monday, march 6, 1979
daily nebrasksn
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Another reaction was that of the stu
dent who shouted to a Palestinian heckler,
"GO HOME!-
Little did this student realize it, but he
hit upon the essential point bf conflict in
the Mideast: The Palestinians 'cannot go
home!
Their homes are occupied by people like
the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin,
who is from Eastern Europe.
If this American student is truly con
cerned about visitors in foreign countries
who abuse their hospitality, then I suggest
he direct his remark to Mr. Begin who, in
cidentally, immigrated illegally into what
was then known as Palestine.
Generally the . American reaction was
that Mr. Rabin should not have been heckl
ed. And I agree.
But one has to remember that the Arab
reaction was not prompted by a desire to
deny free speech. After all, foreigners living
in America soon become inured to the pro
Israeli propoganda put out by the news
media and our politicians.
No, the Arab reaction was prompted by
the presence of Mr. Rabin himself. This
was the man who in 1967 led the Israeli
army in its conquest of Egyptian, Jordan
ian and Syrian territory.
This was the mark who caused the
creation of 500,000 more Palestinian
refugees.
When Rudolph Hess went to England to
propose . peace during WWII, he was not
granted free speech but was put in jail.
Can one blame the Arabs if they are
teampted to respond in the same manner as
the English?
We feel, first of all. that the stadium ex.
pansion is unnecessary, since we already
have the largest stadium in the Big Eight.
The expansion is financially unsound,
being dependent on sellout crowds for
several seasons into the future. The expan
sion is also unattractive-for the campus,
for the students and faculty who will have
to live through its construction, and for
what it says about priorities at UNL.
Secondly, we object to the timing of the
proposal. The regents approved the expan
sion at their January meeting, during the
semester break, when students were not
around to effectively discuss the issue and
express their views.
;
Most importantly, we believe that the
regents do not concentrate enough on
improving the quality of education at
UNL The time, -energy, determination,
money and other resources of the people
of Nebraska put into the design and build
ing of an expansion to Memorial Stadium
could be better used in the design and
building of a stronger academic program
at UNL.
We ask students, parents, and all Ne
braskans to keep informed and urge the
regent3 to help us build a better university,
not a bigger stadium, for the benefit of the
parents and the future of Nebraska.
The Schramm Hall Council
Kelly clear up
There are some things that need to be
cleared up concerning the Down One For
Kelly promotion that was begun on
campus last week.
Krishna Madan
Senior, International Affairs
Guyana
Down One For Kelly was originally in
tended to orient the students at UNL that
there is legislation intended to raise the
drinking age from 19 to 21 . We hope to do
0 t trus oy planning activities mat would be
btadlUm ODDOSltlOn lir&ed interesting to students arid would receive a
rr i r laree turnout. We do. this in hones of
mobilizing a good number of people on
campus who may care about this legislation
but are not aware of what they can do to
help.
shown for increases in alcohol related
traffic accidents. We further admire him
for the tremendous amount of time he has
devoted on the bills.
We are an independent group of
concerned students. Although we do fully
support the efforts of. ASUN in their
attempts to defeat the bill, in no way are
we affiliated with them.
Finally, we encourage all university stu
dents to write their state senators and tell
them of their concern on LB 221 and
350.
We hope this has cleared up some of the
confusion.
Down One For Kelly
Larry Novak
Death penalty proponent
My heart bleeds for Sen. Chambers and
Assistant Professor Gardner for their
opinions on the death penalty.
. Professor Gardner states that "the form
of capital punishment in Nebraska is parti
cularly barbaric, and may be unconstitut
ional under new court rulings relating to
cruel and unusual punishment."
Bull! Capital punishment for criminals is
not barbaric, in contrast to the method of
death that a victim has suffered by the
actions of a criminal condemned to die ; the
punishment is merciful and quick.
Another statement which was made
about new court rulings related to the
death penalty and its enactment, to the
fullest limit of the law, might be unconstit
utional, is also in my opinion, Bull?
The Supreme Court of the State of Ne
braska has an honest and moral duty to re
view the penalty should any new rulings be
handed down from the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Since to my knowledge, this has not
been the case, Mr. Gardner's comments
which venture that the existing law is un
constitutional and should be abolished, are
unfounded and display on his part little
moral consciousness. In my. opinion, that
same lack of consciousness is displayed by
Sen. Chambers in his arguments.
I believe that only after the death
penalty is earned out for those persons
condemned to die, will there ever be any
evidence for determining if the penalty of
death is a deterrent to those crimes which
that penalty is one method of punishment.
David Eric Moeller
Indecisive attitude
Mr. Don Lieneman's statement concern
ing the U.S. Constitution, the word of
God, and "the direction we have at the
state level" really blew me away. Such
logic and such narrow interpretation of the
Bible on an issue as important as the death
penalty should be avoided. Hopefully no
one took him seriously.
All civilizations have dealt with the
punishment of major crimes in ways
depending on the attitude of its leaders and
people. Looking at the indecision on this
subject, (the death penalty), by our lead
ers, and by us, it seems that we are not
quite ready for a law of this nature, al
though we already have one. I wish Sen,
Chambers luck in his effort to strike it
from the books.
Bob Nelles
The Council of E. F. Schramm Hall on
"the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus
is asking the NU Board of Regents to re
scind their decision to build a $5 million to
$6 million, 9,000 seat expansion to
Memorial Stadium. We are acting in
support of other concerned student groups,
particularly the Residence Hall Associat
ion, and to encourage, the exchange of
views on university issues.
Down One For Kelly is not intended as
a personal attack on the senator. The name
was merely used as an eye-catching slogan
that many students Would know. We too
share1 in the concern that Mr. Kelly has
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