Editorial University of Netoraska-Uncoln Curt Wagner, Editor, 472-1766 Amy Edwards, Editorial Page Educe Jane Hirt, Managing Editor ' jx Rood, Associate News Educe Diana Johnson, Wire Page Editor Chuck Green, Copy Desk Chief Lisa Donovan, Columnist Photo IDs beneficial Arguments for photo IDs virtually endless After a year of planning, University of Nebraska-Lincota admirastraiors have come up with a plan to provide everv student with a photo ID If the plan follows on schedule, U NL students will be able to push aside that often-embarrassing driver’s license mugshot for another snapshot this fall Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs lames Griesen said be would like to see the new IDs in partial use this fall. So would the Daily Nebraskan. The photo IDs would cost a one-hme fee between $7-50 and $10 and would be used by students throughout their attendance at UNL, Griesen said. That’s not much, considering all the beneficial uses the IDs would nave. The photo IDs would take the place of several cards now issued by UNL departments and would be coded to show that each student was eligible for that use. Machines at each department would read the coding, allow* ing the student to do whatever the coding permits. The number of cards required for students would go from five or $i% different cards to one, according to administrators. Administrators currently are discussing a variety of uses for the IDs. The IDs will replace the current campus ID card, library card. University Bookstore card and residence hall food service card. As the new campus-wide ID, students would use the card in many areas: • to vote in student government elections to gain entrance to sporting events to gain entrance to the Campus Recreation Center to use the University Health Center With the card, residence had students would be able to pay for only the meals which they choose to eat, and any student could pay a fee to die Nebraska unions at the beginning of the year and draw on that payment by using their IDs to buy meals in the union. The ID system also could be used to gain access to campus buildings or residence halJs. This would increase security in both these areas by lowering the chance oflosing access keys. The arguments for the cards are virtually endless, and those against it few. One problem voiced is the cost. Griesen says the initial cost to install the systems would be about $255,OCO, with an annual operating cost of $85,000. Griesen has said the new IDs wouldn’t end up raising student fees, although the departments, some student-funded, that would accept the IDs, would have to pay for the equipment and 10 to 25 percent of Us upkeep costs. Griesen said those costs would be offset by the money each department would save by accepting the card. For example, the health center loses about $12,000 annually because former students present their old IDs to get treated at the center. Under the new system, when students no longer attend the university, the codes mi their cards will be canceled immedi ately. If that’s the case, the Daily Nebraskan supports the new system, except for its one minor flaw: Can administrators guarantee a flattering photo on every student’s ID? - Curt Wagner for ihe OaUy Ntbrasim Integration’s cheap, student says We can all look forward to a lot of action this summer. Thai’s right, the long hot summer of ’89 is about to commence. Most of us know that enrollment in college, attendance in high school, life expectancy and stan dards of living all have gone down for blacks. At the same time, violence, drug abuse and criminal convictions have gone up. Why? Integration is a scam! it’s a cheap, two-bit trick used to defuse the power of the civil rights movement and pacify the revolution aries. The movement was sold out. The Civil Rights Movement made progress? Who arc we kidding? To paraphrase Malcolm X, ‘for 400 years the while man has had a fool long knife in the back of the black man.” Then he wiggles it around and pulls it out maybe six inches, and you want to call that progress? And lately, we’ve even started slipping that same knife back in with our support of apartheid, which is a humiliation to every black in the United States, and with the occur rence of racist attacks on almost ev ery campus in America. At the University of Texas, black student Randy Bowman reported that two while men wearing Ronald Re agan masks terrorized him by dan gling him outside of his dorm room window in 1986. A cross was burned on the front lawn of a University of Alabama black sorority house in 1986. A flyer was circulated at the Uni versity of Michigan, declaring “Open Season” on blacks in 1987. I could cite more examples, but 1 don’t think it’s necessary. We cannot sit idly by, hoping and praying for a heaven hereafter for the oppressed, while the oppressor has his heaven here on earth. This time, the revolution will not be stayed. Joe Bowman junior cultural anthropology/pre-law rBULL SHORTS I W-t i. M .n,ry tod»y? TV co-.rci.lr W. device that deserves to have it's name in capital le4tt® / vouna I have a right to talk out on television? A TV babysat ®e around? I also worked at an ad agency right out of college