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Daily
Nebraskan
Editorial Board
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
JeJfZeleny.Editor, 472-1766
Jeff Robb.Managing Editor
Matt Woody.Opinion Page Editor
DeDra Janssen.Associate News Editor
Rainbow Rowell.Arts & Entertainment Editor
James Mehsling.*.Cartoonist
Chris Hain.Senior Reporter
Sandlot to sandbox
Players, owners must start to play fair
As the major-league baseball strike drags on, the players and
owners continue to throw names at each other like preschoolers throw
sand at each other in the playground sandbox.
All the while, the only thing being accomplished is knocking down
a sand castle that took 125 years to build. t
Union boss Donald Fehr stands behind a different podium every
night on one side of the castle and calls the owners greedy, unrealistic,
unreasonable and childish.
A different owner steps up to the microphones every night on the
other side of the castle and tries to convince America that Fehr is trying
to destroy the owners, but in reality is only hurting the players and the
fans.
Acting commissioner Bud
Selig tries to play the part of the
hero, the defender of the castle,
but he is more concerned with
saving himself and his Milwau
kee Brewers franchise from fu
ture financial failure.
While Fehr and the owners
play in the sandbox, Major
League Baseball players don’t
play on the field.
And as the strike wears on,
it looks like Selig isn’t sure if he
wants wet sand thrown in his
face and a pile of sand in his
a i 't shoes anymore.
Kai Wilken/DN Selig ran home to Milwau
kee from the strike talks in
Scottsdale, Ariz., Thursday because he was upset that Fehr wasn’t
playing nice.
He did not return to Scottsdale, and the scheduled meetings broke
off Sunday with both sides spitting sand out of their teeth. The words
they said Sunday were more unsettling than when the talks began.
The next round of talks are scheduled for West Palm Beach, Fla.,
but the new division created in Arizona will be impossible to repair in
one set of negotiations, especially without Selig.
No matter how misguided Selig is, the owners still need his unifying
leadership if the strike is to be resolved.
Opening Day is doomed.
Scottsdale was the last chance at resolving the strike before the
season could begin.
The boys, who have been waiting quietly outside the sandbox for
the bullies to stop throwing sand and kicking down the castle, will get
their chance to play.
The new players may not be as talented of sand-castle architects as
the 125 years ofbuilders who came before them, but at least they don’t
want to knock the castle down.
The current sand-castle builders forgot why they wanted to play in
the sandbox in the first place. Meanwhile, the new players have been
waiting outside, watching, just wanting to play, because they like to
feel the sand run through their fingers and squish in their shoes.
None of the major-leaguers who will open the season this year may
grow up to be Frank Lloyd Wright or Babe Ruth, but they at least want
to play and build, instead of destroy.
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Union expansion
I have two main concerns about
the union expansion:
1) How can we vote for an
increase in student fees for this
project if we won’t be the ones
paying for it? Someone once said, “If
(President) Adams thought taxation
without representation was bad, he
should see it with representation!”
2) Parking services and the
University Bookstore already drain
the students of any extra cash they
have. Where is the money going
that resulted from a 100 percent
increase in parking-permit prices
between ’93 and ’94?
No new accommodations for the
lack of parking have been made,
nor are any on the drawing board.
If Broyhill Plaza is to be moved
north, it will be parked smack dab
in the precious green space that is
more important than parking,
which is hardly existent.
If this university wants a bigger
marketplace to suck the students of
their finances, they better ask those
who it will affect.
Eric J. Hrnicek
junior
biological systems engineering
Lust
This letter is in response to
Cindy Lange-Kubick’s comments
on extramarital lust (March 3). OK,
sure lust is normal. Yes, it should
never be acted upon.
But should it really require a
slanderous, degrading view of die
opposite sex to sway you, or your
friend Mary, from acting upon your
lusting impulses?
Love was not even stated as a
possible deterrent for your “libidi
nous longings.” Instead you chose
to cite a profound blanket state
ment that “all men are wounded
animals” as your main argument
against infidelity.
To say that your comment is
insulting, not only to me, but to
most males, Is a gross understate
ment. Treat us as equals and speak
of us as equals, as you would like
to be treated.
Lange-Kubick should go home to
her husband and tell him that she
loves him, and not look at him like a
wounded animal. I doubt she’d enjoy
being looked at like June Cleaver.
Andrew Farad
sophomore
biological sdences
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James Mehsling/DN
Traditional lifestyle
I am writing in response to Lara
Duda’s commentary, “Sexism isn’t
cute, it’s primal” (March 2). I was
offended by the whole article, and
didn’t appreciate the way she
stereotyped the traditional men and
women of this world.
My fiance and I believe in the
traditional lifestyles for ourselves,
because that is what we believe in. It
is not a convenience; it is a choice.
But what Duda doesn’t realize is
that the traditional man (the (me that
doesn’t want the woman in his life to
work all that much, if at all) is also
going to be the (me who will hold
open doors for them, will insist on
paying for everything, has manners
and will treat the female like the lady
that she is meant to be.
Lisa Hendrickson
freshman
secondary education
Hockey
The tired and rehashed idea that
hockey is a racist sport has once
again reared its ugly head, and
once again, the author of the piece
has taken little time to research the
subject. I am of course referring to
the work titled “Minorities in the
NHL penalty box” (Feb. 28) and its
writer, Doug Peters.
Forgive this tired stereotype, but
I am forced to question first how
someone from Nebraska of all
places can consider themselves an
authority on hockey. I, for one,
must admit that as a season-ticket
holder of the Hartford Whalers for
eight years, I entirely missed the
Ku Klux Klan meetings.
Speaking of Peters’ “injustices,”
I would merely mention Grant
Fuhr, the goaltender who was
instrumental in the Edmonton
Oilers procuring five champion
ships between 1983 and 1990.
Fuhr, who is black, was considered
without peer in his prime. Since we
are playing the “stupid stereotype”
game, what white player in the
NBA, this side of Larry Bird, has
the same distinction?
Though I must concede that I
cannot justify why the sport suffers
from a lack of equal participation,
perhaps the problem can simply be
attributed to the locations of where
the sport is cultivated. To put it
simply, the cultural makeup of said
areas are predominantly white.
I’m unaware if Peters partici
pated in pee-wee hockey during his
youth, as I did, but that is where
most of the professional players
from this country began their
careers. I participated in a sizable
group, between 40 and 60, all of
whom were Caucasian.
It is my hope that I have in some
way enlightened Mr. Peters to die
game of hockey. I am also behind
his decision to abandon the sport
100 percent. Leave the courage of
hockey to those who have some
better perspective on the sport, not
to mention some amount of
common sense. % ,
Will Stanley
freshman
political science
