Crreeks motivated for success *
mier reaamg Brian Svoboda’s
editorial entitled “Homecoming
reeks of greeks,’ ’ my roommate and I
felt that your strongly biased and
overall poor attitude elicits some re
sponse.
You ask why you should pay to
crown a king and queen who bear
little resemblance to you or your
friends. Well, Brian, we arc glad that
the royalty candidates did not re
semble you or your friends. The NU
royalty are student leaders that have a
host of accomplishments above and
beyond the normal praise and recog
nition most students get. This has
nothing to do with the fact that they
are greek or non-greek. They arc
outstanding ... you’re not.
The whole basis of the greek sys
tem is to rush above-average young
people coming out of high school.
They may be academically gifted,
athletically gifted or possess some
other significant quality that sets
them above the rest. There is an ac
cent applied through the greek sys
tem acknowledging the fact that in
volvernent throughout college days is
key in later life. That key can open
many doors.
Brian, your views are twisted. The
fact that these people stand out or get
ahead is not because they are greek,
but rather that they are leaders and
scholars that are willing to give a
little bit more than the rest. I have a
suggestion Brian: Instead of sitting
around writing articles degrading the
greek system, how about you and
your friends getting involved as well.
The fact that you planned to write
Elvis in on your Homecoming ballot
only substantiates the fact that you’re
not as intelligent as you think you are.
We hope that the citizens of this
country don’t live by your standards
while voting for our president. Other
wise, this country is in real trouble.
Making the Homecoming election a
joke is no solution. You obviously are
a person who can ’ t compete, so rather
than accept the fact that you can’t
make the grade, you criticize the
teacher. Your simple, self-centered
nature appalls us and any other stu
dents who hold scholarship and lead
ership in high regard.
We would like to challenge you,
Mr. S voboda and one or two of the the
few friends you have, seeing as how
with your attitude you couldn’t have
many more than that, to submit a
resume with your accomplishments
and compare it to any of the outstand
ing greeks on our campus. The chal
lengers don’t have to be Homecom
ing candidates and we’ll even omit
the fact that they are greck. ^
We think, Mr. Svoboda, that
you’re only a little person in a big ®
world. This isn’t because you’re non
greek, but because your cynical atti
tudes have your life so limited and
your accomplishment so meager that
you have nothing else to do but frown
on the world around you.
Kevin Larsen
math
senior
Pat Doering
English
senior
Bush didn t stop abortion, but restricted it
in the Nov. 1 issue of the Daily
Nebraskan, there were two letters
expressing support for Bush’s veto of
government funding for abortion in
the cases of rape and incest. Both
letters completely missed the point of
the issue by using the life-begins-at
conception belief to rationalize the
veto.
The fact is, abortion is still legal
whether you like it or not. Bush may
think he’s sitting pretty right now, but
all he has done is cut off low income
people from a right that only people
with big bucks can afford now. He
hasn’t stopped abortion, he has only
further restricted the rights of people
who have been trampled upon for the
past nine years.
This is merely the latest in a scries
of fundamental human rights guaran
teed by our Constitution that the Bush
administration has restricted, or at
tempted to restrict. It probably won’t
be the last.
Keith Richter
sophomore
anthropology
Make time, energy count I
This is a message to those men and
women who try to prevent women
from entering abortion clinics and
who carry big signs that say, “They
kill babies here!”
Have you signed up to adopt a
child? If not, why? Is it because you
don’t want one, can’t afford one, or
don’t have the time, patience or de
sire to raise a child? What if a woman
who was about to enter a family plan
ning clinic saw your sign, then de
cided not to have an abortion but
chose instead to give her baby to you?
Would you accept it? What if the
mother belonged to a minority group
— or was addicted to drugs, or tested
positive for AIDS?
Why are you spending your time
carrying a sign? Why aren't you vol
unteering to babysit a child bom to a
single mother so she can work? Why
haven’t you opened your door to a
pregnant teenager whose parents
have kicked her out when she took
your advice and decided not to have
an abortion?
Lnd exploitation
of poor women
When President Bush vetoed the
abortion funding for poor women
who arc victims of rape and incest, he
underestimated women’s capacity
for empathy with one another.
Angry Americans, and especially
angry women, will register their in
dignation to the callous way in which
the victimization of women is being
bartered for political gain when they
attend the rallies to Mobilize foi
Women’s Lives across the United
States, in Washington D.C. and at the
Capitol in Lincoln at 2 p.m. on Sun
day, Nov. 12.
When Congress passed a bill to
fund abortions for poor women who
ate rape victims, it was just one tiny
step in the direction of telling
women, “You deserve the right to
control your own bodies and your
own reproduction.”
But President Bush and Nebraska
Representatives Bereuter and Smith
decided their political debt to the
zealous anti-choice activists was
more important than the well-being
of rape victims.
On Nov. 12 we have an opportu
nity to protest the exploitation of
women who are rape victims as the
tools ol politics, as well as speak out
for our right to privacy in making
reproductive choices.
Elna Peirce
president.
Pro-choice Coalition of Nebraska
Omaha
As for the taxpayers who resent
paying for abortion, who do you think
pays for foster care, welfare, social
workers and juvenile delinquency?
The Lax payers.
Let’s talk about something money
can’t buy: love. Have you ever visited
a home for abused and unwanted
children? Have you ever been to ju
venile hall and seen the children who
have committed crimes because they
were born to mothers who didn’t
want them?
I’m not thrilled about abortion, but
I don’t think anyone has the right to
tell others not to have one unless he or
she has done the things I have men
tioned above.
So, to those carrying those signs
and trying to prevent women from (
entering planning clinics, heed my
message: If you must be against abor
tion, don’t be a hypocrite - make
your time and energy count.
Richard Allen
senior
life studies
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