campus and in the city. The ASUN Senate can seriously study the situation and come up with acceptable means of reducing the number of cars on campus. The Lincoln City Council can do Lkcwise. This alternative needs consfderatioa. Sincerely, William Kerrey Open invftztlon In response to Randal Jauken's comments in the Oct. 12 DzZy Nebmkan I would like to explain the selection procedure we go through in bringing speakers to UNL and consequently spend student fees. Selection of speakers for the academic year is done during the spring semester of the year before. This year's speakers (and the symposium format and topics) were selected in the spring of 1975. This selection process takes about one and a half months, and consists of sifting through the hundreds of available speakers and collecting as much input as possible from students and faculty members before finally choosing them. This is all done in public meetings and as chairman, -1 have always desired as broad a representation as possible on the selecting committee. We have never been approached by any one on behalf of the Young Americans for Freedom. Instead of complaining about the selection process and the final product of the programs which interested and dedicated students have put together, I invite those wishing to affect the speakers program to become a part of the Talks and Topics committee and make inputs at the time they will do some good during the selection process instead of after the program has already begun. I can be reached through the Union Program Office, Nebraska Union 115. The telephone number is 472 2454. This invitation is for anyone interested in helping to plan next year's speakers program. Bruce Whitacrell Both stores popular, cheep The "Orion" cartoon strip of Wednesday, Oct. 13 bothers me. Trying to be derogatory, Stewart compares the new Dirt Cheap Record Store with McDonald's. But, suprisingly this is not all that incorrect a comparison. McDonald's is a successful American institution because they sell a popular product for a reasonable price. The same goes for Dirt Cheap; and because they have been successful, they wished to move to a nicer store, a stare more comfortable to work in. So, even though the new store is larger, cleaner, and brighter , it still has the same pepuhr product for a reasonable price. Sincerely yours. Bob Robinson A h:g hzr,d for. 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