Reader defends sport of bowling,
slams Retton for riches earned
Mike Koyko s column about bowl
ing (DN, Jan.23), conveys an attitude
that bowling is just for fat slobs with
no physical capabilities.
Yes, I too used to work in a bowl
ing alley -- not as a pinboy, because
they went out with the Edsei, but as a
porter. Instead of picking up pins, I
picked up the bowling alley and the
messes everyone leu behind. The
bowling alleys today arc still filled
with an ominous cloud of smoke like
Royko said, but that’s about all he got
right.
All types of people bowl; fat,
skinny, old, young and even handi
capped people are avid bowlers.
Many people do come into the bowl
ing alley just for recreation. Young
couples come in on dales, some come
in to gulp down a few beers and some
come in because they have nothing
else to do, but there is also the serious
side to bowling. Serious bowlers do
find bowling an excellent means of
exercise. I guess that’s why the medi
cal society rates it as one of the top 10
forms of exercise.
When I am home from college I try
to bowl at least five games a day,
that’s 35 games a week. Considering 1
throw about 16 balls per game at 16
pounds each. That comes to over
10,000 pounds of weight lifted,
swung and thrown each week. I may
not look like a football player, but I
am physically fit. Many times after
practicing I find myself doused with
sweat and exhausted.
There are many other people be
sides me who find bowling an excel
lent form of exercise.
As for Mary Lou Retton losing her
contract with the bowling industry
because she is “maturing,” or basi
cally fat: Most people would want a
person who is the current rage in the
nation to promote them, like a star
baseball player, or a NFL quarter
back, not some has-been like a certain
gymnast we all know. She was good
in her day, but “that was then, this is
now.”
The United States is one of the only
countries left that doesn’t pay its ath
letes, supposedly, yet Retton returned
home from the Olympics to find a
brand new Corvette wailing for her.
Did her or her family have to pay for
this? I don’t think so.
She should have known she
couldn’t of stayed America’s Shirley
Temple forever.
Kelly Korenoski
freshman
engineering
Columnist blasted by student
Lisa Donovan’s family should
hope she doesn’t get off academic
probation so they can get her back
home and in high school or wherever
she was supposed to learn to look both
ways before crossing the street.
Your next-of-kin could kiss good
bye any damages they would surely
seek when Donovan’s poor street
crossing habits, so nicely documented
in the column (DN, Jan. 26), became
known. Or is her inane suggestion that
students join hands in a defensive
walking/driving campaign evidence
that you’re taken note of the risk of
walking in front of moving automo
biles? Let’s hope so.
I realize Donovan’s column was
intended to be more cute than pro
vocative and that this letter is a lot of
flack to take for such sound ideas as
walking and driving carefully. But
her big proposition is buried and
serves what sounds to me like a lot of
complaining about drivers when the
fact of the matter is that cars and
pedestrians do mingle in a dangerous
way at several locations on campus.
But it’s usually the ill-conceived
stylishness of jaywalkers that makes
it so.
So rather than turn everybody
behind a wheel into Ted Bundy and
give them a seal in what can only be
referred to as the “OI’ Sparky” of
editorial journalism (i.e Donovan’s
column) she should review her own
walking role-models.
I hope she doesn’t need safety pa
trols on campus to keep her life, but if
that’s what it takes to avoid meeting
your next-of-kin, I would grudgingly
accept the raise of student fees.
Scott Laffoon
junior
physics
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Readers defend Good News9 efforts
Longsine s column
called ridiculous
Unbelievable is your knowl
edge of the Bible and its interpreta
tion, application and definition,
Gary Longsine (Daily Nebraskan,
Ian. 27).
1 wish there were more indi
viduals today with such a vivid
analysis. Perfection in anything,
let alone the explanation of the
Word of God, is so hard to come by
these days. What a relief it is to
hear that you have it all defined for
us.
1 think that is a fair comparison
to your ridiculous editorial col
umn. The only thing that the DN
has presented that has been mote
ludicrous this year was your other
article on “The Last Temptation
of Christ."
instead ot slamming tne door
on Christianity, why don't you
take a real look at what Christ asks
from each one of us. He asks only
that you believe in him as your
savior from sin. That's all, nothing
else.
If you accept him, the rest of
your life will fall together. Not
necessarily in a day or a week or
even a year, but in God’s time and
according to his will.
By the way, yes, God does use
enormous capital letters, in bold
face, and underlined.
Keelan Kaiser
sophomore
architecture
Columnist fails
to give options
This letter is directed to Gary
Longsine (DN, Jan. 27).
I fail to sec your point when you
criticize the UNL Good News ar
ticle “TheCompany You Keep.”
It seems to me that if a homosexual
wishes to make a change in his/her
lifestyle, the first step hc/she
would take would be to disassoci
ate hims&Uyherself from former
homosexual acquaintances, it is
merely a logical step to take. Simi
larly, a recovering alcoholic would
be strongly urged to stay away
from bans and other situations
where he/she would be tempted or
encouraged to regress back to
drinking.
Vm writing this, not to be
“judging others and casting the
first stone,” because I am not
without sin. I’m writing because
the Bible tells us to hold each other
accountable to the truth of God.
You cut down the advice of
fered in Good News but fail to
present an alternative. Is it because
you don’t feel a person has the
right to make such a change in his/
her life, or was it simply because
you could find nothing better to
suggest?
it you are unsure ot where the
Bible stands concerning homo
sexuality, there are numerous pas
sages dealing with it. In the Old
Testament there is Genesis 19:1
29 and Leviticus 18:22 (the latter is
extremely straightforward). In the
New Testament is Romans 1:25
27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9 (the for
mer being straightforward also).
I read your question (and your
column) and it made me wonder
about the DN. “Do they read this
garbage before they print it?”
James McIntyre
sophomore
political science
Author replies
to Gary Longsine
A confession to the editor:
I confess. I wrote the article in
the UNL Good News entitled
“The Best Kept Secret” which
described numeric patterns all
based on the number seven.
I confess that I was somewhat
nasty in my conclusion and if I had
to write it again I doubt if I would
write it the same way.
I confess that I beueve some of
the numeric patterns could be a
coincidence.
I confess that I do not know the
UNL Good News staff or agree
with everything in their paper -
especially on prophecy.
1 confess that I do not sroend my
time sitting around looking for
numeric patterns, or seeing how
many ways I can make people’s
names add up to 666.
I confess that I do not proclaim
the gospel of Christ by knocking
people over the head with the King
James version of the Bible or
speaking in all uppercase letters.
Now that I have those “horrible
sins’’ off my chest let me answer
some of the criticisms of my ar
ticle. When commenting about the
article, Gary Longsine (DN, Jan.
z /; saiu uus auuui umtscu, i
always get lost in their touched-up
reprints because parenthetical edi
torial comments are seldom
clearly separated from the original
work.” Frankly, I was concerned
tltai the UNL Good News staff
might try something like that The
truth is, however, neither they nor
I added to or subtracted from the
numerics and my conclusion re
mained untouched by the staff.
Longsine used the term “holy
number seven” to describe the
evidence. Neither the UNL Good
News staff, nor myself used such a
demeaning term.
The reason I wrote the article is
that I believe the Bible is the Word
of God (as if you didn’t already
know) and I am tired of people
saying that it is unreasonable, un
scientific and unintelligent to be
lieve that It also bothers me when
religious groups try to add or take
away from the Bible or twist it for
their own ideals.
In my opinion, criticism should
be directed to whether or not the
numeric patterns exist, and if so
are they just coincidence or is there
really a higher intelligence which
caused this.
Scott Nemeth
freshman
engineering
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