Tuesday, February 4, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Opinion!
Letters
Locker room 'intolerable'
The Coliseum women's locker room
Is a disaster area.
Everywhere you look, paint is peeling
off the walls and ceiling into chipped
pieces and landing everywhere. The
windows are cracked and ready to
shatter. Every time I take a shower, I
wonder if a little paint chip is going to
land in my eye.
UNL should spend a few bucks to
remedy this intolerable situation. I
don't understand why NU is going to
spend millions on the Lied Center for
Performing Arts, yet cannot spare a few
pennies to clean up the Coliseum
locker room. Many students and faculty
use the Coliseum.
I'm no sports fanatic. I'm just in
terested in having a healthy body as
well as a healthy mind.
The university needs to serve our
needs. In the future, more students will
be using the locker rooms than the
Lied Center. I want UNL to prove to me
that it values the needs of ordinary
people who like to exercise as much as
it values the physical needs of its
competitive athletes. I would like to
see a Bob Devaney Sports Center, but
on a smaller scale, for intramural
sports and exercise.
You can bet that such a building
would attract more students to UNL
than a Lied Center!
Dana Hirschbach
senior
EnglishSpanish major
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Carefaking conflicts common to parent
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Infancy is the time of overwhelm
ing need and helplessness. But if
new parents are segregated from
the rest of us, then employers may
go on dealing with caretaking as an
extraordinary "problem" in the life
of an otherwise "normal" worker.
They may go on thinking of most
workers as carefree. And it just isn't
so.
My lunchmates with their wistful
musing about belated maternity
leave give testimony to that. Moth
ers and fathers alike can list their
longings for an extra piece of time
to spend on their children whether
those children are 15 days or 15
years old.
So can adults involved in caring
for their own mothers and fathers.
At the Travelers Corporation in Hart
ford, one-quarter of their workers
spend an average of 10.2 hours a
week caring for elderly relatives.
Caretaking is not an exception, not
a temporary blip. As long as birth
and death and illness are part of
life, it is a norm.
In fairness, many of the plans and
programs and studies of family pol
icy go beyond the most intense
focus on infant-care leave. Pat
Schroeder's bill in Congress would
extend parental leave to include
those who must take care of a
seriously ill child. The high-powered
Family Policy Panel with its mix of
academics, business leaders and
planners called this month for part
time work and flexible hours as well
as parental leave. But there is a risk
that we will deal with the conflicts
between work and family in seg
ments rather than a whole, a whole
life.
At the moment only 40 percent of
the working mothers in this country
get even six weeks of post-partum
leave with any income or job gua
rantee. Still fewer parents have the
option to take a longer unpaid leave
and return to their jobs.
Do the parents of newborns come
first in terms of public policy? Abso
lutely. But I must pass on the mes
sage from my lunch companions.
Maternity leave, like infancy itself,
is just the beginning.
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CompanyWashington Post Writers
Group.
Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
columnist for the Boston Globe.
Ignorance abounds whenever anyone
talks about the Lied Center for Per
forming Arts.
If NU spent $25 million on a new
recreational building, Gary Longsine
(who helped plan a recent protest
against the Li ed Center) and other mis
informed people would not be in such
an uproar. Nebraska taxpayers and pri
vate citizens are building something
that will be an incredible benefit to
UNL and the entire state.
I have heard many arguments from
students about the Lied Center.
I have read almost everything about
the Lied Center since the money was
donated in the spring of 1984. People
often fail to understand the ramifica
tions that projects like the Lied Center
will have on the students and Lincoln.
Guest Opinion
According to Sheila Griffin, coordi
nator for the Lied fund-raising cam
paign, the Lied trust specified that the
money be used for a bricks and mortar
project. So a university committee
decided that the money was most
needed in three areas: a new museum,
a new administration building or a per
forming arts center a need that has
been lacking since Chancellor Burnett
wrote about it in 1933. The performing
arts center was identified as the most
important.
The Lied Center will increase public
support for UNL. People will come to
Lincoln for a concert or a play and will
become more familiar with Lincoln.
This will spark interest in UNL and
foster tourism just like Big Red
football. People from western Nebraska
and Omaha drive to see events. Think
of how many of them drive to the state
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fair. Let's not stereotype all Nebras
kans as farmers too dull to care about
art or dance. I know several people
statewide who care about the arts. And
yes, Omahans will come to Lincoln just
like Lincolnites go to Omaha for events
at the Orpheum or the Civic Auditorium.
Talented faculty and business peo
ple will be attracted to Lincoln and will
be more likely to settle here if the arts
are prominent. Many professors indi
cate that this is important in their
decision to stay or come to Lincoln.
Students will be able to use the Lied
Center. Griffin said that before any
building is built at UNL, there must be
a specific "program statement" writ
ten that says exactly what the building
is going to be used for. Students are top
priority.
Why build Lied when Sheldon's hours
are cut and the exhibits in Morrill Hall
are decaying? Budget cuts are tempor
ary and usually are made in areas that
will cause public outcry. In Omaha a
few years ago, there was a lid bill on the
Omaha Public Schools. Things were
cut that would make parents scream
junior high sports and the driver
education program. Yes, UNL is having
financial problems right now but if we
wait to build the Lied Center the
money will not be available in five or 10
years.
Griffin also told me the UNL Physi
cal Plant did a detailed study of how
much the Lied was going to cost to
operate. The $5 million endowment for
maintenance will cover that.
People need to look around and be
more open-minded about the far-reaching
effects of the Lied Center.
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