friday, September 26, 1980
daily nebraskan
Jason 's compromise . . .
Continued from Page 4
Jason picks up his line of thought from
two songs ago. "I'll sacrifice whatever I
can't get away with for Marie" he says re
flecting. I've known Jason too long to misinter
pret this line for a joke. He is deadly
serious. I wonder about Marie, half way
across town watching a foreign film with
an old friend. For the life of me I can't
imagine what holds the two of them
together after so many strong attempts on
both their parts to break free. Neither one
of them can stand the type of person the
other one is.
Jason drains his beer and gets to his
feet. He straightens out his shirt and walks
over to the table with the four cover-girls
seated pensively giggling over their drinks. I
hear him ask "would you like to dance?"
in the voice he saves for the telephone.
There is momentary confusion as to
who he is asking to dance. Jason spreads
his arms wide and there is a burst of laught
er. All four stand up and follow him to the
dance floor.
Jason moves from woman to woman
and manages to look at each of them with
the same alluring intensity. He does a quick
spin and looks me straight in the eye, giv
ing me a big innocent grin. I shake my
head. I don't know why I like the man
either, but I understand Marie's attach
ment. Understand it or not, I like the man,
I really like him. Damn it.
Next Week: Marie Bites Back
ft editor
!f we are to believe some com
ments in Monday's Daily Nebraskan,
intellectual arrogance and egotism are
prerequisites of the modern-day
college student or athlete.
The president of Mensa attempts
to claim his group is not elitist, and
his grammatical constructions in the
direct quote from paragraph four
support his assertion. For he begins
in the first-person plural and ends in
the third -person plural. Along the way
he attempts to make a plural pronoun
modify a singular indefinate pronoun.
Obviously grammatical exactness is
not a characteristic of high I.Q.
elitists.
Two pages later in the same
issue, Dunbar criticizes Jarvis Red
wine because apparently he isn't
selfish enough. Really, Dunbar, just
how inane can you get? I for one find
Redwine's attitude and comments a
refreshing change of pace from the
cocky self-assurance and egotism
that characterize most modern super
stars. Perhaps Lippicott and Dunbar
both need instruction that in the game
of life, as in the game of football, what
really counts "ain't necessarily what
ya got, but how ya use it,
David J. Hibler
Asst. Professor
English.
Stop abuse
The pretty 25-year-old woman
in the hospital would look out of
place but for the fact that she can
hardly hold her head up and eyes
keep rolling in her head. Unfortun
ately and un ; knowingly she is yet
another victim joining the untold
millions of females suffering at the
hand of the largely male jury that
dictates what products we may and
may not use. Namely the FDA.
Can you tell me, letters to the
editor, why an unfair amount of
misfortune seems to fall exclusively
on our fair, slender shoulders? I am
speaking of the recent scandal of
the Rely tampon. Hundreds of wom
en will suffer and hundreds could
die, and this is only adding insult
to the injury named birth con
trol. Why do -we repeatedly submit to
theses outrages known all too famil
iarly? I am speaking of high blood
pressure, with resultant strokes,
tumors of the liver, hair loss, mental
depression, loss of sex drives, deadly
embolisms, toxic syndromes; and the
list goes marching on and on to the
tune of the meek shall inherit the
earth.
As far as I can ascertain, the most,
serious problem that affects solely
the male gender is that their jock
sprays give them a rash. No where do
you hear of men with perforated
uteruses (I know, but you get the
point), men in their 20's and 30's
dropping like flies from strokes or
suffering from (God forbid) hair
loss. That problem alone, I believe,
would send them right over the edge,
judging from the ads in the back of
Playboy.
Rapier wit aside, and with all
due apologies, I turn my question
ing plea to my fellow women-fight-ing-the
good fight. Why do we con
tinue to pop the pill, insert tjie
IUD's and use their crummy person
al hygiene products without so much
as batting an eyelash? Granted, the
FDA is guilty, but so are we. There
is only one thing we can "Rely"
upon, and that is we cannot "Rely"
upon the alien sex to watchdog
the uniquely female threats forever
looming on today's horizon. Open
your eyes, sisters. We are letting our
selves be used and abused. Again.
Yet. Still.
Jill Svengardin
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