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Readers scold ‘booers’, AS UN apology
Student rebukes
response to ASUN
To the dozens of “fans” who have
written to defend their right to act
childish and rude: Yes, it is your right
to boo. But the excuses I have heard
about the Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska’s apology
letter are nothing short of insane.
Although you and I may have not
agreed with ASlJN’s actions in
speaking for all students, the fact
remains that it was within its rights as
an elected body. I have fielded many
complaints lately that it is not repre
sentative — that it only represents a
small part of the students. That’s
absolutely true. You know why?
Because 90 percent of UNL students
do not even bother to vote in the
ASUN elections. Hard to represent
people who do not vote, isn’t it?
As for “voicing student opinion,”
that's crap, and you know it. Scream
ing “boo” tells Gov. Kay Orr only one
thing — that our football fans have
lousy manners. It tells her nothing
about why you’re booing. Is it be
cause she appointed Dave Karnes for
the U.S. Senate? Is is because she’s
supposedly cut education funding?
She hasn’t. Is it because of LB775?
Here is a radical idea. Sit down
with a pen and write her a letter. Tell
her what you do not like, and why you
were justified in booing her. Since
most of the boo-bears around here
seem to write letters in packs of four,
grab three friends to help you think of
ideas.
Got the letter written? Got lots of
ideas? Good. Slick a stamp on it and
mail it. It isn't hard, really. It takes a
little more work than screaming
“boo” at a stadium, but it makes your
opinion known.
What, no ideas? Can’t think of
anything? Then for heaven’s sake,
keep quiet.
Lots of people have been quoting
Sen. Libby York. “Wc arc not their
mothers,” she said. She’s right. I think
wc know who the real mothers arc,
though.
The immature fans who booed our
— -- d
governor are the real mothers.
Michael Ho
junior
computer science
ASUN apology
offends Svoboda
Asa student represented by the As
sociation of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, I am offended by the
apology made to Gov. Kay Orr and
Chancellor Martin Masscngalc for
the boos they received during
halftime at the Oklahoma Slate game.
ASUN certainly didn’t apologize on
my behalf, and I suspect most of the
students on this campus feel the same
way.
Did it occur to the ASUN Senate
that many of the people in that crow d
had good reason to boo? Did it occur
to them that because of an uncaring,
bloated bureaucracy, many of the
students in that crowd had to wait long
months to get the financial aid they
needed to go to school, if they could
get it all? Or did it occur to them that
many of the people who booed were
not even students, but rather adults—
men and women who had seen their
taxes raised, their rural communities
disintegrate, and their neighbors’
farms lost to foreclosure?
Let's face facts. Orr broke a cam
paign promise by raising taxes for
lower and middle income Nebraskans
and continues to deny it. Massengalc
presides overa university adm iriistra
lion that is indifferent at best to stu
dent and faculty concerns in the areas
of academic freedom, minority is
sues, financial aid and campus life.
Both have shown a lack of accounta
bility to the people they serve. They
deserved the reception they got.
I believe we should respect our
public servants. Bui this, after all, is a
democracy. 1 believe that the people
whom we citizens elect and pay are
accountable to us, that they owe
something back to the people they
serve. If it takes the jeers of several
thousand people to remind Orr and
Massengalc of that fact, then so be it.
Brian Svoboda
senior
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