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Editorial Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln Amy Edwards, Editor, 472-1766 Bob Nelson, Editorial Page Editor Ryan Sleeves, Maruigmg Editor Eric Pfanner, Associate News Editor Lisa Donovan, Associate News Editor Brandon Loomis, Wire Editor Jana Pedersen, Night News Editor Quibbles ‘n’ Bits I Kudos to Lincoln protesters, businesses Applause goes to the 10 Lincolnites and UNL stu dents who traveled to Nevada over Spring Break to protest nuclear weapons testing. All 10 were arrested on trespassing charges. The formal protest, sponsored by the anti-nuclear group American Peace Test out of Las Vegas, has been an j annual event in the area since 1988. Unofficial protests -- those not sponsored by American | Peace Test — have been going on at the Nevada Test Site since it was opened in 1951, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Last year, 13 Lincolnites and UNL students attended | “Reclaim the Test Site II.’’ It’s commendable and important that a contingent from Lincoln returned to the test site to protest this year. During large protests, like those sponsored by Ameri ? can Peace Test, the U.S. Department of Energy hires about 100 extra security officers to make arrests. Each of ? those officers and guards must undergo 16 weeks of | specialized training before the event. Last year, the government spent more than $1.25 j million in law enforcement salaries — not including food ; and housing — for the 10-day event. If nothing else, that price tag should make the govern ment pay attention. And with thousands of people returning year after year j to the doorstep of the test site, eventually someone may realize that protesters are serious about their efforts to end nuclear testing. • Also deserving of accolades are the Nebraska Recy cling Center and the following downtown businesses: Bar rymore’s, The Bistro, Brittany’s, The Comhusker, | Duffy’s Tavern, El leven, Julio’s, Lincoln University Club, P.O. Pears, Spigot and W.C.’s. All are participating in a nine-month, experimental { bottle recycling project to begin in May. The project began with a $35,000 grant from the J Nebraska Department of Environmental Control to the city of Lincoln, as part of the litter-reduction and recy cling program. With luck, the next nine months will prove making the project permanent economically feasible tor more busi nesses to participate. Even if it proves an economic burden, the price would be worth the effort of getting more businesses involved in recycling. - Amy Kdwards for the Daily Nebraskan Smoker lights up at Krugerud Kuri Krugerud, you have gone too far. You violated my (and a lot of other people’s) space in your spiteful attack on smokers (DN, April 6), particularly in advocating rude and violent (cigarette-load) behavior. You’ve “decided cigarettes have got to go.’’ Sorry, Kurt, that ain’t your decision. You can decide whether YOU will smoke or not, you can decide if YOU wish to cohabit with a smoker or not, and that’s about it. You will not dictate my behavior. I’m sorry that you had a bad expe rience, but apparently you set your self up for it. DON’T take it out on ME. You can decide if smoking is al lowed on your real estate. Only I will make that decision as concerns my property. Public space we must share. Did you comprehend that, “SHARE?” That docs NOT mean that, just in cate my smoke might get near you, 1 can’t smoke. It means that I will do what I please in MY share of this public space, and you do what you please in yours. EXAMPLE: Say we are in a public building that has two rooms. That means my cigarettes and I stay out of the one you’re in, IF, and only if, you and your befouling stenches stay out of the room I am in. Fair is fair. You made it apparent that you don’t enjoy cigarette smoke. OK. I’ll respect your dislikes if you respect mine. You don’t like one of my smells — know you that I damn well don’t like some of yours. The chemical stench of deodorants, after shaves, perfumes, hair sprays, the putrid recks of chewing gum, sweat, toe fungi and intestinal gas arc all ex tremely offensive to me. Why do vile, snotty, sell-right eous non-smokers like you think that when we havctoshareONEPUBLIC AREA that the smokers have to leave it? “Share” doesn’t mean that things must be YOUR way, HX) percent of the time! I won’t mind leaving, half the time, if you get the hell out of the other half. I think people like you DID notice the protests, but didn’t care - because you don’t realize that if YOU have rights, then we AL.L do. Don’t try to “save MY life,” you overbearing totalitarian! Fact is, I purely don’t want to live in a world controlled by you. Fran Thompson sophomore sociology World Airlines supports Earth Day ’! I Linguists warm up for season Remedial Baseball Talk II is punishment for non-versed fans Slats Grobnik said: “Don’lyou think it’s lime we started warming up? The big day is almost here.” I’m ready anytime you are. “Then let’s go. Chuck it in there.” OK. How do you think they’re going to do? “Well, it depends.” On what? “The pitching. ’Cause pitching is 90 percent of the game.” Very good. And what kind of start ing pitcher do wc need? “Someone who can keep us in it for seven innings.” Of course, but there will be days when the starters don’t what? “When they just don’t have it.” And what docs that lead to? “They get shelled. An early shower.” Exactly. Then what will we need? “Strong middle relief.” And they do what? “Keep us in it until the late in nings.” While wc do what? “Chip away at their lead.” Excellent. Then what mast wc have? ‘ ‘Gotta have a stopper to come out ol the bullpen and shut ’em down.” By throw ing what? “Throwing smoke.” But there is more to winning than pitching. It helps if you can put to gether a what? “Put together a big inning.” And to do that, someone mast what? H it one out of here. W i th a couple of guys on.” How true. But there are days when the game is close and a big inning doesn’t happen. And how docs one run look? “One run can look very big.” And how do you get it? “You gotta find ways to manufac ture a run.” Precisely. And what arc these ways? “The hit and run. I’hc bunt. The stolen base.” And remember the walk. Because sometimes a walk is what? “Sometimes a w alk is as good as a base hit.” But il your pitcher is giving up walks, what terrible thing can the walks do to you? “The base on walks can kill you.” And if a walk or an error leads to a run early in the game, what can that run eventually do? “It can come hack and haunt you.” You’reonaroll. Now, speaking of the stolen base. Most stolen bases are stolen on whom? “The pitcher.” For failing to do what? “Throw over there and keep cm close.” Good. But there arc times when a base is stolen when it shouldn’t have been. Why? "Because a good throw' would have had ’em.” Right. Let us return to hilling. What should our hitlers do with the slider away? “Lay off it.” But if they can’t resist? “Then they gotta go the other way.” Mike Royko And what must they never do w ith it? “Try and pull it.” You’re ama/.ing. And when they see a hanging curve, what should the do? “Jump all over it.” And what w ill they hit? “A liner.” What kind of a liner? “A screaming liner. By the way, you said ‘hit.’ You shouloa said ‘ripped.’ Sec, a streaming liner is always ripped.” I stand corrected. “Yeah, ripped. If it’s ripped down the line, it can kick up the chalk. And that’s when it’s a game of inches.” I’m aware of that. “You didn’t say so. Or when it curves foul at the last minute. That’s a game of inches, too. You forgot to ask me anything about baseball being a game of inches.” I was going to get to it being a game of inches. “Yeah? Well maybe 1 should be warmin’ you up.” Can we go on? “Wing it in.” All right. Now', even if you play well, there is something that you’ve got to get. What is it? “You got to get the breaks.” I rue. But there is something to remember about the breaks. “You gotta remember that it’s a long season. And over the season, the breaks have a w'ay of evening out.” Very insightful. Now, what about that rookie? Can he do it? “He’s got all the tools." And w hat could he be? “He could be a good one.” And what docs he come to do? “He comes to play.” Very good. And w hat does he give you? “He gives you 110 percent." Of course, we won't know until he’s been where? ‘ ‘Around the league once or twice, and the pitchers get a good iook at ’em.” You’re on the mark. Now, tell me about injuries. “Injuries arc part of the game. And so arc errors. You didn’t ask me about errors being part of the game. ’ I was going to say that. “That’s what you say.” Can we continue? “Where were we?” Injuries. What do you need in the event of injuries? “A strong bench.” In other words, a guy who can come in and what? “Come in and do the job. Hey, how come you ain’t asked me about w hat you do if a guy is digging in on your pitcher? About how you gotui send him a message by brushing him back?” That was next. ‘ Or what happens if the pilch gels away and hits ’em? You didn’t ask me what can happen then." Well, w hat can happen? “The hitter charges the mound. Ar.d then you get a bench-clearing brawl. Jeez, you don’t remember a bench-clearing brawl, and you re asking me the questions? And you didn’t even ask me where a pitcher ain’t supposed to go before he throws a pitch.” To the men's room? “Nah, he ain't supposed to go to his mouth. Or the umpire will think he’s loading it up. Throwing a wet one. And you ain’t asked me about an outfielder missing a what?” Uh, missing breakfast? “Nope. Missing the cutoff man. You know, I don’t think you’re ready for the opener. And you didn’t ask me w hat a bloop single will look like. Hmiiim, it will kxik unsightly? “bummy. In the box score, it H look like a line drive.” Uh, it’s been a short spring train ing. “Yeah, and you’re on the bubble. The what? “That’s it You’re being sent down.” To w here? ,, “To Remedial Baseball lalk II ©two By The Chicago Tribune