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Pago 4 Daily Nebraskan Tuesday, September 18, 1934 V. &Ul tHl l fS to .11 he media, in its massive, -Caught in the rain: Democratic sometimes blind, search, Candidate Mondale and Run for truth, tends to be a nns Mate Ferrarn in Portland. self-prophesier. Qre T The media, true to its name, reports en masse. You see it every day. ABC, CBS and NBC air the same storie3, often in the same order, often reported the same way. Newsweek and Time often have similar con tents, their covers are similar, our newspapers often have the same top storks. Just a word or two in one source leads the others to use the same words. A few words can have a devastating effect. Take the presidential cam paign. The networks, major r.ewj magazines and wire ser vices all refer to Walter Mon dale E3 the "underdog" or the "long shot candidate." The Sept. 17 Time has a photo of Reagan and his wife smiling in the sun surrounded by a jubilant crowd. The cap tion reads: "Day in the sun: the President and Nancy Reagan wave to a Labor Day rally crowd of almost 50,000 at De Anza Community college in Jan Jose, Calif..." A seemingly innocuous cutline. Next to it ran this one: Mondale and Ferraro are shown under an umbrella no people are visible. The wri ter and editors characterized the Democratic campaign as all washed up because they campaigned in the rain, and because they ere 15 percen tage points behind Reagan in the Gallup Poll Writers and editors subcon scioush begin to think pud write about Mondale as the loser, the underdog, even though a Gallup Poll of Ebout 038 peo ple is far from the last word on who will win. The representa tion they give mcid3 the way we all think about the election, and many other issues. And the election is far from over. What is needed is a little care and thought. Just cutting the words "long shot candi date" or "underdog" make the story objective without omit ting any information. Writers and reporters should tell the story as they see it, not as the "pack" sees it. Letters Romantic verse written by Marlowe Dear Mona Koppelman: You write well and I always enjoy reading your articles in the Daily Nebraskan, but I was dis appointed when, in "Economics enter European's decision to co habitate," (Page 1, Friday) you gave Shakespeare credit for some thing Marlowe had written. Now there are thousands of college men and women saying this romantic line to one another and feeling pretty proud about the EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER NEWS EDITOR ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITORS COPY DESK SUPERVISOR SPORTS EDITOR ARTS' & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR NIGHT NEWS EDITORS ART DIRECTOR PHOTO CHiEF ASSISTANT PHOTO CHIEF PUBLICATIONS BOARD CHAIRPERSONS PROFESSIONAL ADVISER Chris Welch, 472-1 76S Daniel Shattil Kitty Poilcky Tom Byrns ' Kelly Msftgan Steva Meyer Mlchlela Thuman Thorn Gabrukiswicz Kama Sotirbarg Stacie Thomas Vickl Ruhgs Ward W. 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ALL PATEHiAL COPYRIGHT 1SS4 DAILY tlZZUASKm XL , - f - r v t '71 TKSYEMIY2E 7 HfhJ '1 V) t 41 I r Civil rights legislation oners Ghances' for aciiievement TT T ntil this week, I never 1 J thought of the Olympics e a teachfc2 event. The clos est they got to a civics lesson out in Loo Angeles, Calif., was the opening-night extravaganza when the dance troupe performed a historical pageant. After forming a human map of the United States, the "pioneers" from central cast ing pushed their covered wagons from west to east; But on Sept. 11, the Olympics came eastward again with a slightly more educational purpose. A group of Olympians, including runner Mary Decker, volleyball's whole thing because they think they are quoting Shakespeare! Please accept this correction with the spirit in which it is intended: "Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove... " Christopher Marlowe, The Pas sionate Shepherd to His Love" Jennie Schnoor Senior English Goodman Flo Hyman and basketball's Cheryl Miller, starred at a Capitol Hill breakfast sponsored by Sens. Ed ward Kennedy and Robert Pack wood. These senators are trying to press forward the Civil Rights Act of 1084 that would restore a broad interpretation of civil rights legislation. (Do I hear a chant of "C.R.A! CRJU"? Title 9 was the legislation passed in 1972 to ban sex discrimination at educational institutions that received federal funding. Any school that discriminated against women anywhere in employ ment or admissions, in the science lab or on the playing field . would lose all of its federal money. The greatest measurable change under Title 9 has been in girls and women's sports. It's because of Title 9 that college athletic bud gets for vomert have grown from one percent to 16 percent of the total sports budget. It's because of Title 9 that the number of women in intercollegiate athletic programs jumped from 18,000 In 1 972 to 1 50,000 today. It's because of Title 9 that there were female champions at this breakfast Last February, however, in the Grove City College case, the Su preme Court re-read the mind of Congress. The justices ruled that Title 9 was written to be applisd to a particular program. If a col lege was getting money only for business administration, it could legally discriminate in engineer ing. In short, if a school is kicking around some of its students, the government won't buy the school more shoes, but it will go on buy ing gloves or a hat. In the wake of this decision, the Reagan Justice Department, never what you would call ardent in pursuit of discrimination cases, closed 23 civil rights investiga tions. It also served notice that 20 years' worth of civil rights legisla tion that protected women mino rities, the handicapped, or the aged could be subject to the same narrow interpretation. The House responded by rewrit ing the laws so that its intent to ban discrimination was absolutely clear, even to a myopic court. The representatives cheered the bill on (C.R A! C.R A!) last June by a vote of 375 to 32. Now a similar bill with 63 co-sponsors is stalled in the Senate, where it is opposed by Reagan stalwart Orrin Hatch and is up against a relentless stopwatch. The Congress is sche duled to adjourn Oct. 5. The Rea gan administration has yet to take a stand on this bill But back to our breakfast of champions. It was remarkable tc The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to ths editor from all readers and interested others. ' Letters will be selected for pub lication on the basis of clarity, originality, timeliness and space hear Flo Hyman offering up thanks, not just to mom, dad and coach, but to civil rights legisla tion without which ... "At a criti cal time in my life," she said, Title 9 "enabled me to receive a scho larship." Cheryl Miller later said the s&ras thing: There is no doubt that I would not be attending USC without a scholarship. I took Title 9 for granted." , Of the 200 womai Olympians in the 1934 games, more than 170 received their training in a uni versity or college athletic program that probably h&dnt existed prior to 1972. This was something we didn't hear in the "Up Close and Personal" TV features. Another medalist, Randy Snow of Houston, also spoke at the breakfast. Snow, who won a silver medal in the 1500-meter men's wheelchair race, said that he won for two reasons: "I trained my butt off for six months . . . and the Olympic committee recognized me as an athlete." This, is the crux of the matter. Gold medals are not the most important results of Title 9 or any other civil rights legislation. But they are peculiarly symbolic. Get ting to the top, number one, the championship, is always an indi vidual achievement, but you cant make it unless you're given a fair chance. That's what civil rights legislation is about, and that's what the Civil Rights Act of 1984 would protect the chance. 1S34, Th Boston Clsi Ktwspapw Cc.TanvA,'.ub:rs stY.'ers Group Letter Policy retains the right to edit all mato rial submitted. " Readers also are welcome to submit material us guest opin ions. Yfitether material should run as a letter or guest opinion, or not run, is left to the editors Editorial -. Policy 1 .. Unsigned editorials represent official policy of the fall 1984 Daily Nebraskan. They are writ ten by this semester's editor in chief, Chris Welsch. Other staff members will write editorials throughout the semes ter. 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