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sienal team sports in Nebraska doesn't
have a prayer in the Nebraska Legislature. With
the uneasiness surrounding video lotteries,
another grj.blirsver.ture doesn't stand a chance
just now.
But the id a itself isn't such a bid one. In fact,
with a few adjustments, the bill could be a viable
optica sometime don the read.
Illegal gambling v, ill take place anyway. Much
like prohibition, the more avenues that are shut
err, the larger the desire becomes.
Bookies in Nebraska tend to make a pretty
gcod living during the college basketball and
football seasons, when betting sheets share the
same visibility as textbooks. Ail you have to do is
know one person who has a contact wiht a bookie
and your way to fame and fortune cr despair and
poverty are set.
When the law decides to crack down, the
bookies are only temporarily stalled until a new
location can be found. And, new customers pep
up in the new place.
Since the business is thriving anyway, the
state could use Chambers' bill to make money
for itself.
The Sports Wagering Act proposes the state
license any person who acce pts wagers on sport
ing events totaling more than $100 a year. The
fee would be $500 annually, plus a 2 percent tax
cf gross wagers each month.
Because of some gamblers' willingness to con
tinue operating on their own, the law might be
difficult to enforce. But, the mere likely reaction
from the successful bookies would be to pay the
amount. This would not only keep the law from
paying its rare, but catastrophic visits, it also
could encourage his clients to have more trust,
i.e. spend more money, with that particular
bookmaker.
The bettors, meanwhile, will have the chance
to play their skills and so forth in a state
approved entrepreneur, an opportunity they will
have to find favorable. '
Tliis is also where some adjustment may come
in, such as the fees charged by Off Track Betting
services in Nebraska over Ak-Sar-Ben. The com
pany, itself, makes money off each winning
ticket. A similar process could be used by the
team sports bookies, with the money spent on
bets being split between the state and the
entrepreneur.
Like Ak-Sar-Ben, strict guidelines would have
to be set up for the implementation of the bill, a
factor which would make law enforcement for
the renegades easier. It's unlikely bettors would
continue to support a bookie outside the lav Jf
other options are made available to him,,
The difficult part of the bill is how teams
themselves would react to legalized gambling. If
Nebraska is favored by 30 points against Kansas
State, and as usual, the Huskers are smashing
the evil Purple Cats, would the players them
selves be tempted to keep scoring or stop
scoring?
But then again, the lines have not seemed to
effect Las Vegas, Nev., much.
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1 lease don't think I'm some kind of political
M analyst because I watched President Ronald
-ii. Reagan's entire State of the Union address
Wednesday night.
I'm not a hard-core Democrat, though I'm
registered that way, but I do vote and try to keep
up with what's going on.
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That aside, let me give this grassroots reac
tion about last night's telecast.
Behind the president, throughout the speech,
we could see Vice President George Bush and
House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, D-Mass.
These two talked to each other continuously
throughout the speech.
It was fairly obvious, and I'm not the only one
who noticed it. Don Walton, Daily Nebraskan
professional adviser and a reporter for the
Journal Star, said, "I thought a couple of times
that Eeagan was going to turn around and tell
them to shut up."
I doubt, if Reagan could hear them and as a
viewer I couldn't, but I could see them and it
was certainly unprofessional on their part.
As far as I could tell, neither Bush nor O'Neill
instigated the conversations more often than the
other. I am only assuming that what they were
saying was in response to Reagan's speech.
.They could have been talking about the
weather for all I know. 1 don't read lips.
Whatever the topic, I thought they were rude.
If I had behaved like that when someone was
speaking in front of the class in say, junior high, I
would have been severely dealt with. I often was.
This was not a good example for two of the
most powerful political people in our democratic
society to set.
It showed a total lack of respect for the office
cf president, even if this was not the case.
Walton said it distracted him from the speech
at times, as it did me, and I can imagine others
as well.
You didn't "kick their ass," this time, Bush
you acted like one.
O'Neill, the Democrats were allowed to pres
ent a response after the address. Couldn't you
hold your comments until then?
Sure, Bush probably knew the speech by
heart, as he and Eeagan probably memorized the
speech writer's wcrds together, but he should
have at least tried to display some interest in
what was being said.'
Reagan was blissfully unaware of this dis
respect going on behind him, or else he is a good
actor.
Of course, Rea gan is blissfully unaware of a lot
of things, but that's another column.
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Interview sessions need
creaiivity resi
In this technological day and age, you think
we'd be bullheaded in our attempts to preserve
the individuality cf humanity. Universities do a
good job at this. After all, the word "university"
suggests an sll-encompsssing attitude. Yet, when
graduates begin the interviewing process, this
attitude is literally snuffed out...th h&sun ele
ment virtually Is eliminated.
Ninety-eight percent cf today's interviewers
seera to spprctch job eppitots with precon
ceived notions 3 to how the sppUerr.t should
tdk, dress, think mi carry htetself not to
mention specific notions as to how the Job itself
should be carried out. And 93 percent cf the
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conform to these preconceived neiierj, ssttinj
aside otherwise personal traits tsd abilities. The
results of such behavior? Eiaplcyees end up dis
satislfed with thepcrforsiance cf new er.plcyecs
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present interview process to continue a pro
cess void cf ingenuity, creativity and tolerance cf
individuality we are demanding the most
vulgar cf impossibilities human robotics.
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