Wednesday, March 18, 1987
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Daily Nebraskan
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JrlTKorltelik, Editor, 472-1766
James Rogers, Editorial luje Editor
Use Olsen, Associate Neirs Editor
Mike Ueilley, S'iiht News Editor
Joan Kezae, Co I)esk Chief
D.iily i
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ports toettiing
Last week the Lincoln Jour
nal published a small arti
cle buried in legislat ive news
on an inside page about a bill to
allow betting on sporting events.
The bill was moved to the full
Legislat ure by the General Affairs
Committee on a 7-1 vote.
LB757, sponsored by Sen. Krnie
Chambers of Omaha, would legal
ize bet s placed with bookmakers
who are licensed by the state.
Oh my! No more sneaking
around dark alleys to place bets
on football, basketball, boxing
and whatever. That's only if the
legislat ue passes the bill into
Letters
NUdeal endorses Ardis for run-off
I'm writing lliis letter to thank eve
ryone who supported N I Ideal candi
dates on March 1 1 and to congratulate
the winners. Hut when it became
apparent that Michelle Ardis (AIM)
and .Joint Bergnieyer (Unite) were
locked in a run-off election, Nl'deal
parly members wanted to throw our
support behind one of the remaining
candidates.
It was important to us that. ASl'N's
next second vice president be able to
present himselfherself in a profes
sional manner and that heshe have
move than just a superficial under
standing o' important issues. Other
Condoms are only
It would seem to me that condom
advertising is to AIDS as a germ
infected bandage is to a bone-deep lac
eration. As with so many of our socie
ty's problems, media, politicans and
special-interest groups (such as con
dom manufacturers and Planned Par
enthood) seek a cure or a concealment
to mere symptoms. These treatments
usually worsen the condition. The ail
ment under consideration is much
deeper and considerably more serious
than teen pregnancies, venereal dis
ease and AIDS.
Nature's law s react to our act ions. If,
for example, we insist on cutting down
all of our trees, the patterns of wildlife
will be adversely changed. Polluting
the water sources of the world will
imbalance the ecology, to our long
term detriment. By the same token,
nature teaches us that sex is not a
recreational activity as the "sex libera
tor" of the '(ids would have us believe.
Sex represents a wonderful, life-long,
bonding commitment between a hus
band and his wife.
Nature has reacted to our irrespon
sible behavior and the only cure, diffi
cult as it may seem, is to stop and
reverse the behavorial patterns. Oth
erwise we shall have to accept the con
Red buttons show
"Save Our College,
ing!"
. Support Nurs-
Have you noticed the red buttons on
the backpacks and coats of concerned
students? I have because I have one.
I'm concerned. The new motto of our
university is "The University oNebraska
. . . Working for Nebraska." This is a
fallacy! Budget-cutting time is here
and NU President Ronald Roskens and
the Board of Regents have out their
axes. They want to cut nursing! They
want to deprive more than 175 students
from an education in nursing. Where is
the logic?
Do they not realize that our state
now faces a nursing shortage? We need
to educate more young men and women
to become nurses at a state-supported
legislation. And though it may
seem like a farfetched idea, it
isn't a bad one.
Anyone familiar with betting
through a bookmaker knows its
common practice anymore. It
really is. Look at the UNL cam
pus. Legalizing bookmaking would
ease t he enforcing of an already
impossible task, and give the
state a chance to set its own
rules.
The state already allows horse
racing and bingo. Let's add bet
ting on sporting events to the
list.
qualities important to our decision
were the ability to bring unique pers
pectives into student government and
the desire to implement key planks of
N Meal's platform into his her agenda.
(Specifically the job and scholarship
matching services).
After much discussion, NUdeal party
members chose to endorse Michelle
Ardis (AIM) for ASl'N second vice pres
ident, Nl'deal urges everyone who voted
for us to vote for her and encourages
everyone else to support her also.
Richard Burke
presidential candidate
NUdeal
'plugging the leak'
sequences of our misbehavior, as is the
case with many today. Sex education in
high school has not helped. In fact,
ev idence and common sense tells a dif
ferent story. Responsible sex is present
under one and only one condition: mar
riage. It is time the entertainment
industry accepts a major portion of the
blame and reverses its portrayal of
"cheap sex" of the last two decades.
There is no such thing as cheap or
harmless sex outside the permanent
bond of marriage. AIDS is one evidence
of that.
It may by possible to "plug this or
that." but the dam is breaking up; the
foundations of moral behavior are
crumbling. While I do not advocate
federal statutes that specify what peo
ple may or may not do with their own
lives, neither should the government
be responsible to repair what the pub
lic has chosen to break repeatedly,
namely the laws of nature and common
sense. If any public money is to be
spent on these problems, it should be
for the dissemination of information
concerning the preventive life style,
monogamy.
Victor Issa
graduate student
art
support for nursing
university. If we want nurses to stay in
our state, we need to educate them in
our state. It is unfair to say that nursing
students attending UNL can transfer to
UNMC because these two fine institu
tions are not the same and for many of
the students this is not an option.
I urge each and everyone of you to
wake up to this madness. What would
happen if some day you had a heart
attack and there was no nurse around
to help? The time is now to act! Contact
your regents. Let them know that you
want to live; let them know you want
nursing here on this campus. I hope
tomorrow the red buttons will be every
where. Jill Durbin
teachers college
sophomore
fff-tlfre-wsil! eommeintairy
Sennett 's game of life pits racquetballers against handballers
Well, I've decided that I am just a
racquetball kind of guy in a
handball world. I play racquet
ball three times a week at Schulte
Field House, and I have been quite
amused to observe the marked differ
ence between those who ascend the
steps with racquet in hand and those
who come armed only with a pair of
thick gloves. Allow me to elucidate.
First, you have to understand that
racquetballers are definitely second
class citizens. The handballer is quick
to inform you (and probably rightly so)
that such reckless wallbanging is the
most proletarian of exercises. There is
comparatively little skill involved, and
the grunting, slipping and yelling
accompanying good and bad shot alike
cannot help but reflect on the level of
culture aspired to by the participant.
Besides, any sport that you can be play
ing within fifteen minutes can't really
be worth the trouble.
Handball, on the other hand, is pure
finesse. Here is no hint of Neanderthal
behavior. Here is the grace and tech
nique of which human competition
should be composed. Behold the sheer
beauty of the athlete, which has for
millenia taken its proper superior place,
outshining the barbaric displays of the
gladiator.
And such a contrast is borne out by
the evidence. The presence or absence
of nylon webbing is not the only distin
guishing mark. Wallbangers dress in
whatever they can find faded green
football jerseys and gym shorts (with
the elastic worn out) that are washed
twice a semester whether they need it
or not, two pairs of holier-than-thou
sweat socks and court shoes that have
seen better courts. Handball enthusi
asts all dress alike. They have coordi
nated gray T-shirts and shorts, wear a
new pair of socks every day, and don
the Nikes and Reeboks that racquet
ballers only dream about.
Paradox has hardliners favoring,
moderates opposing missiie treaty
Strange bedfellows. It is not often
that you will see the Reagan
administration and the Soviet
government on the same side of a
nuclear debate. It's even rarer to see
them arrayed together against a repre
sentative (albeit speaking for himself)
of the quintessentially moderate Coun
cil on Foreign Relations, home of what
used to be called the Eastern Establish
ment. But there they were on "Night
line" last week. In this corner, a tag
team: the director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency (Ken
neth Adelman) and the first secretary of
the Soviet Embassy in Washington
(Vitaly Churkin). And in the other
corner, William Hyland, former Kis
Racquetball people are all too short
or too tall, too old or too young, too thin
or too fat. Handball people are all 6-1
and weigh 195 pounds, not an ounce of
which is flab. The former sweat like
pigs the minute the ball comes off the
front wall. The latter wouldn't work up
a bead of perspiration if they entered
the ironman competitions.
Peek through the viewing window at
any racquetball game, and you will see
jiggling bodies bouncing off walls and
tearing front and back with mindless
abandon. You will hear screams and
swearings, anguished cries and joyous
shrieks. Observe a handball match and
you see four stately people standing in
James
Sennett
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a row, calmly staring at the wall and
occasionally bending ever so slightly
to return the sphere to its appointed
destination. Yet they must really be
exercising, because they are all in such
great shape.
There really is a point to all this
meandering. All my life I have found
myself on the racquetball side of the
Great Human Divide. I wear sweats and
tennies, and the world shows up in
three-piece suits. I'd just as soon eat
fried chicken as broiled lobster, and
football tickets mean more to me than
anything happening down at Westbrook
and Kimball.
Don't get me wrong. My radio stays
on KUCV, and I'm planning to take a
classical Greek reading course this
fall. But no matter how hard I try, 1
keep coming out smelling like chopped
liver. I have resigned myself to the rac-
singer aide and editor of Foreign Affairs,
the Council's magazine.
The issue was Euromissiles. Last
week Gorbachev offered Reagan what
Krauthamiii
was originally a U.S. proposal: the "zero
option," under which the Soviet Union
and the United States withdrew all
their intermediate-range nuclear forces
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quetballer appearance and hope that
many will take an opportunity t o look
beyond the coffee-stained tie to the
gold-plated heart. I will probably always
be a registered Democrat who shops at
K-Mart and lives from paycheck to pay
check. I occasionally take a glimpse at
the finer things, but my TV is on I 'US
more than PBS, and I'm not parlicu
larly ashamed of it.
There are, in fact, advantages to ihc
less-cultured life. It is less expensive,
and the Jones's aren't particularly hard
to keep up with. You can do it wit h one
car, one television and no property tax.
You learn 10 creative things to do with
hamburger, find out that parks are
loads of fun and learn to build signili
cant human relationships without the
latest insider info on parenting, friend
ing or significant-othering.
But perhaps the greatest advantage
is that the culture is still available to
you, but you have the right to be selec
tive and discriminating. If you think
the latest avant-garde craze is last
week's garbage, or that New Age music
is more boring than water polo, you can
say so without fear of ruining a reputa
tion you don't have anyway. On the
other hand, if the Brandenburg Concer
tos or find wines are your thing, you are
free to hobnob with the best of them
only remember to begin with the out
side fork and work your way in.
So, boors of the world unite. It's OK
to play racquetball. It's OK to prefer
cotton demin to Italian weave. And it's
OK to stay that way. If you never own a
house, never join a country club, never
drive a Mercedes, it says no more about
you than you want it to say. Of course, I
think I have to draw the line at the
Beastie Boys. . . ,
- Kennett is a graduate student in philo
sophy and campus minister with College
Career Christian Fellowship, and car
ries his lunch to work every day in a
brown bag with a drawstring.
(INF) from Europe. They take out their
SS-20s. We take out our Pershing 2 and
cruise missiles.
Gorbachev's announcement was dra
matic because he had been holding an
INF agreement hostage to some Reagan
concession on strategic defense (SDI
or "Star Wars"). Reagan refused. Last
week, Gorbachev announced that he
was "delinking" the two issues. You,
proposed the zero option, said Gor
bachev. We accept. Will you take yes for
an answer?
The Western reaction is a fascinating
study in the nuclear politics. Officially,
Western Europe governments have wel-
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