Thursday, January 23, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Letters
Reader says Helms not an 'embarrassment'
This letter is in response to Chris
Welsch's column, "Ask Chris anything,
anytime" (Daily Nebraskan, Jan. 20).
In fear of understanding my progno
sis, I would say that you are politically
retarded.
The statement Helms is "genuinely
an embarrassment to this society..." is
completely inexcusable. It is absolutely
terrifying that any dimwit would have
the gall to write a statement like this
against a senior member of the United
States Senate and Republican Party,
not to mention the mental midget edi
tors who let you get away with it. Do
they actually turn you loose on this
campus?
Whether or not Helms did accuse the
great Martin Luther King, Jr. of com
munist sympathizing is not the issue.
The trouble is that there are leftist-Marxist-Leninist-communist
factions
oozing into every known institution in
this country especially journalism.
The DN is well known as a leftist
newspaper, but it jumped off the cliff in
giving you a job.
Perhaps if that "madman" of the
50s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, had been
given a little more time, you and
whoever formed your world views would
be in prison now. Then we wouldn't
have to tolerate communist scum like
you.
Richard D. DeLorme
senior
engineering
Editor's Note: VVelsch has work
ed at the DN for nine semesters
and was editor in chief for two
semesters.
Columnist wrong about victims of abortion
I wish I could make thousands of
copies of Randy Donner's column, "More
heroes are needed in war against un
born," (DN, Jan. 21), and give them to
all the adolescent mothers whose lives
have been shattered because of an
unwanted pregnancy. Many are social
and economic outcasts.
I also would give some copies to the
abused children who are often the
result of this situation.
They aren't heroes, they're victims.
They might chuckle at your article
before throwing it away.
Todd Fleischer
sophomore
psychology
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King's actions depict 'true' patriotism
COHEN from Page 4
White House table. Certainly, he
would not be called a patriot.
The patriot of today is not some
one who questions authority or in
stitutions. The new patriotism, so
celebrated by magazines, beer com
mercials and professional football
teams, is always linked to confor
mity in action in particular, the
military. Just say that word and you
see someone in uniform maybe salut
ing, maybe rushing across some
rough terrain in an army-recruiting
commercial in which war is indis
tinguishable from a boyhood game
of guns bang, bang, you're dead.
They are the time-for-milk-and-cook-ies
patriots.
But King was a true patriot. He
loved his country enough to chal
lenge it to be better. He broke laws
bad laws, but laws nonetheless
and he went to jail for it. He
agitated and condemned, exhorted
and lambasted. He prayed for his
enemies but never shirked from
confronting them. He represented
an institution - the church but
he challenged institutions he
thought were doing wrong.
He was an authority figure a
minister who did not hesitate to
take on the authorities when he
thought they were wrong. He started
in the South, but was turning his
attention to the North and, over the
war in Vietnam, he was about to
battle the very administration that
had been his ally.
The real Martin Luther King was
a critic, not a cheerleader. The real
Martin Luther King appreciated
America's ability to do better to
improvise, improve, make the coun
try work better for everybody. The
real Martin Luther King would never
celebrate the status quo and if
someone proclaimed that America
was standing tall he would say, yes,
but we can stand taller.
Like Albert Camus, Martin Luther
knew that real subversion is con
formity and that the true patriotism
is criticism and action. Martin
Luther King had a dream, but Mar
tin Luther King, as his achieve
ments attest, was no dreamer.
1986, Washington Post
Writers Group
Cohen writes an editorial column for
the Washington Post.
Digest
Christian author
Elisabeth Elliot, author of ten best
selling books, will speak about her
experiences as a missionary in Ecuador
during programs Thursday and Friday,
7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.to noon
in the Centennial Room, Nebraska
Union.
The program is sponsored by eight of
the university Christian fellowships.
Assertive skills
An assertiveness training group will
meet Wednesday, Feb. 5 through March
19, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the UNL Coun
seling Center, 1316 Seaton Hall to learn
and practice general assertive skills.
For more information contact Louise or
Meribeth at 472-3461.
Figure drawing
The art department will sponsor a
figure-drawing session for anyone who
wants to draw from a naked figure.
The session will be every Wednesday
from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Richards Hall
206. Cost will depend on the number of
people attending. Season tickets and
individual admissions are available.
For more information, contact David
Routon, professor of art, 472-5543.
Police Report
MONDAY
8:51 a.m. Potted plants reported
stolen from Manter Hall.
9 a.m. UNL student arrested for
allegedly setting a fire in the Abel Hall
garbage chute Sunday.
11:24 a.m. Two-car accident
reported in area 23 parking lot at 14th
and Avery streets.
TUESDAY
12:18 a.m. Locker room in
North Fieldhouse reported vandalized.
12:26 a.m. Checks reported
stolen from residence in.Neihardt
Residence Center.
12:43 a. in. Periodical reported
stolen from Love Library. Student
arrested for alleged theft.
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Columns one-sided, limited
to anti-abortion, male view
The editorial section of the Daily
Nebraskan is usually the one I read
with pleasure. The past two days, how
ever, this has not been the case.
Starting with Randy Donner's call to
arms, (DN, Jan. 21), to all pro-lifers and
continuing with Jim Rogers' seven point
sermon (DN, Jan. 22) against the evils
of a pro-choice stance on abortion, I
have read this section with a sick feel
ing of dull rage in the pit of my
stomach.
It's bad enough that two pro-life edi
torials were selected as the DN's way of
marking the 1 3th anniversary of Roe vs.
Wade, but what's worse is that they
were both written by men.
I might not have taken offense at the
fact that only one side of the abortion
debate was presented if at least one of
the articles was written by a woman.
Not only have you ignored one side of
the argument, but you have also ignored
the gender it primarily affects.
"We cannot justly choose death for
an innocent person." Just who is the
"we" Rogers is referring to? It is a
choice he will never have to face. I am
sick to death of men forcing their opin
ions and decisions about the morality
of abortion upon women. It's easy to
advocate laws that will govern other
people's behavior because those laws
will never directly touch your life.
Donner refers to the silent victims of
abortion. What about the victims of
anti-abortion laws who also are given
no voice. Aren't they victims too? When
reflecting on the position each person
takes regarding abortion, people would
do good to take into account the rights
of women, fully developed human beings,
as well as the rights of a 10-week-old
fetus with fully developed feet but no
nervous system with which to form any
concept of self or future. Women con
sidering abortion should also receive
the benefit of the doubt.
Rose Beck
sophomore
marketing
Editor's Note: Column topics
are individually selected by their
respective authors with no DN
supervision. No columns, letters
or guest opinions in favor of
legalized abortion had been sub
mitted when the columns were
published.
Residents oppose site
LANDFILL from Page 1
Sites were chosen according to their
geology, hydrology and typography, said
Steve Masters, Lincoln utility coordi
nator. Dan Drain, chairman of the landfill
committee, said almost all the sites
have organized opponents. Only site
six has public support, he said.
"People want their trash hauled
away. But they never want to worry
about it after that," Drain said.
The Airport Authority, Lincoln Hous
ing Authority, Commonwealth Receiver,
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and res
idents of the Arnold Heights addition
also have publicly opposed the site four
selection.
Wayne Anderson, of the Airport
Authority, said site four lies on the
edge of a traffic pattern for incoming
aircraft. The gulls attracted by a land
fill would endanger flights to the air
port, he said, because birds often get
sucked into aircraft engines.
Dick Burke, an employee with the
Lincoln Housing Authority, said his
office opposes site four's selection
because it is only six blocks from the
Arnold Heights residential distict.
"The area has a stigma. It's been
called an old army facility and a low
rent district," he said. "We don't need
another identity to live down. We don't
need one kid saying to the other, 'You
live by the dump.' "
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