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Daily Nebraskan
Friday, September 0, 1833
Post-game insanity leads to injury, damage
Now the fun part begins.
Saturday la the beginning of Nebraska's 1933
home football schedule. For students, football
Saturdays offer a rare opportunity to forget the
academic world for a few hours and have a little fun
cheering for one of the nation's top football teams.
That's what football games should be fun. But
we hope students dont allow the fun to get out of
hand this year.
Controlling the crowd has become a problem at
UNL and other colleges. The bedlam that broke out
last year after the Huskers' 28-24 win over Okla
homa is a good example.
While fans were savoring UNL's second straight
victory over the Sooners, police officers were left at
the stadium counting the damages and injuries
caused by the crowd.
Fans swarmed onto the field before the game was
over. Both goal posts were torn down, the stadium
rgg Letters
Allentitled to education
We are writing in response to your editorial "Obli
gations come before benefits," (Daily Nebraskan,
Aug. 31). You mentioned the issue at hand "is
whether students who do not follow the law (regis
ter for the draft) still should be entitled to the benef
its offered by the federal government"
To our way of thinking, the real issue is mentioned
later in the editorial when you say that government
financial aid is "a privilege, not a right" of those
seeking help in continuing their education. We
strongly disagree and suggest that you ask yourself
further if the real issue may not be whether educa
tion itself is a privilege or a right
We feel that all American citizens and residents
are entitled to pursue higher education and that
when people are denied assistance, being unable to
pay for schooling in any other manner, they are
effectively being denied their education altogether.
Must a poor student always agree with the views
of the U.S. government in order to receive the right
of good education? Should the rich be the only ones
allowed to criticize government policy and be exempt
from this kind of pecuniary punishment? Should
one only be able to "afford" to dissent?
The idea of enforcing certain restrictions and
promoting beliefs by threat of not receiving financial
aid is very dangerous. Supposedly, education devel
ops critical thought, a skill very useful for changing
and improving the world in which we live. Surely one
of our obligations to society is to become as well
educated as possible so that we can comprehend
and end the wastefulness of war. It is very unfortu
nate that further education can be denied to those
who are practicing the very criticism and good sense
that education inspires.
Sharon Lewandowski
Brian D. Striman
UNL Law library
'Clean up your act'
There are three things that annoy me greatly
about the students at UNL
1. Trashing of the Nebraska Union and other
buildings. Everyday, there are Daily Nebraskans,
paper cups and other garbage thrown all over cam
pus. It is embarrassing and unnecessary. Clean up
youract
2. Five minutes before class ends, students start
shuffling their books and making all kinds of noise,
often interrupting the instructor. If I were the
instructor, the minute this started, I would give a
quiz. This shuffling and noise making is rude. Learn
some manners, please.
3. The most popular question students ask is: "Is
this on the test?" Who cares? Head your books, go to
class, learn the material If it's on the test, you will
know it If it's not on the test, you will have learned
something new and expanded your mind.
In addition to receiving a degree at UNL, students
could learn how to act as intelligent human beings.
Arnold Grinvalds
Junior
English
AstroTurf was damaged by smoke bombs and sev
eral fans suffered minor injuries in the post-game
melee.
One law enforcement official, Marvin Kinlon of
the UNL Police Department, suffered serious injur
ies after being struck in the neck by a frozen orange.
The celebration didnt end at the stadium, either.
There were reports of Oklahoma cars being dam
aged by over-exuberant fans in downtown Lincoln.
These kinds of actions are becoming all-too-familiar
events at college football games and they
should be stopped.
Nobody's expecting serious problems Saturday.
The Wyoming Cowboys are in town and it's a safe bet
that excitement will be minimal, or non-existent, by
the fourth quarter.
But there will be other, more important games
later in the season. As the tougher games come
along, fans will become more emotional, especially if
the Cornhuskers remain at the top of the national
polls.
Here's hoping that when those games come
around, UNL students will take the lead in keeping
things in perspective.
Sure, everyone hopes Nebraska goes through the
season undefeated and maintains its No. 1 ranking.
But no game should carry so much importance
that it leads to injuries and destruction.
UNL police have tightened security for this year's
games. Orange throwers and others involved in ille
gal behavior now have a greater chance of being
caught because of video equipment being installed
at Memorial Stadium.
We hope this crackdown leads to more arrests.
And we hope the punishment for those caught will
be serious enough to prevent others from doing
these actions.
Football games should be fun. An over exuberant
fan shouldn't be allowed to spoil it for everyone else.
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Toobusy to read': Writer's pet peeve
A good term that you dont hear used much any
more is "pet peeve." Writers were always asking peo
ple what their "pet peeve" was, and when the writers
found out, they would report that "the mayor's pet
peeve is people who toss litter into the street."
In my recent travels, I was mildly shocked to dis
cover that I have a pet peeve. Because we dont read
about pet peeves these days, I suppose I had half-
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assumed that we dont have pet peeves. But there
mine was, just sitting there.
I recognized my pet peeve about the seventh or
eighth time I heard someone use a variation of the
same sentence:
"I'd read the newspaper, but I really dont have the
time" -; '-':.'--'.. -
As I reached for that seventh or eighth person's
throat, I realized that my pet peeve is: people who
say they dont have time to read a newspaper.
Obviously I'm prejudiced in this area. I make my
living from newspapers and I assume that a profes
sional baseball player would feel distaste for a per
son who said he didnt have time to watch baseball
games, or a soda jerk would get angry at someone
who said he didnt have time to drink chocolate milk
shakes.
Nevertheless, I have noticed that some people
take a perverse pride in saying that they dont have
time to read newspapers. It's as if by saying that,
they are impressing someone with how busy and
important they are.
Again, To. biased. But I think a newspaper is one
of the wisest investments both in terms of time
and in terms of money a person can make.
. Let's take the money part first On a weekday, you
get a newspaper for pocket change. What you got
for that is hundreds of trained, educated reporters
and editors thousands, if you count the resources
of the wire services going to events all over the
world, and for letting you know what, if anything, of
importance is going on.
In one city I passed through last week, the local
newspaper had taken out billboards asking the citi
zens of town to "Give us 30 minutes every day." It
wasnt until I saw one of those billboards that I
realized a fact that should have been obvious long
ago: Newspaper executives really do feel by now
that they must ask the men and women of their
communities for the few minutes a day it takes to
spend some time with the paper.
Granted, it's a busy world. But I cant think of a
better way to spent that 30 minutes than with a
fresh edition of a newspaper. There is no other way a
person can learn about an equal variety of subjects,
asreportedand focused through the eyes of an equal
number of observers, in an equal amount of time.
I'm selfish about this. Because I do a specialized
kind of newspaper work this little tap-dance in
my own corner of the paper I tend to hear from
the people on the other end the people who do,
indeed, spent tune with their paper every day. In
front of me I have a stack of letters from Tacoma;
from San Francisco; from Tulsa; from Boston; from
New York; from Philadelphia; from Richmond; from
Dallas. I am not embarrassed to admit that getting
those letters is probably the best pert of the job.
It's an unlikely chain. I go out and see things and
then write about them. An editor somewhere
decides he likes what he reads, and decides he
should share the stories with the readers. So he buys
the syndication rights to the column for his paper,
and soon enought those readers people I have
never met are hearing about the things I saw.
Sometimes a connection is made and the person sits
down and writes a letter commenting on the way I
saw the things, and the letter ends up cn my desk.
If there's a more human type cf interchange pos
sible in an impersonal society, I dent know about it
And as I said, Fra selfish; I wouldnt miss this for the
world, and every person who persuades himself that
he's "too busy" to read the paper b robbing me of the
chance for another connection Lka that It's too
important, both for these cf us who write for news
papers, and for those of you who read them.
But why am I telling you? You already know that
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