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Smokeout is good time to lay the habit aside
Today is the Great American
Smokeout, the 24-hour period
during which nicotine addicts are
urged to lay their habit aside.
We think the smokeout is a good
idea. Surveys show that most
smokers would like to quit, and pro
viding an incentive to try it for one
day might be all some smokers need
to really give quitting a try.
Tuesday the president of the
National American Cancer Society
was in Lincoln. His message about
smoking was fairly logical- that the
elimination of cigarettes would be a
giant step toward decreasing the can
cer rate.
That's obvious. Smokers can feel
and taste what cigarettes do to their
bodies, and everyone can see what it
does to the air.
The very least that smokers can
gain from giving up cigarettes today is
the great feeling of not being nagged
by a single anti-smoker all day. Or,
smokers won't have to worry about
getting caught with a cigarette on an
elevator. Tonight would be a good
night for non-smoking smokers to
visit a nice restaurant. When the host
or hostess asks "Smoking or non
smoking," the temporary non
smoker can say, indignantly, "Non
smoking, of course."
And for one day, smokers can feel
the freedom of not having to carry
matches, and can enjoy the full
rights of citizenship.
Departing from the first rule of
journalistic writing for a second, it
should be pointed out that the
author of this editorial is a smoker.
Illegal parker calls for help
They took my car away. Not for falling
behind on the payments or because the
cops suspected I had dope stashed in it.
They took it away because I was parked on
10th Street between 4 and 6 p.m.
It sounds trivial to me that the cops
would have to haul away something worth
. . . well, more than my blue jeans anyway,
because I was parked on 10th St eet be
tween 4 and 6 in the afternoon.
Maybe I made the meter maid angry
because I parked under a sign that read
"No parking between 4 and 6 p.m.'" May
be she thought I was flaunting some sort
of authority, so she called in the tow
truck.
1 don't know. All I know is that when I
went out Thursday afternoon, with the
cold wind blowing and the snow falling,
my car was gone. At first, and I admit
this, I was elated. 1 thought that some id
iot stole that hunk-of-junk and with any
luck, wrapped it around a telephone pole.
That way, at least, I could take the insur
ance money and buy one that runs.
You can imagine my dismay when 1
called the cops and they informed me that
I was out orre insurance check, but I'd
actually have to pay to get it out of
hock. That really stinks.
And the cops saved their dirtiest trick
until the end. After I bothered a friend
to drive me over to West P Street, and
after I paid my 22 bucks, and after I
trudged through a muddy parking lot,
there, on the stupid windshield, was a
parking ticket. A stupid parking ticket!
I never realized how clever the people at
City Mall are. They'd put a pickpocket
to shame.
And there's something wrong with a
system that tries to rehabilitate drug
addicts and alcoholics, yet does nothing
for the chronic illegal parkers.
Oh yes. There are several of us out
there. I'm an acute 10th Street parker my
self. I park on 10th Street even when I go
shopping-at Gateway Mall. I can't kick
the habit, yet I don't see anyone coming
up to me and offering some sort of rehabil
itation. I'm out in the world alone. Even
my wife doesn't understand.
And I know a young woman who was
nearly hauled into court for having so
many parking tickets. Well, actually be
cause she hadn't paid them. But that's
another symptom. And I didn't see any
shrinks asking her to recall her unfortun
ate childhood so they could figure out
For that reason, I depart from third
person voice briefly.
I quit last .year during the smoke
out. It was kinda fun, and not as
difficult as I expected. I'll try again
today, mostly because I'm one of
those people who needs social pres
sure to give up bad habits.
Also, I'll be able to look down my
nose at those who dare to pollute
their lungs and my clean air on this
hallowed day. I'll keep taking deep
breaths, imagining that the air feels
cleaner, and I'll chew my food long
er, imagining it tastes better.
There are some myths about giv
ing up cigarettes, even for one day.
Your love life does not improve
radically and suddenly. The world
does not look cleaner. The tempta
tion does not go away, but you do
not lose your motor control.
There also are myths about things
that will help you quit.
Bubble gum, for example, does
not help. It rots your teeth and
makes your jaws hurt and tends to
contribute to bad breath. Sunflower
seeds do not help. You get the shells
stuck between your teeth, you need
an ashtray twice as big as the one
you use for cigarettes and you lose
all of your friends.
Nobody wants to go into a res
taurant and sit across from a sun
flower seed muncher.
Actually, the only way to quit
smoking is to want to quit smoking.
The smokeout provides that for
some people. We hope that if you are
one of them that the day of abstin
ence helps you quit for good.
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where she went wrong.
We shouldn't have to live in a system
that allows meter maids to play dirty
tricks like sticking parking tickets on cars
that are being towed away and then
refuses to help those of us who can't
help ourselves.
And now that I've brought this ugly
blemish on society out in the open, I ex
pect Ronald Reagan to fix it.
liMm to the editor
Concerning the recent "silver bullet hunt" sponsored
by Coors Light and the Daily Nebraskan. It was under
stood by the student body that the bullet was to be
placed somewh.rc conspicuous on campus four weeks
ago, and whomever found it would receive a prie of
$200.
After the first clue was released, many students includ-
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Editor in chief Randy Essex; Managing editor: Bob Lannin;
News editor: Barb Richardson; Associate news editor Kathy
Chenault; Assistant news editors Tom Prentiss and Shelley
Smith, Night news editors: Sue Brown, Nancy Ellis, Bill Graf;
Assistant night news editor Ifejika Okonkwo; Entertainment edi
tor: Casey McCabe; Sports editor: Shelley Smith, Assistant sports
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director: David Luebke; Magazine editor: Dane Andersen.
Copy editors: Sue Brown, Nancy Ellis, Maureen Hutfless,
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Sjulin, Kent Warneke, Patricia Waters.
Business manager: Anne Shank; Production manager: Kitty
Policky; Advertising manager: Art Small; Assistant advertising
manager: Jeff Pike.
Publications Board chairman: Mark Bowen, 475-1031, Profes
sional adviser Don Walton, 473-7301.
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ing ourselves concluded that through process of elimina
tion that it must have been located in the Sheldon Sculpt
ure Garden. We searched on and around every statue,
but only to find nothing. After much frustration - we gave
up. As the clues continued to be exposed, they still added
up to one location. The Sculpture Garden. Again we
searched, but the bullet was nowhere to be found.
1. Isn't it possible that the bullet was not in fact hid
den until a later date because of ulterior motives related
to prolonged advertising?
2. If point number one is a feasible possibility, one
could logically take it one step further. However profit
able a scheme like this one would he, not only for the
Daily. Nebraskan but also for Coors Light.il would never
theless be considered unfair, unethical, not to mention
totally unprofessional. In addition to this, it would do
anything but help the Daily Nebraskan's credibility which
they are supposedly trying so hard to restore after the
Rocky Stnink incident last Spring.
3. If this theory is in fact true, the student body
would expect and deserve an explanation from the Daily
Nebraskan and Coors Light rectifying the situation. It
may not be easier but it is definately appropriate to swal
low one's pride than deceive one's patrons.
Laura Shestak Breck Wilson
Accounting Construction Management
Bernadette Bredar Bob Stine
Business Management Life Sciences
Karen Borchman
Life Sciences
Editor's Note. The Daily Nebraskan and Coors want
to assure the campus community that the Silver Bullet
Contest was legitimate. The bullet was hidden the evening
before the first clue appeared. The very nature of the
contest requires that it be difficult to find the bullet. We
regret that some attempts to find the bullet apparently
were unsuccessful, but the bullet was found, proving the
contest was not unfairly difficult. Coors is a regular Daily
Nebraskan advertiser, and therefore neither Coors nor the
Daily Nebraskan had anything to gain from prolonging
the contest.
Space ventures needed
Kathy Chenault's concern for our economy is com
mendable. Your logic in refuting man's venture into space
(Nov. 10) at this monent is not!
The total federal budget outlays for fiscal year 1980
are estimated at $564 billion. Of that. $127 billion, or
23 percent, went to the Department of Defense. $217
billion, or 37 percent, went to the Department of Health
and Human Services and the Department of Education
(formerly HEW). NASA received approximately $5.01
billion which, in terms of inflationary- dollars is less tax
payer support than it had a decade ago. The Department
of Defense spends the equivalent of NASA's budget ev
ery 14 days, wlule the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Department of Education spends it every
seven days. Where is the money going?
In 1975. Mathematicia. Inc., traced four specific ex
amples of the second application of NASA technology.
The four examples were integrated circuits, cryogen
ic multilayer insulating materials (first developed for
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