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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
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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.
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