friday, february 2, 1979
daily nebraskan
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Mr. Jack U vine's letter of Jan. 31 is typical of the sub
jectivity that occurs when referring to situations such as
the one in Iran. In one paragraph of his letter he states
that the United States has no business interfering in other
countries, yet he also states that the United States should
publicly announce that we wiil not tolerate a military
coup. And if such a coup should occur, Mr. Levine.what
should we do then, since we should not meddle in the af
fairs of other countries.
Besides which, the United States has as much right to
tell Iran what it can and it cannot do with arms it has
bought and paid for, as Iran does to tell us what it can or
cannot do with the crude oil that we had, until the strikes
in the oil fields, bought from them.
Since everyone else seems to express their opinion on
the subject these days, I will. also. I have to express my
doubts as to the motives of one such as Khomeini, who
refuses to accept an offer of a popularly elected govern
ment, and insists on the power being turned over to him
and him alone. It sounds to me as if the Iranian people are
willing to transfer the reins of government from the shah
to a potentially more harsh dictator.
One has only to examine the records of the Inquisition
or the Crusades, or look at other Islamic countries, where
the penalty for petty theft is hacking off the offender's
hand, to see what kind of inhumaities that can be and are
perpetuated in the name of religion. Hitting close to home.
I would ask, How many young Iranians will the Ayatullah
allow to study among the "infidel" Americans or Euro
peans. I would urge each and every citizen of the United
States and Iran to give some objective thought to what is
occurring in Iran. After all. one who makes his own bed is
eventually going to have to lie in it.
Sherwood Boswell
Junior, History
True colors shown
If our present disposition were other than it is, the
Free Chinese students would be afforded our greater at
tention. Sadly, however, our nation practices self-hypnosis
when is comes to communism, something akin to the
philosophic notion that if one doesn't wish something to
exist, one neeu only ignore it. Now we have given the
Communist Chinese recognition; we imply they have
authority.
Our intellectuals who have been consistent in ignoring
communism now apologize for Peking saying it is no
worse than a "reactionary" Taiwan. Our short memories
have lost their previous apologies made for Stalinist
Russia, Cuba, Algeria, and Vietnam; what can be said
about this inconstant lack of perception regarding our en
emies? We would be obliged to the Free Chinese if they im
pressed our misguided conscience. At stake are the values
we presume so glibly today. Thomas Molnar sees the
United States as one of the last institutions capable of
contending with the "Revolution", ie. communism. When
the United States fails the "Counter-Revolution" our
society is finished. How close are we to fulfilling this ar
gument? Don't ask (communist) revolutionaries or their
treasonous converts who speak with the guise of pacifism.
Don't ask a president who cannot resolve to confront
communism with intellectual and moral vigor.
I suggest we look to the Free Chinese. Their so-called
"reactionary" premier was himself once a communist. Si
mon Leys, in National Review predicted, "When the
Chinese Solzhenitsyns begin to expose the Maoist era in
all its details, anyone who exclaims in horrified shock:
'My God! Had we only known!' will be a hypocrite and a
liar." I think the Free Chinese have already shown us our
hypocrisy.
Standford L. Sipple
Sophomore
Economics
At whose expense?
Many people have expressed concern about how the
Regents can spend money on Memorial Stadium while cer
tain departments at UNL are below par. Although the
claims about the College of Business, faculty salaries etc.
may be true, it isn't true that the regents are squandering
the taxpayers money. No Taxes will be spent on the ex
pansion. The expansion will be paid off by people who
buy football tickets.
In previous years the home team in the Big Eight
Football games was required to pay one-half its profits to
the visiting school. For NU. this averaged about SI 95, 000
per game. At the last Big Fight meeting, NU asked that a
maximum pay-out figure be established. This was done
and set at t 175,000 per game. So now the home team
pays one -half its profits, up to the $175,000. So NU wil'
receive $20,000 more per home game than in previous
The old rule made it economically unsound to expand
the stadium because one-half of any profit went to the
other team But the new rule makes it feasible for expan
sion The monev for the expansion will come from the
STJOOO per home game ($100,000-$ 140,000 per year)
and "the profit from the 8.000-10.000 seat addition. Thus
the project can be Pa,d off in six to seven years.
In c osing. I'd like to say that future letter writers
should take the time to know what they are talking about.
I have read all the information given over the past year or
so in various newspapers. When I read the letters in the
Daily Nebeaskan opposing the expansion I knew they
were wrong, so before I spoke, I found out the facts. I
talked to Board of Regents Chairman Ed Schwartzkopf.
He gave me the numbers and told me what was happening.
1 suggest future letter writers know the facts before they
talk.
Don Arneti
Freshman, CBA
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