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Wednesday, February 25, 1987 Daily Nebraskan Page 5 KRNU creates music options for UN-L Union By Amy Edwards Staff Reporter Union Board officials met Monday with KRNU representatives to dis cuss complaints received about programming from various offices in the union. KRNU is currently the only pro gram source available in the union. The UNL College of Journalism, which directs KRNU, will be work ing with the Union Board to provide another music option. The Journal ism College will provide equipment to aid the development of another program source. Daryl Swanson, Union Board Director, said that KRNU has been "indiscriminately" piped into all areas of the union. Not all offices feel that KRNU offers appropriate programming for business offices, he said. Union Board member llollis Heim bouch, who attended the meeting with KRNU, said the radio station did not feel the adoption of another station's -music was a setback. "(KRNU) seemed very willing to work something out; they wanted to be there," said Heimbouch. Union Board also appointed four new members who were selected from 26 applicants. The new mem bers are: Brian Sognefest, a fresh man business major, Monica Hart, a freshman chemical engineering major; Patrick Wyatt, a sophomore marketing major; and Susan Potter, a sophomore engineering major. The appointments will not be approved until the ASUN meeting on Feb. 25. UNL plant team stays up late to memorize tlwse Latin names TEAM from Page 1 Stan Boltz, a senior agronomy major who placed ninth in the individual competition, said it bothers him that the university doesn't support academic teams. He has attended Abilene Chris tian University and Chadron State, both of which supported the academic teams. Boltz and fellow team members LaRene Mansfield, David Horak, Jim Pehrson, Mary Raymer and Michael Stec spent untold hours preparing for the meet and last semester's regional competition in North Platte. Since the first week of school last August, the team has taken timed plant-identification tests. The month before a meet, the team stays until 11:,')0 every night taking a 1 00 plant quiz to improve times and identification skills. Boltz sees his experience helping in his future as a range-management specialist. "If some cattle are found poisoned, most of the time it turns out to be some 'Platoon' misleads viewers in fog KRAUT from Page 4 It is not just "Platoon's" Charlie Sheen who, closed in by the jungle, is confused and disoriented in firefights with a shadowy North Vietnamese enemy. As Keegan points out, the average sold ier at Agincourt (1415) saw little more than the helmet and back of the neck of his fellow soldiers lined up in front of him before he was hacked to death. Wrote a young British officer at Water loo: "Harassed and fatigued after two days' previous marching, fighting and starving" one saw nothing "much beyond the range of what was likely to affect himself and the few soldiers imme diately about him." Even the victor in a glorious one-day "set piece" was wrapped in fog. Such is the infantryman's experience of combat, at Agincourt as in Vietnam. It is misleading to imagine that fog was peculiar to the Vietnam War. And it is wrong this is the other pseudo lesson drawn from "Platoon" to imagine that Vietnam was exclusively fog, that the confusion, the purposeless irrationality of strangers called upon to kill strangers is all there was to the Vietnam war. The obvious political message of "Platoon" is that the war was absurd. The message is all the more powerful because it is implicit. In "Platoon" hardly a political word, a political idea, is spoken. The war is portrayed as utterly apolitical. But any fighting devoid of politics i.e., of purpose makes for one thing only: absurdity. To present combat without context is a classic anti-war technique. "Pla toon's" contextlessness is broken only once and inadvertently: after the film ends. At the last of the credits, Oliver Stone thanks the government of the Philippines for letting him shoot the film there, finally, context. In those jungles today a guerrilla war of pre cisely the kind "Platoon" describes is being fought, no doubt in the same way. (New York Times, Feb. 17, front page: "Death in a Quiet Filipino Hamlet: 17 Civilians Caught in the Middle.") Is the Philippine civil war, where a real-life "Platoon" plays every day, pure madness and waste? You cannot possibly answer that question by fol lowing a Philippine army platoon around, though Stone would have us judge the Vietnam War in precisely that way. You need context. You need politics. You have to ask what the Aquino government now waging the war against communist guerrillas intends. And what does the New People's Army intend? What are the purposes of this fight and are they worth the human cost? Viet nam had its context too, most of it, alas, visible only postfacto and none of it visible in "Platoon": boat people by the tens of thousands, Khmer Rouge victims by the millions. A filmmaker is not obliged to give context. It is perfectly legitimate to choose a narrow focus. But he should not then pretend to a cosmic message, such as the narrator's conclusion that in Vietnam the enemy was us. War is hell and "Platoon" does hell well. That is a considerable achieve ment. What "Platoon" does not do, despite its pretensions, is tell us any thing more than that. 1987, Washington Post Writers Group Krauthammer is a senior editor for the New Republic. Letter Vard Johnson doesn't deserve the Huskers I find it extremely ironic, almost hypocritical, that Sen. Vard Johnson of Omaha is so opposed to the UNL recreation center. In purely finan cial terms I wonder if he has any idea how much revenue pours into this state from the Nebraska Corn huskers. And although I agree with him that football is just a game and a billion people in China have never heard of Turner Gill, it is the single rallying point that a million people in Nebraska escape from the day-today grind of jobs and budget cuts. . He may not be one of us on those Saturday spectacles, but there is no place like Nebraska seeing Tom Osborne showcase the finest col lege football program in the country. Furthermore, some 28,000 stu dents, faculty and staff are in des perate need of a quality recrea tional facility that can do nothing but enhance the stature and morale of the battered university commun ity. I don't see how we could stag nate any further if we pass up the opportunity to build a facility that everyone could use. And finally, Sen. Johnson, I pity the day we "welcome" you to Lin coln on a December afternoon and the football team is forced outdoors on a bone-chilling day; jamming fin gers on ice balls, pulling hamstrings on a frozen field and losing the national-championship game in warm Miami. Rod Morrison UNL graduate finance Tho Faoteot 1009S IBM Compatible Compitero AT The Jjouoot. Prices ia Toun 4. 5 1 E o inai CEL FCET 8599.00 nrfr OVER 0 FE FF.GGRAMS Week! ; 1 yi ;i Final wee Money Back J .Guarantee V1 Yea V ,? k! EUCEL FCilT 1399.00 6-iCX RAM 1 DRIVE SONOGRAPHICS AlIEER MONITOR OVER 50 FREE PROGRAMS Si CD r rf o o 3 c 13" AMNIVFRSARY SALE THRU rtBKUAKY UP TO 40 SAVINGS ON SOFTWARE, HARDWARE ri " L ' ........ -w-.n n- v-r i f v. !" rrn -so professional Computers 483-4955 Service 43th & Hwy. 2 tr-n Sutter Flace Mali bLSJ E ) kind of plant. So it helps to be able to identify the plant on site rather than sending it away to be tested. So it app lies pretty good, unless you plan on being a janitor," he said. Miller to leave after 1 5 years at Nebraska MILLER from Page 1 "I have enjoyed working with Jack because he has given his employees a lot of responsibility and freedom to do their jobs. He has the attitude that nothing is impossible. He has great ideas, vision, and enthusiasm for a lot of projects, and we w ill miss him very much." A native of Manhattan, Kan., Miller is married to the former Sharon Stock, who has bachelor's and master's degrees from UNL. Editor Managing Editor Assoc. News Editors Editorial Page Editor Wire Editor Copy Desk Chief Sports Editor Arts & Entertain ment Editor Ptioto Chief Night News Editors Night News Assistant Art Director Diversions Editor Jeff Korbslik 472-1766 Gene Gentrup Tammy Kaup Linda Hartmann Lise Olsen James Rogers Jeanne Bourne Joan Rezac . . 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