Tuesday, February 9, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
page 5
Letters
Student input necessary
For those of you who are usually apathetic concerning
on-campus issues (like myself), I have some news that just
might rattle your cage.
Recently, the employees of the Recreation Department
were informed by Kenda Schecle, assistant to coordinator
if intramurals Stan Campbell, that half of the depart
ment's budget has been cut for next year. What docs this
mean to students?
It means that Schulte Fieldhouse, the Mushroom
Gardens, the Coliseum weightroom, the Fast Campus
weightroom, the Mabel Lee gyms and the men's P.E. main
floor will be closed to students next year because funds
will not be available to pay the supervisors of these build
ings. Also, intramural trophies and t-shirts will not be
awarded to winning teams, not to mention a list of 10
other things cut out.
Next year (after 6: 15 p.m. mind you) there will be two
buildings open for recreation - Mabel Lee pool (1 hope
you like to swim!) and the Coliseum main floor. I imagine
that 22,000 plus students have two buildings available to
them for approximately three to four hours a night.
There are two things that we, as students, can do (for
now anyway): 1) Sign the petitions that are in all recreat
ional buildings. 2) Watch for an announcement for the
'History 'excuse...
appeals meeting because in this case, numbers may speak
louder than words.
Ann Kennedy
Junior
Bilingual education
Potential parking solution
The Lincoln Transportation System's proposal for a
group discount for students (Daily Nebraskan, Jan. 21)
should be approved.
Like any former UNO student, I've experienced park
ing problems at that campus that UNL students can't even
imagine. For instance, my wife has cruised UNO's lot for
nearly two hours to find parking.
Although parking isn't quite that bad at UNL, students
who live off-campus find it extremely frustrating. Con
ceivably the situation could worsen very quickly, as City
Campus becomes more cramped for room and larger num
bers of older students (who are the ones most likely to
live off-campus) re-enroll.
This attractive alternative to driving to campus could
ease the parking problem, allowing enough room in the
commuter lots for those who live in outlying areas and
must drive to campus.
Who knows? Maybe we can prove to the planners at
UNO that there are alternatives to paving Elmwood Park
or building high-rise garages.
Tom Tiwald
Sophomore
Electrical engineering
Continued from Page 4
Most presidents, though,
keep some sort of record.
They either maintained a
diary or dictated their re
collections or had their
secretaries listen in - some
times secretly, sometimes
not. This kind of thing is
expected of presidents be
cause they are thought to
have an obligation to
history that ordinary people
do not have. They are ex
pected to keep a record and
then, later, give us the bene
fit of their experience - at a
suitable price, of course
(less in paperback).
Kennedy clearly felt an
obligation to history. After
all, he was something of an
historian himself, having
written (or commissioned)
two books on historical sub
jects (Why England Slept
and Profiles in Courage),
and he was conscious that as
president he was making
history.
It was this concern for
history, we are now told,
that prompted Kennedy to
bug the conversations of hb
friends and associates. This
might be true. But it is also
true that once the system
was installed, more than
history was served. After all,
Kennedy's chats with his
wife, however juicy, aren't
exactly history.
At any rate, history has
the sort of ring that appeals
to intellectuals, to people
who have been to college,
read books and, more im
portant, think that what
they are doing is historic.
Washington is full of people
like that.
But "history" is nothing
more than the "national
security" excuse of in
tellectuals - yet another
attempt to rationalize self
aggrandizement and abuse
of power. Whenever Nixon
got caught with his hand in
the cookie jar, he yelled
"national security." Now
Kennedy defenders are yell
ing "history, history" to ex
cuse what is nothing but dis
honesty (or at the very
least, boorish manners).
History, after all, was
written before the invention
of the tape recorder. And
even if the tape recorder is
handy, easy to use and, of
course, accurate, there still
is no need to conduct the
taping in secret.
People expect their con
versations with the presi
dent to be, in some way, re
corded. Some of them
would be heartbroken if
they were not. And so the
only thing lost by acknow
ledging that a tape machine
is running is an occasional
curse word. History could
survive the loss.
Henry Ford was wrong
when he said that history
was bunk, but invoking it as
a moral force that can ex-
Valentine messages. . .
Continued from Page 4
Oh well, this year I have
a new plan. I dug out my
old children's magazines.
(The type that your mom
buys to keep you from play
ing Cowboys and Indians in
her flower garden.)
I wonder how a college
woman would like a Valen
tine Man made from an egg
carton or an Apple Valen
tine made from red con
struction paper. No, I think
I like the potato print
valentine better. Or, better
still, I like the valentine
with the pocket because I Of course, that valentine
can put myself inside the might get "Return to Send
pocket and surprise the lady, er," written on it.
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Compared to the Bay of
or, ultimately, Viet
nam, the secret taping
system is a mere nothing. It
stems, though, from the
same mentality. Concerning
the tapes, he cared only
about what mattered to
him. The system served
history. But it abused peo
ple. (c) 1981, The Washington
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