r Parentalism, sub rosas reinforce problems
UN credibility
at Legislature
essential
I would like to respectfully dis
agree with Colin Theis. (DN, May 3,
“UNL problems not in joke issue but
elsewhere”). I believe that those in
volved with student lobbying efforts
both with the regents and the state
senators work very hard. The defeat
of this year’s 2 percent lid issue is an
example of what cooperative efforts
between student government, con
cerned students, the Daily Nebras
kan, faculty and administration can
accomplish.
As for the role of the DN at the
Legislature, I believe it is unfortunate
that the credibility of the student
newspaper was compromised by the
joke issue. As an active member in
the Government Liaison Committee,
I can assure you that GLC will be at
the Legislature every week airing
student concerns, establishing credi
bility and making progress. But it
should not be ignored that the DN is a
very important supplement for the
senators to gauge student views. I
would like to call your attention to the
editorial staff. These people are
employed to air concerns and they are
students. Therefore, wouldn’ t they be
printing student opinion? I believe
-t-LETTERS the EDITOR—-—
so. This makes the credibility of the
newspaper essential.
Alisa Miller
junior
broadcasting
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska student lobbyist
Stereotypes
among students
hinder solutions
Walter Gholson and Pat Dinslage
(DN, May 2) fail to realize in their
attack on graduating traditional stu
dents that they are themselves prac
ticing an -ism in their article: paren
talism. All students have had to deal
with being treated as if they knew
little about the world around them
throughout their college careers.
I usually expect people who are
not students to treat college students
as some sort of ignorant, hedonistic
group. But what disappoints me is
when this attitude is expressed by
fellow students, traditional or non
traditional.
Their article leaves me with the
impression that their generation of
the ’60s and ’70s is somehow more
informed, more active, more in tune
with how to institute societal change.
This attitude is very similar to the
types of attitudes that they say plague
society — “racism, classism, sexism.”
I would appreciate it if in the fu
ture the Daily Nebraskan made a better
attempt to refrain from using such
strong and poorly supported stere
otypes.
If these stereotypes exist among
our campus community, then how
can we break these stereotypes among
people outside our community?
Doug Oxley
senior
economics/political science
Newsletters
further damage
greek reputation
Well, the sub rosa newsletters have
been released for the 1991 spring
season. For those of you who do not
know what a sub rosa is, it is a secret
fraternity that proclaims itself the elite
greeks of the system, the cream of the
crop, the respected leaders of this
campus who bond together to give its
views of how things are and how
things should be in die greek system
and on the campus. They call them
selves Senior Scroller Society and
Theta Nu Epsilon, or TNE.
After reading these newsletters,
we can truly see why we have the
problems we do on campus. We think
of our leaders as the individuals who
offer solutions to the various prob
lems on campus: problems like ra
cism, sexism and apathy. What these
letters indicate to us it that these “elitist”
greeks aren’t out to offer solutions,
but to promote conflict within our
campus community. They are hypo
critical, condemning racism while at
the same time telling minority groups
to “get the hell out.” They name vari
ous individuals they don’t like, hu
miliating them and insulting their
beliefs. They self-righteously conde
scend to fraternities and sororities,
and basically discredit the system that
made them the great greek “leaders”
they consider themselves to be.
You are anti-productive to the greek
system, and simply justify all the
remarks said against it that are heard
so loudly today. If you are truly lead
ers, you will change your attitudes
and promote a more positive image of
a system that is ailing nationally. Until
then, keep your mouths shut, your
pens capped and stop contributing to
the problem.
Chris Halligan
junior
arts and sciences
John Pacchetti
senior
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apply.
If a student isn’t appointed, Mas
sey said he would like to see the
creation of a student advisory board
to the commission to represent NU
students.
Once the commission is created, it
will have the power to set up any
board deemed necessary for input.
Massey said the first step to creat
ing a student advisory board would be
to set up “a viable system that all state
institutions support.”
He said he wanted all Nebraska
colleges and universities involved so
students are equally represented on
the board.
“We need support throughout the
university system,” Massey said.
“Students need a say. They’re the
ones that are affected by the board.”
A SUN senators, along with repre
sentatives from the Coalition of the
People of Color, also will structure
the newly created Racial Affairs
Subcommittee.
A commission created to study the
subcommittee will set up criteria by
which the subcommittee will be judged
According to the bylaw amend
ment that created the subcommittee,
the commission must prepare the cri
teria this summer to be presented to
the senate next fall.
In December, the commission will
use the criteria to evaluate the effec
tiveness of the subcommittee to see if
it has been successful or if changes
are necessary.
DN
Continued from Page 1
Nebraskan will be distributed through
cubicles near the information booth
at the Capitol. Until the policy is
implemented, the paper will still be
available at the booth.
Jana Pedersen, editor of the Daily
Nebraskan, said she was pleased with
the outcome of the meeting, which
was called by Bill Schatz, a lawyer
with the American Civil Liberties
Union.
“Schatz thought it was just a mis
understanding and that if we got to
gether, we could work it out,” she
said.
Brian Rockey, public affairs di
rector for Gov. Ben Nelson, attended
the meeting and said “one of the things
Larry mentioned is that he never
perceived it as a banning — just a
chance to look at how things were
handled.”
He said Primeau had been unaware
that there was free distribution of
publications at the Capitol until it had
been brought to his attention after the
controversy raised by the joke issue.
Primeau had then asked all free
distribution publications to stop send
ing ineir materials until specific cu
bicles had been set up for them, he
said.
The question, Rockey said, was “if
there is free distribution, which is
fine, how are we going to handle it
other than leaving a stack somewhere?”
Jim Raglin, executive director of
the Nebraska Press Association, at
tended the meeting as an “observer.”
He said his group was “very inter
ested in anything that appears to ban
a newspaper.”
Although Raglin said he disap
proved of the Daily Nebraskan’s
“insistence on sophomoric humor
which has nothing to do with journal
ism," the newspaper still had a right
to have its issues displayed in the
Capitol.
“I’m just very pleased that an ar
rangement was made that the news
paper will be publicly and readily
available," he said.
Although other organizations have
not approached Primeau about dis
tributing their publications in the
Capitol, he predicted that they would.
r‘That doesn’t bother me, he said.
“Now, I know we do it (distribute
materials) and that we should do it..
. That’s what government and free
press are all about.”
I-NEWS BRIEFS
UNL Alumni Association to give awards
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln Alumni Association will
award three former Nebraskans and
university alumni for distinguished
service Saturday at commencement
exercises.
• John H. “Jack” Miller, vice
president for university advance
ment at Ball State University in
Muncie, Ind.
Miller was executive vice presi
. dent of the UNL Alumni Associa
tion from 1972-87 and was respon
sible for establishing the Scarlet &
Cream Singers and the Student
Alumni Association.
• William C. Schilling, associ
ate executive editor of Sertoma
International of Kansas City, Mo.
Schilling served on the College
of Agriculture Alumni Association
board of directors from 1979-86.
• Richard N. Walker, vice presi
dent for exploration and produc
tion for the National Cooperative
Refinery Association in Denver.
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