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daily nebraskan
thursday, november 3, 1977
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The jokers went wild in the card section of
the UNL-Colorado University football game,
but angry officials may be passing out a bad
deal.
Those who went to the game probably remem
ber the scene: the Huskers had just scored to take
the lead 26-1 5. A card from the card section went
spinning into the air. That's not too unusual.
But suddenly, the air was filled with flying
color. Some people since have commented that it
was the best show the card section put on all
semester.
In a display of color that Walt Disney might
have envied, cards traveled north from the card
section and were tossed further for about 10 or
15 minutes.
Sure, it was somewhat childish. Cards were lost
and torn. Flying chunks of cardboard could have
hurt someone. There is no excuse for the behav
ior, except . . .
It seems to be traditional that the card section
sparks grumbling.
In the past few years, fines have been levied
for misbehavior-and complained about. In the
card section misbehavior means not holding up
cards or throwing them.
Before that, pranksters stirred complaints
by switching designs in the card section at a
University of Missburi-Husker game.
This year complaints have come from the
section about the cards themselves-they were
torn and chewed up. The colors on some of the
newer cards ran in the rain making it tough to
tell light blue from white from green. It was
sometimes hard to figure out which color was
displayed.
Now the fines-according to band director
Jack Snider, every group in the section will lose
its $100 deposit. The band's honorary, Gamma
Lambda, runs the card section.
Maybe the groups in the card section should
have to bear the fines as the price of providing a
great display. But they seem to be paying a high
price for something that has been stirring for
years.
It might be time to review the card section and
determine a better way of running it-or drop it
altogether. Is it an integral part of football
games? Is it worth upsetting band members?
We can somewhat sympathize with those in
the section who threw cards-football games are
supposed to be fun. We find it harder to sympath
ize with those who belittle students for what
happened.
The card-flying escapade may have been a mis
take, but it should not prompt undue fines and
ugly recriminations. It is not important enough to
cause that many problems.
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Now is the time for oil good men
to cook or get out of the kitchen
What time of year is it really? The leaves on the
ground and the footballs in the air are not good clues.
Graduate school admission forms are. And so are the
relaxed dispositions of new students who were having
troubles.
This is the time of year for adjustments-some finished,
some in progress and some too demanding to cope with.
Think about the newly arrived foreign student, who
initially had a rugged time in America. Ms. Overseas
couldn't understand the American language, and thought
expletives were greetings. It's no wonder she had few
friends for those first weeks.
Then she faced that inevitable case of severe homesick
ness. Her remedy? To recreate the living conditions of
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editor
I was disappointed in the article "Homecoming
spirit dampened" to say the least (Daily Nebraskan
Oct. 24).
Since there were only three Homecoming display
winners I felt all three should have been mentioned,
not just two.
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity won first place in the sorority divi
sion. It was displayed in the front of the Kappa House.
. .sk Lisa Leonard
Homecoming chairman Kappa Kappa Gamma
Oh,my
To depart for a moment from the lofty orientation
regarding this institution's goodness, let us outline a
phenomenon that tarnishes education's idealistic
atmosphere. A recent issue of Newsweek includes
an article, "The Unhappy Profs," a disheartening and
perhaps accurate expression of their malaise with the
apparent declining quality of the student body, the
fruit of lowered standards. Paralleling this is the
increasing dependence on profanity in the classroom
to enhance communication-obvious to any partici
pantwith the more focal attention in this case
naturally upon the instructor.
Let us first be tolerant in our appraisal of wearing.
Unlike the impulsive reaction of a frustrated individual,
"blue" words in the classroom often reflect a sincere
intention to enliven a lecture.
When we consider the ultimate form of this
problem, profaning divinity, and the long-term conse
quences of it, do the following alternatives appear
worthwhile and relevant?
-For a professor to refrain from this ill habit will
be desirable since he is benefiting many students by
maintaining the nobler example.
-A re-imposition of relevant sanctions currently
ignored or nonexistent would give faculty the security
of a limit.
-We can all begin to thank God for providing us
a choice few names that can also be used to bless peo
ple and things. Actually, vain exclamations debase the
being we identify, and lend credence to his pervading
influence.
A healthy perspective is acknowledgement of his
presence no matter with what inflection we speak the
name.
The New Testament is direct: "Everyone who takes
the Lord's name upon his lips must forsake wicked
ness." We students and faculty alike are exhorted to
live up to his truth.
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home. But you just can't make a bed look like a sampan.
Her shock has abated, and our lawns no longer seem
bigger than the fields of her homeland. Our streets aren't
actually wider than the rivers she knew.
Firebird
Ms. Overseas now squirts around town in a Firebird,
and her bicycle has withered into a heap of rusty pipes
locked to a rack. Now, when she needs to call a taxi
for a friend, she no. longer looks in the Yellow Pages
under Rickshaws.
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the scenery
Freddy Freshman has become established on campus
too. He has learned when to attend class, and when to skip.
He has found, by now, a girlfriend, parking place, hang
out, and someone to buy beer for him not necessarily in
that order.
He and his contemporaries have humbly accepted posi
tions as busboys, maids, and dishwashers. These jobs are
similar to the grimy tasks they had abandoned forever
upon leaving home . . . they thought.
Freddy is by now in debt to the top of his Biology
book. But he consoles himself by thinking about how he
doesn't have to be alone: those bills will be with him
until long after graduation.
Campus clubs
He has joined campus clubs and organizations, and now
can't decide how to drop out of them, To him, those
responsibilities seem good for only one thing-shirking.
And he has learned that Mom and Dad no longer lurk
over him. So this dissolute freshman has a faster car,
longer hair, more dates, and an increased intake of various
iiquid and gaseous substances.
Sally Senior is another case. She is now adjusting to
a new reality: soon she will leave the womb of college.
She will have to get a job and pay for those four blissful
years. Or she may decide to avoid the dreaded real world
and gestate for a few more semesters in graduate school.
A friend of Sally's, who heard of her plans for such
advanced study, asked the senior, uSo, you can't survive
without that master's degree?"
Ah, college
Sally replied, 'That's right, I love the 'college life!
To me it represents deprivation and starvation. I am
forced to win hamburgers from radio quiz shows in order
to eat on Sunday evenings when the campus food service
is closed. College keeps me sharp."
uUHy i friend undwt0d, and "id with admiration,
Well, even if you wanted to sacrifice the privileges of
indigence after graduation, and get rich, you wouldn't
find a job."
11 W Pndfred aloud, "Unemployment wouldn't be
all bad: I could continue to live in squalor, and I'd have
time to catch up on my reading. But I think I'd rather get
that masters-and then not be able to find a job."
Yes, new students and seniors are adapting to their
changing circumstances, and most even are enjoying their
experiences. But some folks arc not very flexible. For
those people .... there is always the army.
