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Friday, December 14, 1934 Daily Nsbraskan Page 5 USA. J2Ck Letters 0" I, " r m I: ' Lenora Harma, staff secretary for the UNL forestry fisheries and wpdlifs departeeitt stands by the Infamous sculpture in the grurbags. Students praise sculptor In response to Rob Wetovick's letter (Daily Nebraskan Dec. 12): Admittedly, moving the sculpture to a nearby dumps ter (something that took more muscle than brains) was a rather amusing way to show the movers' opinions in regard to the sculpture. However, it's also an example of how the people responsible could best live up to the art-ignorant, country-bumpkin stereotype. As for giving the perpetra tors three cheers, that's carrying this sculpture incident a bit too far. We were disappointed that many East Campus people quickly condemned the sculpture as scrap metaL Per haps the Agriculture College should include a course on art appreciation in its curriculum so students will at least think before they come to conclusions on art. Wetovick himself inadvertently emphasised some of the sculpture's good points. He says it looks like "a con glomeration of old farm machinery parts" We surmise that this is precisely what the artists intended, trying to bring together various aspects of farming into one form. He claims that if the installers wanted an agricultural symbol, they could get some old farm machinery. We would guess that the artist aimed for representational ism, not realism. If they wanted old machinery, they could find someone to find a nice machine and complete it with a geranium planter. But that's not an art that's a craft. That the sculpture is an "eyesore" is entirely a matter of opinion. We like it. For us, it brings to mind a picture of a plow in the sunset envisioned in Willa Gather's "My Antonia" a symbol of the strength and scale of the pioneers' spirit. Just as there is more to farming than corn and cattle, there is more to art than realism. The sculptor was trying to create a symbol, not a lawn ornament. Alice George junior theatre arts Burr-Fedde and East Campus resident Carolyn George freshman restaurant management Burr-Fedde and East Campus resident Art vandalism 'appalling' I am writing in response to Rob Wetovick's opinion concerning the sculpture on East Campus (Daily Nebraskan, Dec. 12). First of all, Rob, I am a strong supporter of the arts, on campus or otherwise. I find the recent vandalism (or "removal" as you so naively put it) of sculptures on both campuses to be appalling. Second, no one ever said the sculpture was supposed to be an "agricultural symbol." The only person who really knows its symbolism or true meaning is the artist himself. Just because something appears on East Cam pus does not mean it has to have agricultural significance. I don't know how you can be proud of East Campus when you "cheer" the displacement of someone's artistic creation. I don't suppose you have ever taken an art appreciation course. LoriLHulke senior special education East Campus resident Religion 'woven 9 into schools The Daily Nebraskan editorial "Prayer meet ings belong in. church, not school," (Nov. 30) aside from its argu mentative title, was helpful in clarifying the Equal Access Act and its ramifications for Lincoln Public Schools. But it seemed to ignore the fact that religious practices currently are being taught in high school classes and are woven into the very fabric of much instructive material paraded as "education" and sanc tined as the "good instruction" the editorial speculates about. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared (Torcaso v. Watkins, 1961) that secular humanism is a religion. Recent Federal Court decisions affirm that declaration. The essence of secular humanism, according to White head & Conlan ("Texas Tech Law Review" X. 54) is the worship of man as the source of all knowledge and truth. Its credos, formulated in the "Humanist Manifestors I & II" were heavily influenced by Unitarian theologians, many of whom claim to have laid the basis for modern secular humanism, according to Lament's "Philosophy of Humanism." Ninety-five percent of Unitarian belief is humanistic, a recent study shows. This Unitarian and secular humanist doctrine, in "Humanist Manifesto II," hold that: "...The human spe cies is an emergence from natural evolutionary for ces...The total personality is a function of the biological organism transacting in a social and cultural con textsThe right to birth control, abortion and divorce should be recognized...We must not limit sexual behav ior between consenting adults. The many varieties of sexual exploration should not in themselves be consi dered 4evU'...Moral education for children and adults is a way of developing awareness and sexual maturity." These tenets are being taught in many high school classes psychology, careers, citizenship Issues, health and sex education, sciences and the like where evolu tion, birth control, "cohabitation," homosexuality, rela tive morality and situational ethics are explored as "good education" because they are the practices of non theistic religion. Unitarian and humanist teachers show case their faiths right in class with the blessing of the state, openly urging their non-theism upon their stu dents. Somehow, separation of church and state is never applied to the Unitarian Church, because educators and administrators and ACLU lawyers are ignorant of the law. As your editorial succinctly states: The active practice of religion in school is forbidden. It applies to theistic and non-theistic religion equally! The DN editorail quotes Dick Kurtenbach, but the Civil Liberties Union, of which he is Nebraska executive secretary, is in no position to monitor the Equal Access Act, because it is woefully biased. The ACLU has spon sored studies by geologist Brent Dalrymple for the spe cific purpose of refuting creationist Thomas Barnes' studies on earth's magnetism. The ACLU is thus on record on the side of evolution, supporting the active promulgation of this non-theistic religious practice. These are the issues that concern Christian parents. And indeed, seeing the impasse over moral education in public schools, why should we not insist that ethics be taught our students on the basis of set Christian stand ards and rules, as of old? Non-theistic religious doc trines are being taught there anyway, urged and demon stated by the ACLU, sanctified by the state and blessed by the administration. To be consistent, your editorial should have urged that "Non-theistic doctrinal discus sions and prayer meetings belong in church, not school!" Nels W. Forde history professor More opinion on Page 6 EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR NIGHT NEWS EDITORS ChrtfWtlsch, 472-1784 Daniel Shsttil Kitty Poiicky Tr-i Byrns Inlchlsla Thuman Chrittephtr Surbach LcuH Hoppla Julia Jordan jucSI Nygren The Dally Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and com ments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-2583 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has jeeess to the Publications Board. For information, call Nick Foley, 478-0275 or Angela Nietf iald, 475-4031 . 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