Readers respond to vandalism, Shepherd, Presley
Letters
‘Shepherd against beef’
Scott Harrah’s sarcastic column
(Daily Nebraskan, Oct. 19) points to
the lack of knowledge of the real issue
concerning Cybill Shepherd and beef
promotion.
From the time Shepherd was given
$1 million to promote beef, she has
stuck her foot in her mouth numerous
times. Early last spring, her publicist
said Shepherd didn’t eat meat. That
tidbit appeared in Family Circle
magazine. She later said that she ate
meat once a week in another maga
zine.
Ranchers are being forced to pay
$1 a head check-off for beef promo
tion. This tax was unjustly placed on
the cattle producers, and I believe that
since we pay this tax we should at least
have our comments heard. Harrah’s
comment, “Red meat isn’t always the
most healthy thing to chow down on,”
rates right up there with having your
head stuck where the sun doesn’t
shine. Red meat is lean and nutritious,
and evidently Shepherd hasn’t done a
very good job of getting this point
across. Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?”
ad campaign d id more for beef promo
tion that Shepherd has done.
I don’t think ranchers are as upset
about Shepherd’s premarital trysts as
they arc about the fact that she is
working against the cattlemen who
are paying her.
The feck of values i n th is era are not
something that I or many people are
particularly proud of. The modem
world has many problems that are
attributed to this decline. Maybe if
you tried to be a rancher and raise a
family as I am doing, you would real
ize that a strong foundation of moral
teachings is what is going to make my
children feel self-worth and confi
dence in dealing with the “real world”
and surviving in it.
Linda Fritz
natural science
senior
rancher and mother of three children
Shame on Harr ah
In reference to Scott Harrah’s col
umn about Elvis (Daily Nebraskan,
Oct. 27), let me say that I am not now
and never have been a member of the
Elvis Presley Fan Club. But shame on
you, Harrah, for attacking someone
simply because he had the bad taste to
allow himself to “turn into a bloated .
.. whale.”
Does this mean I can never again
enjoy viewing “Citizen Kane” be
cause Orson Welles turned into a
gargantuan wine-pusher? Or that
reading Truman Capote will be a ter
rible experience for me because he
turned into a soft and pudgy little
queen? Or even worse (be still my
beating heart) that I can never listen to
Peter, Paul and Mary without revul
sion because Mary looks like she went
back to the all-you-can-eat buffet and
salad bar a few too many times?
OK, all right, I will never again
watch Elizabeth Taylor. But wait, yes
I can, because she obviously has the
moral superiority to overcome her
wicked eating ways, and now she is
acceptably thin and working for po
litically correct causes.
Oh, to be pompous and righteous
like Harrah. In answer to his deep and
meaningful questions about why Elvis
lost his voice and became constipated,
well, to paraphrase a currently popu
lar saying: It’s because stuff happens,
Harrah, stuff happens.
Ann Norton
senior
business
Vandalism act not issue
Has the University of Nebraska
Lincoln become fixated with the end
result, perhaps our entire society? The
recent act of vandalism by a NU foot
ball player has led me to conclude that
this theory may bold some merit.
I have no great misgivings about
the act itself; young and old alike ha ve
been known to participate in wanton
acts of vandalism. Who knows, per
haps where this young man hails from
this is an acceptable manner in which
to react to a situation. After all, every
thing is relative.
No, the problem I have with the
incident is that in the course of events,
apparently Neil Smith’s case was an
untruth. However, we must remember
the context that the events took place
in. The team was facing what was
being advertised as a “close” game
and a key player was facing an assured
suspension.
So it would appear that when faced
with this difficult choice, Smith chose
the course that would further the end
result, winning. Perhaps I have been
wrong in the impression that one of the
justifications for competition brings
to the participants. Well, if this argu
ment is still valid, then perhaps it’s
time we step back and take a look at
what we’re building.
Robert A. Monniere
freshman
law
Reader: Harrah hip
Scott Harrah is soooo hip. Isn’t it
nifty to make fun of dead musicians
and their unfortunate downfalls? I
found his column (Daily Nebraskan,
Oct. 27) distasteful, distorted and
unworthy of print. He calls his version
of the last years of Elvis Presley’s life
“the slanted, subjective truth.” The
truth is that Elvis didn’t lose his
“mellifluous voice” in his last years,
as videotaped performances can at
test. Polls from as late as six months
before his death showed that he was
still one of the top 10 entertainers in
the country. He needed no career
boost. References to his daughter,
Lisa Marie, were equally unfair.
Grow up, Harrah. The world
doesn ’t revolve around your “worldly
hip-synthesized-pop-eight-bucks-a
gaudy-shirt-name-dropping-I’ve
got-the-right-haircut” scene.
Elvis was a pioneer of rock ‘n’roll.
It’s true that drugs destroyed his life.
In the future, I hope that you leave
your personal views of people’s ap
pearances out of the DN. Remember,
beauty is in the eye of the beholder—
a fact that I’m sure life will cruelly
demonstrate to Harrah.
Emmett Robinson
junior
English
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