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monday, november 30, 1981
Down with ship . ,
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there's not enough pillows and blankets to go around, and
the dinners aU taste like the lunches which all taste like
the breakfasts which all taste like boiled Styrofoam. And
you can't sleep because of the one big worry on your
mind.'
"What's that?' says I.
"Will there be anybody there to meet you when you
land?' says Paddv.
tvi n re,
to tfos editor
So, president, I figure you could sell this Doomsday
Plane to Lee Iacocca or somebody who needs it. Us
citizens would feel a lot safer knowing you and us were all
in the same boat.
In the end, I got to agree with Paddy. "A captain,'
Paddy says, "ought to go down with his planet.'
Truly Yours,
Joe Sikspak, American
(c) Chronicla Publishing Co.
Abuse goes on
I am indebted to Justin
West for his letter of Nov.
20 criticizing my comments
concerning the UNL alco
hol policy. Mr. West super
bly exemplified the knee
jerk "Law 'n' order" opposi
tion that any attempt to
pass a rational alcohol poli
cy must overcome. Unfor
tunately, to hold his posi
tion one must blithely
ignore what the philosoph
ers affectionately call
reality.
Mr. West states: "The
number one fact of the mat
ter is that Nebraska State
Law allows no one under
the age of 20 to consume
alcoholic beverages." How
ever, he fails to consider
that neither the NU Board
of Regents nor the Unicam
eral - or, for that matter,
God Above can effective
ly sirmd between Man and
The Bottle. Consider these
results of a survey taken
last spring in the residence
halls:
- 843 percent of re
spondents aged 18 or under
drink in the dorms.
- 38.6 percent of them
do so once per week or
more.
- 91.6 percent of them
drink off campus.
- 33.7 percent of them
do so once per week or
more.
- 602 percent of re
spondents aged 18 or under
drink once per week or
more.
Furthermore: in analy
zing the survey I used three
different criteria for alcohol
abuse. The lowest of the
Editorial
policy
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Tom Prentiss, editor for the
fall 1981 semester. The
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three values (reported
memory blackouts) indica
ted that 22.9 percent of the
respondents have alcohol
problems. Other values for
other criteria are 27 and
53.6 percent. A breakdown
of these figures by age
suggests that persons 18 and
under are significantly more
likely to abuse alcohol than
older persons.
Neither the mandate of
the deified Unicameral nor
the policy of the Board of
Regents seems to be coun
tering frequent drinking and
epidemic alcohol abuse in
the dorms. This should,
come as no surprise; the
18 th Amendment and the
Volstead Act were equally
successful.
A rational, if less fierce
ly legalistic policy might be
effective in combating this
frightening trend; certainly,
most reasonable persons
would acknowledge that the
failure of the present policy
warrants trying a new one.
Bill Flack, Chair
RHA Ad Hoc Committee
on Alcohol Policy Reform
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