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Omaha bound
Theater should reconsider NC-17policy
The movie “Showgirls” opened nationwide last Friday, and was the
No. two box-office draw in the country over the weekend.
Of course, if you live in Lincoln, you won’t see it without driving
to Omaha.
Douglas Theaters own all but two theaters in Lincoln, and have a
policy against showing NC-17 or unrated films.
Debby Brehm, vice president of Douglas Theater said, “We would
like to show films that a family can go to and feel comfortable about
seeing.” ;
Yeah, right.
Can we picture Wally, the Beav, Ward and June going out to catch
a Saturday afternoon screening of “Seven?”
Or Carol, Mike and the whole Brady bunch strdlling in for the
controversial “Natural Born Killers?”
If Douglas Theaters want to stand by its “family-friendly” image,
what are violent films such as these doing on the movie screens?
Making money—which is what a business should be concerned
with.
Of course, a business should also be concerned with the customers
itserves. And Douglas Theaters—which has a monopoly on first-run
theaters in Lincoln—are ignoring a large portion of its customers with
a silly NC-17 policy.
Based solely on its rating, Douglas Theaters won’t show a nudity
filled movie such as “Showgirls.” But it will show movies chock full
ofviolenceandmaturesituations. Even “good” movies like“Shawshank
Redemption,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Desperado.”
Apparently—by “family-friendly” logic—nudity isn’t good for
the family, but violence and adult situations are just dandy.
Douglas Theaters need to re-evaluate its current policy on NC-17
and unrated films.
Because of its financial success, “Showgirls” will lure more movie
producers to support NC-17 rated films, thus introducing more NC
17 films to the mainstream cinema.
, If Douglas continues to have its way, we’ 11 all be driving to Omaha.
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Up the score!
I’m responding to your articles
on teams running up final scores
(“Controversy revolves around
teams’ running up final scores,”
Sept. 19; “Final score leaves sour
taste in ASU coach Snyder’s
mouth,” Sept. 18).
I’m sick of hearing about teams
being downed because their scores
are too high.
Now the Big Eight coaches are
even getting involved. Teams
should have the right to run up the
score. If teams want to stop high
scores against themselves then they
should tell their defense to wake
up. :
So, these coaches want the third
and fourth string players to just
hand off until the rest of the game
is over.
Come on, these players need a
3 as much as first string
, to show off exactly how
ey are.
Maybe whoever makes the
schedules should give Nebraska a
harder schedule. At least that
would make it easier to prove
whether we deserve the national
title or not.
So, guys, go ahead and take that
ball into the end zone for that extra
touchdown.
Sean Roker
Freshman
Fisheries and Wildlife
Beg to differ
Certainly no apologies need to
be made for the Husker scoreboard
against Arizona State and Pacific,
but apologies are called for when
Todd Walkenhorst suggests that the
opponents are “mediocre players
going to a mediocre school.”
Blinded by red, as I suspect most
Nebraskan sportswriters to be,
Walkenhorst makes the mistake of
defining the quality of a entire
university by its football program'
Both ASU and Pacific have the
reputation of being quality research
institutes and don’t deserve
Walkenhorst’s victory jabs.
In addition, I wish to refute
Walkenhorst’s claim that players
accepting football scholarships to
Arizona State or Pacific know they
are headed for mediocrity.
Two years ago, ASU defensive
back Shante Carver was profiled in
“Sports Illustrated” and now enjoys
a successful career with the Dallas
Cowboys.
That is hardly what I would
define as a mediocre accomplish
ment.
Chauna Craig
Graduate Student
English
Can of whitewash
Why do we have to put up with
the Women’s Caucus, the regents,
or any chancellor telling our
football coach what to do?
Don’t they know how important
it is for a football player to play
football?
His honor the Coach has always
made right choices before, even
better than a county attorney.
Even if our best can of white
wash can’t change the color of the
car, the NCAA doesn’t care
anyway.
A few knots on a couple
student’s heads is all they have on
Lawrence Phillips. Surely that is
not enough to take “everything”
away from this poor football
player.
Think how proud and happy it
would make all his teammates if he
could just go to Kansas and get all
fixed, especially before we play
someone really good.
Ron Osborn
Omaha
Logical errors
I would like to make these
comments about Jamie Karl’s
column “English needed to unite
states” (Sept. 27).
Karl believes that “the country’s
language” is English. But he also
claims that large sums of money
are spent to print tax forms and
election information in languages
other than English, and that many
languages are spoken in schools in
three cities.
If languages other than English
are so widely spoken in the United
States, does it make sense to claim
that the country’s language is
English? No.
Karl also states that the federal
government spends $254 billion (A
mistake. The figure Karl in
tended to write was $254 million
— Ed) on bilingual education each
year. Karl does not cite the source
of this information.
I believe he wants to imply that
we spend too much on bilingual
education. We might call this the
“Miserly Gingrich Argument:”
a. The U.S. spends x number of
dollars on program y.
b. The U.S. has a large budget
deficit.
c. Therefore, the U.S. ought to
cut funding to the program.
The fact that we spend a large .
amount of money on something is
not reason enough to cut funding
for it. One could use the same
argument to eliminate national
defense.
I suggest that Karl is, in fact,
“Simple” and “uncultured,” is out
of place on a university campus,
and should go the hell back to
where he came from — some
backwater, I imagine.
Rodney W. Cupp
Graduate
Philosophy
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