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Supplement to the Daily Nebraskan
Shopping Around?
If you're looking for something educational to
decorative, you'll find it at
the Morrill Hall Museum
Shop. Choose from books,
toys, stuffed animals
and more. For fascin
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the Museum Shop.
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Sunday l:30-5pm 14 & U Streets
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By Geoff Goodwin
Night News Editor
Christmas time and the living
is easy. And it's time to buy pres
ents again for our friends and
loved ones. But if you're like
most college students, like most
people in fact, expenses are a
problem. Therefore, we offer you
this helpful guide to buying
presents for those on a budget.
First of all, if you're on a
budget, Lazer Tagg is out. It
would be great but hey, the thing
costs about $50. Too much. It'll
come down. VCKs did.
One thing a lot of people
forget at Christmas are gift cer
tificates. Any number of busi
nesses and establishments sell
them. Some people think it's
chintzy to give gift certificates
for Christmas, but I disagree.
They provide basic human needs.
You get for give) a Valentino's
mJ gift certificate. Everybody has to
eat. It's the gift for someone who
f has everything. (Everything that
4 is, but a food processing plant.)
You can actually make an
evening of gift certificates. Dinner
at Valentino's or Tico's or McDo
nald's or Red Lobster you get
the idea, there's lots of these
places. Then go to a movie on a
gift certificate. They only prob
lem is that after-movie drink.
Why doesn't O'Rourke's have gift
certificates?
Well, they might not have gift
certificates by they do have T-
shirts, mighty smart T-shirts, at
that. And so does the Zoo Bar,
right across the street. And for
Mom and Dad, Nebraska sweat
shirts might be just the trick,
thus allowing them to see where
all that money for tuition is
going. T-shirts go for about nine
or ten dollars, while sweatshirts
are about $15 to $20. but, what
the heck, it's for Mom and Dad.
Bears are in this year for
Christmas. Fat bears, skinny
bears, bears who climb on rocks,
even bears with chickenpox.
The important thing to re
member when you're out there
fighting the crowds is to be
inventive. Don't buy something
just because it's on sale. Of course,
don't refuse to buy something
because it's on sale, either. The
Christmas sword cuts both way.
And finally, a few hints for
beating the crowds at Christmas.
Don't wait until Christmas Eve to
do all your shopping. You're
cutting your own throat if you do.
Also, try to shop at unusual
hours, like 3 a.m. You'd be sur
prised the nice things you can
pick up at 7-11. Big Gulps do
make nice Christmas presents.
But the most important thing to
remember is the spirit of Christ
mas. Sure, there's too much
commercialism out it s still a
magic time of the year.
Be of good cheer and to all a
good night.
Tradition brings community together
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MINDEN from Page 4
Roman soldiers. But
most of the' cast and pre-recorded sound
track remain the same from year to
year. The year I played a heavenly host,
we had a cake to honor a man who had
played oneof the wise men for nearly
the entire 40 years of the pageant's
history. That's a solid, if trivial, track
record no Broadway actor can boast of.
Old-time cast members chuckled at
us students that night. We had stage
fright and the shivers. As angels, we
had to lay on top of the built-up sets
throughout the show until our time
came to stand and mouth the words of
"Joy to the World." I was one of the
multitude. I think there were five of us.
The rest of the cast members, people
such as my typing teacher, the phar
macist, local hairdresser and my
dentist just showed up the night of the
production, donned their appropriate
costumes and played their familiar
parts without practice. For that night
each year, they call each other by their
stage names and smile over memories
of "that year when only a handful of
people braved the cold to watch."
Every year busloads of out-of-towners
pull in. Once a national television net
work shot some tape for a Christmas
special, causing an extra stir of excit
ment, among the hundreds of viewers
standing in the icy streets. After the
first lighting of the courthouse signals
the end of the pageant, people "ooh"
and "aah" and then scatter to their
warm cars or nearby church basements
for cocoa and cookies.
Mindenites take pride in their
Christmas spirit.
During the energy crisis of the 1970s,
many residents stopped putting the
customary decorations on their houses.
Letters to the editor of the Minden
Courier were especially vehement those
years. What would outsiders think of a
Christmas city where people don't even
string lights on their front porches?
Trivial? Maybe. Old Fashioned? Yes.
But guess that's the beauty of it. I've
played bigger parts than that nameless
angel. And you won't often hear me
expounding the virtues of a town where
my every move was the topic of beaty
shop' conversation the next day. But
there's something settling about spot
ting those courthouse lights miles away
as I turn off 1-80 to go home for the
holiday.
As the Christmas city, Minden is a
quaint novelty to some and a backward
settlement of "hicks" to others, to me
it's a needed constant and a good place
to call home.
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477-6037
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