friday, january 26, 1979
daily nebraskan
page 5
The United States Student Association spends "95 to
99 percent" of its time lobbying on educational issues.
(I'm quoting from the article on ASUN buried on page
six). Furthermore, their abortion lobbyist is not paid by
USSA funds. This is why I think Thursday's editorial was
a little off base.
The editorial closes with "No one likes to have others
assume they can talk for him without asking first-es-pecially
when he's paying for it."
I was also dismayed at Shelley Smith choosing to fill
half the front page with the abortion controversy, while
not mentioning even a small part of the rest of Viggiano's
talk.
Most of the information he related was far more ger
mane to our lives here at UNL than whether or not there
were procedural irregularities at the USSA conference.
After listening to Ms. Smith's questioning of Viggiano
I knew what kind of article would appear the next day in
the Daily Nebraskan. Too bad no one else except the 40
of us who attended will benefit from Viggiano's visit here.
Eric Warp
Senior
Advertising
Athletic housecleaning
After reading about Jan Crouch quitting the women's
basketball team, I feel compelled to make a public com
ment about the situation in the Women's Athletic Depart
ment. I know Jan Crouch only very slightly, but the little
interaction I have had with her has led me to have a great
deal of respect for her dedication to basketball.
She is not a quitter. Last year I worked with the team
for two months as a student trainer. The season was at
best, a farce, but she never gave up; her attitude, despite
the situation (Coach Walker quit mid-season, the team was
losing game after game, and morale was especially low).
Before Coach Walker quit it was obvious to anyone
near the situation, that the team members did not respect
her coaching philosophies. I am certain Jan did not re
spect some of the coach's tactics but she never showed it.
She did not openly criticize the coach in front of team
members. She emphasized the positive.
Only one time did I see her lash out and that was only
for a moment; in tears she swallowed some hard words
that were hard to take from someone who is not
respected. Some would have, and did quit. Quitting is a
hard thing to do when scholarship money is involved.
When team leaders like Jan Crouch and Darcy Williamson
quit, it really makes me wonder what is going on.
I've talked to many athletes from several different
sports and I have not found many who are happy with the
way women's athletics is run. In fact, most that I have
talked to are very unhappy with the way things are run.
What I am suggesting is that something is wrong in the
administration of women's athletics.
Jan Crouch joins a long list of good Nebraska women
athletes that have quit or chosen not to compete on a
team here at the University; the list includes; Darcy Wil
liamson, Karen Frazee, Anita Baha, Deb Lee, Shari Brink,
Tammy Poe, Shari Stone, and Linda Jansen to name a
few. These are talented athletes whose skills and leader
ship are missed, I'm sure.
Perhaps the administration should take a hard look at
its goals and objectives. They might find that some
housecleaning and a re-evaluation of priorities is in order.
Lori Mundhenke
Senior
Health Education
I will not be surprised at all if, during this semester
many grades fall below par; students work performance
is low; students appear angry and distressed, and most of
all, have nervous breakdowns. Where is the humanity of
UNL? Evidently in the football helmets!
Hey students, let's support each other. We can appeal
the waiver. If you want better pay and your sanity, write
your regent immediately!
Vicki Grossenbacher
Sophomore
Child Rehabilitation
FTC...
Up the wage
I am outraged to think that I am a student of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who is supposedly sup
ported by the Financial Aids Office -Work Study divi
sion. At the beginning of the fall term, I began working
for $2.65 per hour. At that time, I was told by my
superiors that in January I would receive a wage hike of
$2.90 an hour, which is currently the national minimum
wage.
Today I am aware that I am making sub -minimum
wage in the fiscal year of 1979. How does the UNL expect
students in need of financial support to survive decently
with below minimum wage; pay for rent; food; clothing;
transportation, books, paper, pencils, etc.? .Surely, they
are aware of the expenditures or are they?
What perturbs me the most is that the Regents are
more than willing to support the football stadium, yet are
not willing to pay those of us who are more concerned
with an education, the minimum wage. Do they realize
that the cost of living and inflation has raised? Evidently
not!
Continued from page 4
A television set is designed for one purpose: to sell
products. But it doesn't follow that parents who give this
salesman a permanent place and voice in the living room
must automatically be defenseless against whatever trick
some come-ons the salesman may concoct. A license to
sell to adults isn't a license to manipulate children.
In seeking to protect children from advertisers, the
FTC's central argument remains unassailable: Because the
receiver of the advertiser's message is too young to under
stand the message, the sender ought to desist. Unfair
advertising is the issue, and that is part of the FTC's job.
Violating rights
But to advertisers who have become accustomed to
beaming their messages to children without federal static,
a rpoposal to desist is being portrayed as a violation of
their economic rights. This is the "regulation-is-bad-for-business"
argument now in high vogue.
Indeed it may well be true that some advertising agenc
ies and their clients would feel a pinch. But are things so
desperate for manufacturers that they can't wait a few
years to get at the minds and dollars of the young? Must
the values of the marketplace assault children when they
are hardly out of the crib?
Copyright 1979, The Washington Post Company
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