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Wednesday, November 16, 1033 Pago 4 Daily Ncbrcskan On O ' . , j Resent selection OK clS IS With all the issues the 1034 Nebraska Legislature has to face, it would be best off to leave the issue of how the NU Board of Regents is selected alone. The Lincoln Star b running a series of articles this week examining that issue. Arrnrriir? to a Ktnrv in Mnnrfav's edition, Nebraska is one of only five states where the university governing board still is selected by the voters. The remainder use, some kind of "appointment system to form their boards. ' Some sentiment exists among the ; state's lawmakers for Nebraska to switch to such & system. Any such change - would have to come as an amendment to the constitution requiring the ap proval of the voters. . Senl Peter Hoagland of Omaha told The Star he will introduce a bill in the 1884 Legislature calling for at least part of the regents to be appointed. As a general rule, it is easier to get higher quality people in lower visibil ity positions if they are appointed rather than elected, Hoagland said. Appointed regents are likely to have more political experience than elected ones, but that does not necessarily make them higher quality admini strators. The argument that most voter-elected regents are selected on the basis of name recognition wont work here, either. The 1082 results from District IV prove that theory wrong. In that election, Nancy Hoch unseated the Incumbent, Robert Prokop. Hoch was relatively unknown outside of her hometown of Nebraska City, but she conducted an issue-based campaign that appealed to the. voters and won her the election. Hoch's performance as a regent has done nothing to indicate the voters made a poor decision. In fact, it is unlikely the governor of the Legisla ture could have made a better pick. More importantly, Hoch, just like her seven colleagues, is directly responsi ble to the voters in her district If she does not live up to their expectations, they have the ability to remove her from office when she is up for re election. That is a right the voters should not have taken away from them. They dont always chose the best candidate, of course, but the election of Nancy Hoch and many others indicates the system is working. ":. Leliers Academics matter The article titled "Stanford pre serves Bottom 10 status, (Daily Ne braskan, Nov. 4) was, on the surface, humorous. However, the concept of recognizing Bottom 10 college football teams is ludicrous almost as much as rating outstanding academic institutions by a criterion of football ability. The article expresses sympathy for Oregon State tailback Donald Beaver, and suggests that it would have been , better for him to have been born "Donald Cornhusker." This is typical of . the dichotomy that exists at some institutions between education and recreation. Do you think that Yale, Stanford and other universities' educational pro grams are suffering while their respec tive football programs flourish? Ob viously not, as both the scores, the article and the excellent academic reputations of these venerable institu tions will affirm. When I obtain my final degree and seek meaningful employment, I dont think a No. 1 college football team will help me contribute significantly to society. On the other hand, an aca demic institution that promotes aca demic excellence in an environment of quality can. Cameron S. Burt ' ---"junior 1 business administration " r t Socialism no answer Krishna Madan's column about so cialism as an antidote to loneliness (Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 10) was appalling.'--. .. - Reading an article that exploited the "suicide death" of a UNL professor in order to extoll the virtues (such as they are) of the new and -improved Nicaraguan regime made me wish I were on a plane within easy reach of an airsick bag. I am not so naive as to believe that life before the Sandinistas was any thing other than oppressive. 1 might even concede that the average peasant in .the street is better off under Marx ists than under the rcprchancihla re. the United States used to support I am not, however, wOg to be conned into thinking that loneliness b principally a problem of "capitalist society." (One wonders . how Madan knows that lonelines exists to a lesser extent In the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Did he look this up in the World Almanac? Pravda? The Book of Lists? Did Dr. Joyce Brothers tell him?) Madan claims that the leftists in El Salvador and their counterparts in Nicaragua are trying to build a human itarian society, ease emotional and spiritual deprivation, etc., etc. He should tell the truth. The Salvad oran leftists do exactly what right wing death squads do: intimidate peo ple with force. If those people resist, they are shot Should the leftists suc ceed, then we shall see not the creation of a wondrous new society, but simply power changing hands. He is not just wrong in fact; he is wrong in theory. Dealing with spiritual deprivation is not the province of govern ment. Virtually all governments that purport to do so are instead cramming an ideology down someone's throat Anthony Carr sophomore journalism Home ec essential This letter is in response to the Campus Quotes (Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 10) concerning the budget cut proposal Being students of the College of Home Economics, we feel a definite need to clarify and emphasize our position as an extremely important college in the university system. Home economics is an interdisciplinary science which draws its strength from the ' commonality and interrelation s cf that subject matter as it re lates to the basic family unit and the home. .. " ; y-' Home economics students pursue studies of the sciences and current issues concerning the near environ ment, including food, clothing, shelter, interpersonal relations and work with those agencies and institutions that influence family living. ' Home economics stresses teaching "decision-making and management skills to society's members in which they learn to apply this knowledge and these 'skills to meeting social needs. Being a college that stresses the fam ily, we leave you with this thought What would the world be Lice without all the contributions home economics has brought? Home Economics Education Association UNL Poor look' '." " Tl M ... ; Flashdance and it's limber-limbed t'steel worker produced a fashion phe- r.omencn that saw large numbers of upper-middle-class men and women pdrape themselves in sweatshirts slashed in strategic places. : ; ' " . . ' "3 i econ dlook .ChrioC&pSier y Tom Magnuson, a noted local fashion authority, thought the fad was something like a poor look f it involved well-to-do youngsters trying to appear financially, destitute. It seemed somehow incongruous to Tom that the models of the new look should spend money to appear poor; it seemed just as incongruous to me that the poor look should include pearls. . . Here's my chance," I thought "I can lock poor, I can fcspoor; no incongrui ties here." So I got out my old ground-keeper sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off for trim mower man ventilation. I stretched a hole near the neck cf that my arm in up to the.cr..r.?, enough to " leave my collar fccr.3 cr.i thculdsr bare."'". ":- - Out came the golden tights which . had been part cf my Robin the Boy Wonder Halloween costume two years "ago and my ballet slippers, which were all that remained cf the Burbaeheyev .. : prances which stunned Hat cl Lee llz2 in the old days. . - , I donned the tights, sweatshirt and -slippers ,and headed for the deer. When I bent down to pick up the paper, I saw my shins. OMIGOD! No leg warmers! ' - ' : . "Go bay some, Christopher," spake the dark side.- ' . .:. "Get behind me, you Satan," the light - Well, the light side won that little battle. I would adhere to the authentic poor lock. . Cmkkfeg smugly, secure in my pious refusal cf hypocrisy, I cut the feet off cf my-regty sscks cad pulled my new genuine poor leg warmers up ever my . calves. - L was halfway out the doer egain when I realised my body v.as' com pletely dry t.o "cv; I r.-: myself to the r-f.r.li .cX r:--:?- with a furious Curry cf limbs unmatched by Bruce Lee' in any of Ms fine cinematic ventures. Soon delicate beads adorned my brow.-- - y ... . - ' . .: "Ha ha ha. What a Flashdance stud," I thought on my way to the prrkir.g 1st Come and gt it, ladles. . .S, I climbed into my lCSi.'Fcrd Cus tom, musing at whet a Cne extension cf the poor' look the car was and crubed to campus. Women smiled at .me with that "I wanna' gnaw your leg 'Warmers ' off,' big boy", look- and 'obviously outclassed men laughed amongst themselves, trying to cover up their shame and jealously. . .. It was time to ask out the brown haired girl in my Determinism and Freedom class. v , "Hey, good lookin', what's your name?" I began suavely. "Lisa Vetta," the brown-haired girl responded with "that" smile. , "Well, my name's Ghristobd, and I'm. poor." - . "lean see that" -. - Success! "Ilow'd you like to go for a ride in my '6-1 Ferd Custom and watch the drive in merle from the h'wry?" How cculi she tzCzzz? I tezr.zd frnvcrd in anticipation cf her trcr irrgTo, Fd love to." "Ire you' kidding? YoaVe got to be Cbisuily, she cculdnt believe her luck sit being asked out by the trend setter cf the real poor look. : tiO, baby, I'm dead serious. I want .you to want me."- ....y, ... ' : "Oh, get out cf here, you nasty man," . she spat. She placed her right palm flat cn my bare collar bone and rapidly extended her arm, propelling me back wards over a desk and rending my green tights. . - Finally it dawned on me. I became aware of my foolishness. How could someone be so blind? I had grossly overestimated thebrown h aired girl; she knew nothing about fashion, she was vastly unworthy of a date with such a fashion merchant as I. - I walked toward the classroom door, then pivoted and faced i!iss Lisa Vetta. I ripped the run in my tights wider so that mcrt cf my hit thigh and knee were virile, did a demi plie and pur,pc-d my legs L'. e p.btsns so that my buns j!:ed 13 Jsnnir Deal's. Waves cf nencv.3 laughter broke ri:r.rt me, the kvlr.th-n cf the poor I x'ziltd a srcrr.ful cL'3 cn the brcv.-n-haired girL Tour loss, baby."