Tuesday, October 15, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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'Communist homosexuals 'go too far with Iba story
When I saw the front page of last
Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan, I became
seriously outraged with the blind char
acter defamation of which the DN has
lately become so fond.
In my years at UNL I have come to
accept, and learned to live with, the
fact that the DN is staffed by homosex
uals, Communists, Democrats and other
liberal hooligans. But this time the
efforts of that sleazebag rag mag have
been taken too far. I am referring to
that muckraking and utterly ground
less story about one of the more up
standing men on this campus, Henry
"Moe"Iba.
I have been a basketball fan ever
since the first basketball was placed
between my chubby little baby palms,
and seeing men like Dave Hoppen and
Iba working toward the cause of further
improving Nebraska's program had
given me the hope that one day, and
soon, people will think "basketball"
when someone says "Big Red."
But now, the socialists at work in the
basement of the Nebraska Union want
to take that all away from us and turn
NU into another Tulane.
Fine, reporters of the DN. While the
rest of us are sitting around with
nothing to do, you go to your fashion
shows, your charity teas and those "art
films" at the Sheldon Art Gallery. Live
it up now, because soon AIDS will get
you all. Every one of you.
George Rankin
junior
arts and sciences
NCAA, not DN, should investigate sports violations
OK, so UNL basketball coach Moe
Iba held practice earlier than the date
the NCAA rules allow. He got caught
and will probably be reprimanded.
It is the manner in which this viola
tion was discovered that is disturbing.
This must certainly be the first case on
record of a school's very own news
paper seeking out information on a vio
lation within its own sports program.
Sports Editor Bob Asmussen's obses
sion with relieving Iba of his job is
obviously what led to this piece of
investigative journalism (Sherlock
Holmes would be proud).
However, 1 think he is taking this
personal vendetta a little too far. Isn't
trying to get someone fired just a little
unethical?
The investigations of violations within
collegiate programs, should be left up
to the people who establish the laws
-the NCAA.
Steve Sipple
freshman
undeclared
DN critics need beginning journalism course
I would like to congratulate the
Daily Nebraskan senior editors for what
appears to be a fine job of investigative
reporting on the basketball practice
issue. Lately, I find more that is sub
stantive and less fluff in the DN, and
it's a welcome change.
I would also like to point out a few
basic facts to those who have written
negative letters in response to the bas
ketball articles. The DN editors were
criticized for mishandling the informa
tion they had acquired by making it
public rather than taking their con
cerns to the athletic department so
that it could correct any problem that
exists.
But it is not the business of journal
ism to deal with such problems or
effect change directly. It is the busi
ness of journalism to uncover the facts,
verify information and then offer it to
the public in as unbiased a fashion as
possible. The DN seems to have done
its proper job;
I am also concerned about the num
ber of letters I see that berate DN,
many of them in the name of 'school
spirit, for picking on an already inade
quate basketball team in this way and
which use as their rationale the mis
deeds of athletic units at other uni
versities.
I question both the school spirit and
the values of those who condone such
apparently blatant violation of the
rules established to promote fair play
in college sports because our team is so
bad that it needs to cheat and because
"everybody does it."
Fortunately, this is still a compre
hensive university, and there are intro
ductory courses in both journalism and
ethics taught every semester. I recom
mend them to the letter writers. Go to
it, DN!
Rosemary Bergstrom
administrative assistant
College of Nursing
When talking about the health of a president, "we're all family
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care about the man. Not only is the
president approaching 75, but he will,
like anyone, get a cold and look like
hell. When that happens, the rumors
will start. But aside from that, both the
president and his wife ought to re
member that the president's health is
not a private matter. It's easy to see
how Nancy Reagan feels. Ronald Rea
gan is her husband. But he's our
president.
1935, Washington Post Writers Group
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