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Greek system, pay for athletes
under readers ’ fire once again
Student employee sees
benefits from changes
I’m really excited about this talk of
whether to treat student athletes the
same as student employees and pay
them a wage.
As a student employee for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, l
can only profit it this is enacted. If
student athletes will be treated as
student employees, then we will all
receive the same benefits, right? I ree
tutoring, meals and game tickets will
make up nicely for that study time I
am sacrificing while working. But,
the university had better set up a
scholarship program for student
employees soon if it wants to keep up
with peer institutions such as the
University of Minnesota.
Todd Lofton
senior
computer science
student employee
Allen’s contradictions
revealed by reader
Talk about a contradiction in
terms. Printing the best of Bill Allen
(Daily Nebraskan, Aug. 30). is like
printing the best of the National
Enquirer—it gets your blood boiling,
it gives you something to talk about in
lecture, and best of all, it gives you
something to put in the bottom of your
bird cage.
But like the writing in the
Enquirer, most of what Allen writes is
false.
Let’s get one thing straight. I’m a
dormic, a non-grcck who is a bit irked
that Allen has gotten aw ay with slan
dering as many people as he has w ith
oul being sued or killed. Of course,
nobody really said what happened to
him once he graduated. We can only
hope.
These greeks must be awfully
good nalured to put up with ihai-ptr
bage lor four years without pulling a
price on the guy's head. But then. I
must be wrong, because Bill insists
that they are intolerant, rude scuin
buckets.
Silly me.
Allen reminds me of that idiot who
stands out by Bros hill Fountain, ac
cusing people he doesn’t know ol
being “faggots’ and “whoremon
gers” and all sorts of other nasty
things The v.ops hauled him away
But for several years, Allen has
been spouting epithets at greeks, most
of them untrue, and all of them uncal
led for. And he gets paid for it. Rough
life. Meanwhile, the dornues cut out
his columns and tape them to their
doors, as if they were divinely in
spired (If you don’t believe me, go
look for yourself).
I’ll probably be lynched for using
the word “dorm” eight times in my
letter. They have a real paranoia
about that word. Here, I’ll use it again
— DORM. If they were really wor
ried about little four-letter words,
they would get rid of the “FINK
Week” festivities. FINK sounds
much worse than dorm, and an entire
week has been named after it.
Bill had to make up events to ridi
cule Greek Week. Like the bare chest
contest and the stereo blaring contest.
But FINK Week has dumb events
built in. How about the “Beach
Dance” and the “Watermelon Feed”?
Why make up dumb activities when
you can use real ones?
Here’s an idea. Go get an ex
dormic who went grcck and have him
or her write a column making fun of
dormies. Have this column run every
week or so and be sure to make him
use the word “dorm” in 48-point type
in each headline. And then just wait
wait for the hate mail to roll in. After
four years of Allen, it’s about time for
a change of perspective.
Michael Ho
junior
computer science
dormie
Reader rebels against
'out of whack’ claims
Once again the confrontation be
tween greck and non-greek factions
arises. Every year, Bill Allen or
someone hoping to impress the “Save
the Whales” or “Vegetables Have
Rights Too” groups takes at heap shot
at the greck system. Better yet, Lon
nie Buresh (Daily Nebraskan letters,
Sept. 2) brings down the integrity of
most college women. Or was this
sarcasm? You tell me, Lonnie.
Buresh s reports on greck men and
the intricate art of macarom-and
checsc making (sounds like one of
Allen’s columns last year. How origi
nal) seems to be a completely valid
measuring slick for the intelligence
capacity of fraternity men, even
though the lop fraternity on campus,
gamard (sic) a 3.36 grade-point aver
age last year. That turns oul to be a
meager 4l> percent above all men’s
averages.
it is only lair to expound on the
incredible intellect of‘non-greek men.
1 still remember last year when I
would go visit some friends in resi
dence halls only to be nauseated by
the stench of urine in the elevators on
Friday and Saturday mornings.
I assumed that the bathrooms were
reserved for the “less intelligent.”
This was a frequent event, furthering
my suspiciations (sic) that non-grecks
are all members of Mensa.
I believe Buresh’s allegations
about fraternities and their discrimi
nation policies are way out of whack.
Much of the reason why fraternities
do not get very much of an ethnic
blend is:
• A w ide number of blac k students
at the University of Nebraska Lin
coln are involved in athletics. Trying
to juggle school and sports along w nh
responsibilities to a fraternity very
hard to do.
• Sti 11 other blacks and many of the
other "non-white” students are at the
university on student visas, also
making it difficullto be both a visiting
student and a fraternity member. To
be honest, the money factor and other
expenses are a burdensome problem
and can cause others to be uninter
ested in joining a fraternity. As far as
someone’s religious and political
Iparty affiliations, many members in
my house are Catholic and an alumni
is even the president of the Young
Democrats organization in Lincoln.
Fraternally,
Luke Schollmcyer
sophomore
political science
Editor’s note: The Interfrater
nity Council was unable to confirm
the statistics in Schollmeyer’s let
ter. But according to statistics re
leased by the Office of Records, the
all-university (male and female)
(IPA last spring was 2.875. The all
male average at UNI, was 2.774 and
the all-fraternitv average was
2.870.
Jimmi Smith, director of Multi
cultural Affairs, said there are
more black men at UNL w hoare not
involved in athletics than who are.
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