Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, August 21, 1985
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Nebraskan
Vlcki Ruhga
Jonathan Taylor
Ad Hudler
Kathleen Green
Suzanne Teten
Editor, 472-1766
Editorial Pag Editor
Newt Editor
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Welcome to UNL.
This back-to-school
issue of the Daily Ne
braskan is intended to make
the transition to UNL and
Lincoln a little easier.
This issue contains infor
mation about the city stu
dents live, work and go to
school in, as well as stories
about the campus, residence
halls, education costs, Lincoln
entertainment and Husker
Coach Tom Osborne's 13th
quest for a national title.
For new students we have
included a map of downtown
Lincoln businesses and infor
mation about services and
programs available on campus.
A calendar of the fall
semester is included to help
students plan the next four
months.
This fall the Daily Nebras
kan will provide information
on UNL's budget cuts, the ris
ing cost of education and
decisions made by UNL
administrators.
The Associated Press wire
service has been added to give
students and faculty a com
prehensive roundup of the day's
regional, national and inter
national news. But the Daily
Nebraskan's primary goal is to
provide thorough coverage of
the NU campuses.
For entertainment, an ex
panded section called "Diver
sions" will be featured on
Thursdays to cover weekend
happenings. The Bloom County
comic strip also will be pub
lished daily.
Unsigned editorials repre
sent policy of the fall 1985
Daily Nebraskan. Policy will
be set by the Daily Nebraskan
Editorial Board, which is made
up of Vicki Ruhga, editor in
chief; Jonathan Taylor, editor
ial page editor; Ad Hudler,
news editor and two other
Daily Nebraskan staff members.
Editorials do not necessar
ily reflect the views of the
university, its employees, the
students or the NU Board of
Regents.
.The editorial page also will
contain several syndicated
columns and two syndicated
cartoonists. Daily Nebraskan
columnists and a political
cartoonist will supply student
opinions.
Readers are encouraged to
submit their opinions in let
ters and phone calls. The Daily
Nebraskan is a student paper,
and ideas and criticisms can
make the paper a better
learning tool. The Daily
Nebraskan newsline number
is 472-1763, and my number is
472-1766.
For new and returning stu
dents and faculty, the Daily
Nebraskan will strive to "bring
readers the university's diver
sity. Take time to meet students
and faculty members, 2nd take
advantage of the activities
UNL offers. Try exploring the
Sheldon Art Gallery, view a
foreign film or attend a con
cert sponsored by the UNL
Performing Arts Series.
Vicki Ruhga
Editor
The Daily Nebraskan
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WOULD YOU BE
IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW
HOW OLD YOU WERE?"
Jay MlnnlckDally Nebraskan
Physical, mental ages draer
This is not a sports column so don't
get turned off by the first couple
of paragraphs if you're not a fan.
Satchel Paige, who was a baseball
star in the old days was quoted as ask
ing "How old would you be if you didn't
know how old you were?"
There are a lot of sayings about age,
but I like that one the best.
You're as young as you feel. If you're
not getting older you're dead. The min
ute you're born, you start to die.
But how old would you be if you
didn't know how old you were? I've
been 21 for the last five years.
I always used to think of myself as
older. When I was 18 1 felt I had a little
more of a grasp on things than other
people my age (I know now how wrong I
was). 1 felt more mature and I always
resented it when people accused me of
the hideous crime of being young and
inexperienced.
But I was. I still am. Now I'm begin
ning to realize that I always will be.
When you get to the point where you're
not, and you know everything, there's
really nothing left.
Maybe as an effect of this attitude,
now that I'm 22 and close to 23 1 still
feel 21.
I wonder if I'll wake up in a few years
and suddenly feel another age. Maybe
someday I'll feel as old as I am.
I was sitting in the bar discussing
this with a friend the other night. He
said that he feels much older than he
is, like in his 30s.
We talked about how things have
changed the last four years (we're both
seniors), and I started to feel old, too.
It's scary.
Over the last four years, starting
after I graduated from high school until
now, there have been more changes in
my life than ever before. I can't attrib
ute all of this to college, but I think
much of it can be attributed to this
environment.
If you look at the people my age who
aren't in college, you see a lot of change
in their lives, too, I suppose. Many have
kids, a steady job, loans. They have a lot
of responsibility.
Bill
&4 Allen
But they don't have a lot of things
that those of us in college do have.
Eventually we all will have the jobs, the
kids and the loans, but college has
given us a lot more. It's given me the
perspective to look back on the change
and feel a kind of sadness, yes, but at
the same time I've come to accept it.
Change is inevitable. Isn't that another
old saying?
College gives you perspective. There
is tremendous communication with
people of all different backgrounds.
People without college may have never
been out of their hometown. They may
never realize that other people feel the
same way they do. They may always
think they're 18, and then jump to 40.
For several years I've gotten by on
the assumption that most people are
basically stupid. And I would always
have proof. WTiy else will people, nine
times out of 10, pull right up to your
bumper when you are stopped at a red
light on an uphill slant? I'm always
afraid I will roll back and hit them
before the straight transmission goes
forward. But then, I never have.
As I get older though, I have more
regard for people. Perhaps the more I
know about myself the more under
standing I have for others.
As you come into college, or con
tinue with college and life, expect
change. Expect a lot of change.
You're going to be the same person a
few years from now, but you might
know yourself a little better. As you get
to know yourself I can guarantee you
that there will be times that you hate
yourself. There will be times when you
can't think of anyone better than you.
You'll hide yourself, you'll share your
self, sometimes you'll try to fit in where
you don't belong.
But as you get older, please try to at
least get along with yourself. Because
sometimes, yourself will be all that you
have.
If I didn't know how old I was I
would be 21 right now. Right now I feel
I would like to be 21 when I'm 50.
Maybe I will be. I hope that means I
will be dating a 21-year-old when I'm
50. But then, if neither one of us knows
how old we really are, it won't matter,
will it?
Allen Is a UNL senior English major and
Daily Nebraskan arts and entertainment
editor.
College: Time for adventure ends here
As students prepare to start or fin
ish college, few realize how much
freedom they lose once they leave
the university.
Some would say all of the exams,
papers and anxieties of college, plus
the pressure associated with grades,
don't constitute a lot of freedom. But
considering the amount of free time
students get during the year, most will
find that they are not as tied down as
they will be when they're working full
time.
In the world that proiessionals call
"real," there are.no spring breaks, no
multiple-week Christmas vacations and
certainly no three-month interims dur
ing the summer. After landing that job
students worked so hard in college to
prepare for, they say goodbye to all of
those days unincumbered by responsi
bility. Besides the week or two the com
pany gives employees a "vacation," the
times for exploration and travel are
limited to two- or three-day spurts
around Memorial Day or Christmas.
Just try to cram an enjoyable vacation
into that amount of time.
Look at it this way there will
never be another period in life when
such a great expanse of time is avail
able, as it is during college. Sure, many
people spend most vacation time work
ing to pay for school, but if seeing the
world or the fulfillment of some other
major plan is a goal, then get on it
during college
In an average academic year, UNL
students have about 150 days of vaca
tion not counting weekends. That's 3V&
months during the summer, a month off
for Christmas, a week off for spring
break and a few miscellaneous days off
for Labor Day and Thanksgiving. To not
take advantage of that amount of free
time is a mistake that could plague a
student's conscience for years.
Jonathan
Ps Taylor
Once people land ajob, they can only
hope that after five years the boss
might let them have two consecutive
weeks off for a vacation. But never,
ever, unless they become university
professors and get sabbatical, will they
get three months off to do as they
please.
Even when they do finally get vaca
tion time, they go only when the boss
says they can. Spontaneity is some
thing lost after college.
This message is aimed especially at
graduating seniors. If students don't
stnKe out on some extended road trips
now, while the opportunities abound,
their only exploration of the world
could end up being a four-day trip to
Mt. Rushmore highlighted by a week
end at Adventureland. Not that such a
trip would be bad, it's just that most
college students have a little more
creativity and energy to undertake
something at least slightly adventu
rous and maybe risky.
And I'm not talking about simple
road trips to football games in Iowa or
Oklahoma. Youth is a time of experi
mentation so find someplace to go or
something to do with some meat to it.
One of my friends who will be a sopho
more this year got the right idea early
in his college career and went to
Europe, where he worked during the
summer. He even came out about $30
ahead when he returned to the states.
An example of a risky journey (and
probably illegal) is to hop a train. But
take someone along who knows trains
and watch out for the guys shooting
rocksalt out of shotguns.
Whatever you do, send postcards.
And make sure you send one to me,
Editorial editor, co Daily Nebraskan,
34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln
68588-0448.
Maybe we'll print exerpts from the
postcards form the wildest places. So
hit the road, while you have the time.
Taylor, Daily Nebraskan editorial page
editor, is a UNL senior journalism major.