pag3 4 daily nebraskan friday, november 9, 1979 Stren courage characterize Ginzbmr i The speech Wednesday night on the UNL campus by Soviet exile Alexander Ginzburg was indeed an educational experience. Those in attendance heard much about conditions in the Soviet Union. They learned how the free doms Americans so often take for granted-those of speech, religion, assembly, etc.-can Jbe severely re stricted and abused. But Ginzburg spoke very little about himself. We saw the man, thin and stooped, but heard little about the personal experiences which have shaped his personality. Ginzburg was arrested four times by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, for his human rights work as a journalist and for his work as a member of a citizen's group organ ized to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki hum?n rights . accord of 1975. In all, he spent nine years in Soviet labor camps. He was released in April with four other jailed Soviet dissidents in ex change for two convicted Soviet spies in American prisons. But his hardship did not end with that re lease. At that time the Soviets had promised that his family would be allowed to leave the Soviet Union without obstacles. Soviet officials have since said that his wife and their two natural sons may leave, but only if his adopted son remains. In an open letter to the American press, Ginzburg's wife asks why: "Do they need one more hostage, or does their vengeance require that at least one member of our, family be tor tured to the end . . . For half a year our family has been subjected to an unbearable moral torture. We are all exhausted." Ginzburg obviously is a man of enormous strength. His courage in the face of torment is overwhelming. What UNL students learned was good, but it would have been inter esting to hear about the personal Ginzburg. We wonder what gives him the strength to endure the pain and heartbreak. The answer to that ques tion would be a valuable lesson fo.r everyone. DN classified ads demand discret ion There are classified sections in college newspapers in thfs country that read like the "Penthouse Forum." Lest you go scurrying for the back of today's paper, I might mention that the Daily Nebraskan is not one of .them-but don't pout and kick at the dirt yet. ...-' " Editorial policy for the last several years has been that profanity in any form will not be printed in the classified section. In practice this has meant that common profanity has not been printed. Some enterprising souls in the past have ' stayed up late . at night going through their dictionaries looking for proper expletives, but this hasn't happened too often, as people tend to be lazy with their expletives in this country . The area of grey that causes the classified gods to toss and turn at night are the ads with innuendo of a sexual nature in them. Their usual defense can be heard from down the hall and around the corner. It is the famous 'it doesn't mean what you think it means" line of defense with the "well I'm not offended" rebuttal following close behind. These ads are usually rejected,, but it does leave certain editors feeling that perhaps they do have a dirty mind. Hie other extreme involves erotic references that are so obscure that nobody understands them. Personally, I find the ones containing bad or mushy poetry to be particularly obscene, but I don't make policy...... There has been a problem with people misrepresent ing other people in the classifieds, which has led the paper to require proof of identity when placing an ad. This prevents your phone number appearing under a bold face headline that says "FOR A GOOD TIME CALL....." If you, however, wish to convey the same message, chances chances are that if it is. done with some sensitivity, you can get it in. It has been said at one time'or another that the classi fieds are the most read section of the paper. This seems to indicate that people want to be titillated in some way or ' another. Editorial policy is to shake a finger at all of you. Learn to be discreet if you must place ads that detail ' your sexual activity. Learn to be discreet if you want to tell your roommate to go take a flying .... (at any rate, be discreet.) The personals can be a lot of fun, and very useful in advertising and announcing things. The guidelines as to content are an effort to keep things from getting out of hand in ways that benefit nobody and end up being ' abusive and demeaning. Everybody should be aware of that anyway. If not, don 't reply via personals. .m m mm mm m mmmm i w wwv a r . mm mm m lw m THANKSGIVING I 2 hFfr&t Chambers misunderstood by whites When I read the student editorials concerning remarks made by Sen. Ernest .Chambers, I began to realize that not only do white people have a monopoly on the economic, political and affirmative action decisions made here in the United States, but may have a corner on the stupidity and backwardness market as well. This is quite evident in the things they seem to come up with in the name of intelligent observation. They look at nuclear plants and see a little energy and a lot of dollar signs instead of the potentially uncontrollable destruc tiveness of such an endeavor. They look at a clearly carved case of racial . discrimination, but claim discrimination does not exist. They look at Sen. Chambers and see a -trouble-maker instead of a. great Black man who has. consistently done what a lesser man would have trembled at the thought of doing-stand up eyeball-to-eyeball with , his oppressor demanding freedom for his people. ' One of the students went so far as to call Sen. HEX. ARE YOO GUYS THIRSTY? "Don'T OU TufcN i i TRfES COMPANY j ; ONTwe TV.? JX L Chambers what I suspect he'll call me after reading this paper, a racist. If the student actually knew what a racist was he would not have used the word in the context in which he did. A racist by definition is one who displays and harbors unjustified feelings of hatred towards a par ticular racial group. This unjust hatred is oftentimes based completely on physical features such as skin color. A much clearer example of this than Sen. Chambers would be the KKK, the Nazi Party or the Affirmative Action Committee at UNL. Working from the corrected framework, we now see that not only is it inaccurate to classify Ernest Chambers as a racist, but would be just as inappropriate to classify anyone a racist that speaks out against the atrocities committed by white people. Although hatred can be a nasty and terrible thing, Black people and all people of color are armed with at least 400 years of evidence to jus tify any ill-feelings they may have against the white race. But that is a completely different matter and warrants more time than I am able to give it In this paper. Sen. Chambers was elected and will continue to be elected to the state government by Black people because he is dedicated to representing the sole (no pun intended) of Black people. He is not under any obligation to placate or gain popularity among simple-minded white college students, or white people in general whose interests are nepotistically cared for by the people who dominate this system. Without the continuous efforts of Sen. Chambers I would hate to even imagine what the condition of Black people would be in this state. He displays the leadership of Marcus Garvey.the wisdom of Malcolm X, the vision of Kwame Nkrumah and the veracity that only he can pro ject. I'm confident I speak with the voice of the Black community in saying that we will always love and respect Brother Ernie Chambers for being the fearless advocate for our total liberation not only in Nebraska but til over the world. Hodarl M. Sababu Journalism Anthropology EnglishAfrican Liberation