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DalSy Ncbrcckcn . Wl, lw ,Vvi o It f ij I H 3 . o i f-A v ff ,. . --- ""'."'!,'..- - U ( t! H.Mil V ft UUi J.JA5w W.J vai'LU5) I I. l - 9 ii ut;!ie cf the Cocker Erev. aHike Trcpe incident lt W December, the UNL Metrreka's athletic program's reputa " Uaa has beea generally regarded a the Dudley DEight cf big time cc"eg3 athletics. Ca the other hand, Clemscn UruvcraJty has been the Whiplash cf the collage sports world. They've recently gone through a combined seven years cf probation in tvD everts, extensive damage to the university's reputation, tad the rcsi Ra tion ifthe university's president because cf abases by the athletic d ffS f With Dr. Tea Osborne uid the venerable Bob Dr.ar.ey the Double Hundred Duo at the helm, there seems ro reason to expect the same kind cf disaster at dear old Nebraska U., 3 long as the athletic department remains under tha centre! cf the UKL ndadaistrstioR, ar.d the Double Hundred Dao kbsIcs sccssnt b!e to that administration. Just because we aren't in the midst cf a Ciamcan-type disaster doesn't mean we shouldn't form eafeerds against tha feasibil ity. Tho prassuire is there hrdr& iaaicg, d3da3, KiSQ23 bisks, backs, bucks erd teheel aTter seheel suecur.hs to it As as wo kr.ex UKL b ht'.ilr. its vm. The tfcia to clesa the bsra dacrs is r.c"? beTero the cc;ts got cut. OetUag tha csws bsck in tha kara tppstrs to be the thrust cf a couver.tion cf ur.rety presidents cf schee'j with tij-tine athletic prerans planned fe? this surr.ner. The president cf cr.e such tesUtKtloa, Edrd Fccta cf rianl University sdd at a mcetiKi in Miar.i that pregress is being r.ada within tha NCAA lt& but "laaeh remains to be der a," accordiai to an article in the March 13 Chrcnka! cf Klrh Education. At that lacetteg, tha presidents recommended eight proposals aimed at bri?.I,n. athletic departments bask under the control cf diversity admirjstrafciens, battling the exploitation cf athletes asd petting asademics first where they bsloag. Seine cf the points weald consider shcrtenini seasons, main tain academic standards cf grade peint averages and test scores and consider forming a periodic audit to review athletic programs, We applaud the presidents' eSorts. As a big-time athletic schecl, UNL is in the high-risk group for contracting Clemsoncsh; if dea't'have it already. An autonomous and ccrnrpt athletic department does harm not only to the athletes it exploits, but to the whole university. Despite their revenue, or perhaps especially because cf ii, athletic departments ought to be held accountable for their actions. V.'a believe intercollegiate athletics serve a good purpose in their proper place. Yet they have been elevated far beyond that place, often at the behest of ever exuberant booster clubs the last people who should be setting university policy. It's time sports came back down to where they belong. It's time we repressed to the days when halfbacks had bocks to put ia their lockers. . . 3 ::aitona Unsigned editorials represent official policy cf the spring 1835 Daily Nebraskan. Policy is set by the Diily Nebraskan Editorial Board. Its members &re Chris Weisch, ecUto? ia chief; Chris Burb aeh, editorial page editor, MicMsia Tir-man, news editor, Vicki Euhga, copy desk chief and editorial writer, and Kelly Mangaa, assistant advertising manager. Editorials do not necessarily reflect the views of the university, its employees, the students or the NU Board of Regents. The Daily Nebrsskaa's publishers are the regents, who established the UNL Piblicatisns Beard to supervise the daily production cf tha paper. 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Postmaster: Send address chances to tha Daily Nebraskan, &4 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Nsb. 63513-0443. Second class postage paid lit Lincoln, HE -2510. KU I .(link t Vi iti.Wi I l.-.J From the If you can't say anything nice' dep't All Bil Betrayal by new ideas ir3 lliillU iUii v mil. Wi 1 f V ,y 1U s3 7 never ther.t that womea my age I would spend n'd-life talking about i "the yo8a generation." After all, historically we were The Yoimger Genera tion. We were'destir.ed by the star of the baby boon to be always at the cutting ede. Ifet this winter, wherever I go, I hear a peculiar echo in the voices cf my peers or my cohorts or whatever the demographers call us. I catch them re-peeling the ques tion once uttered by our parents and grandparents about us: "What has hap pened to the younger generation?" 1 Ellen me woatea who seem inosi osasgcim elves feminists. are those who call the Now in their raid-BOs and 40s, they matured on ue wave of the woraea s movement. For many change was exhilarating; they were too young to feel betrayed by new idess. They took pride in the assumption that they would make life better far those who came behind them. Now they loch at students and business associates and colleagues, sslf-conSdent women in their 20s who feel little connec tion with women's rights movement. They look at those who have few qualms in being described as the post-feminist gen eration. They look at women who Ht at least partially under the abused heading of yuppies. And they wonder about them. A generation pp hss opened between tha feminists and the yuppies. It is, at least cn the surface, about politics, but A it's also about change. The feminists era conscious of sexism as an aroma over the landscape. The yuppies do not have the same sensitive olfactory nerve. Many have never, or so they will tell you, been dis criminated against To the feminists, the womea'3 rights , movement is as current as the latest slur or ia"Ti.it. To the yuppies, it is tale ff cm the eld days when, once upon a time, womea had trouble getting into the schools or jobs they now hold. The mid-life generation of women genuinely worry that the young are pulling the covers of denial back over their heads. They worry that the young are being misled again into the belief that they can cut a private deal for progress, cne woman at a time. The younger women listen to the repeated warnings of their elders with' the polite distancing patience of children told how grandparents walked 10 miles in the snow to school la distress, the more liberal mid-lifers say of the more conservative young: They'll find out. They'll find out when they have children and try to balance work and mothering. They'll find out when they bump up agdnst the ceilings on women's aspirations. They'll find out that we were right. As for me, I find little pleasure in antic- ipating the day of disillusionment when "they'll find enl." I End less comfort ia tha generation gap I observe. If I worry about the young, I also worry edoui my peers. At times we sound like and &ra assry ii them for living their own. I suppose fehists thfck of yuppies the way the- 6&RstSEiU3t have thought of the fim legists fought for them out ia speakeasies and flirtations. The s;2ragsis had placed a series of neat steps; the Cappers turned them into the Ctsariestca. Today if yea will forgive my generaikaticiiS the feminists who believed ia sisterheod are followed by the yuppies who belisve ia persoaa! success. One generelisa marched for progress; the neat marks progress ca a Nautilus chart. Eut there is something else the mid-life feminists, cf tha ISCCs have ia common with the 88f5r.gists cf the 1920s; aging. I think it is hard fe? asy group cf people to feel themselves bumped into middle age. It may be particularly hard when those who call themselves pregreaaive End their deepest idesls wes-dated by those who are young, as if ideals were pop music or hoop skirts. But it's also hard far the young when their eiders don't listen and do judge. I am enosgh cf a creature of my times to share the tlsna cf friends and peers about the your.3. 1 tLIr.k thai social change is fragile. Whib the jrauag aren't paying attention, wssca est drift back. But no generation can write the script for the next Hies 3 whs try crfy less. Lose contact Once, another ddsr generation asked cf us: "What has happened to the younger gcneraUcar I remember cur response to KM vv "6 are sick cf USA Todav. W tired cf it using the words "we" and "cur" to crests a false snsa cemmuaity, to enlist us in movements and trends that we knew nothing about and have no desire to join. We want no more cf thlj sert of thing. And we ere tired of parents who worked hard to make life their distance tad dismay. We stopped easier for their children and now criticize pe aiterstien. these children because theyVe had it too mz, Ta ns$ GteU Hemm easy. W wanted them to carry oa our lives Com$esvA?$mz -ta rest Vfdter Groc? th-y in t' 2 1 X'.ich is what VSX Tcl-y t:.ax c.z cut cf e!;ht of us does. 1 3 1 ; . 1 Up ar.J tr.eer, Lit :..::e we co, we "Y Elchard 'to fuini back at artewssasertbsi danlajvsi as it did just the other dak "We'ra tszzlpA up assin ia knitting." The hell we are. 11,3 trouble with USA Today is that it dees net report, it embraces. It inces santly wants to identify with me, but it managjg to do just the opposite. I diet far weeks ca end, eat nething for dsys, drink only water and gargle Perrisr aid USA Today sap, "We Like Stea, Gooey Des serts." We do not. We avoid them like the Sometimes USA Today te !l3 me tlzi I'm healthy, sometimes that I'm ca tha vtr) cf death and sometimes that I've mad-3a wonderful recovery: "More cf Us New over From Stroke." I didn't Lncv 1 11 one. I ham that "We're - - " r -1 m.ucur.s wr.ienexrliir.'j t -thir;'3, hy ve'ra Y.::: 3 rzryt w fc'j i..;r.uen v.:s u:2 te k-'t tv KneTyeu tetn nr- would net knit ner, fcr thit rait Eirtkea, :tlj;.:t 71 2 ii : I : ' ! J all this chumminess is til-' ill f :A::.::icairty cr.e big, i-ti-r.ete ccT.r; unity. Cut instead I fee ei:!: 1 f;d U 3 r:;c ne reading the f:. In yzzs. X.).i u th's W they re a:;: 1 1 ):? rl..:? Y"t ccme 1 cever I'.vctV- a tMr- ? V.?y h"'3 1 been leSt c:t ; - !i? i:-- -"g VTA recreates the L -i cr; :.:::.cs f;r r.e. Once r":A:'Vwf; lcr::-':i-the f:c:r t r - - tv'"' '-w' "i seheel, is atar-iyll.:: .'r;4Mrgev:-t , C;. enrage 5
