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Tuesday, August 30, 1994 Page 4 Nebraskan Editorial Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln ..Editor. 472-1766 .Opinion Page Editor .Managing Editor .Associate News Editor Columnist/Associate News Editor .Photography Director .Copy Desk Chief ..Cartoonist Km ioki \i. Goal attained Soccer kicks UNL toward gender equity Today marks the most significant progress to date toward gender equity at LTNL. With the addition of women’s soccer to the athletic slate, the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln has joined the wave of schools across the country striving for such equity in sports programs. The newly formed women’s soccer team takes the field at 5:30 p.m today for the first time at Whittier Field, 23rd and W streets. A year after the State of the University address in which the chancel lor announced women’s soccer would be added, Graham Spanicr will finally sec the completion of his project. But it wasn’t achieved without a lot of work. First, there was the question of funding the program. Then it was the hiring of a coach. Then recruiting the players. Jeff Zeleny.... Kara Morrison. Angie Brunkow. Jeffrey Rohh Rainbow Rowell Kiley Christian. Mike Lewis.... James Mehsling And linally, setting up a schedule. Athletic director Bill Byrne and the Nebraska athletic department have answered those questions. Now. the Nebraska sports scene consists of 11 men’s teams and 11 women’s teams. But not without disagreement, of course. Many, including Comhusker football coach Tom Osborne, have opposed the gender equity movement. Osborne has said that the move toward gender equity would hurt men’s sports. Profits from the football and men’s basketball teams may now be used to support sports such as women’s soccer, which aren’t projected to make a profit. Soccer’s popularity, however, is continuing to grow. More Ameri cans are aware of the sport and its world popularity as a result of the the World Cup Games. The heightened interest in the sport could be an advantage to UNL’s program. Students with a new interest in soccer would be able to follow the team. The addition of women’s soccer has a two-fold advantage: it has helped bridge the gap in gender equity at UNL and has given students another Husker team to watch. Taking the lead Marquis' background to serve Lied well C. Bruce Marquis, former performing arts director at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, says he remembers vividly his days as a fine arts student at Ohio University, Those remembrances, along with his background in arts administra tion, may serve him well as the new director of the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. Marquis will begin his position Oct. 10. In a few short years, the Lied Center has developed a history of attracting top artists and recognition as a national performing arts center. Room remains for improving both. Past student grumbles about the Lied Center have included a lack of dialogue between the Lied Center and the student community. Marquis already has said he intended to diminish such barriers by bringing artists onto the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln campus. Also, although the Lied Center for the most part offers affordable ticket rales to students for high quality shows, student ticket prices have remained a campus concern since the center’s construction. Let’s hope Marquis doesn’t follow NU athletic director Bill Byrne’s example on that one. I HI I OKI m I'm K N SlafT editorials represent the ofTicial policy of the Fall 1994 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. They establish the UNE Publications Board to supervise the daily production of the paper According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its students. I I III K l’(H l< \ The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publication on the basis of clarity, originality, timeliness and space available. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject all material submitted. Readers also are welcome to submit material as guest opinions. The editor decides whether material should run as a guest opinion. Letters and guest opinions sent to the newspaper become the property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned. Anonymous submissions will not be published Letters should included the author's name, year in school, major and group affiliation, if any Requests to withhold names will not be granted Submit material to the Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb 68588-0448. I.l I II us in i in Km mu Morality This is in response to Tony Fulton’s letter concerning moral ity in the world and on campus (DN, Aug. 29,1994). I am an educated as well as intelligent woman who docs watch the news. Your views on the crime bill and the attack on religion by liberals is your opinion, and I will respect that because it personally affects you. However, your views of abortion arc redundant and not well thought out. You have created your own “catch buzz phrase" and not delved any further into the issue. If abortion is determined illegal, women will die. Women are capable of taking care of themselves and mak ing their own decisions concerning their own bodies. The thousands of pre-bom children murdered are more humanely treated than the children bom out of force, not loved, perhaps not taken care of, who escape abortion statistics to walk straight into homi cide rales. It is the quality of life Mr. Fulton, not the quantity of lives. Jennifer Augstums junior psychology ‘Wake up’ I have just a few questions for Bill Snyder regarding his letter (DN, Aug. 26, 1994) about Michelle Paulman’s column last week (DN, Aug. 24,1994). Rather humorous that he tel I s Paul man to “wake up” when clearly it’s he who needs the nudging. Gee, I think he may have missed the point of Paulman’s piece. Entirely. Do you read much. Bill? Ever heard of satire? How about humor? Or may be tone? (Those 10 paragraphs devot ed to a can of refried beans that you mentioned might have been a tip-off.) You are seriously a senior'/ And were an ASUN senator'/ Scary thought. Suzy Beemer Lincoln Ml" Brett Gottschall/DN Death penalty On Sept. 2, 1994, at 12:01 a.m., a murder will take place not far from where you live. The killers are people you know—you may even have voted for them. You have given them the OK to murder in your name. By 12:30, a corpse will have been removed and deposited. The floor will have been mopped of blood, but the stench will linger on. The perpetrators that hid behind legal codes of jargon and political expediency will feel they have done you justice. Their election votes were hopefully secured by using tactics of murder of the first degree. If we, as citizens of Nebraska, sit back and applaud as Harold Lamont Otey is strapped into a chair and blind folded, and asclectrodcs awaiting volts of electric current to end Otey ’ s I ife arc attached to his body, then we have become his killers. His life is in the hands of our gov ernment, which seems to have dec ided to play the role of executioner. I don’t want government officials to play the role of God, do you? The death penalty is dead wrong. Nebraska is moving toward once again becoming a murderous state. Not since 1959 have the citizens of Nebraska helped allow our government to par take in such a heinous crime. The scary factor is that we now have no say in stopping this murder from taking place. Otey will die unless Gov. Ben Nelson finds his sense of humanity and grants him clemency. It is that simple: if our efforts, our petitions, our prayers go unheeded, a man will be killed., Our country lies with the likes of Iran, Iraq, Cuba and China as the few nations left to commit this barbaric act. What is the message we arc trying to send to the people, to our children, to each other? That killing is wrong? I ask you to lake just a minute to think about what the death penalty really is: legally sanctioned state kill ing, murder at a time when voles count in an election year, murder because [Nebraska Attorney General] Don Stcnbcrg chooses his own legal agen da of promoting death above justice, murder because somehow we have fallen prey to the idea that killing is the solution to killing. ■ iiv j/uni aiiu auiivimg. ui mv McManus family is not being ignored, but this is an issue greater than seeking vengeance against Otcy. It is about us giving our government the power to act like God in our name by murdering its citizens. The system is fallible; it is made by people who make mistakes. Innocent people have been sentenced todcathby our country. Thatshould be reason enough to stop this practice. If Oley is executed on Sept. 2, then we arc all guilty of murder. Religious groups, human rights groups, murder victims* families, political groups of all parties and individuals have all worked for the abolition of the death penalty. If life without parole is a viable option over death, then get in volved, take action and don’t let our government kill for you. Debi Schneider Sheila Whitmore presidents of UNL Amnesty International The Daily Nebraskan wants to hear from you. If you want to voice your opinion about an article that appears in the newspaper, let us know. Just write a brief letter to the editor and sign it (don’t forget your student ID number) and mail it to the Daily Nebras kan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, or stop by the office in the basement of the Nebraska Union and visit with us. We re all cars.