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* —^ _ -r. Accidents unveil feelings of timelessness aam 2E _m ^hanahni no If'XK I am sure that you all arc familiar with the feeling. It has happened to everyone at least once, and quite often to some folks. You see it coming, but can do nothing about it. It is finished before it seems to have begun. There is an eerie feel ing of timelessness, and some people might feel as if they are float ing above their own bodies. Your mind works desperately fast. You want logo back, to do someth ing differently, anything, but it is all for naught. And then it happens, that horrible crunch as your body plows forward. That, too, often happens in slow mo tion, as if you might still have stopped it, had you grabbed hold of someth ing just a moment earlier. Then you are dazed for a moment before climbing out of your car and wondering why it had to happen to you at this particular time and place, or why it had to happen to you at all. Traveling by car is a wonderful thing, but there is always the fear of getting into an accident. Of course I would never hit anyone else, but you always have to watch out for the other person. I have been in two recent acci dents, both of them minor if only unsettling. Both of them occurred in parking lots. The first was a couple of summers back on the verge of a departure for Colorado, where I would visit rela tives and then disappear into the great outdoors. The parking slallsat my apartment complex were rather small, so I backed David Badders/DN my car into the space between two rows of parked cars, leaving it there while I did some last minute packing. From my earliest years 1 was ad monished to go to the bathroom just before leaving for a long drive in the car, and that adv ice had always served me well until this incident. The car was packed, the cooler filled with ice and sandwiches, and the maps were marked. I asked my traveling companion to watch the car for a moment and to move it if anyone needed to get into the parking lot. From inside the bathroom my calm was shattered when I heard a horrific crashing and grinding sound, as if a refrigerator in the apartment above mine had fallen through the floor and landed atop my stove. 1 ran outside already knowing that the worst had happened. My friend told me that it had hap pencd before she could do anything. I was naturally suspicious, but it turned out that she was quite right. She watched it all in q surreal slow mo tion, unbelieving, like she had been in the car itself. A guy from an apartment across the lot had casually gotten into h is car, started it, and immediately backed into my car, which was blocking his exit. How he could have failed to see my car parked behind his, I have no idea. Had he waited even 20 seconds, there would have been no problem. As it was, he got out of his car, and 1 got out of my apartmen t and we went through the ritual of surveying the damage, each circl ing the pair of cars with frowns on our l aces and hands on our hips, stooping here and lapping there. His English was poor and my Chi nese worse, so we did not get very far. There really was not much to say, but I wanted to work it out after our return. My passenger door was wedged shut and his car was essentially un damaged, so I thought it might wait. I suggested we exchange insur ance information the following Mon day upon my return and he nodded vigorously. I moved my car forward and watched the man load his family into his car and drive away. Aside from having one less work ing door on my car, the trip went well, and I felt a wondrous sense of renewal in the mountains, regretting only that my butt got sunburned while sitting in the sun. That Monday 1 went to the man’s apartment and felt a sense of dread as my knocks went unanswered. The dread solidified as the complex man ager explained that the man and his family has just moved back to China My other accident occurred much more recently, just a couple of weeks ago while visiting friends. It wasaboul 12:55 a.m. and we had just run out of beer. You probably already know the rest of the story. I drove a few blocks to the local convenience mart and pulled into the parking lot. Now, as I understand things, a person drives down the lot and pulls into an empty stall. If some one is in a stall, that person wait*to back out until things are clear. So there I am, turning into this stall when, for some unfathomable reason, this guy looks right at my car in his rear view mirror and backs directly into me, just clipping the rear of my car as I slipped into the stall. Again I felt the curious timelessness, experi encing ages in an instant. How do these things happen? They just should not be. I sat and shook my head for a moment, then sent my friend in for the beer while I got out to repeat the ritual. I looked at his truck and he at my car. I wondered why it was that the person who hits another car never seems to suffer damage to his/her vehicle, especially when that person is clearly in the wrong. We stood there in silence until I suggested that we simply forget the matter. His truck was not damaged, and I saw no point in hassling him and his insurance company for damage that 1 was not going to repair anyway. He drove off with what I thought to bean inadequate amount of gratitude, and I sal again in my car trying to figure out how these things happen. My friend came outempty-handed a moment later — they did not even sell beer at this location. Bryan Peterson is a senior Knglish, phi losophy and psychology major and a Daily Nebraskan reporter. -- . Artist Continued from Page 9 Unfortunately, many local artists fear rejection and lack the self-confi dence to exhibit their work interna tionally, Harper said. Yet, getting into international competition is as easy as showing work locally. “It’s a super-simple easy system.” Harper said he wanted to develop a system to help local artists and students arrange exhibits overseas. Cornerstone-UMHE, thanks the University community for its active participation in the CAN-IT Food Drive for the Malone Community Center. We are very appreciative to the following residence halls and Greek houses: Sandox Burr-Fcddc Cather Neihardl Sellcck Harper Schramm* Smith Triangle Alpha Delta Pi* Gamma Phi Beta* Pi Beta Phi Kappa Delta Tau Kappa Epsilon* • Ag Men Farmhouse Delta Tau Delta Kappa Sigma THANK YOU! Hit Squad’s Redman spins ‘P-Funk’ Debut brandishes standout lyrics, knock-out tracks “Whut? Thee Album” Redman RAL/Chaos/Columbia Funky. Thai’s the one word to describe “Whul? Thee AIbum,” the debut from the Newark, N.J., Redman. Redman is the most recent artist in the Hit Squad, EPMD’s produc tion team. This album’is produced by Erick Sermon (E Double EE of EPMD) and Reggie Noble. This past summer, Redman had guest vocals on “Head Banger,” the hard-hitting track from EPMD’s “Business Never Personal.” Redman has continued this “deeper than underground” hard funk. Funk can’t describe this style. Lots of rappers arc funky or use funk music backgrounds, but this is P-Funk.It’sParliameni/Funkadclic, George Clinton, not since Digital Underground, shake you from head to toe funk. Every track, with the exception of the few “skit” tracks, has the funk. There’s no deviation. Ser mon even comes off on “Watch Yo Nuggets,” which is reminiscent of the EPMD album. Songs like “Da Funk,” “Time 4 Sum Aksion,” which uses B-Rcal’s line from “How I Could Just Kill a Man” as a hook, and “Rated R” which has Rakim’s opening from “Lyrics of Fury” as a hook, typify the sound of the album. Actually, almoslcvcry track is a standout. Redman’s first release is “Blow Your Mind” in which Redman, the self-proclaimed funkadclic rebel, claims to scoop girls from “Madonna all the way down to Smurfctte,” and busts rhymes in Korean (not for long). Pete Rock comes in to produce “How to Roll a Blunt” and turns out a song powered by slow-rolling funk. “Hardcore” is yet another knock you-out funk track on which Redman shows that he might just be the most talented rapper ever when it comes to alliteration. “A Day of Sooperman Lover” and “Tonight’s Da Night” arc two more greats, but really the album has too many to pick just a few. This hard-core, underground, hip-hop funk should make every one happy, and no one gets any funkier than Redman. — Greg Schick New Jersey s Redman debuts with the funky “Whut? Thee Album.” . --1-; $3 00 per day for 15 words on Individual student and student organization ads. $4 00 per day tor 15 words on non-student ads. $.15 each additional word $.75 billing charge. Personal ads must be prepaid Found ads may be submitted tree ot charge DEADLINE: 2:oo p.m. weekday before publica tion. The Daily Nebraskan will not print any adver tisement which discriminates against any person on the basis of sex. sexual orientation, race, religion, age. disability, marital status or national origin. The Daily Nebraskan reserves the right to edit or reject any advertisement at any time which does not comply with the policies and judgments of the newspaper. 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