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offensive, lacks tact
This letter is in response to the
letter by Tim Siedell and Beniamin
Zink (DN, Oct. 31).
How can you stereotype lcttcrwrit
ers Wendy Roller and Theresa Lubis
cher (DN, Oct. 25) based on one
music group they like? 1 love Def
Leppard and I attended the concert
(an incredible show). What’s in dan
ger here is not “heavy-metal” con
certs, but concerts in general.
You have no right to judge others
on their musical tastes. Just because
others like Def Leppard does not
mean they arc drug addicts or promis
cuous. I found your letter highly of
fensive and lacking tact.
It seems that you are deliberately
trying to hurt these girls, not trying to
express an opinion. Music is music.
Stereotypes and categories are two
big obstacles that everyone must
overcome.
James Ingles
freshman
Leppard viciously,
wrongly attacked
This is in response to the letter by
Tim Siedell and Benjamin Zink about
Def Leppard (DN, Oct. 31).
It was a very informative letter. I
learned many things. I had no idea
there were such narrow-minded big
ots in our beautiful state. They vi
ciously and wrongly attacked heavy
metal music and those who enjoy it. I
have listened to this type of music for
years and no one has ever told me I
was an “inconvenience to society.”
First of all, Def Leppard is not
“heavy” metal, it’s rock ‘n roll. If you
want heavy metal, listen to Iron
Maiden or Motorhcad. Secondly, I
resent the list of reparations in the
letter; some of them arc not true. Not
all headbangers smoke and use illegal
i
drugs and alcohol. Leather accesso
ries cost more than $20. How stupid of
me to be comfortable in jeans and a T
shirt at a concert.
I will assume I am the same age as
Sicdcll and Zink, but I can’t believe
anyone 20 years old can be so imma
ture. I think most of us stopped pick
ing on others because they are differ
ent when we were in grade school. I
know some people don’t like “my”
music, and that’s fine, but you can’t
tell me it’s trash because that’s your
opinion.
The Def Leppard concert prob
lemsoccurrcd because of a difference
of opinion between the road crew and
Bob Dcvaney Sports Center manage
ment. The problems are now over —
everyone needs to get on with their
lives — and the problems hopefully
will not surface again. It’s just too bad
it had to happen to the greatest band in
the world, Def Leppard.
That’s my opinion. Take it or leave
it.
Michelle Jespersen
freshman
Letter stereotypes
heavy metal fans
After reading the letter by Tim
Siedell and Benjamin Zink (DN, Oct.
31), I felt that 1 needed to defend
heavy metal music and its fans. It is
unfortunate that there are people out
there that find this area of entertain
ment “a great inconvenience to soci
ety.”
It sounds to me like these guys
have a very narrow vision and stere
otype of heavy metal listeners. In the
last five years I’ve been to about 30.
concerts, most of them the hard rock/
heavy metal variety. You gentlemen
would be amazed at the amount of
fans at these concerts that actually
don’t wear leather accessories, don’t
smoke or take drugs and actually have
short hair and are clean-cut. Of
course, exceptions exist, but they’re
in a minority compared to the rest of
the crowd. I’ve also seen these kind of
exceptions at pop and rock concerts.
Also, my life doesn’t revolve
around heavy metal music and is not
shut-in as you imply toward this
group. I gel good grades, I will gradu
ate in May, and I constantly listen to
hard rock/hcavy metal music. Who
knows, this music may have helped
me keep my sanity as I approach
graduation with a respectable GPA
(grade point average).
I’ve also heard of people saying
they wouldn’t dare go into places like
the Royal Grove or Fat Jak’s for fear
of their lives. Give me a break. People
go there for the music. If you want
trouble, you can find it just as easily at
a country bar or a grocery store as you
can at a heavy metal bar.
Another stereotype is that heavy
metal songs consist of really nasty
words and favor worship. Again, give
me a break Read the words on an
album cover and then listen to some
country and pop songs and you’ll see
that the latter can be just as “nasty” if
not worse. There’s an AC/DC song
that hits on this stereotype and
stresses on one very realistic fact to
heavy melalists: It’s only rock V
roll.
Jim Keating
senior
marketing
Senate biography
trivial, student says
I am truly sorry to hear that the
Daily Nebraskan is hung on which
candidate to endorse for U.S. Senate
(DN, Nov. 1). But with your help, I
definitely now know the issue that
separates the candidates apart.
Thanks to your ingenious com
puter graphic of the candidates astro
logical signs, I will be able to “clip
and save’rthe DN candidate biogra
--
phy and channel myself into the vot
ing booth and psychically cast my
vote according to the stars.
Now if only you would have
printed the candidate’s favorite snack
food, daytime soap opera, polka
band, birth control method . ..
Ted Smidberg
junior
broadcast major
Editor's note: Those statistics on
the U.S. senatorial candidates were
unavailable, but the DN has learned
that Michael Dukakis’ favorite
food is cabbage casserole and
George Bush’s favorite TV show is
“Monday Night Football.”
Sennett lert tacts;
came close to lies
I would like to respond to James
Sennett’s column (DN, Oct. 26) en
titled “Heat surges in political
kitchen.” He seems to have left out a
few facts.
I have nothing against Sennett
personally; we’ve never met. How
ever, he writes columns, calls himself
a “columnist,” and sometimes they
seem to float awfully high above the
rest of us idiot savants as their words
are magically transformed into mov
able type beside that little picture they
always have. (Just read William F.
Buckley or Pat Buchanan’s articles to
see what I mean).
I’m not saying Sennett is another
Buckley or Buchanan, but he is cer
tainly a cut from the same far-right
mold.
Boston Harbor may very well be
the “sewage capital of the world,” as
Sennett put it. But I highly doubt any
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dent has seen enough of the world, let
alone the United States, to make such
an allegation. The fact remains that
the cleaning of Boston Harbor and
similar bodies of water throughout
the United Stales is both a state and a
national problem. What Senneu did
not report is that Michael Dukakis
was prepared to clean it years ago, but
lacked sufficient funds from the na
tional level to do so, namely from the
Clean Water Act. George Bush voted
to cut funds from this program. By
insinuating that Dukakis is solely
responsible for failing to clean up
Boston Harbor, Senneu comes as
close to lying, by his own definition,
as I can think of.
Concerning the Willie Horton is
sue. True, it has been an issue since
before Uic summer conventions. Why
has Dukakis just now decided it is
racial? Because in the many months
that it has been an issue there was
never one picture of Horton, nor of
any of the other furloughed prisoners
discussed. Until the political pam
phlet was published last week.
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correlation on whether he is more or
less prone to commit an act of vio
lence, if crime is truly an equal oppor
tunity employer, then why did Bush
run the picture after all these months?
Why did he take the risk?
The truth is he had no prior knowl
edge of the ad. It was printed by one
of Bush’s thousands of supporters, far
removed from him personally.
When he heard about it, Bush
expressed remorse that it was pub
lished and immediately called for its
halt. So in effect Bush agreed with
Dukakis that the ad was in poor taste;
and subsequently had racial over
tones.
I agree with Senneu when he says
that nothing is dirtier than politics.
But when the issues and the candi
dates behind them are misrepre
sented, when the truth is not reported,
then it only adds to the public’s con
fusion, and creates more mud to be
slung.
T.E. Graham
freshman
pre-med
Boo!
Students gripe about fans, ASUN’s apology
Student complains
to faculty fans
I would like to address this let
ter to a number of people of differ
ent factions, but of a single issue—
that of the conduct of the so-called
Nebraska Comhusker fans.
I am a University of Nebraska
Lincoln student who attends home
football games like thousands of
other students do. My seats in
Memorial Stadium during my
years as a student have been gener
ally good ones.
However,, my seat this vear
happens to be in the last raw of the
student section and just in front of
a faculty section.
It didn’t bother me at fust be
cause ! figured the faculty at UNL
that had tickets were avid Husker
fans. This assumption turned out to
be false. As this season has pro
gressed it seems a fpw of the lac
see, also had to stand to sec the goal
line stand and applauded the de
fense as it returned to the sideline
after giving up only 2 yards and a
chip-shot field goal.
I then turned around to discuss
the situation with the woman, who
earlier threatened to have me
removed from the game for stand
ing up. I asked a police officer to
talk with the woman, but he sug
Sested that I leave instead, even
lough he saw her throw the cups.
He told me that a vice chancellor
had received complaints about our
section.
Fortunately, I got to stay and
watch the game. The lady and the
professor left before the game was
over.
I’m concerned with who is in
the wrong here. Should I be banned
from a game because 1 am vocal in
my support? If so, then shouldn’t
cheerleaders be tanned along widi
Butt out ASUN
stop apologizing
In response to the Association
of Students of the University of
Nebraska senators who think we
should apologize for the crowd’s
behavior at the halftime of the
Nebraska-Oklahoma State game:
“Stop kissing #<§>$.”
Sen. Libby York of the College
of Journalism said, “We are not
their mothers... and I don’t think
we should be brown-nosing to the
higher-ups.”
Gov. Kay Orr and Chancellor
Martin Massengale are not roy
ally, they are public officials. As
public officials, they are account
able to their constituents, not the
other way around. .
The people who booed (and not
all were students) were exercising
their right to voice an opinion to
their public officials. They were
Utilizing the right of free speech,
not committing a crime. There is
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