Netjraskan
Editorial Board
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chris Hopfensperger. Editor, 472-1766
Jeremy Fitzpatrick.Opinion Page Editor
Alan Phelps.Managing Editor
Brian Shellito.Cartoonist
Susie Arth. Senior Reporter
Kim Spurlock. Diversions Editor
Sam Kepfield..Columnist
Close call
Leaders should address arms reductions
On the surface, the United States and Russia have moved
toward friendship. But below the waters, the Cold War is appar
ently still being fought.
Last month, a U.S. submarine collided with a Russian sub in
the Barents Sea. Russian military officials investigating the
accident reported Thursday that the U.S. vessel came close to
striking the Russian sub’s nuclear reactor.
Rear Adm. Alexei Ovcharenko said the U.S. sub came Within
66 feet of hitting a vital reactor area in the March 20 incident. He
said the accident could have caused an explosion that would have
dumped radiation into the sea.
President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be
having their first summit meeting Sunday and Monday in Canada.
They will have many issues to discuss, most notably Yeltsin’s
tenuous hold on democracy in Russia.
But the two leaders should take the opportunity to begin
dialogue on further cuts to their armed forces. If they are serious
about friendship, arms reductions that would eliminate dangerous
incidents like the subs’ collision are in order.
"Too many people get caught up In stuff they
are doing. / kind of like to hang on to the kid (In
, me). That's why I like to wear my hat backwardssf *
—ASUN President Keith Bones, *
“I deserve the death penalty. I would just like to
see my father one more time and have some
cigarettes."
— Serbian Borislav Herak, sentenced to death for war crimes.
“This Is not a fair judgment. I am not guilty. I'd
also like some cigarettes. ”
— Sretko Damjanovic, also sentenced to death.
1 guess you have to have some ego to do
something like this "
— former ASUN president Andrew Sigerson.
“I didn't think we would body slam (San Diego)
so bad. They believed they could hop on them
hard, and they did. ”
— Nebraska women ’s basketball coach Angela Beck, on her
team’s confidence against first-round NCAA opponent San Diego.
“Am I open-minded as we begin? Not
completely, I must concede.”
— Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., before Congressional hearings
on homosexuals in the military.
“All the bullshit we’ve been hearing In the
papers... I felt like I wanted to shove it up their
asses. ”
— Nebraska pitcher Brian Martin, on tension with Creighton
after UNL Athletic Director Bill Byrne asked the NCAA to
investigate possible rules violations in the Creighton basebaU
program.
“I guess I’m either dumb or I have a high
tolerance for pain. ”
— Nebraska linebacker Mike Anderson, on his injury-prone
collegiate career.
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‘Scapegoats’
I would first like to speak on the
subject of the University Bookstore.
You seem to have missed the bargains
that are available in our bookstore. I
went to a local supermarket and found
10 items in the school supplies that
were more expensive than the exact
same items in our bookstore. Surely
the supermarket sells more pens and
pencils than our bookstore, yet the
bookstore is 30 percent cheaper on
average than the supermarket Our
bookstore is a member of a coopera
tive that orders pencils and other odds
and ends in bulk so that students can
purchase them at lower pices.
Several factors combine to inflate
the cost of the textbooks. Textbooks
are short runs so the retooling cost to
print an edition is high. If the tooling
cost to reset the press is $10,000 and
you print 1,000 books, tooling costs
are $10 a book. If you print a million
books, the price per book is 1 cent.
Textbooks are built to last. Textbooks
are hardcover and printed on heavy
paper with several colors to make the
photo quality the best possible. This
kind of quality costs quality.
Why (toes the bookstore charge so
much and yet give so little for the
return of a used book? The professor
is to blame here. The only market the
bookstore has is the student who is
told what to buy by the professor.
When does the professor commit to
me text lor tne semester / At the last
minute. The repurchase of the books
is a speculation by the bookstore. It is
stuck with any books it buys back if
the professor changes texts without
warning. If the bookstore buys back
50 copies at $10 each and the profes
sor changes the text, the bookstore
eats the costs.
Another scapegoat is the Lincoln
Christian Church. I am not a member
of the church, but 1 was invited to
attend the services. 1 had no idea that
the church was being accused of any
thing when I went there. I had a cupof
coffee and a doughnut, then they let
me sing a few hymns with them and
then the minister got up and spoke. I
have attended services in several dif
ferent churches, and this church was
not much different All the sermons
are based on the Bible. 1 saw no
evidence of any form of mind control
in the several times I went to the
church. I saw no one deprived of sleep
or food. I did see lots or friendly folks
who were glad to welcome me to the
fold, and they did not care if I was
black or white, rich or poor.
Lincoln Christian is a group of
individuals that share a common be
lief. I do not share that belief, but they
seemed to respect me anyway. I have
no need of any doctrine or dogma, and
therefore I am not a member of any
organized church. I did find the stan
dard list of faults with Lincoln Chris
tian that I found with every other
Christian church I have attended. All
churches tell you what to do and what
not to do. If you don’t need their help
to run your life, then don’t go to the
church. If you are a zealot for a thing
at one point and then a zealot against
a thing, it is a thing, and you are a
zealot.
Mark McGoveran
freshman
undeclared
David
Surviving
Thank you for yourpiece on Leslie
Worrell, r‘Seeing through the fog:
Sexual assault victim rebuilds life
with power of the pen” (DN, March
29, 1993). The piece was well-writ
ten, sensitive and so accurately re
flected the lives that survivors of
sexual victimization experience.
Similar to Leslie’s, my history of
sexual abuse began when I was 3
years old. It began with a father and
grandfather and ended only a few
years ago, when I was 25, with a
stepfather. Sexual violence and vic
timization continued throughout that
time by men I encountered. Like Leslie
and many other survivors of child
hood sexual abuse, I remembered
nothing. I lived life as if in a thick,
black fog, suffering from depression,
somatic pain, anxiety attacks, crying
for no apparent reason, lack of moti
vation, inability to concentrate, fear
of men and inability to trust others. I
Anally realized that something was
very wrong in my life and found a
therapist to help me lifi the fog.
Unfortunately, the events that we
experienced arc not unusual. Cur
rently, one in every four women can
expect to be sexually victimized be
fore she is 18. One in eight men is
victimized in his lifetime; the lives of
men are just as affected by the abuse
as the lives of women.
The process of healing from any
type of sexual victimization —
whether childhood sexual abuse, date
rape or stranger rape — is long and
painful and requires tremendous cour
age and support from loved ones.
However, in order to become a survi
vor, not a victim, of sexual violence,
the process must begin.
Carolyn Penharlow
graduate student
nursing
staff nurse
University Health Center
Dissection
I submit this letter in response to
Paul Koester’s letter (DN, March 30,
1993) and as a general address to
students of Biology 101. I strongly
encourage all students now taking
Biology 101 and future students of
this course to participate in the dissec
tion of the laboratory rat. The very
fact that many of you will not enter
into the medical profession, nor con
tinue into the field of biology, is rea
son enough for you to relish thisonce
in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Contrary to Koester’s statement
that the sole purpose of the dissec tion
is to simply “see what a freshly killed
mammal looks like inside,” the labo
ratory exercise does, in fact, serve a
valuable function. The purpose of this
lab is to teach students fundamental
principles of mammalian anatomy
through the use of specimens structur
ally similar to humans. I strongly
disagree with Koester’s statement that
writing a paper on animal experimen
tation as a substitute is in some way
“more educational.’’ Though obvious
to me, it is evidently not obvious to
Koester that writing a paper isentircly
different from performing a labora
tory dissection in a supervised seuing.
I would also like to comment on
Koester’s brilliamcomparisonof plas
tic food models to plastic anatomical
models. Koester would have us be
lieve that artificial anatomical mod
els are just as effective in the realm of
education as are “plastic models of
burritos” to enhancing our appetite. If
this argument is valid, then I propose
that learning anatomy on artificial
models will be as satisfying to the
student as eating the plastic food would
be to Koester.
If Koester truly wants to undertake
a cause in the name of humanity, I
suggest he volunteer for the People s
City Mission, Lighthouse or another
worthy organization. They’ft just rats,
Paul. Try to think “human” when
thinking humanely, and havea plastic
burrito on me.
G.J. Kaufman
medicine
UNMC