Ohni " Thursday, September 28,1995 Page 4 Daily Nebraskan < Editorial Board * University of Nebraska-Lincoln J. Christopher Haiti......Editor, 472-J 766 Rainbow Rowell.......Managing Editor Mark Baldridge.Opinion Page Editor DeDra Janssen...Associate News Editor Doug Kouma.Arts & Entertainment Editor JeffZjeleny..... i...Senior Reporter Matt Woody.....:....Senior Reporter James Mehsling.[....— ..Cartoonist 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. Editorial policy Staff editorials represent the official, policy of the Fall 1995 Daily Nebras-' kan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebras ' Ion Editorial Board. Editorials do not necessarily reflect die 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 UNL Publications Board to supervise the daity production of die paper. 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Submit material to: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St Lincoln, Neb. 685884)448. r OLNtftH, Wot sor& \ mml £>\ll llAPWpTS THE 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 1 ...to the _ .. . . . .. . ■ , Nebraskan •- . • • - ' Send your brief letters to: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588, or Fax to (402) 472-1761, or email Letters must be signed and include a phone number for verification.