Wednesday, March 30, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
Tales of rich. . .
Continued from Page 4
The rich can really have a good time, too. In the April
edition of Vanity Fair magazine, writer Ben Stein
reported on the "Ranchero Ride," in wliich old-money
Cahfornians have a "man's kind of fun." According to
a California Club member named Bill, "that's when about
400 guys get together on horses up m the mountains
bcliind Santa Barbara and ride for about a week up in
those canyons there where no one but us ever goes. We
ride around and have a whole bunch of guys follow us
in trucks and helicopters with steaks and lobsters and
clams and oysters. Every night we get really drunk and
cat as much clams and oysters and steaks and lobsters
as we can . . . There are only a couple of rules. For one
thing, you can't have any women along. It's all men.
The second thing is that you can fight all you want, and
people do tend to get drunk and have some really good
fights, but you can't ever hit with a closed fist ... But,
when you're a pledge is when you have the most fun.
The pledges have to sleep all scrunched up in one tent,
and they all have to go to the bathroom together. It's
really fun."
"Didn't President Reagan used to go on the 'Ranchero
Ride'?"
"He sure did," Bill said. "He loved it. It was a man's
kind of fun."
Yes, those fun-loving rich folk. The pursuit of wealth
may make our economics go round, but I wonder some
times if we really need wealthy people. Isn't there some
kind of big home somewhere where we could stick them
all? Leonard Tisch could donate a few of his 6,000
houses.
Albert Einstein said once that "no wealth in the world
can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most
devoted worker in this cause. Can anyone imagine Moses,
Jesus or Gandhi armed with the moneybags of Carnegie?"
I can't. But I do wonder if Carnegie's life story would
make as good a movie as Gandhi's.
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Letters ' j
Col nam 61 cgnocetnl Sevcgrce's success
I would like to respond to the column by Bob As
mussen regarding Coach Frank Scvigne and the UNL
men's track team (Daily Nebraskan, March 18). First, I
would like to answer some questions the column raises.
"Why is he (Coach Sevignc) still around and will he ever
lead us to victory again?" Both of these questions relate
to the previous statement that Coach Scvigne is "not in
credibly successful." Obviously, Asmussen does not know
anything about the track program at UNL or about Coach
Sevigne's many achievements.
In the past 27 years at Nebraska, Frank Sevigne has
coached more than 100 individual conference champions,
11 NCAA champions, 42 athletes who attained All
American recognition and nine Olympians, including an
Olympic gold medalist. As for Coach Sevigne's teams,
they have been in the top 10 of the NCAA Indoor Cham
pionships eight of the 18 years the meet has been in exis
tence, including a top 10 finish in 1981. In Big Eight
competition the last 11 years, Ids teams have finished
first three times, second three times and third twice. In
dual and triangular meets, he has a winning percentage of
.744.
Along with these coaching accomplishments, Coach
Sevigne has been the meet director of the NCAA Cham
pionships and the National Junior Olympics. He was also
chairman of the Track and Field Region VII for the
AAU and an advisory coach for Jamaica and Iceland.
To me, this does not sound like a coach who is "not
New PiHA should avoid
pulling disappearing act
Now that the Residence Hall Association elections
are over and Bob Wolz and his Progressive Party has won
their landslide victory, the big question is, where does
RHA go from here?
If tradition holds true this year, RHA will now disap
pear from view, only to be dragged out of the closet
again when another election rolls around or another RHA
executive resigns. Considering that RHA is supposed to
be the student government for 5,000 hall residents, that
is a tragedy.
The Progressive Party has committed itself to com
municating with students, developing new alcohol policy
ideas, working in cooperation with hall and floor govern
ments, and developing better FINK Week activities; its
officers have pledged to stay in office for their full term
and serve residents effectively. Rather bold promises,
but now will they deliver?
I hope they do. The decadence of the retiring RHA
administration was ridiculous; the new RHA team has
a great deal of work to do to reestablish the legitimacy
and purpose of the Residence Hall Association. I wish
Wolz and his officers good luck.
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incredibly successful." Coach Sevigne has contributed
greatly to the sport of track and field, not only in the
state of Nebraska, but across the nation as well. The
reason "his position may be one that is considered sa
cred" is due to the great amount of respect his athletes,
former athletes and fellow coaches have for him.
Rumors about Coach Sevigne's retirement have been
around for a few years now. This is only natural since he
has been coaching track for more than 30 years. He will
be retiring soon, but it is certainly not because of his lack
of success in coaching track and field.
As for Asmussen's journalistic integrity, I would say
that he has none. He stated that "the right thing to do is
to write what I know." He should follow his own advice
since he showed that he knows absolutely nothing about
Coach Sevigne or the UNL track program. The Lincoln
Journal may have the same information as Asmussen,
but I guarantee that they will at least give Coach Sevigne
the credit he deserves for his contribution to the UNL
track program.
If I were Asmussen, I wouldn't pack my bags for
Biloxi, Miss., just yet. I'm sure that after they find out
what type of credibility and "journalistic integrity" he
has, they won't be that interested in having him do any
thing for their paper, except maybe deliver it.
Kyle Anderson
former track athlete
graduate, civil engineering
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Kimball?
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Think University
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independent study.
Over 100 courses to choose from
when class sections are filled, work
and class schedules conflict, or courses
aren't there when you need them.
Look into' independent study. Visit
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Independent Study Department, 269
Nebraska Center for Continuing Ed
ucation, 33rd and Holdrege. Take the
shuttle bus from city campus. Or call
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