Wednesday, august 22, 1970
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The Daily Nebraskan begins the semester with
this special edition designed to bring students up
to date on university and other news missed over
the summer. This edition also is meant to aid new
students orientation to the university.
. Our next issue will be published on the first
day of classes, Aug. 27, when we will being bur
regular publication schedule. Previously published
only four days each week, the Daily Nebraskan,
to serve the community better, now will appear in
newsstands everyday, Monday through Friday.
We have expanded our staff and also plan to
expand our coverage of events and people that
previously we could not accommodate in our
limited space.
Along with our regular coverage, the Daily
Nebraskan again will publish a magazine section
once every three Weeks. It will include a variety
of depth pieces that a daily paper normally does
not have time to research.
Our sports department again will produce First
Down, the 10-cent football program available on
home-game Saturdays.
For a second semester the Daily Nebraskan will
have ah ombudsman, Michael Zangari. He will be
responsible for handling reader and source
complaints and will write a weekly column dis
cussing the paper's role on the UNL campus.
The editorial page will serve as a forum for dif
fering opinions and for national and local
columnists. We welcome letters to the editor
and guest opinions. Editorials which will appear
in this space daily if unsigned are written by the
Editor In Chief, Amy Lenzen. Editorials written
by other members of the staff will be signed.
Welcome back.
Usage, not price, eliminated lines for gas
Three months ago, a friend, knowing that I was about
to have lunch with an official of the American Petroleum
Institute, made a request:
"I know the only reason for the current shortage is
that the oil companies want to get gas up to $1 a gallon,"
he said. "Please tell your man that I'm willing to pay $1
right now; just cut out the charade and let me get some
gas.
That was early May, when the gas lines were just reach
ing their full flower.
TWO THINGS have happened since then: (l)The price
of gasoline has reached a dollar a gallon; (2) The gas lines
have disappeared. t
Does that mean my friend Was right? Well, not neces
sarily; other things have happened since May.
For one thing, we're using less gasoline, although the
evidence for that statement is more obvious in the statis
tics than in my observations of the driving habits of
people I know.
In Maryland alone, June consumption was down nearly
17 percent from a year ago - from 192 million gallons to
160 million - according to Victor Raslieed, executive
director of the Greater Washington-Maryland Service Sta
tion Association.
IF THOSE figures even remotely reflect what is
happening across the country, that alone would account
for an end to the gasoline lines.
But do they? Or, more to the point, will this lessened
usage continue now that gasoline is easier to get, although
more expensive?
Raslieed believes the figures are accurate, so far as they
go. "People adapt,' he said. "They made some
adjustments in their driving habits."
Part of the adjustment is in the amount of driving they
do, he said, and part is in what they drive. For example,
he said, it takes some 20 gallons of gas for him to make
the round trip to Ocean City "in my big old Pontiac." His
daughter, driving a fuel-efficient Honda, makes the same
trip dn nine gallons.
MORE HELPFUL than the adjustments made by
American motorists though, is the recent decision by
Saudi Arabia to increase its crude oil production by a
million barrels a day - with most of that 12 percent
increase ending up' in the United States - Rasheed said.
"The media won't give them credit, but the Saudis
bailed us out," he said. "The increased production helped
us to get our allocation percentage up to around 85, from
a low of about 75 percent. If we were still under the
June allocation, we'd still have gas lines."
Is Rasheed agreeing that the line-generating shortage
was real? Not quite.
"There is no question but that the oil companies were
stockpiling crude, waiting for the prices to go up," he
aid. "I know a recent Department of Energy report ex
onerated them, but the exoneration was based on the oil
companies', own figures.1 They were stockpiling all right -all
of them. And if they were really pressed, I don't think
they'd even deny it. As a result, they made many millions
of dollars in extra profits."
SO PERHAPS my friend was right after all in his con
tention that it is the dollar-a-gallon prices that have
melted the gas lines? Again, it isn't quite that simple, ac
cording to Rasheed.
It's true that the situation is better, he said, but there
is no reason to believe that it won't get worse again soon.
"(Saudi oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki) Yamani told
me in 1973 that their oil appreciates faster in the ground
than the investments of the income from the sale of the
oil. They're producing more than they really want to pro
duce, as a favor to us, but that's temporary. They'll be
cutting back 8i million barrels a day in three months.
Kuwait is going to decrease its production by 10 percent.
Nigeria and Libya are planning reductions, too, and Iran
is still in turmoil.
"Unless we change our habits in a major way, I
wouidn t be surprised to see the gas lines again early
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he said, it takes some 20 gallons of gas for him to make next year." 68588.
Ivy League co-eds pose future problems appearing in
If there is a word that grates the surface that is still fighting the Victorians while the fellows in the First Amendment business, degrees an
of mv consciousness like the needle Hustlers are noundino down the oates? and I categorically refus tit ot Intn th urha
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of my consciousness like the needle
scratching on a record, it is the word
liberation.
If there is an argument that makes me
positively kinky for chains, it " U the
spurious debate between sexual liberation
and women's liberation. n ''
Hustlers are pounding down the gates?
What is there to say about a publisher who
regards it as avant-garde to prove that wo
men tan be brainy and beautiful? ..-
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Alas, the discussion seems to have been
revived with the publication of the Septem
ber issue fetturing Ivy League women.
... Now I am used to having strange bed-
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I have perhaps heard too many serious
media discussions about whether the truly
liberated woman is one who can take her
clothes oil in front of a photographer or
one who will kick the photographer in the
shins for sigzesting it.. But in the immortal
words of Rhett Cutler, offered to a Scarlett
woman, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a
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fellows in the First Amendment business,
and I categorically refuse to eet into the
liberation debate. But it is hard to read (I
used the word loosely) these pages without
thinking a bit about the question of
privilege.
PLAYBOY WENT TO the Ivy League
because Its wild and crazy guy readership
still believes in the matriculation mystique:
the Ivy Elite. While this is wildly exaggerat
ed, the Harvard Yale - Columbia Cornell-Dartmouth-Princeton
-Brown dub is still
tough to get Into. It takes hard work, good
SATs and big bucks.
Kids who go to elite schools, with and
Without ivy, have t leg up when they get
out. The "Ivy Women,- along with their
Seven Sisters, are in as enviable a position
as any women of their age. They are
privileged.
. Privileged, in the best sense of the word,
carries obUtlons, as well as opportunities.
But for tUyboy ft is just another fantasy
figure.
....
The espoused ooint of th tv
s?r:iJ ,wa to show that, stripped of the
Playboy
degrees and every thing eSst. these women
were the same as any others.
None of this need be. so troubling. Ex
cept for one thing. Privilege is easy to lose,
especially for women, whose grip on it is as
new as their tenure at places like Yale and
Princeton. If they don't understand some
of the underwritten obligations, they can
blow the opportunities.
IN THE REAL world, wornen who pose
for Playboy do not grow up to work for
the state department or to be tenured
professors. In the real world, women who
are seen nationally in befce satin undies or
with their tongues rolling out rof their
mouths are not taken seriously, f
Now maybe that wont matter to these
women. But maybe ft will. A pln-cp bbel is
touh on i resume, even'nsxt to a cum
laude.
Women's rights won't hir.3 cn whether
or net the lady from Dartmouth had all her
buttons. But their own lives may. Via
afraid that these yours women have blown
it. And I think it's a shme.
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