Wednesday, march 11, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
eMm to the editor
Committee responds
The Talks and Topics Committee would
like to respond to Ron Taylor's letter,
which appeared in the March 4 Daily
Nebraskan.
Talks and Topics has repeatedly tried to
have our events announced in the Daily Ne
braskan's Short Stuff column, which lists
upcoming events. The staff has repeatedly
refused to help publicize our events. The
Daily Nebraskan chose not to cover Talks
and Topic's ASUN debate. Instead, they
ran an article on student apathy and the
ASUN election the next day.
The Talks and Topics Committee did
not consider name cards since each panel
ist addressed each candidate by name be
fore asking them a question. However, this
is a good idea and we will try to incorpor
ate it next year.
The debate format selected by the Talks
and Topics Committee was recommended
by a UNL professor. Each panelist was ran
domly assigned one question. Two of the
panelists were randomly assigned two ques
tions, since there were eight candidates.
This was done to ensure that each candi
date would be asked at least one question.
Each candidate was allowed a two minute
opening statement, a closing statement and
the opportunity for rebuttal to questions
asked by the audience. Each of the panel
ists was assigned one question that could
be asked of any of the eight candidates.
The Talks and Topics Committee is very
sorry if Mr. Taylor feels this was "unfair."
We appreciate Mr. Taylor's input and
concern. We invite him as well as all other
university students, to become directly in
volved in these programs.
The real question we should be asking is
one to the editor of the Daily Nebraskan.
The Daily Nebraskan has run an editorial
criticizing Talks and Topics for not inform
ing students of how their student fees are
being spent on speakers. At the same time,
however, they refuse to help inform stu
dents of upcoming events. A perfect exam
ple of this is a lecture to be given by Dr.
Barry Commoner on Thursday, March 12
in the Nebraska City Union. The Daily
Nebraskan has known about this upcoming
event for one month. Have you, the stu
dent, been informed?
Kathryn Sjulin
Chairperson of Talks and Topics
Committee
Bewildered liberals . . .
Continued from Page 4
It hits the generation that came into
adulthood in the sixties hardest. They saw
their piece of time as a straight line in
stead of a cycle. They saw progress as an
arrow instead of a pendulum. I suppose it
is only t'le young who believe that points
stay proved and fights stay won. We are all
encumbered by history until we become
part of it.
Now we know that some of the move
ments were nourished on heady air but had
weak roots. We know that some have never
survived hard times in our country. We
kiiow that some simply have strong ene
mies. And we know that it all hangs now in
abeyance.
So today, one woman wonders whether
her daughters will look back on Their
Mother The Feminist the way another
generation looked back on Their Mothers
The Suffragettes as terribly quaint.
One man who was there at the anti
Vietnam March on Washington wonders
whether his children will think of it like
some national rock concert.
Another who truly believe that we
should, would, create a social policy based
on justice, wonders whether this idea will
be recorded as an historical oddity.
They know that the answers depend in
large part on whether they learn the lessons
of the old activities who learned in lean
times how to regroup, change, keep a struc
ture and dig in for a long haul.
But it also depends on how you find the
energy when you are in the same move
ment for the second time and you're not
even forty.
(c) 1981, The Boston Globe Newspaper Co.
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Buffalo meat welcome
Brady Wiebeck's letter to the editor
appearing last Thursday was one of the
most glaring examples of illogic to appear
in this column in some time.
Wiebeck was opposed to the sale of
buffalo burgers in the Crib because he
feels consumption of buffalo shows pre
judice against Indians and is "repulsive."
I pity Wiebeck if the consumption of
the flesh of an animal which thrived in
America before white settlement sickens
him. It must make it difficult to sit down
to a Thanksgiving turkey. I have eaten
turkey and buffalo, enjoyed them and in
no way connected this with an attitude
biased toward or against American Indians.
Bison were a major source of food for
the Plains Indians and represent an Indian
ideal of thrift. The meat is leaner than
beef and because of this contains 25 to 30
percent more protein per unit weight. The
American buffalo, bison, is not an endan
gered species. The meat is a welcome
change of pace and tastes good.
Mary Speece
Senior, Civil Engineering
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