Party issues listed, parking questioned
UNL parking problem
remains, reader says
I originally came to the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1983. In the
last five years, I have lived through
four theater department chairmen,
three professors have come and gone
and two have retired (one twice).
Opinion
I have suffered through five elec
tions of the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska, and even
ran for 2nd vice president of AS UN on
the World Wrestling Federation Party
ticket. I am one of those few cowering
souls who knew Bill Allen person
ally.
Only once in all this time have I
ever felt compelled to write a letter to
the editor, and it is over the most
mundane and yet infuriating prob
lems that grow more exacerbated
with each passing semester.
Parking sucks.
There. I’ve said it. I’ve come right
out and said just what everybody’s
been thinking. The problem is that
planners who seem to decide arbitrar
ily where and when to erect buildings
at UNL have fallen prey to the same
notion that the Lincoln City Council
has. The city council, in its attempt to
“revitalize downtown,” has come up
with the idea that parking is somehow
a magical thing with which it need not
be concerned with.
The reason this attitude will be
self-defeating for the city council is
because it isn’t magical. My father, a
Lincoln native for 16 years, con
sciously avoids going downtown to
do business simply because there is no
convenient parking, and contrary to
the city council’s delusions, all the
businesses one really cares to fre
quent are between 48th and 70th
streets on O Street where parking is
abundant, convenient and free.
Regents and planners, on the other
hand, can delude themselves about
parking all they want because for
most of us, UNL is the only game in
town. Of course, we could go to one of
the other colleges in the city, but UNL
is still the cheapest, so parking down
town is an economic evil we must
face.
Of course, there is always talk of
adding parking space, but the only
thing that I have seen is its continued
reduction. To my understanding,
proposed parking lots are still located
at inconvenient locations.
The problem is not limited to stu
dents, by the way. One of the advan
tages to having out-tenured most of
one’s instructors is that one tends to
know a number of them personally.
From my discussions with faculty and
staff, the problem is just as real for
them. The people who are not af
fected by the problem are those who
have most control over it. Regents
and senior administrative staff all
have reserved parking spaces at the
building in which they work, and
naturally don’t take any efforts to call
attention to this problem.
The “Stone Proposal:” Raze the
faculty and metered parking lots
immediately to the north of the Ne
braska Union. In their place, con
struct an eight-story parking garage, a
half to be devoted to faculty and the
other to 20-series student parking.
Extend the building two stories
underground, and not only do you
have the largest parking structure
downtown, but possibly enough stu
dent parking to go around. Similar
projects could be completed on East
Campus and near dorms. The prob
lem with planners is that they tend to
think in sprawling lateral designs
with no regard to the fact that most
people are then walking ei^ht blocks
to get from parking to any class in any
building.
This project will not go much of
anywhere without a great deal of
prodding on behalf of the student
body. Far be it from me to delude
myself that the student body is inter
ested enough in the problem to even
pul down their beer bottles (1 know
I’m not), but there’s the proposal. I
offer it altruistically as one who is
going to leave the whole problem
ehind soon.
William Stone III
senior
theater arts
Reader gives platform
for the New Alliance
In response to Mark VanKekerix’s
letter (DN, Sept 19): You want is
sues? We have issues. The following
are some New Alliance Party plat
forms:
• People instead of profits;
• Nonintervention, disarmament
and peace. Slash the military budget
to fund jobs and human services;
• An end to racism, sexism, anti
Semitism and anti-gay bigotry;
• Full civil rights for all lesbians
and gay men. Pass a national AIDS
Bill of Rights;
• An end to poverty. Job opportuni
ties and training for all. Provide de
cent welfare benefits;
• Enforce Indian treaty rights and
full restitution for use of all Indian
lands;
• Fair and democratic elections.
Encourage fullest participation at all
levels of the electoral process;
• Free, quality education — from
day care through graduate school;
• Full economic, social and politi
cal equality for ail women. Free or
low cost abortion on demand;
• Funding for non-nuclear safe
energy resources and environmental
protection;
• Guarantee adequate social secu
rity and pensions for the elderly;
• A workable and fair farm policy
and national moratorium on farm
foreclosures;
VanKekerix, if you or anyone else
wishes further clarification of our
goals and/or issues, feel free to con
tact me at any time. I believe that once
you examine our stands on issues, you
will discover that we are a viable,
valuable, progressive alternative to
the Republican and Democratic par
ties.
Nanci Hamilton
president
New Alliance Party
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Nebraskans forget "Dark Days ;
Short memories benefit Kerrey
SENNETT from Page 4
constituency. Furthermore, he has in
‘ his campaign shown no sign of even
recognizing his shortcomings.
Rather, he hopes to convince us that
the years of his administration were
theCamelotof the Capitol City. Well,
selective amnesia was never my long
suit. Bob, and this is one votcr whose
eyes arc unashamedly wool-free.
I just don’t understand. I don’t
understand why Kerrey leads in virtu
ally overy poll I have seen. 1 don’t
understand why professors and staff
whose salaries arc woefully behind
what they should be would sport
Kerrey stickers and buttons. I don’t
understand how a man whose policies
managed to populate thccapitol steps
with protesters almost daily during
the last two years of his term can Find
himself only 20 months later riding
the crest of a popularity wave. Are we
really that blind?
I guess there are some reasons why
people might vote for Kerrey. In fact,
I have been told a few. Many have
expressed to me justification that
amounts not so much to a vote for
Kerrey as a vote against Karnes. I
guess that is sometimes legitimate. I
myself have voted against, rather than
for, candidates. However, this time
the risk is not worth it.
Karnes may have his problems —
what politician doesn’t? He is an
unabashed party-line man, and as a
registered Democrat, that rally turns
my stomach. However, he has not
proven to me that he is not a leader. He
has not proven to me that he is not a
man of his word. In fact, he has im
pressed me with his integrity and his
concern for the people of Nebraska.
I will not let one little slip of the
tongue — where Karnes made the
serious political mistake of telling the
truth to the wrong people—convince
me that I should instead vole for a man
who has already proven his ineptness.
But there may be a better reason
for supporting Kerrey. A dear friend
of mine, whose opinion I value highly
and whose book bag displays a Kerrey
button, told me that he figured either
candidate would be good for Ne
braska, but that Kerrey would be bet
ter for the nation and the world. Now
that’s a good reason. However, if
Kerrey is to be good for anyone on any
level, he must be a powerful leader,
decisive and willing to follow
through on past commitments. And it
is precisely these necessary traits that
the above overview of events shows
to be missing from the Kerrey reper
toire.
If Kerrey can be intimidated by the
entry of Ernie Chambers into the race,
how can he hope to stand up to the
major league assaults and confronta
lions he would experience as a mem
ber of the U. S. Senate? And there is *
no question that he is intimidated by
Chambers. He has a right to be.
Many have charged that Chambers
has entered the race simply to hurt
Kerrey. If that is so, maybe it is be
cause Chambers has a better memory
than many people. Maybe he knows
that bad governors seldom make good
senators and w ishes to save the people
of this slate from making a serious
mistake.
Anyone with the ingenuity to out
smart the Chief Justice of the Ne
braska S upreme Court the way Cham -
bers did is smart enough to know that
it takes more than the label “Demo
crat” to make a candidate a man of the «
people.
Often when former governors run
for national office, they will use a
slogan like, “What he did for Rhode
Island, he can do for America.” Per
haps in this instance the preposition
should be altered. I want a bumper
sticker that says, “What he did to us
he’ll do to the U.S.” Clever, huh?
As they say, remember that when
you step into the voting booth.
Sennett is a graduate student in philosophy
and is a Daily Nebraskan editorial columnist
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