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daily nebraskan pagoB Businesses: university is asset for city's economy tuesday, October 9, 1979 Dy Dill Graf Although some cimpus area residents said they believe UNL has a negative effect on their neighborhood, every, one agreed UNls effect on Lincoln is completely posi tive. In an informal survey of businesses and residents that border the UNL downtown campus everyone said UNL was economically good for Lincoln and some added that UNL was a cultural or intellectual asset. Gil Savery, assistant managing editor of the Lincoln Journal, said the economic and intellectual advantages of having the university here were "enormous. "UNL has been a constant and reliable source of train ed journalists as well as employees for other departments at the Journal, he said. Rob Rickard, owner of Bivouac, said, "If Lincoln Goose-bumps,.. Continued from Page 4 My friend was taken aback, but he is congenitally re assuring. At least, he has been reassuring me since I was 18 and worried about making a fool of myself in "Damn Yankees." He said then that 1 would be great. My'friend is often more reassuring than accurate. So, of course, he told the girl that there wouldn't be a nuclear war because it would be disastrous for everyone. People were too sane to drop the bomb. The girl, however, has had a good deal of experience with the use of ultimate weapons on school playgrounds. She is not convinced that the reasonable human mind is a deterrent to violence. So it was my turn again. This time the best I could do was wryly point out one of the values of living in Boston, one which goes unadvertised by realtors. In the event of a nuclear war, anyone this close to M.I.T will never know what hit her. Double dumb. What I wanted to be, of course, was both honest and reassuring, boih accurate and comforting. But it is some times impossible to be both. Ground Zero is not a great comfort, especially if you are 1 1 years old. It's not just about the bomb. It's hard to be simulta neously realistic and comforting about almost anything that makes life stable, or the future certain. didn't have an university campus, we would have started Bivouac on another university campus. Rickard also said that Lincoln has a high diversity of businesses because of the money spent in Lincoln by stu dents. Bob Magee, chairman of the board of Magee 'a clothing store, said the university is an asset that "any city would like to have.' Magee not only said the people at the university add to Lincoln's economy but cited all the people that come from outstate to Lincoln because of activities on campus. "It's not just football, people may come in to see a ballet at Kimball or a play at Howell Theater or art exhibits at Sheldon ," he said . Cheryl Frates, general manager of Hovland Swan son Co. downtown, also said UNL had an economically good for Lincoln, but added the university "creates a good atmosphere.' When we were young, most of us were fed three square meals of certainties. I don't know if our parents believed them all or if they just thought that security, like milk, was good for the children. But it was a pretty constant and even nourishing diet. We didn't hear much about bad times, bad marriages, bad wars. The survivors of the Depression didn't talk much about it; the survivors of World War II were proud; divorce was a secret scandal. Most of us grew up expecting a stable world. I don't think we were betrayed; at worst, most of our parents be lieved they could build us that world. They thought we needed to be assured instead of prepared. Instead, we were surprised. The way we live is unexpectedly, surprisingly, insecure. We live in a state of flux. Women who were going to be professional wives are working; marriages that were going to last forever exist for now. We have no vaccine for en vironmental diseases. And lurking in the background is the epitome of human foolishness and insecurity: The Bomb. All these things cannot help but affect the way we live with our own children. I suspect that they, too, want a stable, secure world. They want consistency; they want answers to questions and solutions for problems. But we can't give them what we don't have. Instead we All of the campus area residents interviewed agreed with the businessmen about UNL helping Lincoln's economy , as well as stimulating cultural events. However, nearly all of the residents cited a common problem UNL creates in their neighborhood! -par king. "Most of the time It's pretty quiet, but on game days it's crazy," Deb Lockwood of 1024 Y St. "People park in my front yard. Lockwood said she has two strategics on football Sat urdays. "I can park in front of my driveway so no one else will and so I can get out if I want, or I can get up early and leave and then return when It's all over.' Floyd Meahan, 1945 R St., said, "The university owns all these lots (just east of 17th street). Why don't they rock them and let the students park there? I'm not blam ing the students. The parking problem is the university's fault." offer ambiguity, contingency plans, history, alternatives. And we call this "preparation for the real world." I don't know whether they are learning insecurity and fear, or learning how to cope. Or perhaps learning to cope with insecurity and fear. But, we try to share what we know of the world and what we assume they will need to know. With any luck we will have been too pessimistic, (cl The Washington Post Writers Group X LJ 12th & K ST. 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