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Friday, November 8, 1985 Page 4 Daily Nebraskan NU inoedls money not bricks, mortar proposal to repeal the $5 million allocated to the Lied Center for the Performing Arts shows that at least one legislator, Sen. Rex Haberman of Imperial, is listening to NU students and faculty. Haberman. who proposed the amendment during the Legislature's special session Wednesday, said his proposal could help the university. "What is more important? Money for the university or money for bricks and mortar?" Haberman said. But the proposal has one drawback: it does not guarantee that the $5 million will go back to the university. If the state does not return the money, the university would suffer another $5 million budget cut. The NU Foundation would have to raise the $5 million, and that would force it to cut back on money for scholarships and academics, said Tim Geisert, NU Student Foundation president. Losing the $5 million would put the foundation in a bind, but right now the money is needed to maintain NU colleges, research projects and faculty salaries. Yes, the university would lose some foundation money while the $5 million is being raised, but it's doubtful that the loss would equal $5 million. The Legislature should provide money to run NU adequately and leave the extras, such as the Lied Center, to the NU Foundation. At a time when professors are leaving the university, pro grams are in danger of elimination and UNL's library ranks lowest in the Big Eight, state legislators cannot afford an extra like the Lied Center. We urge state legislators to reallocate the $5 million to the university budget where it is needed most. Phone bank effective JL mhe telephone bank sponsored by the AbUN benate should draw university support from out-state Ne- braskans and their senators. UNL students were allowed to make free two minute calls to anyone in the state to speak out against the proposed university budget cuts. Gerard Keating, ASUN president, said the 400 students who took advantage of the phones were encouraged to call their parents or state senators. ASUN also found outside money for the service the bill will be paid by Friends of the University organization. The phone bank shows that student leaders can organize effective protests to fight damaging budget cuts. 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Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Joe Thomsen. Subscription price is $35 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class postaqe paid at Lincoln, NE 68510. -ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1985 DAILY NEBRASKAN C0MRAP5.QUlCK,,lNeC AiaN0,IWISH7DCr,M mMKM 55CAPAG ie ANPWAWrSOMSKElP? A R5H 70 9l$$BCTui PONT I'M NOT PiSCUSSfOAJS to V Exercise, TV don 't mix Yuippies live in contradiction I skipped a day of swimming this week, and spent a nervous lunch hour hoping the world wouldn't come to an end. I get that way with routines sometimes. I was having a mini-rebellion for no good reason." Colleen Holloran Normally I love swimming laps, and it's a great way to spend a lunch hour, but the pool I swim in is not your sparklingclean oasis. Band-Aids and clumps of hair float languidly in the water. Dodging that stuff is a challenge I didn't envision when I joined this pool. You can play dozens of endurance games when you swim. Recently I cut out all of my breaks to see if I could swim four straight sets without col elapsing a lung. Then I added a few more laps to my regular workout, but didn't give myself additional time. Maybe the pressure was too much for me. The pool managers decided to do some work on the regular women's locker room last month, so all of the regular types had to shower in the expensive women's locker room. It had everything: sauna, jacuzzi, great big showers, built-in hair dryers, even a little alcove where you can lie down and get a synthetic tan. Fixing up the cut-rate locker room was probably a ruse on management's part to give us all a taste of the high life, but I wasn't impressed. My main complaint was the TV set beaming down from one wall. It was always on, always tuned to a game show. Few things annoy me as much as game shows. It's bad enough that my two closest friends profess an addic tion to "Wheel of Fortune," and I have to fight to watch the news during dinner, but being forced to listen to "The Price is Right" after an invigorat ing workout has got to be some kind of yuppie conspiracy. I don't trust TV. It sucks me in. Kim and Kase can be in the living room watching "the Wheel," Kim comment ing on the hideousness of Vana's dress, Kase undoubtedly hoping she'll fall out of it and my newspaper will start inching down from in front of my face. Soon I'll be calling out "Ants in your pants!" or some other inanity as if the hundred bucks on the line were mine. I was glad when they finished work ing on the plain old locker room. It's only a wall away from the weight room, where the guys I assume it's guys since I never hear any high-pitched grunts listen to the radio. I like that. WTio needs a TV when you can dry' your hair to Bruce Springsteen? I'd rather listen to the radio, even with clanking weights and macho grunting in the background, than watch Pat Sajak smile idiotically at car deal ers from Keokuk, Iowa, while Vana cheers them on dressed in the latest window-wear. I haven't figured out exactly what improvements were made in the low budget locker room, but I don't care. There's no place like home. Holloran is a UNL graduate student in English. Good-guy lawyer gets carried away As lawyer Nate Fadim tells it, he was just trying to be a good guy, which he says he often does. It began on a recent morning, as he was riding the elevator down from his condo. He noticed a pretty young woman nervously studying a traffic ticket. So he struck up a conversation. Not that he had anything improper in mind. At 75, Nate is not given to flirtations. Mike Royko "This girl was so nervous, she's shak ing," says Nate. "So I asked her what's wrong. She says she has to go to court for speeding on the Drive. She's never had a ticket before and says she doesn't know what to do. "Well, I'm the kind of guy who helps people. I used to play the piano for some paraplegics. When I lived in Cali fornia, I was an earthquake disaster volunteer. We didn't have any disaster, but I was ready. In other words, I am the kind of person who gives of myself. "So I said: 'I'm early for an appoint ment and I'll be glad to represent you gratuitously.' "We hop into a cab. It's early, so we stop to have breakfast in a coffee shop and prepare her defense. "Then we walk over to court at 10 minutes to nine and I have her sit down and I file the necessary papers to represent her. "Then I sit down and we wait. And we wait and wait. And pretty soon it's 9:35 am. and the judge still isn't there." Nate is not a patient man. At his age, who has the time to spare just sitting around a courtroom? Nor is he hesitant about expressing himself. Nate looked at his watch and at the crowded courtroom. Then he looked at the clerk and bellowed: "Where's the judge?" "This clerk says back to me: 'What did you say?' - "So I yelled out: 'Where's the judge? It's 9:35. Where's the judge?' "Then the clerk and this bailiff come over. The bailiff must be 270 pounds. And they tell me to shut up. "I tell them that I don't have to shut up. And they tell me that if I don't shut up, they'll put me in the back room and shut me up. "So I yelled, 'I don't have to shut up.' "And they grab me by the arms and take me back into the judge's cham bers. "I say, 'What the hell am I doing here?' And this one guy says: 'I told you to shut up.' "And I say, 'I don't have to shut up you black sonofabitch.' ' "Then he hits me in the chest. And he told me that if I didn't shut up I'd be handcuffed and locked up. "I have evidence. When he hit my chest, my glasses were in a case in my pocket and he bent the frame. I took them in, by the way, to be repaired, but they're bent too bad to repair. It's OK, I have three other pairs. "Then they picked me up and they carried me back into the courtroom. They picked me right up. And I'm 6 feet 1 inch, 195 pounds and circumcised." "What did your client think of all this? "Her? When I come back, she's sit ting there and she says to me, 'It serves you right.' "So I took the ticket and tore it up right there and threw the pieces in her face. "Then I walked right out and left her there. Who needs all that? Not me. J was a friend of the late Mayor Daley." Maybe you shouldn't have called the bailiff that name. "Normally, I never refer to people by race, and I only did it because he hit me." You said he hit you after you called him a bad name. "No. He hit me first. That's why I called him that." Not that I doubted Nate, but I asked court officials if the incident happened exactly the way he told it. They said not quite. "That man was yelling and causing a commotion and calling the court per sonnel obscene names. So they told him to be auiet or to leave. After he left, the woman apologized to the judge for nis oenavior ana tne juage Gismisscu, the ticket." J Please see ROYKO on 5!
