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An increasing number of students say they will
not buy parking permits next year. The reason is
a possible 95 per cent increase in the cost of
a parking permit from $25 to $45.
Some students say they're willing to walk
several blocks rather than pay the higher price.
Problems with parking are nothing new, but it
seems they. have grown to the extent that some
thing should be done or the system should be
evaluated.
Parking has been a problem for students at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha for a long time.
For a campus comprising mainly commuter
students, the parking crunch is a constant head
ache. Although those parking problems may seem
worse than -UNL's, they still do not soothe the
angry UNL students who see only the 95 per cent
increase in parking fees.
Students find themselves walking farther to
their cars, not having a place in the lot they paid
to park in and paying more for these services.
' But there have been some changes in the
parking situation since the last parking fee
increase. Many of the rocky, unpaved lots that
colored cars in the lot with a dirty film have been
black-topped. Some lots have been expanded and
some new lots have opened. 1 . " ,
It seems that the students who are speaking up
about the increase would, rather see a. cut in
services than pay the extr $20. ,
John Duve, UNL parking and traffic
coordinator, said a cut in services could mean less
thorough snow removal, postponing repairs of
potholes and discontinuing replacement of signs
in parking lots.
But maybe Duve should explain to students
where the $350,000 in the UNL parking budget
is going. . '
Letters and petitions from students concerned
about the parking permit fee increase will be
presented by Duve today to the chancellor's
parking advisory board. The last time the UNL
Parking Liaison Board met three students voiced
concerns. Perhaps more student views will be
aired today.
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'Roots, ethnic fads hit fashions
Yonder peasant, who is she? "
This year do not ask.
She is probably a tin fortune married to a steel mill.
She has arrived at the party in a Mercedes. She has been
skiing in Gstaad, and is leaving soon for the Riviera. Then
why is she wearing a dirndl, a bodice, and embroidered
apron, high-laced boots and a kerchief like a Tyrolean
serving maid on her way to the May festival?
If you go into a store these days, the salesperson will
brine vou a brown calico dress, smocked, eathered.
voluminous, with grim leather collar and cuffs. Try it on.
Beheld, you are the complete Soviet woman - maybe
even the manager oi a hydraulic plant along the Volga.
The salesperson is scornful. "Naturally, it's the gypsy
peasant look."
Is it the "Roots" syndrome? Ethnicity gone wild? Who
knows? The grandfather and grandmother who spent six
wretched weeks in the steerage of an immigrant ship so
their descendants would never have to be peasants may
feel a twinge at the sight of their New World issue gotten
t up as treaders of grapes or tillers of soil.
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It was to spare them that fate that they came to Ellis
Island and beat their way to alien sweat-shop and
tenement. They hid their babushkas, aspired to rhine
stones, black crepe and white gloves. A look at the price
tag on copies of the garb they had fled would assure them
that their sacrifice was not being trivialized. A hemp
sweater mat no self-respecting Sicilian fishing village
maiden would put on her back goes for $1 1 8.
It's no good asking why a person would improvish her
self to look poor. Chic knows no laws. You remember
several years ago, in the pre-terrorist era, when haute
couture decided that bankers' wives should go about as
South American guerrilla fighters? They wore combat
boots and camouflage suits and bandoliers slung across the
shoulder. The New York Times reported that one con
scientious trendist packs live ammunition.
Then there was that time when voluptuous women
crammed themselves into Ritz crackers T-shirts so they
could be taken for 10-year-oId-boys. They're not to
question why. Oscar and Pauline and Yves had given the
orders. If they were told to wear plexiglass visors and
carry nightsticks, they would not murmur.
So let us be grateful that the couturiers have stopped at
drawstring blouses and gypsy skirts. And let us be grateful
that high fashion has gone back to serious frivolity.
A few years ago, clothes were worn like banners or
posters. They were a fierce declaration, the funky livery
of a generation. That girl with the matted hair and the
grubby jeans and the angry eyes could hays had her hair
cone by Kenneth every week and worn a'De La Renta
original. -
But she has done up like a derelict for the same reason
that she thumbed a ride back to the expensive college she
allowed her parents to send her to. She deepiaed their
values, their capitalist, imperialist, war-mongering ways.
As she sloudted through the streets to coffee house,
commune or bomb-making workshop, she was finding
you a message about the crass, gross American way of life.
Clothes said too much in those days.
Now they're resHy not saying much of anything. The
impulse to conceal origin and status has been with us a
long time. Most often is goes the Eliza Doclitile way
the urchin passing is the duchess. Cut it should not be
forgotten that Marie Antoinette and her ladies arrayed
themselves si mZJmMi zzi shepherdesxi tr4 moved
telemnly about Versailles with fzli end crocks their
rare! no mots coamchz than that cf today's rich
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TscMmis is where it's goinj to be at very soon. If you
dcubt, read this pzrzgzph:
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A better laugh than good ole Ralph was produced
when I picked up the Friday, (April 1) paper. It was
extremely humorous to see my name beng attacked by
Clyde Stearns. I was being called a racist, ignorant, a
worthless punk that kicks a man when he's down, told
that I felt superior to blacks and other ethnic minorities
and to be cool. AH for iust correcting a misquote and
expressing what some other people's opinions might be
on a subject dear to Clyde Steams' heart. "
Apparently I must not read between the lines too well,
although being the author I thought I knew what I said.
Well, I can thank Clyde Steams for bringing my attention
to all of my outstanding qualities. I'm not quite sure how
Clyde Stearns arrived at all of these wonderful conclusions
about me from three short paragraphs, but I guess I don't
have to; I'm ignorant. '
I will have to correct Clyde Stearns on one detail
though. I don't feel superior to all ethnic minorities. I'm
a member of one. Yes, Clyde, even I can belong to an
ethnic minority. Clyde Stearns talks about being
shouldered with the "Black is bad" label, well I'm
shouldered with Polacks are dumb and dirty as well as a
variety of dumb and dirty Polack jokes. Clyde Stearns
feels that since society's attitude is "Black is bad" some
black people feel they are bad. Well, I guess since society
feels Polacks are dumb and djrty, we should feel dumb
and dirty. Clyde Steams even reinforces the dumb part of
my heritage. But do Polacks feel dumb and dirty just
because society thinks we are?
It was clever of Clyde Stearns to inject some points on
the bad conditions for blacks in answering my letter.
Good use of the space available and getting more of his
point across, even if it had nothing to do with my letter.
I agree that a it is our government's fault the ghetto
mothers have" to support 12 kids on $200.00 a month,
but whose fault is the 12 kids?
One thing I hope Clyde Steams realizes is it's not what
he's fighting for, it's the way he's fighting for it Clyde
Stearns asks for all blacks to join the cause to bring up the
oppressed black. This is good, but when one black doesn't
want to join, Clyde Stearns says he's taking the easy way
out. When someone else points this out,' he uses name
calling to suppress him.
Clyde Steams says it's much more difficult to be- a
complete and unique individual than to fellow the crowd,
but if everyone joins the causa, everyone is a member of
the new crowd and what happened to individuality?
Everyone is an individual regardlcas cf what crowd they
belong to. Don't believe me, ask the F.B.L
. In reference to' my letter, I &r.ly pointed cut some
negations cf Clyde Steams article, period. In re torn,
since Clyde Stearns couldn't cut' up the statements I
nude, he personally attacked me. To rr.e, tiis represents
lack cf maturity and poor pent emphasis since Clyde
Steams attacked me ar.d not what I said. arerJy I
weakened the "Ulack is bad" trticb uith my latter so It
was neceaaary fcr Qyds Steams to reply.
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not stupid enough to steep to this and if ar.ycr.5 taxes
tny cf this seriously . . AVc'J?
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