thursday, november6, 1980
daily nebraskan
go m editor Election blues hit some
In regard to the article in the Oct. 20
issue of the Daily Nebraskan, entitled
"Ticket Transfer Motion Defeated."
The past three years that I've been here,
regents have disgusted me to no end.
They've increased tuition, increased salar
ies, are in the process of increasing
graduate tuition, previously increased stu
dent football ticket prices and now they
want to increase them again by 105 per
cent with possibly a student athletic fee
that we don't now have and don't need
in the future.
The big problem, or excuse seems to be
that some students are profiteering off the
university by scalping their football tickets.
Why not? You've been ripping students off
with your education cost hikes for the past
few years, and I've seen no remarkable out
put from these price hikes.
To answer Prokop's and Raun's ques
tion, why we have this policy that is unen
forceable, it is becuase we can't attach
student I.D.'s directly to the student. When
a student sells his ticket he passes his I.D.
along with it.
As I recall, people were turned away at
the Florida State game, because they had
temporary I.D.'s, but had actually had a
a ticket that belonged to them. Sure it's a
student's responsibility to have an updated
I.D. for these purposes. But the idea is
that identification shouldn't have to be
presented because it's not visual, thus un
enforceable. We don't need these people at
each gate asking for identification until
it does become visual.
Oh yes! Regent Raun, raising the
present cost of a ticket from $5 per game
to $10.25, is not only unnecessary, but
ludicrous. Not only are you ripping off stu
dents, but you're boosting inflation on a
local basis. What makes you think, once
tickets sell for $10.25 per game or $71.75
for a seven -game season ticket, that this
will compel a student not to sell his ticket,
or make it harder for him. Because stu
dents will continue to sell their tickets
and a lot more than $10.25. Then you have
the gall of saying once this policy is in
effect, "there would be no problem with
letting them do whatever they want with
their ticket."
In other words you're not helping the
solution at all, but making it worse.
Let's examine this. Maybe this is what
the regents want. Because once the tickets
are increased to $10.25 per game for every
one, the university will haul in an extra
$548,790 (six games) to $640,255 (seven
games) per year.
The only FAIR and alternate solution is
visual student I.D.'s.
In the past, there was a proposal to
make a move for having pictures on stu
dents' I.D.'s. It was voted down, because
the university didn't want to pay for
having it done. Using simple logic, students
can choose between paying a $36.75 hike
on their season tickets, or paying a few
dollars to have their picture on their stu
dent I.D. I'm all for it, not only will it wipe
out ticket scalping and save students
money, but it would also improve identifi
cation'tor administration purposes.
Second alternate approach, can be done
by having the students' picture placed on
the ticket itself, it worked for meal tickets
in dorms, it can also work for football tic
kets, it would be a longer process but it can
be done. The cost of doing this can be
included on the sale of each ticket.
These are the only solutions that will
work. I know it, the regents know it, but
are not doing anything about it, students
know it, and of course so do scalpers and
their buyers who are the only ones that
will complain about visual I.D.'s.
Finally, to answer Regent Hansen's de
cision on whether we need a student athle
tic fee and why we don't have one now is
that our football team is a gold mine. Just
a few weeks ago we had visits from two
gentlemen, Colorado University President
Arnold Weber and Football Coach Woody
Hayes, both stating how such a great foot
ball team we have compared to the many
others across the country, and how it helps
hold this university together financially.
John Simpson
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I think the feminists probably are taking
it the hardest. Reagan's election, that is.
The gains in equal righis that women have
made since the 1960s tould be reversed.
Maybe Reagan doesn't think a woman's
place is in the kitchen or the bedroom. But
you'd never know it by his campaign state
ments. Then there are the blacks and other
minorities who are probably suffering
through the post-election blues today. If
you remember, it was Reagan who said
there was never a racial problem when he
was growing up. Or at least he wasn't
aware of one.
Waft soisiflesi
With that in mind, it's not hard to imag
ine where the budget cuts will come in his
administration.
The environmentalists are no doubt cry
ing in their returnable beer cans this
morning. Reagan said trees are a prime
source of pollution. They're worse than
cars. For emission control standards, he'll
probably pass out chain saws.
Members of the Moral Majority are pro
bably happiest of all this morning.
That's scarry. Can you imagine Reagan
handing out an important cabinet post to
someone like Jerry Falwell? Calling the
press together once a year for a state of th
the heaven message? Pressing for laws
against Edward Kennedy and other liber
als? And the war mongers must be going
crazy. Fighting is fashionable again. Speak
loudly and carry a big tank. We'll show
those Ruskies. They're not going to push
Uncle Sam around anymore. Yeah! Rah!
Go genocide!
And if you own a Datsun, you'd be
smart to tuck it away in some out-of-the-way
garage. The presidency is in the camp
of big business again. The "Big Three"
will probably convince Reagan to not only
keep new foreign cars out of the country,
but outlaw the ones that are already here.
And the oil companies. They must be
dancing on their derricks this morning.
They'll be able to give a whole new
meaning to the word "obscence profits."
Am I exaggerating? Getting carried
away? Probably. The United States will
not doubt survive four years of Ronald
Reagan. It survived four years of Jimmy
Carter.
But allow me to reprint a portion of an
Associated Press story that the Lincoln
Star carried Monday morning. Reagan
was asked about the hostage situation
while campaigning in Ohio on Sunday.
"... when a reporter asked him to
comment and Reagan began to answer,
a worried aide shouted to press secretary
Lyn Nofziger.
'Lyn! Lyn! He's talking, Lyn!'
Nofziger moved in quickly and hustled
Reagan away ..."
I think I'll move to Australia.
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