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Opinion Friday, August 27,1993 I Nebraskan Editorial Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jeremy Fitzpatrick.Editor, 472-1766 Kathy Steinauer.Opinion Page Editor Wendy Molt. Managing Editor Todd Cooper.Sports Editor Chris Hopfensperger.Copy Desk Chief Kim Spurlock.Sower Editor Kiley Timperley.Senior Photographer “The time has come for the people of America to say that we are sick and fed up with assault weapons. They’ve got no sporting use. They’re used to kill people. ’’ — U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno “Until more of us Nebraskans take off our ladylike gloves and get into the trenches, we’ll never win equality in the state. ” — Tara Muir, Nebraska state coordinator of the National Organization for Women “That’s just a flagrant lie. (Walton) has really been exaggerating everything. ’’ — Nebraska gymnastics coach Francis Allen, responding to allegations by former women's coach Rick Walton that Allen pushed to have Walton fired “I saw my son go through here, three grandkids, my daughter.’’ J — Marty Cushing, drop/add employee “The regents had no idea this was happening. ’’ — Nil Regent Don Blank, on the hiring of former UNK Chancellor William Nester as a six-month assistant to NU President Martin Massengale. Nester will be paid $56,000. “There were times when the whole thing seemed like It was going so slow and those were the times you just felt like hanging it up. But I had to overcome those feelings if I was going to come back. ” — Nebraska quarterback Ben Rutz, who is recovering from a knee injury And so, like proud troops marching without compromise through the muddied streets of a quiet hamlet, students return to waterlogged Iowa City. In mute fascination residents observe the arrival, wondering about the intentions of the newcomers and preparing for flight. Residents vilify students as snot-nosed usurpers, while students dismiss the townsfolk as little people ungrateful for a new influx of disposable income. But these impressions are only the product of tension rooted in an essential lack of respect between people who annoy each other. Students should approach Iowa Citians as generous hosts (not flesh puppets occupying space in the bars) and endeavor to leave the natives free of the terror of drunken maniacs trying to find dormitories at 4:30 in the morning. If you wouldn’t stomp through your hometown, shrieking at your friends and molesting your fellow citizens, don’t do it here. If you would do this at home, then go back there on the weekends. Everyone else should refrain from looking on the incoming students as spooky outlanders and try to remember that this is a time of discovery for many young people with low tolerance. Despite a few loud, inexcusably vile interlopers inclined to soil your doorways and hubcaps, many of the apparent lunatics running about now will soon calm down and become tolerably cynical. While it is futile to attempt to like everyone, there’s no sense in being rude about honest differences of lifestyle. Avoid your antagonists with a smile, but do not ignore them, for now is a time to learn about others. — The Daily Iowan University of Iowa Staff editorials represent the official policy of the Fall 1993 Daily Nebraskan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. Editorials do not necessarily reflect the views of the university, its employees, the students or the NU Board of Regents. Editorial columns represent the opinion of the author. The regents publish the Daily Nebraskan. 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Submit material to the Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68388-0448. / CARnoomm \ / OtAmWN,WOERtDCRCR \ IWW&MANJfiroTbSJWNt ) J\WRCWEl> Ltt©?'/ to-SCCM SEXCCtt iQWRtaUSWJ Fame colors Crayola Girl blu J Ihave just dropped in the mail box my ticket to fame, fortune and possibly a spot on Fox’s new fall lineup. I just mailed my entiy to Crayola’s “Name the New Colors* contest. This spring, the folks at Binney & Smith introduced 16 new colors, and they are allowing their huge audience to name the new crayons. The winners will be swept off to Hollywood with three of their closest friends to Crayola’s huge 90th birth day bash. AND the new color name and the winner’s name will be printed on the crayon. Now usually I’m skeptical about contests, but this time, I am going to win. In fact, I’ve probably already won. How could I lose? What self respecting crayon magnate could refuse letting someone named Rain bow name their crayons? It’s a publ ic ity gem! Besides, my color names are in credible. I’m a reasonably creative person, and I’ve been deliberating about this all summer. I have to win. But, even if I’d chosen “snot” instead of “green apple,” how could they turn me awav? The birthday bash is in October, and it could get in the way of mid terms or class projects, but I’m sure mv professors will understand. If not, who cares? I won’t need this univer sity much longer anyway. Those Crayola people became the first name in chilaren’s art supplies because they know a good thing when they see it. This is the company that brought us built-in sharpeners and Periwinkle. They know the business. When they see my name and how in touch I am with color, they’ll want to give me more than a trip to Holly wood. I have a feeling, a strong feeling, in mv bones and my blood and the base of my soul that they will ask me, Rainbow Rowell, to be their spokes woman, to be... The Crayola Girl. Soon enough, you will see me in Crayola television commercials, How could I lose? What self respecting crayon magnate co I refuse letting someone named Rainbow name their crayons? a publicity gem! newspaper advertisements and glossy, full-color back-to-school inserts in Family Circle. There will be life-size, cardboard cutouts of me wherever Crayola products are sold. I’ll be famous. I’ll be bigger than Orville Redenbacher, bigger than the BK guy .bigger even than Snap, Crack le and Pop. And yet, being the Crayola Girl won’t be all fun and games. My tele vision spots will be childish, maybe embarrassing. I might have to dance and sing a silly theme song, and I might not get along with my cartoon sidekick, Waxy. 1 just hope my family accepts my fame. The kids at school may tease my little brothers after my first People cover—“Hollywood Studs Who Can’t Say No to the Crayola Girl.” Aw well, they’ll get used to it. They can always buy popularity with free crayons and washable markers. I’ll prepare myself for the inevita ble day when the pseudo-intellectual set rejects me, but when Letterman does the “Top 10 Reasons Not to Let the Crayola Girl Borrow Your Green Crayon,” I’ll be hurt. With talent and star quality like mine, I’ll soon leave the Crayola peo ple for bigger and better things — movies, athletic shoe sponsorships, possibly a cameo on “Hanging With Mr. Cooper.” Before you can say Cerulean, I’ll be a star, a big star. I can hardly wait to leave my peon Lincoln friends behind. Get ready Hollywood, the Crayola Girl is com ing to town. This time next year, while the rest of you poor saps start classes, rifWN drinking flaming volcano drinks \® Sharon Stone and playing TubaR® with Kris Kross. I’ll buy a huge Beverly Hills m^| sion and offend my prudish neighb® by painting it Neon Carrot. I’ll bre® into film and music. I’ll cut an alb® with Lenny ICravitz and market ® own cologne — Smells Like R® Sienna. I’ll have torrid love affairs with ®. the guys from Color Me Badd, ev® the one who looks like Kenny G. T I’ll slowly drown myself in ® indoor, heated pool of my own e® cess. I’ll overexpose and publici® my pathetic little life until I wind ® doing 30-sccond spots during US® “Up All Night,” pushing my 1-97® color crisis hotline. m “Saturn and Uranus are in aligr ment — Magenta may not be a goo choice for you right now.” I * 11 end up wasted and used — th red crayon that everyone fights fc and pushes too hard until it’s rejectet a blunt, wrapperless hunk of wax. > smudged lump in the bottom of life’ bucket. Dear God, what have I done. Tha entry must be stopped. It was a bij envelope—heavy, too. Maybe I didn’ use enough stamps. I plead insuffi cient postage. Let someone else hav< my 15 minutes of fame. Take the money, the free 64-packs 1 don’t want to be the Crayola Girl. Rowell Is a juaior aews-editorlal, adver dslag aad haglisb major aad a Dally Nebras ka* cola matst. 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