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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, September 18, 1934
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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
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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.
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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
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Civil rights legislation
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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
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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.
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