Wednesday, March 4, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Letters
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Blacks feel they're pushed out of UNL community by blind whites
After reading about "Is the Dream
Over" in Newsweek on Campus, the
article prompted me to write. To think
of or read about racism makes my eyes
fill with tears. That word is so hateful.
To even think that people could have
such a negative and hateful attitude
toward another group only poses me to
think that this group feels threatened.
The acts that occur across campuses
toward black students are uncalled for.
We are being stopped from achieving
successfully in this society. It is as if
some people feel that we are invading
the territory that was left only to them.
It makes no sense to me to have to read
Headlines tell plight
Headlines Then, Now and Future:
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Roskens Offers Up Nursing Division
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
Physician-Dominated UNMC commit
tee Offers Up Nursing Division
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
Nebraskans Seek Wellness
Andrews Eyes Nursing Budget
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
Nebraskans Seek Wellness
Farm Families in Distress
Orr Offers Up Nursing Division
No Cuomo
;ood news
for right
RUSHER from Page 4
It is of course possible that this is
just a strategic maneuver, like Nelson
Rockefeller's "withdrawals" from the
candidacy for his party's presidential
nomination in 1960 and 1908 to be
followed, after the last primaries, by an
official "re-entry" into the race. This
was necessary in Rockefeller's case
because he knew he would take a
terrible drubbing in the primaries, and
was thus forced to count on such
support as he could cadge or buy in the
non-primary states. But primaries have
become well-nigh universal in the en
suing 20 years, so that option isn't open
to Cuomo even if he were as rich as
Rockefeller. Besides, candidates who
have risked their necks in the primaries
aren't likely to stand aside for the
"drafting" of somebody who didn't.
At the same time, we can dismiss the
various formal excuses Cuomo offered
for his decision. Devotion to his duties
as governor a consideration is
hardly the explanation. (If it were,
then why all these months of assess
ment and indecision?) And a touching
concern for his family is scarcely more
persuasive. By the time a man becomes
governor, he has already subjected his
family to most of whatever disadvan
tages public life entails, and he may
even have persuaded himself that he is
doing his relatives a favor.
This forces us to conclude that
Cuomo, after a hard-eyed analysis of
the probabilities, simply decided that
he couldn't win the nomination. And
(although he would be understandably
reluctant to admit such a thing) he is
probably right. Cuomo is an intelligent
and ambitious man, and a tenacious
fighter. In another era, when wides
pread economic harship had laid the
groundwork for a resurgent liberalism
and the politics of envy, he would be a
formidable contender for the presid
ency. But he has apparently concluded
that in 1988 the Democratic party will
not look in that direction for its
standard-bearer.
For conservatives, that is good news.
It would have been fun to take on Mario
Cuomo and beat him. But it is even
more gratifying to know that not even
he thinks hot-eyed liberalism is the
winning strategy in 1988.
1987, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN
Rusher is the publisherforthe National
Review.
about and see abuse put on my people
by blind whites in this society. What
gives them the right? To my knowledge,
we are all equal and by no means is one
race better than another.
Another issue to note is that Afro
Americans do not separate themselves
intentionally. Many times we have no
choice because of the treatment we
receive from whites and, most will
agree, people tend to associate with
close friends who happen to be the
same race. We pursue separate social
lives because universities such as UNL
are not sensitive enough to provide
universitywide programs that cater to ,
of Nebraskans when
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
Nebraskans Seek Wellness
Farm Families in Distress
Number of Chronically III Elderly Climbs
Regents Eye Nursing Budget
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
Nebraskans Seek Wellness
Farm Families in Distress
Number of Chronically 111 Elderly Climbs
Patients Leaving Hospitals Sicker and
Quicker
Appropriations Committee Offers Up
Nursing Programs in Omaha-Lincoln-Scottsbluff
and Kearney
400 Nursing Positions Unfilled
Number of RN Grads in State Down by
Half
our interests.
A message to my black brothers and
sisters, particularly the male athletes:
We need to wake up and become aware
of the unfairness that blacks exper
ience on this campus and campuses
around the country. It is our responsi
bility to get to know one another and
begin to respect each other. We need to
learn how to handle racial problems in
an effective manner to diminish this
growing problem that affects us all.
Tonya Horn
junior
home economics
Afrikan People's Union, president
400 nurses needed
Nebraskans Seek Wellness
Farm Families in Distress
Number of Chronically 111 Elderly Climbs
Patients Leaving Hospitals Sicker and
Quicker
We Face the Plague
Legislature Cuts Nursing
Roskens, UNMC Physicians, Andrews,
Orr, eight Regents, nine Appropri
ations Committee Members, 49
Legislators
Bathe AIDS Victims
Start I.V.'s
Teach Breastfeeding
Make Home Visits
Identify Nits
Consel the Distraught
Carry Bedpans
and Promote the General Welfare.
Carol McShane
Creighton graduate student
former UNMC nursing instructor
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