monday, may 2, 1977
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daily nebraskan
New stadium not
The following opinion was written by Jim
Hunt, Daily Nebraskan sports editor.
A lot of talking has been done by NU Board of
Regents member Kermit Wagner about building a
new 1 00,000-seat stadium in favor of remodeling
Memorial Stadium. Let's hope that it is just talk. .
The Huskers do not need a new stadium. An
8,000 to 10,000 seat expansion would provide
more than enough seats.
At first, Wagner wanted to build the stadium
between Lincoln and Omaha, which is one of
the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.
Now he wants to build the stadium at the old
Lincoln Air Base which is also a ridiculous idea.
Building a stadium at the air base would stop
many students without transportation from going
to football games. And, after all, Husker football
is supposed to be for the students.
I doubt the Huskers' ability to till a 1 00,000
seat stadium week after week. With a lot of
government officials talking about an energy
shortage, fewer people will be able to make the -long
drive in from the western end of the state.
I also doubt if a new stadium can be built for
$20 million, and include the equipment to add a
dome in a few years. It cost $ 14 million to build
the UNL Sports Complex, and with rising costs I
see no way the stadium could be built for $20
letters
Not Snow White
Well, I see they closed the Cinema X. I guess some .
people don't like the idea of naked women showing their
bods to the' world. I can see how a lot of people may find
that material obscene and perverted but they don't have
to watch it if they don't want to. If there is an X rating
on a show, you know you aren't going to see Show White
and the Seven Dwarfs (at least not the original version of (
it.)
If people in this world weren't so embarrassed to talk
openly about sex, we would not have this VD. epidemic
and all the unwanted pregnancies that occur. We may
soon have to have a permit to go to the bathroom.
" Dave Spier
Letelier's speech
To answer Donald Orion's letter of April 18th: this
spring, UNL students like students at the Universities of
Colorado, South Dakota, Michigan, American University
and other schools were able to hear directly from an
eloquent advocate for the return of democracy to Chile,
Isabel Letelier.
The reception after the speech was sponsored by the
Student YMCA and the Womens Resource Center. The
honorarium for her talk from the University Convocations
Committee will be used to construct an exhibit on human
rights in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, a project of the
Letelier-Moffitt Fund. Tie campus arrangements were
straightforward and usual. How anyone can find anything
mysterious in them is the only mystery.
We in Nebraskans for Peace coordinated the scheduling
for Isabel Letelier's address at UNL, Wesleyan, Church
Women United, and the NFP Annual Meeting. No funds
for Nebraskans for Peace were raised from her visit, from
the taxpayers or anyone else.
We did gain from Isabel Letelier-in understanding the ,
importance of the Catholic Church in its support for the
tortured, the "disappeared" and the starving in today's
Chile, and in learning what can be done to shorten the
time of suffering under the rule of the General's and their
secret police, the DIN A. The $357 million which
Washington sent to the junta last year points to one place
to begin. Those concerned with misuse of public money
. might direct effort toward ending all U.S. aid to Chile's
military rulers. Marilyn McNabb, President '
Nebraskans for Peace
Concerned about Roskens
I, for one, am seriously concerned over the recent
appointment of Ronald Roskens as NU presidentl The
Daily Nebraskan (April 18) quoted NU regent Kermit
Hansen as describing the selection of Roskens as
"magnificent.'' To me it is tragic. My reason for feeling
this way stems from an incident which occurred when
Roskens was chancellor at UNO involving that university's
varsity wrestling team.
Approximately two years ago the members "of the
Maverick Wrestling squad were extremely incensed over
the ineptness and corruption shown by their head coach.
When a meeting with the athletic director produced no
change in the coaching, two team members went to see
then Chancellor Roskens about taking drastic action. The
wrestling team was determined to launch a formal protest
to save the integrity of the team, and the integrity of the -UNO
athletic program, which the head wrestling coach
was undermining.
Ronald Roskens, in so many words, informed the two
liaisons that they still had to complete hours for a degree,
so they best not make any noise, or things could get
uncomfortable. The team withheld a public outcry.
Is this the kind of thing that regent Hansen was
referring to when he used Roskens and "magnificent in
the inse breath? VanSchroeder
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million.
If the regents decide to go ahead with a new
stadium, will the athletic offices be moved there?
Will they bus the team out to practice every day
or will they continue to maintain Memorial
Stadium just for practices?
There are a lot of unanswered questions to
consider about building a new stadium.
Wagner wants the Big 8 Conference to let
UNL split the gate with the visiting team on only
75,000 seats, letting UNL keep the profits on the
other 25,000 seats to pay for the new stadium.
It would raise more than $1 million a year in new
revenue until the stadium was paid for, according
to Wagner's figures. '
Wagner proposes paying for the new stadium
with another $1 surcharge, making a total of $2
in surcharges on tickets which are already over
priced. If the Big 8 does not let UNL do that, Wagner
has a simple solution drop out of the Big 8.
usScers couia nil
Wagner seems to think that by pressuring the
Big 8, UNL will get its way. I do not think this
will be the case.
If UNL drops out of the Big 8, the conference
would just get another team to replace the
Huskers. Then the Huskers would have to find a
new set of schools to play.
Besides, most "meat" schools like Texas
Christian University only play the Huskers for the
money. A. ,
The Huskers might have a hard time schedul
ing teams if they drop out of the Big 8 and are
not willing to pay visiting teams half of the gate.
Also, I cannot see why UNL, a perennial
cellar-dweller in the Big 8 All-Sports Standings,
would not be expendable.
Besides, the last thing UNL needs to do is get
involved in a fight with the Big 8 front office.
I think the regents should vote to expand
Memorial Stadium and then stop worrying about
football and try to improve the university system.
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Energy war leadslto nothing fo do
It was in April of 1977. with the nation facins its Brav
est threat since Pearl Harbor, that President Carter declar
ed "the moral equivalent of war' to lick the energy crisis.
As is always the case in times of peril, the President's
call to arms lifted the hearts of all red-blooded Americans.
They accepted the wartime austerity measures with un
complaining cheerfulness and, in deed, vied to do more
innocent bustander
than their shares in the service of flag and country.
Typical, perhaps, was Horatio Alger, owner of The
Horatio Alger Dune Buggy Corp.
Rags to riches
Horatio was a self-made man, having fought his way
from rags to riches in the tradition that made America
great. At 50, he had a fully automated home, an eight
cylinder sedan, a manic temper, peptic ulcers and a pat
riotic spirit as big as all outdoors.
By George," he vowed grimly, Tm going to save
more energy than anybody else! It's the least I can do
for my country."
He first concentrated his energy on his dune buggy
plant. The production of dune buggies wastes untold
energy" he said. "As a major contribution to the war
effort. I must do my part to curtail production."
He began by piping war songs into the plant-martial
airs like, "Oh. How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning,
"Tve Been Leafing on the Railroad, and "Praise the
Lord and Pass the Dice.
Within six months, his plant had been awarded the
Navy's coveted "E" (for Energy) Flag absenteeism having
topped the national goal of 87.4 per cent. When he dis
covered that one of his female riveters, Rosie McQueen,
was actually skipping all five of her daily coffee breaks,
he fired her on the spot to set a good example. Thus did
Rosie the Riveter become a symbol of the entire war
effort. -
Pulled master switch
Still unsatisfied, Horatio closed the plant two weeks
later, junked his car and pulled the master switch on his
home, thereby eliminating radio, television and balky
appliances. '"By golly, he said, 'it's the least I can do for
my country.'
With nothing else to do, Horatio lay abed until ten and
devoted his days to reading, puttering in the garden and
getting to know his family. ("Hi, I'm Daddy. You must be
Mary Jane.") And, like millions of Americans, he found
he d given up smoking, drinking, shouting at strangers and
peptic ulcers.
One lovely afternoon he was digging potatoes and up
gushed a black, viscous fluid. Great Scott, Horatio!"
cried his nosy neighbor, Milton Haberdash, an eminent
geologist, who, as usual, was leaning over the fence.
The long war is over! You ve discovered oil! IU call the
President!" .
-Maybe you'd better take a closer look to be sure,
suggested Horatio. And when Haberdash leaned over to do
so, Horatio bopped him with the shovel, stuffed him in
the hole and covered up both the nosy geologist and the
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