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Editorial Nebraskan University of Nebraska-Uncoln T*-"" ------*- , ,,, .... Mike Reilley, Editor, 472-1766 Diana Johnson, Editorial Page Editor Jen Deselms, Managing Editor Curt Wagner, Associate News Editor Chris Anderson, Associate News Editor Joan Rezac, Copy Desk Chief Joel Carlson, Columnist ..... ... I,..,,,...^ V.,11.1 1.1,.. Cake to eat, too? UNL’s immediate needs finally weighed A bitter taste may be in Gov.KayOrr’s mouth after losing battle with the Nebraska Legislature in her annual budget quest, but for higher-level education the taste is sweeter. The needs of the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln definitely were considered dur ing this legislative session. But the taste was sweetened Saturday when Orr joined Uni versity of Nebraska officials to cut a cake that celebrated a $20.5 million increase in appropria tions — the largest NU has seen in 12 years. • Following a sometimes pas sionate drive from both admini stration and students of UNL, faculty salaries and staff re ceived a $10 million boost. Thanks might be given to tough lobbying and some fine-tuned tllinking of state senators. This single victory shines a light of hope over what has previously seemed a dismal future for UNL j faculty and staff morally and financially ... not to mention a burden to students concerned about their educational well being. • The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis will be able to continue and im prove due to a $ 1.4 million allo cation during the next 18 months. Although only 22 fac ulty members and about 50 stu dents remain at Curtis, it’s pos sible that financing will encour age students to return to the only technical agriculture school in this agricultural state. Tumble weeds may not blow as freely in what was scheduled to be a dead school last year. The school will survive for at least one more year. • Four million dollars in re search funds also were allo cated, inevitably strengthening the prestige of UNL and add to the potential of students and faculty to prove their abilities besides aiding the state’s econ omy. • And although UNL. students will receive an 8.5 percent tui tion increase, state legislators m anaged to give a generous hike to colleges and universities for state tuition assistance. The in crease was from $128,150 to $878,150. Reader curious about spending priorities w ny is u mai mis country is so tar in debt that it’s going to slay there until my children have children? And yet we have“rcpresentatives” in government who want to pay mil lions of dollars in frivolous items to Contra hillbillies? Why is it that senators, who make more money than they know what to do w ith for working a far-below-aver age amount of days per year, are asking for another raise? And yet a struggling college stu dent seeking a degree in leaching, which is by far a below-average pay mg joo, nas 10 coniena wun a mini mum wage near poverty level to sus tain a family wish. Why is it that football is so impor tant and people are constantly coming up with wilder ways to finance it, like paying football players? And yet there is a highly educated art historian forced to teach the won ders of visual art with antiquated equipment. Yep, all this really bugs me. Any one care to satisfy my curiosity? Anthony Motto radical at large Dukakis supporter responds to DIN error concerning my letter to tne editor i Daily Nebraskan, April 8), I do av idly support Michael Dukakis for president. If Ididn’t,I wouldn’tbehis campus coordinator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. All else aside, thank you for printing my letter. I appreciate the consideration. Brian Svoboda Nebraska youth coordinator Dukakis for President Editor’s note: The DN stands cor rected. Commonwealth scandal killed the cow In the Commonwealth fiasco, I am emindcd of the two farmers dispul ng o w ner >h ip of a cow and a cal f. One nulled o the head and one on the tail, in doing so, they killed the cow, but not before the senators, judges and lawyers had stolen thecalfand milked her dry. Lester H. Christiansen Lincoln L<*'ot*£5s3: ' v i »?4, f Kxee To fa I ; 0*T fog * ■' ■■ '* i L.*f Of m*0 • | W iftKOJ ' How TO GET RID OF THE $60 MILLION STATE SURPLUS AND UK-L PARKING PROBLEM L._d r3oi.U-TSO*4<D $fcOMlLU©M GOVERNMENT 5TUPV ©ro PARKlNGr ALTERNAXIVES Demolish all ^ campus Buildings Amd Build a *bo million!f £>© Story UNIVERSITY ...» Lots op room for parking I f(3) ^fcOMlLLIOM UM-L SUBWAY (2) GoVjeRNMgK'T w 5uB5\d(ES ncrT -ro park. NEAR UN)i\JERSrr^ Fry announces candidacy Democrats waiting for Cuomo to announce presidential candidacy Every four years, America gets the chance to elect a new presi dent, and it has become a great American tradition to sit and watch all the candidates parade by. Hope fully, by the end of the year, the American people will have gotten up off their duffs and voted. Somehow, every four years, it gets done. This year has been made interest ing by the presence of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, or better yet, the lack of iL Everybody seems to be looking at him with peripheral vision. Although he has really done only one major thing of national signifi cance — give a spell-binding speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention — he has under standably focused most of his atten tion on the state of New York. He has done no campaigning, yet everybody still looks at him. Newsweek consistently includes Cuomo on its list of candidates when it talks about what it calls “conven tional wisdom,” the magazine’s weekly analysis of how each cam paign is progressing. Likewise, New York City Mayor Ed Koch is just waiting for Cuomo to get involved so he can throw his support behind him. And yet the man has not spent either a single dime or a minute campaigning and holds no delegates. And some people think he’s still going to be the Democrats’ choice for president? Boy, makes sense to me. So if Cuomo still has a chance to be nominated, I guess I do, too. Maybe I should run for president. I may not be old enough, but so what? I can hold out no longer. The time is right. Cuomo is just too hesitant. As for me, I will aggressively seek the Oval Office. You may not know who I am, except for the tiny picture of me that is always stuck in the middle of this column. But that shouldn’t make any difference. If Cuomo can get his pic ture in Newsweek, then so can I. I haven’t done anything either. I have an agenda. I’ll be a strong leader, because that’s what this great country needs. And we’ll have peace. And everybody who wants a job will have one. There will be a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. If all this comes about, happy days will be here again, I can assure you that. Best of all, I can get elected just talking about that. I can also tour nuclear waste dumps, factories inundated by rock hurling strikers and other similar places where I really have no desire to be, all in the name of getting elected. I’ll have to keep telling myself that it’s good publicity. Other people have become famous doing relatively nothing. There was this one homeless woman in New York City named Joyce Brown who had a tendency to defecate in her pants. Her face became a regular at traction on the news for a while when she refused to be institutionalized by Ed Koch’s plan to keep the homeless off the the street. Now she has become a symbol tor tne nomcicss, nas a part time job and has even spoken at Har vard Law School. It could be some thing right out of a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel. But this is reality. New York City also has created another celebrity: Robert Chambers. Chambers recently pleaded guilty toa reduced charge alter initially pro claiming his innocence in the “rough sex” death of his girl friend. Now both are on the cover of People magazine. What a price for fame. These case studies prove that I should be able to make the White House. Just look at the other candi dates. Who ever heard of Michael Dukakis, Pete du Pont or Bruce Bab bitt before they entered the race? Jesse Jackson also has been able to grace the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and Time, with bold head lines asking: “Can He Win?’ While he is now a legitimate contender, is it because he is truly worthy of the votes, or because he is black, or be cause of his mere presence in the press? If Jackson’s campaign can be aided like that, so can mine. And don’t forget Cuomo. Al though he is governor of one of the most populous states in the country , he is becoming famous for doing nothing. We can only wait and sec what this publicity will accomplish. People don’t have to be famous to become famous so they can run lor the presidency so they can be famous lor all eternity. 1 may not be very famous right now, but just give me time and 1 II be on the cover of Newsweek. Fry is a graduate news-editorial student, Daily NebraAan night news editor and the editor of The Sower, the DN depth magazine. Unsigned editorials represent of ficial policy of the spring 1988 Daily Nebraskan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. Its mem bers are Mike Reilley, editor; Diana Johnson, editorial page editor; Joan Rezac, copy desk editor; Jen De selms, managing editor; Curt Wag ner, associate news editor; Chris Anderson, associate night news edi tor and Joel Carlson, columnist Editorials do not necessarily re flect the views of the university, its employees, the students or the NU Board of Regents. The Daily Nebraskan’s publishers are the regents, who established the UNL Publications Board to supervise the daily production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the edito rial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its student edi tors. ■ The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. 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