Friday, February 12, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Keep facilities open
I am writing with concern regarding the
recommended budget cuts to the Recrea
tion Department. As an incoming student
for the 1982-83 school year, I feel I have a
right to express my opinion as the changes
will take affect when I'm in school.
I fail to sec, with 20,000-plus students
paying more than $70 apiece in student
fees alone, how there can be insufficient
funds to keep the present facilities open
next year. Who is getting all this money?
What do you thing 20,000-plus students
are going to do with one basketball floor
and one pool open for three to four hours
nightly? I doubt if the students will if in
to these two facilities. It seems funny that
a university such as Nebraska's that puts
such a high emphasis on its sports and ex
celling in those sports totally ignores the
needs of more than 90 percent of the non-athletic-team
students.
As stated in a Feb. H Daily Nebraskan
article, UNL already has the lowest number
of hours available for student use of the
facilities among Big Might schools. It looks
like Nebraska is going to lead the nation in
another sports (or in this case no-sport)
area a non-athletic student body.
It's bad enough that students can't use
the Devaney Sports Center (who paid for it
anyway?) But to deny them the use of the
other broken down facilities is really a
joke. If we as students allow this to hap
pen, I guess the joke is on us.
. KrisKahl
Junior
Future transfer student to UNL
Against CFA proposal
I was shocked to read in the Feb. 8
Daily Nebraskan that the Committee for
Fees Allocation recommends that the Rec
reation Department allocations be reduced
for the next school year.
CFA is saying that they would rather
shut down these facilities than pay some
one to supervise activities that occur in
them. This is pure laziness.
It may be chapcr to close them down,
but think of the damage inflicted on stu
dents at. UNL. No longer would a non
varsity student athlete be able to run a
couple of miles in the Mushroom Gardens,
lift weights in the Coliseum, or swim in
Mabel Lee Hall. In fact, the only way for
the non-varsity student to get any type of
indoor exercise would be to use the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
But wait! That facility is, of course, off
limits to non-varsity students. In other
words, the bottom line is that most stu
dents would lose all use of recreation
facilities except for the gym in the Coli
seum and and the pool in Mabel Lee Hall,
and then have access only a few hours each
day. Not only that, but East Campus stu
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dents would lose all indoor athletic facilit
ies. This is a pathetic situation. For the first
time, it has been decided to close buildings
rather than charge students more money
to keep them open. An odd twist in UNL's
philosophy, I'd say. I suppose the next step
is to start closing other buildings on
campus. Pretty soon all that would be left
would be the football stadium and the
sports center.
I urge all students to sign the petition
around campus protesting this issue. Let's
knock some sense into CFA before it's too
late.
Geoff Freed
Junior
English
State assaults beliefs
Please allow me to rebut the editorial
which disapproved of the Christian school
bills (Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 4).
Accreditation and certification requires
that a higher entity approve a lower. An
institution docs not approve or accredit an
organization which is deemed an authority.
A congregation with a day school as an in
tegral part of its ministry looks for
approval from within the hierarchy of
church authority. Likewise, a civil com
munity with a day school as an integral
part of its program looks for approval or
accreditation from within the hierarchy of
state authority, i.e. the State Department
of Education. The Constitutional writers
deemed it wise not to place cither in
stitution above or below the other one.
Therefore, neither organization could regu
late, control, interfere or license the other.
This was the original intent of the separat
ion of church and state.
Many pastors and leaders in the church
refuse to bow before the state regulations
because of scriptural admonition, which
is wisely protected by the Constitution as
described above. Their religious beliefs arc
assasulted when the state attempts to place
itself in authority over their ministries.
If bill supporters were truly concerned
about education they would put their
money where their mouths are. And they
do.
In addition to supporting the public
schools through taxation, they pay around
$100 tuition per child per month for their
children to attend a Christian school. (I do
not support tuition tax credits, however.) I
appreciate your concern for quality and
standards, but what parent would make
such sacrifices if the school did not have
higher moral and academic standards for
both students and teachers? Are we parents
so dependent that we ask the state to look
over our shoulders after our children?
Heaven forbid! ,
Al Heber
Graduate student
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