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One of (he most interesting things to me about the
nuclear freeze movement is that it has yet to really
establish a firm constituency. In the past, political move
ments such as this found rabid support on university
campuses. While some college students are involved with
the freeze, the majority are too busy dressing for success
(which means they eventually want to work for cor
porations with military contracts, so they don't develop
an opinion on the subject) or punking out (which means
they want to prove how much they dislike Margaret
Thatcher, so they don't develop an opinion on the
subject).
Oddly, then, the freeze has found two rather unlikely
sources of support: ex-hippies who have been looking for
a good cause ever since Nixon resigned (El Salvador just
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never really caught on) and, most surprisingly, the elder
ly. It seems with Social Security about to go the way of
Prohibition, senior citizens are a bit sensitive to seeing
huge sums spent on weaponry when they have to scrimp
and save in order to spend on a romantic evening at
McDonald's.
Because of this, organizers of the freeze movement
have seen the necessity of gearing their activities twoard
these very different groups. Instead of staging events
featuring performers that appeal to apathetic college stu
dents, the rallies are beginning to feature the types of
entertainment that have always been popular with these
age brackets, specificially, bad folk music and propaganda
movies.
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Rocko: Look, I'll explode one over there, watch.
(BOOM) Ain't that swell?
Sammy: Dig that crazy cloud! Hey, can I try one?
Rocko: Sure, kid. Go ahead.
Sammy: Thanks! (BOOM) Wow! That's neat! Can I try
another one?
Rocko: Sure. But it'll cost you.
Sammy: How much?
Rocko: Oh just S4 million.
Sammy: Well, OK. Here's the dough. (BOOM). Heh,
heh. this is great. I gotta have some more!
Rocko: Well, I've only got four left. I can let you have
them for S2 billion.
Sammy: I don't know. I was supposed to buy some
meat and potatoes for my grandparents.
Rocko: C'mon kid. They've already lived a long life.
You gotta seize the moment. Whattya say? You don't
wanna be square do you? Girls like guys with a big
arsenal.
Molly the Moll (who just happens to walk by): Hey,
you're kind of cute!
Sammy: Well, OK, here, let me have 'em. (BOOM,
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM) More, I gotta have more! Fast!!
Rocko: Sorry kid, I don't got anymore. Let me give
you the number of a friend I know . . .
Announcer: Wliat you've just seen is true. We've got to
start now to fight nuclear arms, the weapon with roots in
Hell! Remember, this could happen to you, or you. Or
YOU!
Yes, as the flower children would say. oh, the times,
they are a changin-. And the more they change, the more
they stay the same.
for breaks, exams
You remember Saturday, don't you? Saturday is the
day when a student relaxes after a long grueling week of
classes. Saturday is for football games in the fall and
basketball games in the winter and baseball in the spring.
Saturday is Sabbath for a major religion. Saturday is not
a day for final exams.
Don'r tell that to the university-wide calendar
committee. They seem to think Saturday (Dec. 17,
19S3, to be exact) will be a nice day to have finals. That
is only one of a series of blunders the committee made
in regards to the fall 1983 school calendar.
Final exams will be on Dec. 16 and 17, skip Dec. 18
and then continue Dec. 19 through 21. The Friday
classes that would have been on Dec. 16 will be on a
Wednesday, Nov. 23.
While Nov. 23 may not mean much to anyone at this
time, it will when they realize that it is the day before
Thanksgiving, a day most of us would like to be heading
home for a break from residence hall food and classes.
The committee said that making the schedule took a
lot of logical planning. Logical planning? How logical is it
to cut one day off from Thanksgiving vacation? While
that day may seem like nothing to students living in
Omaha and Lincoln, it adds a large burden to students
living out of the state. More than likely, the university will
add to the mess by announcing that the residence halls
will be shut down during the break, which says to those
who live far away, "Go home or find yourself a cheap
hotel."
The committee was set up by the NU Board of Regents
in 1978 when the UNL, UNO and NU Medical Center
merged. Therefore, the calendar is made not only for UNL
but for the other two branches of the system as well.
The committee has to keep in mind the needs of all three
University systems when it makes the calendar a different
chore.
The committee has said that UNO tries to make its
schedule coincide with the schedule of the Omaha Public
Schools. This has an effect on the calendar for all three
systems in the university. Maybe the best question is:
Why does UNO schedule it's classes to coincide with OPS?
Why should what the schools do in Omaha have an effect
on the ultimate schedule of UNL?
If the problem for UNO is that the school is a
commuter school and therefore it would be helpful to
have its schedule like that of OPS, then why not have the
UNO calendar different from that of UNL and the
Medical Center? The fact that UNO is a commuter school
makes it obvious that a shortened Thanksgiving break will
not affect it as much. Most of the UNO student body lives
in Omaha.
The school year will start later this fall, Aug. 29,
than it has in six years. That portion of the schedule
appears to be acceptable. In fact, it may even be a
.blessing. It will give poor college students an extra week
to make money.
While it is realized that making the university calendar
is not an easy assignment, one would think that the
committee would use a little more logic - on our behalf.
Nothing in life is perfect, and the 1983 school calender
is certainly no exception.
Bob Asmussen
Thus, a typical freeze rally will first feature a rousing
song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
QorTt Blow Up No World in My Face, Mama
Hey. hey, uh-uh, no, no
Nuclear Arms gotta go.
There's a feelin" in the air.
Nuclear Arms just ain't fair.
CHORUS:
Don't blow up no world in my face!
You know I'm just gettin' used to this place.
I'll miss the birdies and the trees, ha-ha,
Yeah, Nuclear. Arms and peace don't have karma.
No, Nuclear Arms and peace don't have karma.
After this a giant screen descends onto the stage, and
the rally's feature film presentation, "Nuclear Madness,"
begins.
Rocko: Pssst, hey kid!
Sammy: Yes sir?
Rocko: Have you ever tried . . . nuclear weapons?
Sammy: Heck no. They're supposed to be dangerous.
I'm no dope.
Rocko: Hey, a cool kid like you hasn't fallen for that
old line, have you?
Sammy: Well -
Why racial affisuoty, racial hostility differ
After the California gubernatorial election in which
George Deukmejian beat Thomas Bradley; 1 wrote a
column saying it was incredible in this day and age (I am
addicted to cliches) that some people admitted voting
against Bradley strictly because he is black. I then trotted
out some more cliches, calling these people racists or
Richard
Cohen
something worse and rode off on my high horse to write
yet another column. Then came the mail.
The mail is often unkind and seldom thought-provoking.
This time it was both. There were the usual denuncia
tions of me by the usual raving lunatics, but there were
some letters that posed a difficult question: Why is it
racist for whites to vote against a black, but not racist
when blacks vote for a black?
It is a good question and, more to the point, timely to
boot. It has been raised repeatedly in Chicago where the
Democratic mayoral primary was won hv Ren. Harold
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Washington, a black. Washington fashioned his victory by
getting 80 percent of the black vote while his two
opponents split the white vote. Now Washington faces a
general-election contest against - to risk a redundancy
white Republican Bernard hpton. A vote for Epton by
people who would otherwise never vote Republican is, we
are told, racist.
Well, maybe not. There is, after all, the little matter of
Washington's record to consider - specifically his criminal
record. The man has, as we used to say, done time in stir.
It was only a month, tis true, but it was a well-earned
month since he was convicted of not filing federal tax
returns for four years, although the actual figure may be
19 years - possibly an indoor record. If that was not
enough, the Illinois Supreme Court barred Washington
from practicing law for five years after finding that he had
taken fees from clients and performed no work.
Unfortunately, there is ample reason to believe that all
this is besides the point. If Washington were a Polish
American and if he had won the Democratic primary with
100 percent of the Polish vote, not only would everyone
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