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Daily Nebraskan
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Denounce
oppression
f students are opposed to the injustices of apartheid in
South Africa, then the presence of CIA representatives
interviewing for potential employees on this campus this
week should elicit similar feelings of outrage.
Three CIA representatives have been at UNL since
Tuesday and will have interviewed about 100 students when
they leave today, said G ry Phaneuf, director of the UNL
Career Planning and Placement Center. After the interviews,
the representives then choose candidates to take an exam on
current events, Phaneuf si id.
Those informed about current events and recent history will
know of the CIA's subversive activities in Central America and
its attempts to cause discord among its people; and therefore
should oppose its presence at UNL.
Ever since its inception since 1947, the CIA has been an
international police force dedicated to preserving U.S. foreign
policy that "creates a favorable business climate" for Ameri
can corporations in foreign countries, said Bruce Erlich, asso
ciate professor of English and modern languages and faculty
adviser for the Latin American Solidarity Committee.
Currently, the CIA is aiding in the attempted overthrow of
the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Erlich said the CIA is
supplying the rebel forces, the Contras, with weapons, money
for supplies and military intelligence.
The object of the U.S. antagonism, the Sandinistas, repres
ent a communist form of government based on reorganizing
and strengthening Nicaragua's economy through agriculture,
Erlich said.
The Sandinistas are attempting to modernize the country by
promoting nation-wide literacy and providing more health care
facilities, he said. Rather than let the United States use
Nicaragua's best agricultural land to grow cash crops for North
America, the Sandinistas have also taken back the land to
produce food crops for its own people.
It is an irrational fear of communist expansionism that is
causing the United States to oppose and attempt to overthrow
the Sandinistas.
It doesn't take a political science major to see that Nicara
gua and other Latin American countries where the United
States uses land for its own benefits should be left alone by the
CIA. The Sandinistas, who replaced the tyrannical U.S.-backed
Somoza regime are trying to establish a foundation for the
country's future. The U.S. government is funding a war that has
killed 10,000 Nicaraguans.
By supporting war in Nicaragua, the CIA represents a barrier
to a better way of life for the citizens of that country. UNL
students should not tolerate any continued appearances by
oppressive forces such as the CIA on this campus.
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Ed Whart rolled his eyes as the
bowling ball dropped in the
gutter. His son, Chipper, laughed.
Marlene, Ed's wife, gave Chipper a
nasty look and then looked at her
husband consolingly. Nadine, Ed's
daughter sat in the plastic chairs
toward the back of the lane and looked
at the guys in the next lane. Kind of
dorky looking, she thought, but what
do you expect in a bowling alley. Point
Four, Ed's three-year-old son, sipped
the last few drops from an empty beer
can his father had set aside.
Bill
U Allen
Tuesday nights are great for family
get-togethers, Ed thought, as the
electronic scoreboard totaled his score.
"If this scoreboard was one of those
talking video games it would be laugh
ing at you, Dad" Chipper said, picking
up his ball.
Chipper rolled a strike. He went
smugly back to his seat and watched
the guys in the next lane. He thought
they were kind of cute.
Point Four started on his second
empty beer can.
Ed wore a long pink bowling shirt
with the words Greater City Meat
Packers on the back. He wasn't a meat
packer, but Marlene had found it at a
garage sale for a buck and at that price,
Ed thought, anyone can be a meat
packer for a night.
Ed sat down and watched his wife's
rear as she approached the foul lane
and obligingly bowled into the gutter
so as not to embarrass her husband.
Her rear is a little larger than it used to
be, Ed thought, and not as firm.
But then, he thought, my waistline's
not what it used to be either. Life's too
hard to worry about those kind of
things, he mused, starting to think of
sandy beaches, native girls in grass
skirts, and roasted pork on an open
spit. And plenty of beer, he thought,
finishing another and putting it within
reach of Point Four, who was on his
third.
Marlene sat down, and she too looked
across the way at the young men in the
next lane. They were drinking and
laughing and talking about girls and
looking at Nadine approach the foul
lane. She knocked over four pins and
picked up three more on her second
ball.
Marlene remembered bowling alley's
when she was younger and wore pink
dresses and bobby socks and sipped
cokes and smiled demurely. As a matter
of fact, she remembered, she once ran
into Ed at a bowling alley when they
were first dating. He had acted cool
and pretended he didn't notice her
because his friends might rib him
about it.
But eventually he looked over, and
she smiled, and he waved and came
over, and they said unimportant things
that seemed like words of wisdom to
the other and stuttered babbling to
themselves.
She looked at her husband looking
up at the scoreboard and lamenting
about his score. His stomach swelled
from within the large bowling shirt,
and his face was flushed from the beer.
Then she looked at the young men in
jeans and T-shirts, and she looked back
at Ed and realized that with Ed she had
a life and a meaning for that life, even if
it no longer caused the excitement
that it once did, a long time ago.
She and Ed seldom went to movies,
or drank champagne for no reason or
laughed at each others' silliness, but
somehow, she thought, when the rest of
the world was over Ed and she would
still have their song and their wedding
pictures and all the times together that
no other people in the world had. It was
this oneness that made up for the
constant comparisons to the "Love
Boat."
And Ed, shaking his head and looking
again at his wife, kissed her in front of
everyone, and she smiled demurely, as
she had so many years ago, and she
giggled.
Chipper thought about tomorrow
and wondered about many things.
Nadine thought about yesterday and
how to get over it in this lifetime.
Point Four, pretty wasted by now,
thought of blue plastic things and long
term investments.
Ed and Marlene thought of now, and
somehow it all made sense.
Allen is a UNL senior English major and
Daily Nebraskan entertainment editor.
Cigarette ads equate smoking with
sex, health, romance, sophistication
A few days ago, I saw a picture of a
woman in lavender leotards. She
was either supposed to be a
dancer or someone doing exercises and
she was sort of bent over backwards
very graceful, very supple. She was in
terrific shape. She was posing for a
cigarette ad.
Richard
Cohen
You don't have to be a genius to
figure out the message of this ad or, for
that matter, the one for Camel where
the guys hang off a mountain, a
cigarette dangling from his lips.
After seeing that cigarette ad, I went
into the office. I did my setting-up
exercises (made coffee) and then went
over to a machine that was printing out
questions to a poll. The poll had to do
with business ethics, and it asked
about E.F. Hutton, which had admitted
defrauding some 400 banks by writing
checks for money it did not yet have. I
had just seen that cigarette ad and I
had a different question: How come no
one questions the ethics of selling
cigarettes?
Think about it for a second. There
are ad men on Madison Avenue, well
paid types with Ralph Lauren suits and
BMWs garaged in Darien, Conn, whose
if ! S, toiomehw convince Americans
that it s OK to smoke. They devise ad
campaigns to make the impressionable
think that smoking and good health
can go together, that you can be a
ballerina or a mountain climber and
still puff up a storm.
Think about it some more. These
people, the cigarette companies and
the ad agencies, place ads in magazines
that appeal to young people, especially
young women. They do this knowing
that smoking is not just marginally bad
for your health, like cheeses that are
high in cholesterol, but can kill you.
Of course, you can buy the argument
that the cigarette companies and the
ad agencies are fighting for the loyalty
of existing smokers. To an extent they
are. But the fact remains that they all
portray smoking in such a way as to
appeal to kids. What kid doesn't want
to hang from mountains in swell, tight
fitting pants?
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