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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
JeJfZeleny.Senior Reporter
Matt Woody.. .Senior Reporter
James Mehsling..Cartoonist
Quality checked
New chancellor should listen
As the ongoing search for a new chancellor, um, ongoes — we
thought it might be nice if we could get our 2 cents in.
Since chancellors are notoriously beyond stooping to listen to
what the campus rag has to say, it seems our only chance is to say
now what qualities we’d like to sec in a future chancellor.
Is it any wonder, then, that first on our list is someone who lis
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“listen to students in campaign
speech tones — but actually lis
tens to those who disagree.
We’d like to have a chan
cellor who doesn’t get rid of fac
ulty simply because they also dis
agree.
What happened to Dean
Liberty shouldn’t have happened.
It shouldn’t happen again. ~
The four campuses of the
\ university have four very differ
ent destinies. They have differ
ent strengths and weaknesses.
The new chancellor needs to
Jason Gildow/DN fight to maintain UNL as the flag
ship of the university system.
Our ideal candidate for chancellor would keep the open stan
dards of admission (no one should be penalized for goofing off in
high school) — but raise the standards of achievement a student
must meet to remain a student.
Let those who cannot do top-notch work attend community col
leges or schools of hair design.
A chancellor should commit to lowering student costs.
The programs at the university of most value to our reputation as
a place of excellence should be fostered by the new chancellor. We
should never sacrifice anything from these successes to bolster a
lagging department.
A good chancellor will know how to raise money and will be
able to sell the legislature on the fundamental truth that the univer
sity is an investment in Nebraska’s future — economically, politi
cally and in terms of its reputation as a good place to live and work.
Nothing will salvage us if that reputation is lost.
The ideal chancellor will work to make the university as strong
and as vital as it can be made to be. Trendy ideas will never replace
quality professors and hard-working students.
The university should be a light of tolerance and detachment in
the community. A good chancellor will foster the university as a
safe place for the expression of ideas and ideals that may not be
popular elsewhere.
A chancellor should know when to guide, and when to get out of
the way.
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AIDS
I find it astonishing (and laugh
able) that Krista Sehwarting has
selectively chosen only Ronald
Reagan as the person to blame for
America’s continuing AIDS crisis
(“Quilt can’t cover social stigma,”
Oct. 13).
As if they didn’t matter in the
equation, Sehwarting makes no
connection between those who
continue to propagate this disease
and the disease itself.
It s interesting to note, as
Schwarting points out, that “the
fastest growing group of people witl
AIDS is heterosexual women.”
But statistically that number
continues to be dwarfed by infected
homosexual males.
In fact, according to a recent
report released by the Centers for
Disease Control, young gay men arc
actually experiencing a current
increase in AIDS infection rales.
What this means is that, even
though armed with the knowledge
of AIDS, certain young gay men
have decided to ignore all the
available data in favor of
engaging in self-indulgent /
unsafe and unhealthy sex
practices. _ _ a
compares not making the AIDS
epidemic a top priority to a
“smaller-scale version of the
Holocaust.”
Aside from the extremely poor
choice of analogy, the whole idea
behind this statement is ludicrous.
I agree that AIDS is a terrible
thing, but the number of people
afflicted with AIDS pales when
compared to the number of people
who have cancer.
AIDS has become somewhat of a
cause celebre. It’s highly visible
because high-profile celebrities say
that it’s important.
1 So, proportional to the people
affected, more money is being
And yes, over 70 W
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in the United States l
continue to be gay males. v
So when Schwarting
chooses to talk about AIDS
in relation to how she
“hates” Ronald Reagan,
she has — indeed — thrown all
journalistic objectivity out the
window.
Thomas K. Eads
Senior
Political Science and English
Quilt
I’ve wanted to write this letter
since the article on the AIDS quilt,
but I couldn’t decide what I wanted
to say.
Krista Schwarting’s column on
Oct. 13 has, however, pushed me
over the edge. In that column she
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funneled to AIDS research than to
cancer research.
Many of us know someone who
has been affected by cancer; can yoi
say the same about AIDS?
William Clarki
Grad Studen
Chemistn
Jamie Karl
I am writing in response to Jamie
Karl’s final column.
I am writing this to whomever
takes the columnist opening.
Remember: Twenty-five thou
sand people are represented by this
paper.
Show your tact. Be intelligent.
Give us your opinion in a manner
that shows that you have a high
school diploma.
Jared Solomon
Freshman
Undecided
T.P.
When the whole world is talking
about environmental protection, our
greek house boys and girls are
playing with their toilet papers.
If trashing their front yards is a
means of decoration, or even a great
tradition, I suggest students in the
university should bring their home
garbage and throw it in front of
> those “decorated” houses.
' These people are wasting natural
resources without any doubt. I am
; surprised that people in Ecology
* Now or other environmental groups
have never raised their voices
against this activity.
Kwee Tew
Senior
Fisheries and wildlife
Transfer students
Stricter residency requirements
(Oct. 12) is no longer news, much
less front page news. For those most
affected by this information it
arrives several months too late.
Anyone “putting off’ applying
for residency until the beginning of
this semester was gravely out of
luck. Lisa Schmidt was way off base
by saying that the only students
disadvantaged by this are “not really
scholarship caliber.”
While new students may not be
concerned, the transfer student is the
1 real loser. With a university that
already has an inefficient system to
' handle transfer students, the new
‘ residency requirements further
1 penalize them.
Even California, considered a
leader in educational policy, allows
the 12-month period to occur
concurrently with study.
Poly Ann Najarian
Grad Student
Agricultural Meteorology
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