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Editorial Board
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. Christopher Haiti.4>..Editor, 472-1766
Rainbow Rowell..it...Managing Editor
Mark Baldridge...U ..Opinion Page Editor
DeDra Janssen...Associate News Editor ,
DougKouma..Arts & Entertainment Editor
JeffZeleny.Senior Reporter
Matt Woody..Senior Reporter
James Mehsling...Cartoonist
No cuts
Student financial aid a vital investment
Scissors cut paper.
In the case of the Republican Congress that can mean red tape—
or your diploma.
Federal financial aid to students, which comprises about three
quarters of all student aid nationwide, will be cut if an appropria
tions bill now before the Senate passes.
Pell grants, Federal Work Study, Perkins Loans, Supplemental
Education Opportunity Grants and even the ubiquitous Stafford Loan
will be substantially reduced.
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Bret Gottschall/DN
And the Direct Student
Loan program will face a cap,
limiting it to 40 percent of cur
rent loan rates with no adjust
ment for inflation.
Proponents of the plan say
it will ease the tax burden —
j while helping Congress bal
ance the nation’s books,
r Bull.
We oppose cuts to student
aid for economic reasons —
this is not a case of the “not in
my backyard” syndrome, but
hard rationality.
Federal monies for student
aid represent an investment in
America — and one we can’t
afford not to make.
1) College education produces positive externalities — that is, a
college educated populous makes better life choices. They make
more money, pay more taxes and are less likely to spend time in
prisons, among other things.
2) College education produces an informed and educated elec
torate — meaning we are less likely to put people in office who
would make such short-sighted policy.
3) College education produces money — as college educated
engineers, scientists, physicians, lawyers, managers, CEOs and even
teachers enter the work force, form corporations, open small busi
nesses and generally create wealth, so grows the country.
And finally:
4) College education produces a safer and healthier country. As
a nation already bemoaning the brain gap in the hard sciences and
product development, we can hardly turn our backs on a policy we
have shared with all civilized countries of fostering education.
Our country’s books will be very easy to balance indeed when
there’s no money in the bank.
A college educated populous is a renewing resource that contin
ues to offer return on the investment.
Congress would be well advised to resist an immediate dividend
at the expense of an enormous later deficit.
One’s educational limits should be set, not by the size of the
pocketbook, but of the mind.
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Thank you
For a little over two months we
have been trying to deal with the death
of Tina Me Menamin. We’ve had some
hard times; however, you have made a
tremendous difference by offering
your support and kind words.
Tina was and always will be an
angel, a ray of sunlight, a smiling face
and a vibrant personality who touched
our lives in a very special way and
then passed out of them all too soon.
We want to say thank you to the
Lincoln Community and to the Uni
versity for all their support. We ex
tend a special thanks to the people at
Harper-Schramm-Smith who so un
selfishly gave up their time to pay
tribute to Tina.
And a very special thanks goes to
our friends for their continued support
& caring: a shoulder to cry on, some
one to laugh with or whatever it is we
need.
Sarah and Diane Bognich
Slow down!
A national speed limit of 55 mph
certainly saves lives, reason enough
to retain federally mandated speed
limits.
Sadly forgotten in this debate, how
ever, is the reason Congress mandated
a limit in the first place: energy con
servation.
With every 5 mph increase in the
speed limit, millions of gallons of fuel
are burned each day.
Now it seems our country again
believes — foolishly, short sightedly
—that our fossil fuel supply will last
forever.
Speed and waste: two all-too
American values. Someday we may
not be able to make that “long trip to
Valentine” at all.
Michael Smith
Instructor of History
Southeast Community College
A cross word
On Wednesday, Sep. 20, a daily
crossword puzzle was not included on
Bret Gottschall/DN
the last page.
This is the only thing I look for
ward to since your writers are all bi
ased and opinionated.
Also, is it up to the Daily Nebras
kan to make every UNL student furi
ous with your “so-called” columns
with no point whatsoever?
Eric Troxel
Sophomore
General Agriculture
Fan Mail
While all the college football teams
around the country are being watched
to predict on their scores, ours is hav
ing bets placed on whether we will
even have enough players out on bail
to fill every position on the field. If
you read the latest issue of Sports
Illustrated you know what I’m talking
about.
We have so many talented players
that are being overlooked j ust because
of the SI article and all the other media
hype that people are being misled.
These problems have always been
here — it just took a major Heisman
candidate to let it out in such an over
exhausted way.
Just the other day I heard a com
ment — from someone who doesn’t
even know any minorities—that they
don’t trust any of them going to school
with their children because you never
know who you can trust.
Well, all I can say is that you can’t
trust anyone all of the time but you are
going to have to trust some of them
some of the time no matter what race
they are.
To the underplayed third and fourth
stringers: get out there Saturday and
run it up and pound a hundred points
on that scoreboard against Washing
ton State.
Draw the attention away from T.O.
and our unlucky players and back onto
the one thing Sports Illustrated should
follow: FOOTBALL!
Tim Frentz
Sophomore
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