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r.V' v. -.iff" - 'V; . Paijy Nebraskif) ' " V 0pIjniioinL Letters Brief letters are preferred, and longer letters may be edited. Writer's address and phone number are needed for verification. Issue is bad recreation facilities, not clean lockerroom The recent letters on the cleanliness of the UNL Coliseum deal with a minor issue on campus. The real problem is the lack of sufficient recreation facili ties. Last Saturday I went to the Coliseum to play basketball. I was turned away because the Girl Scouts had it reserved. Why do Girl Scouts come before univer sity students? Then I considered going to the Men's Physical Education Building, but I remembered the rank smell of sweat ing bodies and the lack of ventilation. So I decided to get my exercise swimming. I went to the pool at the Coliseum only to find out that it is open only three hours a day, five days a week, not on weekends. Frustrated, I proceeded to the mush room gardens' indoor running track. There's nothing like a breath of stale air in an inadequately small running track which is full of puddles because water continually falls from the ceiling. It is obvious that UNL needs to improve its ailing recreational facili ties. Not only are the hours of availabil ity too few, but the space is inadequate and frequently rented out. Dave Poage senior biology o. 10 ediKoiroa ked research McMahon's silly headbands, habits don't threaten American values ROYKO from Page 4 I suppose it's possible Theismann is right. Maybe McMahon will set children down the path to wicked ness, sin and wearing silly head bands. In one of his more frivolous moments, McMahon dropped his trousers during practice in New Orleans and mooned a passing air plane. So, if air travelers begin reporting that they are looking down and see ing thousands of adolescent rumps shining up at them, we'll know that McMahon has made an impact on the youth of America. I think it's too early to tell. As of this week, there hasn't been one report of mooning made to the FAA. However, I've thought about what Theismann said, and whether I'd want my kids to be like McMahon. After careful consideration, I don't think I'd mind too much. I estimate that with his salary, commercial endorsements, speeches and all the rest, McMahon is going to make several million dollars before he turns 30. Well, if my kids did that, I would sit down with them and have a heart-to-heart talk about how fami lies should stick together espe cially fathers and sons. Then I'd drop my resignation on the editor's desk and happily spend the rest of my years as a beer-drinking burden to them. McMahon showed admirable res traint in barely acknowledging Theismann's criticism. If he had been in a nastier mood, he might have raised some ques tions about Theismann's qualities as a role model to youth. For example, McMahon, despite his habit of putting tobacco under his lower lip, is still happily married to his wife and is said to be a doting father. In contrast, Theismann recently bid farewell to his loyal wife of 15 years, and took up with a curvaceous TV actress. Don't misunderstand. I am not making any moral judgments about Theismann. Men, even those who play professional football, can be weak creatures. And a good-looking babe is a good-looking babe. But his wife, who said she learned she was being dumped only when her accountant mentioned it to her, made a few moral judgments of her own. In a magazine article, she wrote: "Success ruined our marriage. Or perhaps Joe's inability to handle success. He lost his values." Also: "Our marriage went up and down with his career We shared the downside more than the suc cess." And: "I know what I want . . . someone who loves me as much as they love themselves." So, I think that if I were going to preach to my sons about role mod els, 1 might say something like: "Lads, if you want to wear silly headbands, that's OK with me. If you want to chew tobacco, I won't complain. And if you want to moon an airplane, I can live with that, too. "But after you've been married to a woman for 15 years, and you're in the bucks and a famous star, don't walk out on her and the kids for some cute trick in the movies." And one final thought that Theis mann might consider: Yes, if it weren't for football, McMahon might be "some yo-yo out there drinking beer." But if it weren't for football, Theismann might be some yo-yo out there romancing a truck-stop wai tress named Pearl. If Pearl would have him. 1986 By The Chicago Tribune Distributed By Tribune Media Services, Inc. Royko is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune. The editorial titled "Budget-cutting, Ideas lack student input," (Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 10), was full of fallacy and skepticism. I, too, am a student at UNL and my attitude per taining to the Academic Planning Com mission and their recommendation to Chancellor Martin Massengale to form an ad-hoc committee is different than "Now it is too little, too late." The basis of reporting an editorial or a front page story requires research. Guest opinion I am a student representative on UNL's Academic Planning Commission and not once was I contacted by the DN editorial board about budget reduc tions, the ad-hoc committee or the voice of the students on APC. The mission of the Academic Plan ning Commission is to deal with mat ters pertaining to the academic arena. Three specific areas were proposed by the vice chancellors for program elimi nation andor reorganization. They are Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Business Affairs. It was the consensus of the Aca demic Planning Commission at our meeting two weeks ago that an ad-hoc committee be formed to investigate the budget reduction proposals from the entire spectrum. This committee was to be composed of representatives from student affairs, representatives from business affairs and four members of the student body, two graduate and two undergraduate, to be appointed by the ASUN president. To further gain stu dent voice and student concerns, the Academic Planning Commission is offering ASUN senators and the ASUN Academic Planning Committee the opportunity to meet with commission members and the ad-hoc committee recommendations pertaining to the interests of their constituents, the stu dent body. Each UNL student was to be made aware of this format and the budget proposal in the DN. This did not happen. The Daily Nebraskan failed to print all the information it received from University Information. Seventeen re duction proposals affecting the stu dent body were left out of the DN arti cle. One such area was a $75,000 reduction in Student Affairs. Eric Lane Academic Planning Commission junior advertisingEnglish Editor's note: Because of a lack of editorial space, the DN was unable to print the entire list of budget cuts Monday. The re maining cuts were included in Tuesday's DN. Letter Policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publica tion on the basis of clarity, originality, timeliness and space available. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit all material submitted. Readers also are welcome to submit material as guest opinions. Whether material should run as a letter or guest opinion, or not run, is left to the edi tor's discretion. Letters and guest opinions sent to the newspaper become property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned. 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