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friday, September 18, 1981
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Football fans to find changed Memorial Stadiuni
As students prepare for the liusker home
opener against Florida State, it may be a good
time to point out some changes that Husker
fans can expect to find in Memorial Stadium.
First, there still is the problem of the stu
dents who were denied regular reserved seats
due to the ticket shortage. While the Athletic
Ticket Office, the administration and ASUN
were able to work out a plan to get tickets for
those students, there is no guarantee the plan is
foolproof.
For instance, many students who have tic
kets for the bleacher seats may want to sit with
friends in predominantly student sections.
And as all the students try to squeeze into a
full row, fans may have a hard time remaining
calm and cheerful as they are being told to
"move down a little.
But, if problems do arise, at least the new
task forces roaming through the stadium may
be able to help.
This year the UNL Police Department is
grouping officers in an attempt to better con
trol problems that occur whenever 76,000 peo
ple are at one place at the same time.
The officers will be drawn from campus, ci
ty, county and state police forces.
The task force will be keeping a lookout for
gate-crashing, fighting among fans, drinking
and the ever-popular custom of throwing ob
jects onto the field.
The task forces probably won't do much to
rhnno fan behavior at the games. People will
always get in fights, drink or throw oranges.
Some do all three.
But if the task forces can help make the sta
dium safer for all fans, then let's hope it works
well.
Being a law enforcement officer can't be an
easy job on football Saturdays. Residence hall
students cannot drink alcohol, according to
university policy, yet they can watch tailgaters
in nearby parking lots preparing drinks from
the back of station wagons.
If the university really wants to treat all who
visit or attend here fairly, then officers
shouldn't hesitate to tell Mom or Dad to pour
out their beer, too.
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s to the editor
Solidarity Day supported
Last Wednesday night at the ASUN Senate meeting,
the senate voted against a proposal to support working
people, poor people, women and minorities in their Sept.
19 Solidarity Day.
Solidarity Day has been called by Lane Kirkland presi
dent of AFL-CIO and supported by NAACPNOW and
many other groups representing the victims of President
Reagan's economic measures.
In the name of less paperwork, the president has effect
ively stopped enforcement of affirmative action programs.
The president opposes the minimum wage. The president
gives tax cuts to the unneedy while cutting social
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programs for the truly needy. All this is being done in the
name of trickle-down economics that even Wall Street
isn't buying.
Some senators claimed that Solidarity Day doesn't
concern students. How many students are working for the
minimum wage that Reagan opposes?
If the minimum wage is lowered in a college commun
ity where labor supply far exceeds demand, many
students will be working for much less money.
One senator could not support the proposal even in
opposing the tightening of student loans and aid, stating
that he knew of a number of students he didn't think
should even be in school.
Who are these students? Are they black? Are they
poor? Did they vote for him? A senator who will pass
judgment on his fellow students in this manner should not
be representing them.
Support Solidarity Day in front of the Federal Building
at 10 a.m. Saturday. charies Quinn, junior
Deal only with students
Monday's editorial, "ASUN Senate should stop evading
social issues," was totally off-base.
The business of the senate is to deal with issues that
affect students as students. In other words, the concerns
of the student senate are rightly limited to educational
issues.
Beyond that, the Senate has no business choosing
which ideas and issues students should concern themselves
with.
ASUN is our representative only to the extent of our
connection with the University and the concerns that arise
from that connection. The test for any issue should be:
"Does this have anything to do with being a student?"
Social issues like labor, El Salvador, and Reaganomics
concern us all, and cannot and should not be ignored on
this campus - except by the senate. They are not student
issues but citizen issues; not questions for student govern
ment but for state and national government, for individu
als, and for newspapers and editorial writers.
Dan Kurtenbach
former ASUN Senator
Columnist reveals
lack of enthusiasm
for Big Red fever
Hold on to your hats, Husker fans. This one's got to
be a first.
Would you believe I've been a Lincoln resident since
the age of 6. Would you believe I'm a junior at this big
state university? Would you believe I've never bought a
football season ticket? And this is it-would you believe
that never, before last Saturday, had I been to a Big Red
football game?
Unprecedented, I'm told. No, I'm not a communist.
Yes, I salute the American flag. But no, I'm not a gung-ho
Husker fan.
I've never had an overriding interest in football and
saw no reason to change just because this state gets half
crazed at the sight of a big, red "N."
I really don't know what went wrong. The rest of my
family isnt this way. They gather around the television
set for every televised game.
And when the Huskers beat Oklahoma in November,
1978, my brother and sisters joined with other neighbor
hood football groupies in running around the front yard
chanting "Go Big Red! Go Big Red!"
My father's -one true disappointment in life is his
inability to get his own season tickets. He's been trying
for years, lies on the phone with contacts weekly during
the on-season looking for "just two to Saturday's game."
Listen to a recent dinnertune conversation at my
house. The subject : I lusker football tickets.
Dad: (to me) Can't your boyfriend-sportswriter get
me a couple of tickets?
Me: No
Dad: Urn. . .(then to Mom) Hey, Mar, remember that
job you said you were going to look for after the first
of the year?
Mom: Yeah. . .
Dad: Well, as long as you want a job, why not work
for the university?
Mom: Yeah?
Dad: Yeah, that way we'd get some faculty season
tickets.
Me: Ugh. . .You'd sell your own mother for season
tickets.
Mom: No, just the gold out of her teeth.
Even as I sit here typing, my 12-year-old brother is
glued to the set (complete with ESPN) in the next room
watching a Canadian league game, leafing through his
I lusker media guide. I Ie's worse than my father.
So what happened to me? I'm still trying to figure it
out. In high school, 1 dutifully went to all home varsity
football games. The fact that band members were required
to show was only half the reason.
1 genuinely liked the games. I think it was because
I knew the players. They were my classmates.
How many of us can say, "Yea, Turner Gill, I know
him. He's in my biology class, second period"?
It just isn't the same here. So, I never bought a football
ticket for the Huskers. And the only time I've been
in Memorial Stadium was while giving a guided tour of
Lincoln to a visiting cousin.
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