Wednesday, November 7, 1934
Pago 6
Daily Nebraskan
tx Letters
Student questions
campaign slogan
I am a first-year student at the
UNL College of Law. While sub
ject to the trials and travails for
which the first year is famous, life
has not become so monastic that
I am divorced from events in the
outside world. For example, by
readinc the newsDaDers I under
stand there was a presidential
election on Tuesday.
There are many aspects of this
campaign that will be examined
ad nauseam the large regis
tration of young voters for the
Republicans, the possiblity that
this is a realigning election but
there is another subtle trend I
sense, and it nags and worries at
me like a persistent toothache.
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During my rambling adventures
as an undergraduate and gradu
ate student of political science, as
well as some points in between, I
developed the frustrating habit
of searching for the ultimate .
meaning of things. Looking for
ultimate meanings in American
politics is a quixotic task at best,
but I cannot resist; and so, I
wonder what is meant by the pol
itical slogan, "Are you better off
than you were four years ago?"
It is a good campaign slogan, as
far as campaign slogans go; but if
used as the test by which Ameri
can voters cast their ballots, it is
crudely simplistic, shallow, and
suggests that Americans are mot
ivated in matters of public policy
solely by selfishness. There is no
arguing the point that economic
stability has been a rarity over
the past 10 years, and voters are
duly concerned about their livli
hood. One of my sharpest criti
cisms of the Democratic Party
has been that it has forgotten, or
taken for granted, those hard
working voters of the middle class
who have paid most for the wel
fare state's obligations while re
ceiving few of its benefits.
But there is a difference be
tween the quest for long-term
economic stability and growth,
and the discreet sanctioning of
greed the current administration
seems to foster. The spirit of
"outta-my-way-Jack-I-got-mine"
seems to me to run contrary to all
that is best in the American
character. To express concern
that economic prosperity may
not last, that budget deficits of
unprecedented magnitude may
have created a structural weak
ness that will undermine long
term growth, is to be labeled a
pessimist, a wimp, by the peren
nially optimistic Babbitts of this
administration.
James Reston, in one of his
recent columns for the New York
Times, quoted the great Ameri
can essayist Walter Lippmann,
who was reflecting on the Ameri
can electorate before the 1932
election. Lippmann wrote: "They
are looking for new leaders, for
men who are truthful and reso
lute and eloquent in the convic
tion that the American destiny is
to be free and magnaminous,
rather than complacent and
acquisitive; they are looking for
leaders who will not-talk to them
about two-car garages and a
bonus, but about their duty and
about the sacrifices they must
make, and about the discipline
they must impose upon them
selves, and about their responsi
bility to the world and to poster
ity; about all those things which
make a people self-respecting,
serene and confident.
"May they not look in vain."
Frank Podony
College of Law
Apathy alarms
UNL instructor
We live in strange times.
Recently, the student body oi
the University of Colorado at
Boulder was polled in order to
find out if it wished to have cya
nide capsules available to it in
case of a nuclear war. Twenty per
cent of the student body respond
ed to the poll. Of these, 2,322 ,
opposed it; 1,689 favored it.
Recently, at UNL, a few hundred
students spent some three days
camped out from the Nebraska
Union to the Coliseum, in order
to be the first in line to buy Bruce
Springsteen concert tickets, re
vealing a devotion the like of
which hasnt been seen since Jesus
rode an ass into Jerusalem or
the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh rode
a Cadillac into his ashram near
Antelope, Ore., last summer, for
that matter. The students had
three days of fun and games. Par
tying. Three days of no small
energy expenditure.
I doubt that this student body
has the desire or the inclination
to devote the same amount of energy
and time to any laudable political
cause as it devoted to waiting for
those concert tickets. (I realize,
of course, that rock concerts are
political in the sense that they
promote the Peter Pan myth: eter
nal adolescence, perpetual play,
youth forever, without responsi
biity and without care.) I doubt
that this student body cares if, or
when, an MX system is placed in
Nebraska, for example, much less
devote any time and energy to
opposing it. Of course, it's likely
that most of the students here
favor such a thing, in which case
camping out in order to get tickets
to see The Boss" b all one needs,
or has, to do. War Is Peace, right
or is it Peace Through Strength?
Something like that.
The most enthusiasm a typical
student on this campus can gen
erate, IVe discovered, is toward
rock concerts, drink and drown
nights at Stooges, and low-priced
personal computers. Then again,
a number of my colleagues get
quite enthused about the possi
bility of a low-cost personal com
puter. Thank God for the whore
dom of Apple. The most pressing
political issue for the typical stu
dent is the drinking age and the
proposed city ordinance to ban
two-fer specials.
It doesn't take much intuition
to realize that most of the stu
dents on this campus are apa
thetic to an alarming degree, con
vinced of their powerlessness, ob
sequious to authority, and ter
rified of the future.
Ah, well. "Get all the Gusto . . . ,"
and all that.
In all fairness, however, I must
admit that I've discovered one
thing the students here are quite
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good at: playing "trivia" games. HI
conclude, then, by asking a (not
so) trivial question. Complete the
following phrase, round in a fam
ous novel by the British author
George Orwell: Ignorance Is
Sam Umland
instructor, UNL
Pornography slides
watched with pity
Like most of my fellow students,
I arrived at my first Free Univer
sity class on "Women and Child
ren in the Media and Pornography"
not really knowing what to expect
but intrigued by the footnote
to the official class description:
"because of slide content partici
pants must be 1 8." I soon realized
the necessity of this warning for
most of the class time was devoted
to the showing of a graphic and
lurid series of hard-core porno
graphic slides that the teacher,
Margie Rine, had personally com
piled from various magazine
photographs and advertisements.
Before showing them, she thought
fully reminded us that a whole
range of powerful and often un
pleasant emotions were usually
aroused in people that were view
ing the slides for the first time. It
was therefore with some trepida
tion that I leant forward in my
chair when the light3 went down...
To my surprise, when the ordeal
was all over, my lingering impres
sion was not so much the outrage
that I felt at such explicit "dirty"
and dehumanizing material nor
my wholly justifiable surge of
compassion for the female "mod
els," but rather a feeling of pity
(tinged with contempt) for the
perpetrators and consumers of
such atrocious garbage. Clearly,
the dehumanization was not just
one-dimensionaL In retrospect,
this point may seem an obvious
one, but it struck me at that time,
nevertheless, with the force of a
revelation. After all, we rightly
expect to feel a flood of over
whelming pity for the victims of
sadistic sexual violence (and the
stress is always heavily on the vio
lence rather than on the sex), but
I had been totally unprepared for
my "empathizing," as it were, with
their tormentors. This feeling of a
diffused sadness, of a strange
awareness of guilt by association,
of complicity in rape at a dis
tance, has remained with me ever
since.
Why then had I not experienced
such a feeling before? The answer
lies, I think, in the simple but sub
tle fact that one deliberately
shields oneself in the interests
of mental and emotional hygiene
from too close a contact with
the debilitating and pernicious
effects of such powerfully distur
bing stimuli Since pornography
is ubiquitous in this commercial
culture, and sex sells everything,
it seems impossible to escape it
entirely, but more or-less suc
cessful strategy of selective and
judicious filtering is possible
and this, I think, is precisely what
we do all the time (albeit, per
haDs. unconsciously). Small
wonder then that, when the m ii d f
is suddenly confronted with ai
full, unadulterated exposure, an
unfamiliar sense of disgust and!
angry amazement rather than I
outright shock is the outcome: I
"How on earth can anyone wittingly j
even tolerate, let alone actually
enjoy suca puma siuii : bsujvV
the sane reaction of a mind not?
already anesthetized and loboto
mized beyond hope by overexpo-
t. ..ti..ntiif mil-
sure. Ici, Lliiit tS eXilllljr W lift i
lions of people do in Americ;
every single day and to the
tune of $7 billion per year. They,
deserve our pity."II?y wait s
minute," I hear you say. "This is aL
very well, but what about the vic
tims?" My point exactly-. J
Peter Toctr
Lincoln