Readers discuss abortion, religion, Cameron
Letters
Cameron feeding or
misfortune, ignorance
Paul Cameron should move u
France. There, he and Jean-Marie
LcPen, the leader of an ullra-rightis
National Front who called the traged)
of the Holocaust “a detail in the his
lory of World War II” (Newsweek
Oct. 26), could plot together. These
new-Na/.i Fascists would see innoeem
victims of a modern-day Black Deal!
(AIDS victims) cut off from living £
civilized lifestyle by imprisoning
them (conveniently calling it “quar
antining”) in camps or tattooing them
for identification.
Paul Cameron feels there are twe
ways to do things: his way and the
wrong way. It is his kind who arc
detrimental to the free way of life thal
we, as Americans, are fortunate
enough to live in.
Cameron is feeding not only on the
misfortune of the victims but also on
society’s ignorance and paranoia
about the disease to further himself.
The only way to stop such an entity is
thal we as a society can’t let him get to
us. It’s like dogs: If they know you arc
afraid of them they use that fear. We
must slop feeding Cameron and his
inhuman cause.
To take Paul Cameron out of the
spotlight he has usurped, he must be
ignored. Without our negative public
ity (i.e. refusing to debate him pub
licly) he is nothing.
Liz Rogan
senior
history
Religious hypocrisy
shouldn't be tolerated
As Christians at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, we often have
been accused of trying to integrate
church with stale. When advocating
human decency and moral ity, we have
■ been charged with pushing our “out
of-date” values.
To our knowledge, however,
Christians are not alone. It appears
that Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and
I members of other traditional religions
are deemed “religious enough” to be
; exempt from university sponsorship.
Remember last year’s furor over
> Biblc-study table tents?
Where’s the furor, then, over Uni
versity Program Council’s highly
advertised and student-funded Earth
Religion class? Is it because the sep
aralionists are true hypocrites, or is it
just that they don’t want to fly in the
face of a popular new-age philoso
phy? Where arc the survey of Christi
anity, contexts of Judaism, and views
of Islam courses? We feel that this is
a double standard that should no
longer be tolerated by an “open
minded” student body. While we tra
ditionalists are berated for our views,
we are offended to see trendy ideolo
gies given free forums and student
funded ads in the Daily Nebraskan.
Robert Smits Thomas Hoffman
senior senior
math English
Reader says actions
have consequences
This letter is a response to Nan
ciana Hamilton’s letter (Daily Ne
braskan, Oct. 30).
James Sennett has made an asser
tion that unborn children have a right
to live, regardless of consequences.
Hamilton responds with typical pro
choice arguments: abstinence is not
practical, unwanted children arc ex
pensive and inconvenient, birth con
trol often fails, giving a child up for
adoptic.i is too painful, and pregnant
rape victims should not have to carry
their pregnancies to term. She con
cludes with a challenge to Sennett to
find a 100 percent effective form of
birth control before he condemns
women who opt for abortion.
My question is this: What is the
chief purpose of sex anyway? Is it not
to produce children and regenerate the
human race? The point is that sex has
a purpose and consequences. It is not
the responsibility of the defenders of
the unborn to come up with foolproof
birth control, but rather of those who
want sex without children.
Although the example of a preg
nant, 14-year-old victim of date rape
is a tragic one, I cannot help but feel
that a person (unborn child) has a right
to live regardless of who its father is.
The unborn child should not pay the
price for the actions of its lather; soci
ety has once again taken the easy way
out, using modern medical technol
ogy to kill the child rather than attack
ing the problem at its source: proper
execution of justice to prevent such
irresponsible behavior from occurring
in the lirst place. Further considera
tion of the rape problem in American
society is beyond the scope of this
letter.
All our actions have consequences,
and our culture persists in ignoring
these consequences. These complex
questions can only be resolved when
everyone is willing to assume respon
sibility for their own behavior.
Perry Sink
electrical engineering
Engineering surcharge
will set risky precedent
I am writing this letter in response
to the uproar that has been caused by
the announcement that the University
of Nebraska Board of Regents is con
sidering adding a 20 percent sur
charge to the tuition of all students in
the College of Engineering and Tech
nology. I feel that by itself, it is not a
major change, but this move sets a
precedent that in the long run will do
major damage to this university.
I was a student of a major univer
sity in the Southwest which had and
still has a very fine engineering col
lege. In 1985, this university tripled its
tuition across the board because of the
state’s losses in oil revenue. Because
of this, I was forced to return to my
home state of Nebraska. Of course, I
was disappointed, but I understood.
This university was spending its
money on a new engineering facility
(of which it has three, as well as new
facilities for business and agricul
ture), paying top prices for professors
who arc outstanding in their fields of
study, and leading the country in
money spent on research and develop
ment.
When I heard of this surcharge, I
began to look at it in the same light. I
saw this: professors whose salaries do
not even come close to the salaries of
their contemporaries (I should know,
my father is one); a college that
needed funds to bring it up to par with
similar colleges; and what stood out
the most, a $3.3 million student rec
reation center to be used mainlv by the
athletes of the university. Quite
frankly, it made me sick. In the dic
tionary, the word “university” means
“a place for educating persons in the
higher arts and sciences.”
The College of Engineering needs
$500,(XX) to keep its accreditation.
The Board of Regents and ultimately
the Nebraska Legislature feels that we
should spend S3.3 million on a new rec
center for a football team that has
consistently placed in the top 10 for
the past decade without one.
I hope that someday the NU Board
of Regents and theLegislaturc will sec «•
the folly of their ways and start invest
ing money in the education of the
young men and women of this great
state and not in the sports achieve
ments ol this so-called “university.”
Noel Salac
junior
engineering
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