Friday, January 24, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
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Athletes should
The NCAA rule prohibiting
athletes from appearing in
non-profit products violates
athletes' rights and should be
amended.
Doug Johnson, NCAA director
of legislative services, said asso
ciation rules forbid any student
athlete from appearing or prom
oting any commercial product
sold on the open market.
The rule makes sense in some
cases. For example, student
athletes should not be allowed
to model for retail stores or be
paid for the use of their photos.
But in other cases, the rule is
unfair. Nebraska football player
Jon Kelley and volleyball player
Tisha Delaney, who posed for
UNL's "Men of Nebraska" and
"Women of Nebraska" calend
ars, could be punished for help
ing the needy.
All proceeds from the calendar
were donated to the non-profit
organization Mothers Against
Drunk Driving. The athletes were
not paid for their appearances.
By banning athletes from help
ing charities, the rule discour
fs ii.i n r
UNL journalism
Dedication. Because of it,
the UNL College of Jour
nalism easily passed mus
ter with a national journalism
visiting committee.
The visiting committee of the
Accrediting Council in Educa
tion in Journalism and Mass
Communications evaluated UNL's
programs and recommended that
the college be re-accredited.
Committee members said it
was "a pleasure evaluating this
college because it meets nearly
all of its stated goals despite a
huge increase in enrollment,
state cutbacks in university fund
ing and an overworked faculty."
Thanks to instructors who put
in long days and spend week
ends grading papers, the journal
ism college maintains the na
tional reputation it has earned
over the years.
The college is not perfect. It
Show could
Documentary on
After years of predictable
sitcoms and unrealistic
prime-time soap operas, TV
network executives took a stride
forward.
Veteran newsman Bill Moyers
and CBS have teamed up for a
documentary on the black com
munity in the United States.
The program, which airs locally
Saturday at 8 p.m., goes beyond viewed time and failed to pro
problems of fascism and uncar- mote it.
Editorial policy
Unsigned editorials represent
official policy of the spring 1985
Daily Nebraskan.
Editorials do not necessarily re
flect the views of the university, its
employees, the students or the NU
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Thorn Gabrukiewicz, Managing Editor
Ad Hudler, Editorial Page Editor
James Rogers, Editorial Associate
Chris Welsch, Cop Desk Chief
help charities
ages student-athletes from help
ing needy causes.
Another problem with the rule
is that it seldom is enforced.
Johnson said the NCAA looks at
six to 10 cases a year.
Yet, Kelley and Delaney first
learned of the rule last December
when the NCAA suspended Indi
ana basketball player Steve
Uford from a game against Ken
tucky because Alford posed for a
sorority calendar. Profits from
the sale of the calendar were
donated to a girls' camp.
Before the Alford ruling, sev
eral NU football players such
as Turner Gill, Jamie Williams
and Mark Mauer had appeared
on calendars and had no prob
lems with the NCAA.
NCAA rules must be enforced
to be taken seriously. If the rules
are too broad like the "com
mercial product" rule they
should be amended.
Student athletes should not
use university ties for their own
advantage. But they should be
able to use their photos to help
charities.
fights problems
still lacks minority faculty mem
bers, a full-time staff member at
KRNU radio, detailed alumni
recordkeeping, state-of-the-art
equipment and a department
chairman in advertising.
But faculty members manage
to overcome the problems. Each
semester they teach countless
buddingjournalists the basics of
grammar, spelling, syntax and
Associated Press style.
The system must be working.
Last summer, the news-editorial
department alone placed 44 stu
dent interns at papers from New
York to Japan.
The final accreditation deci
sion will be announced by the
ACEJMC Accrediting Committee
and Accrediting Council. The
visiting committee recommended
a seven-year extension on the
college's accreditation status.
Congratulations.
set standard
blacks to be aired
ing government. It looks at
blacks' lack of role models and
the failure to pass on moral
values to children.
"The Vanishing Family Cri
sis in Black America" could set
the standard for future docu
mentaries. Too bad CBS chose a seldom-
Board of Regents.
The Daily Nebraskan's publish
ers are the regents, who established
the UNL Publications Board to super
vise the daily production of the
paper.
to dent looks at student
Whether pensive
L
ast week I noticed other students'
. faces as classes were beginning,
PeoDle can tell a lot bv looking
into others' eyes. The following is a list
of looks that I observed.
The Pensive Look A stare into
space with visible brain activity. This
look usually occurs in students before
finals or at the start of the semester.
The Eager Look Freshmen
usually have this look at the beginning
of their first semester and slowly lose it
as their college careers progress. On
several occasions I have seen this look
vanish as soon as professors say, "Now
for the next time please read chapters
such and such in the orange book,
chapters such and such in the green
book and write a 20-page paper that
compares the two books."
The No-One's-Home Look
This look is unavoidable. All students
will get it. Its main characteristic is a
blank stare into space. This look usu
ally occurs on college students after
finals or after writing a 20-page paper
that compares the orange book and the
green book. At first you may mistake it
for the Pensive Look.
An easy test to distinguish the two is
National passion for Chicago team
reaches unbearable levels for native
W
hile I was waiting in the line
for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in the
Fantasyland section of Disney
World, I noticed that the woman ahead
of me was wearing a sweat shirt with
the entire Bear roster printed on the
back.
When I asked her if she was from
Chicago, she drawled, "No, I'm from
Memphis, but I just love the Bears. That
Refrigerator is soooo cute."
Cute as a bug, I said. She asked
where I was from, and when I told her,
she excitedly asked:
"Oh, tell me, is that just a gap or is
Fridge missing one of his front teeth?"
I confessed that I had never been
privileged to peer into William Perry's
mouth, so I couldn't say for sure.
She gushed on.
"And that McMahon. He is such a
baaad boy. He reminds me of my oldest,
Bobby here." She patted the head of
Bobby, a gawky lad with glazed eyes
ana a runny nose. Bobby s always up to
mischief with his bicycle."
Yes, I told her, it was a remarkable
likeness.
Beiore she could tell me that her
other child, who looked like a biter,
reminded her of Gary Fencik, the line
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suu: oijck wim me monsters 01 me
Miflffest"l
Then there was the fishing guide
down near the Everglades.
There are only two things I want to
discuss with a Florida fishing guide
dunngthehoursweshareasmallboat.
uitc is nan aim uie umer is aope
smuggling.
The fish weren t biting. And he said,
or eager, people's
to wave your hand in iront ot the per-
son's face. It you get no response, men
the student already has written tne
paper about those orange and green
books. If you get a response, then the
student is a philosophy major debating
such questions as "Why is there air?"
or a chess player thinking about a
move.
Bill
Rush
The Anxious Look - Every
pnim- whn nin tn rrnHatP anrf mct
take 16 hours of physics to do so, has
this look. Or, this look is on the face of
students who discover that neither the
orange nor the green book is available
from either the library or the bookstore.
Of course, some students are more
interested in members of the opposite
sex than academia. These students
have the following special looks:
"Yeah, once I turned down $30,000 to
make three marijuana runs in one
night. More money than I ever saw in
my life, but I got into guiding because I
don't like inside work, and there's
nothing more inside than a prison
laundry, so 1 chickened out.
Then, knowing I was from Chicago,
he said, "Why'd they call it the '46
defense'?"
Mike
Royko
I told him that I believed it had been
named in honor of the circumference of
William Perry's neck.
"Well, they're reallv snmn'n "ho
said, and spent the next hour telling
me why they were really sump'n.
And the waitress in the little seafood
joint. She didn't know a draw play from
a drawstring. But she knew the words
to the Super Bowl Shuffle and sang
them off-key between my conch chow-
der and fried mullet.
So, for the rest of the trip, I said I
was rrom rort Wayne, Ind., and was
spared any more Bearmania, or whatever
the national craze for the Bears is beins
called
This is an odd phenomenon. First it
was the Cubs who, until the tragedy in
Murphy Stadium, became America's
aarimgs. And now the Bears
sure, the Bears are a talented and
colorful team, and they'll win with ease
A
eyes show it
The Mae West Look An open
invitation to "come up and see me."
Please note: The "sometime" has been
omitted. Take advantage of this look
immediately. As the ads say, "The offer
may be withdrawn at anytime."
The Clint Eastwood Look
The male counterpart of the Mae West
Look. It essentially asks a person to
"make my day (or night)."
The Lustful Look Basically
the same as the Clint Eastwood Look,
but lacks the style. People with the
Lustful Look just have their tongues
sticking out, and they drool a lot.
The Shy Look This one is
always over books or a notebook and is
frequently overlooked. Too bad. A lot of
nice people have this look, but they are
aid to take risks. Maybe it will take
reffjrt f ? et t0 know the Person
behind this look.
The look that every student wants
shy or not is the Look of Wisdom.
But, as a graduate student, I can tell
you that this look doesn't exist. But,
have fun looking for it.
Rush is an undeclared UNL graduate
student.
next Sunday. You can bet the kid's
tuition on it. But there would have been
other fine and colorful teams that
didn't become national sensations.
I'm not sure why this happened. But
I have a theory.
The rest of the country pities us. We
have been without a championship for
so long that it seems untair. And
because Americans have a keen sense
of justice, except when they've done
something wrong themselves, they want
us to win so things will be set right.
Either that or a diet-weary nation
has turned its hungry eyes toward a
307-pound kid with a missing tooth.
Whatever the reason, it's bordering
on mass hysteria. Not only among fans,
but in the news business. I've never
heard sports broadcasters babble more
madly, or seen headlines shriek more
jubilantly.
It is, after all, only a game. There s
nothing more at stake than possession
of a gaudy trophy and the threat of a 20
percent increase in the suicide rate of
Chicago,
Out of curiosity, I looked up the
front page of an old Chicago Tribune
from the first Monday in December
1940
The headline across the front page
said there was a big shakeup in the
Italian air force.
The other top stories that morning
was a little box. about 3 inches wide
and 4 inches long, containing about 30
words.
it said that the day before, the tni
cago Bears had won the World Cham-
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