Daily
Nebraskan
Editorial Board
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. Christopher Haiti.....Editor, 472-1766
Rainbow Rowell.*... Managing Editor
Mark Baldridge......Opinion Page Editor
DeDra Janssen...Associate News Editor
Doug Kouma...Arts & Entertainment Editor
JeffZeleny ....Senior Reporter
Matt Woody ...Senior Reporter
James Mehsling...Cartoonist
“Attending our practices is a privilege, not a right. I felt that
the cartoons were very inappropriate, and for this reason,
the Daily Nebraskan will no longer be welcome at our
practices this year.”
Tom Osborne, Monday, on two Daily Nebraskan editorial car
toons -
“Your reporters can do what they want but I have to go to
a radio show.”
Osborne, Wednesday, lifting the ban
“Tonight I stand here, overwhelmed, as my name is linked
with the great and courageous Lou Gehrig.”
Cal Ripken on besting the Iron Horse’s 2,130 consecutive games
“It’s like a blind date. The faculty member met the dean
during the interview process within a very small amount of
time they spent together.”
David Lou, chairman of the mechanical engineering depart
ment, on the change of deans
“I loved it.”
Freshman Britt Anderson on pledge week
“We’ll go into a situation where there may or may not be
communication. There may or may not be any electricity.
The first week after a hurricane is pretty primitive.”
Robert Fairbank of the Red Cross
“I didn’t want someone to be tried without all the informa
tion, and I thought that there might be some reason that
they need to know that Mark Fuhrman said these things to
me.”
Bell, acquaintance of Fuhrman who testified to his
expressions of racism
“I have to go.”
4-year-old William Schlesinger just before urinating in Central
Park
“Tom Hanks is a closet astronaut.”
Jim Level, whom Hanks plays in the movie “Apollo 13”
“When we installed it in our computer it didn’t work, so we
tried to uninstall it with the disks they gave us to do that.
It crashed my computer.”
Chris Wilg on Windows 95
“I’m so far in debt, and now they’ve raised my credit limit. ”
Andrew Anniotte, credit card holder
“We had been struggling to overcome problems but the
problems ended up overcoming us. That’s probably the
simplest way I could put it.”
Ben Kushner, guitarist for the Millions, on the band’s breakup
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A shot in the dark
As a coach, Tom Osborne not only
has the lawful right and authority , to
ban the Daily Nebraskan (or anybody
else) from practices, he has the re
sponsibility to do so.
If a coach is not willing to protect
his players, he is not worthy of the
title.
Now, we can honestly debate the
fairness—or lack thereof — in your
editorial stance. But coach Osborne is
in charge of his football team, period!
You can write, criticize, protest or
lead rallies for his ouster. Just not at
his practices.
Say anything you want. But don’t
whine about a lack of opportunity in
coverage. You short yourself in the
fort.
Don Jacobson
Lincoln
Dangerous
precedent
What do Tom Osborne and Oak
land Raider owner A1 Davis have in
common? Not much, until Monday,
when Osborne borrowed a page right
out of Davis’ media-relations
playbook.
Two years ago, Davis banned
Raider beat writer Eric Noland of the
Los Angeles Daily News from team
practices and games for what the owner
thought was overly critical coverage.
Los Angeles Times sports editor
Bill Dwyre encouraged local papers,
TV and radio stations to pull coverage
in support ofNoland. Davis’ ban didn’t
last long. Dwyre challenged Davis,
the Raider owner gave in and Noland
went back to work.
What does that have to do with
Osborne and the Nebraska media?
Everything.
What an example the Nebraska
media could have followed.
Why didn’t they call Osborne’s
bluff and institute a boycott of Ne
braska football coverage until the DN
reporters were allowed fair and equal
access to practices, games, players
and coaches?
Instead, the Nebraska media stood
by and allowed Osborne to single out
and punish one media outlet, thus
setting a dangerous precedent.
The issue was not whether it was
fair to publish a cartoon of Washing
ton, who has been charged, but not
convicted, of a crime. The issue wasn’t
whether the DN can criticize Phillips,.
who is being investigated by the
NCAA.
The issue was media access and a
football coach’s rub with a student
RogerFeese
newspaper. Not a good mix.
But it was Osborne who was out of
line.
Mike Reilley
Former Daily Nebraskan editor
Los Angeles Times investigative
reporter
Firyday
Once again, Jamie Karl has shown
us his inhumane way of thinking.
Jamie, your opinion on the death pen
alty (Death penalty brings justice, Aug.
30) is not only wrong, but inconsis
tent.
First of all, capital punishment is
not “an ugly necessity of a civilized
state....”
It is rather, a horrible act of an
unjust system.
Tell me, Jamie, how can the gov
ernment commit the very act that it
condemns? The law says that killing
is wrong. Does that mean that only the
lawmakers can kill?
Another point to consider is the
fact that since 1900,23 people in the
U.S. have been wrongfully executed.
That number does not sound like a lot,
but think of 23 members of youf fam
ily. Then that is a big number.
What I wish you could understand
is that the death penalty is not justice.
The death penalty only adds more
violence to a world already drowning
in it. Revenge is only for the weak
hearted. Please remember the words
from Ezekiel 33:11, “As I live, says
the Lord God, I swear I take no plea
sure in the death of the wicked man,
but rather in the wicked man’s con
version, that he may live.”
Jeff Vincent
Senior
Environmental Studies
via email
Bleeding hearts
This is in response to Professor
Frances Kaye (letters, Aug. 31.)
She states that the key concept in
justice is evenhandedness. This is true.
That is why the death penalty is the
ultimate justice in crimes such as
murder, rape and drug selling.
Then the professor states that the
death penalty does not provide such
evenhandedness when administered
by the United States.
This is also true but for one reason
only.
Because of bleeding hearts who sit
around in their dorm rooms and liv
ing rooms complaining about the prob
lem of crime — but when the justice
system tries to enact some form of
justice, such as the death penalty,
these liberals complain.
, The only problem that I see with
the death penalty is that they do not
execute enough of these criminals.
The government should limit the
number of appeals that a death row
inmate can have.
This way the taxpayers do not have
to support such worthless criminals.
Send the four jolts of2400 volts of
electricity into every death row in
mate and that will solve the over
crowding problem.
It will also make the death penalty ,
the deterrence that it was supposed to
be in the first place.
Richard Gilson
Junior
Social Sciences
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