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Daily Nebraskan Friday, February 22, 1935 Tl O rl Pago 4 P A TlTfTl A Ti "7T ow you see 'em . . .now you don't. Thanks j to a bureaucratic botch, all those cars that M used to be parked in the university's Park ing Area 23 north of Mable Lee Hall vanished. And the audience of students and faculty mem bers alike was left mystified, their mouths agape as they walked to campus. Like a magician's sleight of hand, the trick was sinj 'e enough. It was the kind of thing you f hp yaur forehead and groan about "I chould've known" when you find out how it really happened. But like a good magic show, the audience was kept in the dark. It was the blind leading the blind they both walked to school. Two weeks ago, the University Police Depart ment began stationing a cadet in the southwest comer of Parking Area 23, formerly a student lot, to make sure only faculty members parked there, according to a story in Wednesday's Daily Nebraskan. The reasoning: Faculty parking had been severely hampered by construction on the University Health Center and Eessey Hall. Uni versity police designated that portion of Area 23 to compensate for the loss of faculty parking. The cadet in Area 23 informs students about alternative parking at a let across from the Harper-Schramm-Smith complex. Before the de partment assigned a cadet to Area 23, it merely ticketed students who unwittingly parked there. And faculty members, who Burke said were informed, yet unaware of the parking changes, found somewhere else to park or walked. Burke acknowledged he was unjustified in, ticketing students who parked in Area 23 before the all-important cadet was assigned the pest. So you see, what appeared to be a mystery was nothing unworldy at all. A little confusing, per haps, but certainly not supernatural. Passers-by who spy a police guard in a near-empty parking lot need no longer wonder if the lot's a U.F.O. landing site, seme sort cf a land-locked Bermuda rectangle or even a crime scene. The mystery is gone. That should mean fewer angry students and faculty members, fewer tickets for those ever-miscreant students and less walking. Unlike a magic show, the audience at this extravaganza has been let in on the secrets. We now know which shell the peanut is under and how it got there. uv womtfs most TOutcus wmm mm vcmr just hm i , I ... ! IS' K&tlR m$ CUT& " J .-Mm. air -P- ... 71 ' ft L.:;..: ,, , x X X : : ,1 if 4 A . X.!l iiv t " - X 1 A i 5- "Win,- T" S Mill lif" T!fr4, A nmnM(.4"xsi . ','iliir j lit ' .J. 1 " :x: r t '-X Author 's crafismanshipflnally rewarded mhirtecn months ago 1 bought my first bimore Leonara novel, in ueveizna, ras kind cf place. Since then 1 have read 10 others. Recently, a newspaper story announced his new novel, "Glitz." I put down my sandwich and drove to a bookstore. It was a peanut butter and pickle sandwich, so you know Leonard is m roiicy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief let ters to the editor from all readers and inter ested others. Anonymous submissions will not be consi dered for publication. Letters should include the author's name, year in school, major and group affiliation,, if any. Bequests to withhold names from publication will not be granted. Submit material to the Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. descriptions, but his style is as strong and personal as Van Gogh's brush strokes. He has perfect pitch for the street talk you might hear from armed robbers who are not very good at armed robbery. Assistant professors being what they are, there are turgid essays thick with coagulated paragraphs about such novels as sublimations of the class struggle. I recently read (well, started to) an essay that says detective stories are popular because secret crime and subsequent discovery are associated in the reader's sub consciousness with (I am not making this up; I could not) the "primal scene," a psychoanalytic Today ha is taking lunch hi style, at the term referring to a child's iMgjning cf sexual Manhattan Ocean Club. You say good news never intercourse between his parents. $1 vseorge V ill gets into newspapers? Reai on. Last week, after publishing 23 novels in 32 years, he finally made the New York Times best seller list, just barely, in 15th place. This week he is seventh. His good luck is good news because luck had nothing to do with it. Craftem&sshi? has been rewarded. Leonard lives in Birmlnghani, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, the city where seme cf his stories are set. The description of Detroit as "Cleveland without the glitter" could come &om his novels. Detroit is not Eloomsbuzy but Leonard, 59, with a gray beard and a wardrobe consisting mainly of a tweed jacket, says he is not aii artist, just an entertainer. - r EDITOR' GENERAL MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER NEWS EDITOR CAMPUS EDITOR WIRE EDITOR COPY DESK CHIt'F EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR NIGHT NEWS EDiTORS GRAPHICS EDITOR ASSiSTANT GRAPHICS EDITOR PHOTO CHiEF ASSISTANT PHOTO CHIEF PU3LtCATiCNS 60APO CHAIRPERSON PROFESSIONAL ADVISER Chris !;s.t, 472-1768 V)vf.fA Shaft " . 'KaHtrl(i Potiedy Tom &ymt KiVty Mane) Stve taf .mmi H?f i Chri9tf1"sw Eartuch Want W. TilpM lil Thorns M Hud--- ChY. Hjy tie I'M Tony Ssfi-spftiigJi CV CKot. 473-I7J8 t on Wi,.-Kl, 473-rSSt . Tf Daily Nebr8kn (USPS 144-CSC) Is pubshsl &y tht hl Publications boara Monday througn Friday in the Sail and mg semesters arsj i tnj f-nflays in Hie summer Irssions, accept dufing vaciions, Hoadcers are sficouregad to submit story id?s ara con mants to th Deny Nif asken by phoning 472-1 763 btn 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday ttrough Friday. Tha public avo has iccw to th Fvix-cttw Soard. For iiiformaln, csH Chris Croats. 472-97S3. Postmaster: SaKS iKJdnws cr.argaa to th D.,,ly '"Vav n. 34 Nabraska U..1011, 1C0 R St., Lino 'n. r 5. f a?ond da poatan e?d at Lincoln, tit n HIS although en: are not exactly crime novels, tt AMMtH jan j"r-, vFF ople, small people novels are about marginal pecpl mccmsxtent at petty cnr.e, or quiet professionals who, like Leonard, are underestimated for a long time. There are no verbal flourishes, no arresting Leonard, too, has suffered over-interpretation. A reviewer once said of him: "The aesthetic sub-text cf his work is the systematic exposure of aesthetic pretension." Leonard retaliated. In his novel "LaBrava," the protagonist, a photo grapher, refers to an exhibition of his pictures: 'The review in the paper said, The aesthetic sub-text of his work i3 the systematic exposure of aesthetic pretension.' I thought I was just taking pictures." Leonard's insistence that he is just a story teller expresses pride, net humility. He has a craftsman's pride that being a fine craftsman is good enough, thank you. He sold his first fiction in 1851, to Argosy magazine, and his first novel, a Western, in 12 53. Kis mother wishes he were still writing Westerns because the language would be less gamy. Until he sold his novel "Hombre" (voted one of the 25 best Westerns of all tine by the Western Writers of America) to Hollywood, he had to work full time writing advertising copy, Well, Wallace Stevens worked in an insurance office, T.S. Eliot at a bank, Anthony Trollcpe'at the post office. After "Kombre," Leonard stopped writing Westerns and started making books the way a custom cobbler makes shoes: steadily, with no wasted motion. He writes from 9:39 &.m. to 6 p.m. He has been called the Dickens of Detroit because of the colorful characters he creates from the seamier side cf life. But he reminds me of Trollope. This is not, Lord knows, because of his subjects there are no Pallisers in his pages but because of his approach to his Trollope kept a meticulous diary of the pages he wrote. He noted that such discipline is considered beneath a man of genius. But, he said cheerfully, not being a genius, h had to be disciplined. You say that anyone who works with his imagination should wdt for inspiration? Trollope said it would fes just as sbsurd to say that a shoemaker should wait for inspiration. Writers, he said, should sit themselves at their desks as though they were clerks, and should sit until their daily writing quota is filled. If they adopt his quota, theywtfi proiiace a book in four months. His "sudden" success he is an "overnight sensation" after 32 years cf hard pkrsg is a tribute to America, where people are not homogenised, and cream rises. If you want a sip of the cream, start with his novel "Swag" and then read "Stick." Then, if you are not hocked, go watch television. It will servs you right. Ml 0 f L student ridicules ASUN general election Oh, there's no joy in liudviiis. Or Uncola, Nebraska, either. ' For. there's three strikes aad we are all cut Three "psrtiss" gsisg il out fur that ill impor tant ASUN general election. The tcp. The big time. Three strikes Target, Lock and Chsr.ge, Eah-rsh. A bunch of upwardly RcbHe canpus yuppies icskkg (pardon xr.e) to pad thdr resumes before entering daddy's firm, A tm vssty? Hardly. A joke? Bingo, What we have to put up with, the ones that are not in comas, is weeks cflooking (pardon me) at all those sip3, buttons and fcsancrs. In the Union. On all the bulletin boards. In the dorms. On the greek houses. And ia the bushes, sticking to the pavement ' H d fcwii.wil'Up in cur cLrC'CTrLs Yea just get sick about it it's Uka Uie Christmas advertising tilts befbre Thar.ks 4s. And we're tired. If ASUN was so all tepsriast, they would be mining the joint I have to render if the adsiin- istrators don't giggle their butts eff when ASUN brings up one cf their "inportsnt issues," like 24-hour access to the Nebraska Union during finals weak. Come on guys, gel ths picture. Let's put a men's lounge where the ASUN cSce is, put a bar in the newASUN-suppeited bookstore and charge everybody a buck to bay coach Mo a real bas ketball team. We wodd c21b3a let fcippier. Oh, there's no joy In Mudvilb. Hi STUPID party will rise to the dssd. e the eeidor textiles
