The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 05, 1984, Page Page 6, Image 6
Pago 6 Daily Nebraskan Friday, October 5, 1934 J 2a Ttianks expressed for returned scarf I should like to publicly thank that honest individual (however insensitive or obese he or she may otherwise actually be) for return ing ray scarf, lost Tuesday at Love Library. Thank you. Nancy Evers English Student votes no to fee increases Here's a vote to decrease stu dent fees. Since my arrival at this univer sity three years ago, my student J Nancy, IP I hope you enjoy the jgj 1 Happy Homecoming V0 100 T f& W m w i r -i D A 9 & I a raoctewpMS - t Hai Styling A Q D fa S Permng Q D Coloring Q & im EAST CJ 1 1351 I f f A(f -V fe -j iS tfi$t flS trfSi &nrnmm&9 L-zTlJ iJliliijUiiLili p-rji iui It jjujj ; hp MOW fees have increased from a whop ping $80 to the present level of $95.28. This is no doubt due to the thinking of people like Kevin Warneke, (Daily Nebraskan Oct. 3), who think that an extra quar ter is not an increase that would pose a burden to students. The problems inherent in such a self seeking rationale are obvious. If every group or organization funded by student fees thought that its individual request would not create a burden on students, the result would be an astro nomical increase in student fees. In actuality what Warneke and Boatman, CAPs Homecoming Com mittee adviser, propose is a 600 percent increase in the fees allo cated to the Homecoming Com mittee. If all groups funded by Coming soon to 17th &Vine. Doing it l For you. . FIRST NATIONAL LINCOLN A FirsTier Company Member. F.D.I.C. student fees requested such an increase, which Warneke terms "not much of an increase," the result would be student fees to taling more than $570 per semes ter. So although Warneke thinks that the Homecoming Committee deserves more money to "help keep a university alive," you should also see that what appears to you as a small request is actually a 600 percent increase. So when someone comes up and asks, "Hey brother could you , spare a quarter for Homecoming?" think twice before saying yes. You may also want to think about why Warneke wrote an editorial about Homecoming, on the day of Homecoming Royalty elections, in which he is a candi Supreme Court justice contributes to '80s sex discrimination apathy There's a scandal brewing in Washington. It involves the Supreme Court, specifically Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who recently told an all-male club that the court was shifting danger ously to the right, was overworked and was lacking in decorum. That's not the scandal. The scandal is that there is no scandal. Blackmun spoke at the Cosmos Club here, which is an organiza gV) Richard p Cohen tion of male chauvinists masauer- ading as intellectuals. Blackmun is a member. The club refuses to admit women and has several times voted to retain that policy. You might think that's the scan dal, but I tell you it isn't. No one cares. You only have to glance at this not-terribly-important incident to learn that Washington, like the Cosmos itself, is dozing through the 1980s. Here you have a justice of the Supreme Court speaking before a club whose policy it is not to admit women and no one complains. Had the good justice spoken before an organization that bars blacks, the roof would have col lapsed on his head. Someone would have said that this is an indica tion of prejudice, at the very least toleration of it, and some member of Congress would have called for date. Michael Maloney senior political science Body is temple, deserves eoctra care Is it really surprising that some one might say, "I wouldn't quit football for anything," even severe injury or death, when we are constantly bombarded with messages which extol the virtues of achievement, recognition and "success" as the highest goals of life? Without an ultimate basis upon which to build a recognition of the value of one's body, the body the justice's impeachment. It has been done for less. But no one said a word about Blackmun. No one pointed out that the court frequently hears cases regarding sex discrimina tion, that sooner or later it will get into the matter of compara ble pay, that inevitably abortion will be back on the docket and that these issues affecting women will be decided by a jurist who is a member of an all-male club. The issue is not whether the Cosmos has the right to bar women, but whether Blackmun has an obligation to appear fair and to take a stand against discrimina tion. But what exercised the town, at least the members of the Cos mos, was not sexism, but that Blackmun's remarks made it into the paper. His talk, like all those at the club, was supposed to be off-the-record. Yet three members (or guests) called the Washing ton Post under the delusion that what a Supreme Court justice says about the state and direc tion of the court is news. As a result, the Cosmos has written its members reminding them of the rules, calling the incident "an embarrassment to all of us, to the club and, most importantly, to our speaker." Something awful happened Re marks that should be of concern to all Americans wound up in print. What business is it of the country that a Supreme Court justice thinks the court is over worked, that it is "moving to the J "A Frank We Can AM Afford" 8 GOOD LUCK CORMHUSKERS! cV GAMS S jg TOKEN J ) Cctebrab I Nebraska Football n ! At W.C. FRANK I I Hours: ! 9 a.rn.-1 1 p.m. Sun.-Thur. i 3 a.m.-Midniaht Fri. 8. Sat L L Letter can be sacrificed as well in the dice game of athletic competition. Christopher Burbach (Sept. 24, page 4) has rightly criticized this obsession with football (or any other sport, for that matter), but has provided no basis upon which to value the body, except for common wisdom. Perhaps if we value the mate rial world (including the body) as God docs (because He made it) we could provide more substan tive counsel to our young people. Maybe St. Paul was right on when he said, "What? Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?" (I Cor. 6:19) Norman Rempel Director General Education Department Grace College of the Bible right " going "where it wants to go. . . by hook or by crook?" What's it to the people that Blackmun thinks that Court con servatives have become the judi cial activists they once decried? Who cares that he said "affirma tive action was pretty much in terred" and that some opinions exhibit "extremism" and a "lack of accommodation?" Why should the voters know that the Court is "weary and overworked" or that when the last term ended Black mun "was never so tired?" The Cosmos is a pathetic insti tution, a collection of Washing ton's great 19th-century minds, and not something you should trouble yourself about. Blackmun is a different matter, though. He's not only a member of an organi zation that discriminates on the basis of sex, he spoke to it with the understanding that what he said would be kept secret from the people who pay his salary. It's as if the Court and its problems could not possibly be of interest to the voters who will decide its direction in the November elec tions. So that's the scandal brewing in Washington. It is that a member of the Supreme Court belongs to a club that discriminates on the basis of sex, and almost no one cares. It is that he thinks that his observations on the workings of the court should hp reserved for a select few and once again al- f most no one cares. It's a scandal. 1S34, Washington Post Writers Group f i : Hi ft 1320 Q Street 474-77SS