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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, September 21, 1977
letters
to.tiie editor
The problem discussed by the Students of Diogenes
(Letters to the editor, Monday) could very easily be
solved by moving the "monstrosity" out of the South
Crib and into the little TV nook in the Nebraska Union's
Main Lounge,
I'm surprised it wasn't installed there to begin with. In
the main lounge the television would be "accessible to
greater numbers of people. Videophiles could feed their
habit, while those who prefer a subdued atmosphere for
conversation and study could ensconce themselves in the
South Crib. And we could all live moderately happily
ever after.
PegSheldrick
Editor's note: The following letter was written to
John Duvet UNL parking and traffic coordinator. A copy
was sent to the Daily Nebraskan.
Dear Mr, Duve:
It is totally illogical for me to do this, but here is my
$5 check to cover your citation No. 43866 for parking in
a no-parking area.
This is an illogical act on my part because now, in ad
dition to paying you $35 a year for the right to a non
existent parking place, I am paying you $5 more for
parking in it.
You see, I arrived at the main lot 12 at 9:10 ajn.Mon
day with the hope of finding a parking place and getting
to my office in time for my office hours which begin at
9:30 ajn. ;
It was full so I checked the other two No. 12 lots.
They were full as well." In my travels I encountered more
than 25 vehicles parked in the lots 12 that had no Lot
12 stickers on or in them. This situation is quite typical.
I parked next to a red curb directly behind a car with
no Lot 12 sticker which occupied a legal space.
. Confident that justice would prevail, I presumed that
later in the day you would have the unauthorized car
towed away, and you would be understanding enough to.
have my car pushed a few feet forward into the legal
space. I obviously presumed too much,
Since you seem both to oversell the lots by too wide a
margin and to allow considerable illegal parking in the
early morning, perhaps you would be open to a sugges
tion. Post one of your officers at the entrance to Lot 12
from say, 8 a.m. until 11 ajn;, and have him admit only
those vehicles with Lot 12 stickers.
; Incidentally, if you might by some guirk of fate, see
my getting a parking ticket as a direct function of your
somewhat less than satisfactory management of UNL's
parking lots, would you be kind enough to return my
check uncashed. You see, it's quite difficult to afford
both working and parking at UNL.
C.Douglas Spitler
Instructor, Business Education Dept.
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The little trimmers of the Nebraska Union
Advisory Board have done their job-some
$165,000 has been cut from the proposed
$414,523 Union budget.
But the Advisory Board is just that, an advi
sory board. The proposal now goes to Union
director Al Bennett and then to Richard Arm
strong, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, for
approval.
There are two questions: did the board make
the right cuts and will the administration approve
of the board's wishes?
Most cuts have been wise, they seem to be in
the best interests of the students.
For example:
A total of $80,000 was pared to $10,000 for
additions to the west entrance of the Union for
handicapped people. The reasoning: further study
is needed to determine if the entire $80,000
needs to be spent to meet federal requirements.
Money for a delicatessen was not approved so a
long-range survey can be completed. The survey
would help judge whether the delicatessen would
be successful.
The board also cut some money for
renovations in the Harvest Room. It would seem
that proposed changes are unneeded now.
But the board did approve $30,000 for signs
in the Union. The signs are to indicate where
rooms and services are.
. The board.says that so far bids indicate that
the money may be-needed, althoughthey plan to
ask for more-and lower-bids.
The sign question originally came up last
spring-and was roundly criticized then. We
still do not agree with spending $30,000.
The signs may be helpful-we wonder now
much-but does the Union really need $30,000
worth of signs? If that is the lowest range (bids
taken last year were in the $20,000 to $22,000
range), then maybe the sign specifications should
be changed.
The only justification for spending that much
seems to be that the money is there.
Funds for the signs would come from the bond
reserve fund paid for by student fees. Bond re
serve money only can go for improvements in the
Union, the University Health Center and the
residence halls.
We think there are better uses for the money
than the signs and would suggest the Union look
for them. It is still student fee money and should
not be thrown around.
Will the proposals be accepted by the adminis
tration? We would hope that Bennett and Arm
strong consider the wishes of the board represent
ing students-and have a good reason if they
don't.
As Dave Roehr, chairman of the Union Ad
visory Board said, "If Mr. Bennett adds or de
letes something from the budget, he is on his
own."
And, completing Roehr's thought, Bennett will
be subject to the brunt of criticism.
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Revolutionary walks out of past and into obscurity
New York-A young woman with a camera saw him
first. She started running up the street toward him, who
walked in the morning crowd with his attorney.
The young woman brought up the camera as she ran,
aimed it at his 30-year-old face, stopped, crouched and
began taking pictures. ;
Here was the most-feared revolutionary of the '60s,
the one who wanted to change a nation-Mark Rudd.
When she ran up to Rudd, a thousand beetles carrying
cameras rushed along the street after her. The crowd sur
rounded Rudd and people were slapping into each other
and Rudd walked backward from the microphones.
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He had on glasses and his face was smooth and his
hair was in today's short fashion. Today it is the pulice
who wear floppy mustaches and long hair; some cultures
do lag.
Once, Mark Rudd stood in the basement of a building
at Columbia University and said the school was shut down
and America would have to be changed, changed out in
the streets. When he finished, the press ran off to put him
in headlines and on the evening news, and a student, a
girl, told him, That was nice rhetoric Mark."
21 then
He was 21 then. Now it is 1977 and his face, although
tmlined, is not that of a student. His May is gone.
Standing on the courthouse street last week, coming
from the nowhere of living, the underground, Rudd
apparently signaled he was ready for such revolutionary,
heroic undertakings as some day paying for the children
orthodontist.
Rudd pushed his way through the crowd and received
help from a policeman so he could .squeeze past the
cameramen and get into the district attorney's offices.
Mark Rudd, wanted everywhere for years, his face
living in J. Edgar Hoover's head, hunted across the United
States and Canada by teams of FBI agents, surrendered
to charges in New York of criminal trespass, unlawful as
sembly, otefriction of governmental administration and a
couple of others of even less importance. On examina
tion, the hurricane cannot ripple the grass.
Another defendant, Gene Shelby, leaning on the infor
mation desk in the courts building lobby, asked why there
was so much commotion.
"What's the man's case about?" Shelby said.
"Criminal trespass and unlawful assembly," he was
told.
Somcthin real
Shelby s mouth opened. "You here to write about
that? Least I'm here for somethin' real. That boy belongs
in children's court. Who is he, anyway?"
"Mark Rudd."
"Who?"
, "You never heard of him?" Shelby was asked.
"No time."
At Columbia University the same day, students said the
same thing. In the twin endeavors of education and crime,
Rudd's impression appears a bit faint.
There is the, case of an explosion in a Greenwich Vil
lage townhouse in 1970. The house was a bomb factory
for Rudd's Weathermen group. Three bodies were found
and the vacant lot left by the blast became known as the
Mark Rudd Playground.
But he has not been charged with this and perhaps
never will be.
Time has not determined the exact worth of what
Rudd's years represented. Many people see grat rolling
changes in the country because of the Rudds and the riots
at the Columbias around the country. This is to sneak
before you can see.
Changes
Certainly nothing changed for the blacks at the
bottom. They had no jobs in the '60s and they have no
jobs now. But it can be said that Mark Rudd was part of
the first youth revolution copied by adults: Rudd put
Levis on all of Scarsdale. There always is the distinct
chance that the habits of mind travel along with the
clothing habit.
But a case also can be made that nothing truly chanpes
,. ., - . . -unless
you do it within the politic! system. When 1 saw
Mark Rudd and I thought of the '60s yesterday, I thought
of the crowds'in the streets at the Democratic convention
in Chicago in 1968, crowds of chanting young, crowds
that had the sympathy of so many of us.
The young wanted the world to change completely.
Through the tear gas, Hubert Humphrey kept pleading,
"Don't destroy the good tring to achieve the perfect."
We laughed at him and Richard Nixon became Presi
dent by 500,000 votes. The young who did not protest,
who were riot protected by college, were left to be killed
and maimed and heroic in Vietnam.
The claim that the turmoil of the 1960s set the
climate for the most important act of our time, impeach
ment, doesn't hold up well under examination.
Off the boat
Rep. Peter Rodino Jr., who ran the impeachment
hearing, said the other day that what he did was not a
consequence of the '60s but of another time, when his
father came off the ship, at Ellis Island with a name tag
around his neck and an immediate awe of a document
called the Constitution,
"1 was raised by my father to have a great belief in a
great document," Rodino was saying. "I had that long
before the '60s."
House Speaker Hp O'Neill said he fech that the '60s
turned off most of the young people in the country "he
said. He promptly went into his business, the arithmetic
that truly runs our lives. "In the 1972 election, of thoss
between the ages of 25 and 30, only 25 per cent of them
voted. But then, after that, something good began. The
protesters went away. But those who believed In the pro
testers came to Washington. We're crawling with them.
. "Right now we have the most talent in Washington in
the history of the country. The newly-elected members
broke the seniority system. And the others, you want to
talk about working from within. I got a kid in my office,
Ari Weiss, he had an IQ of 700 and it's improving every
day."
Late the other afternoon, Rudd was released on his
own recognizance. He walked -out of the building, out of
the 60s. He now becomes another face in the 70s.
Copyright 1977, Jimmy CrtU.n, world rightt iiumd.
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