Monday, September 23, 1985
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Senate praised for supporting Smith residents
The support ASUN is giving Smith
Hall in its investigation of the newly
built women's athletic study area is
commendable. The ASUN Senate met
in a residence complex (Harper-Schramm-Smith)
for the first time ever
Wednesday night and unanimously
voted to support the UNL Residence
Hall Association in its protest of the
athletic study area in Smith Hall.
The HSS Complex Senate and RHA
had approved a resolution criticizing
the decision to place the study area in
Smith, and 232 Smith residents had
signed the resolution.
This is a major issue in the residence
hall community. Many Smith residents
are upset about the loss of their piano .
room and lounge study space to this
closed athletic area with computer
access.
In past years, ASUN has been
attacked for its unwillingness to get
involved in real issues that affect UNL
students. It's heartening now to see
ASUN's eagerness to defend the inter
ests of Smith Hall, answer the many
questions that surround the construc
tion of the study area and seek a solu
tion that will be acceptable to the stu
dents involved.
I'm confident the new spirit of con
cern in ASUN will continue throughout
the year. I sincerely. hope the new
ASUN adhoc group studying the Smith
Hall issue, together with Smith Presi
dent Sydney Warner and her investiga
tory committee, will successfully get to
the bottom of this issue on behalf of the
women of Smith Hall.
Dave Edwards
state president
Nebraska Association of Residence
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Warnings on albums will lead to censorship
If the Parents Music Resource Cen
ter and the National Parent Teachers
Association are successful in their
attempt to enact federal legislation,
record companies would be required to
label, rate and warn potential buyers of
sexually explicit lyrics, occult mes
sages and lurid graphics contained on
or within record albums. The action
initiated by the PMRC and NPTA is
prompted by the notoriety of such
bands as Twisted Sister, ACDC, Motley
Crue and the like.
Although I am not a fan of the above
mentioned rock groups, I am familiar
with the "music" they produce and
confess I find it nauseating. I do not,
however, condone the potential "label
ing" of such forms of expression by
anyone.
What frightens me is this: warning
Radical changed
WILL from Page 4
Richard Nixon.
Driving a Toyota van on one of the
freeways that has made this city a sym
bol of Dixie transformed, Jamil reached
behind him for a plastic carrying case,
removed from it a cassette, slipped it
into the dashboard tape deck and the
van filled with the almost " musical
sound of passages from the Koran
recited first in Arabic and then in Eng
lish. Members of Atlanta's large black
middle class are driving all around him
on the freeway. But H. Rap Brown, a boy
from America's. South, has become a
man of a distant East.
1985, Washington Post Writers Group
Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
and contributing editor for Newsweek
magazine.
labels on controversial record albums
eventually will lead to the labelling of
controversial books. This will lead to
the imminent banning of them both.
I'll admit there's a copious amount
of trash on the shelves of bookstores
and the racks of record shops. But that
does not give anyone the mandate to
deem such forms of expression unfit for
the masses.
If such legislation is ever enacted,
how far will this McCarthyistic witch
hunt of freedom of expression go?
If you want to eliminate violence and
demonic subject matter, certain pas
sages in the Bible would have to be
censored. If sexual explicitness is your
gripe, Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
would have to be pulled from library
shelves and literature classes.
The only way to solve this apparent
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The actions of the PMRC and the
NPTA have brought the problem of
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What has been done by them already is
sufficient. If further action is taken
they will not be operating in the best
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Remember, the Bill of Rights pro
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the subject matter on vinyl discs.
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