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Nebraskan
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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