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Friday, October 27, 1995 Page 4
Nebraskan
Editorial Board
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. Christopher Hain.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
“This is on a fast track. Sometimes artists aren’t available
to move on the fast track.” — Herb Howe, on why the
internationally-known sculptor and designer of the Viet
nam Memorial might not be selected to design a replacement
for Broyhill Fountain
“Beer is a living thing.”—Jim Danielson, brewer
“Often I find myself sitting in front of the computer and
roaming around the World Wide Web. At these times I
think to myself, ‘Matt, don’t you have a life?”’ — Matt
Woody, Cyberscape columnist
“He made a couple of boo-boos.”—Wrestling coach Tim
Neumann on the dismissal of senior Mike Eierman
“Some real needs get lost... Everybody is tied up with
diarrhea, electric brain waves, soggy sandwiches and
everything else.” —Joan Cavanagh, on inmate lawsuits
“I’m prepared to live with how it all works out. But if it
doesn’t, then I’ll take the heat. ” —Coach Tom Osborne on
the decision to return Lawrence Phillips to play
“He’s the same Lawrence Phillips as he was in the locker
room when the incident happened. He’s been gone.
Basically everybody is looking at it like he’s had an
illness and he came back.” —Clinton Childs, ditto
“If one of the consequences of assaultive behavior
against a woman is to go to class, it seems to me there
is something incredibly wrong with the system. ” —Judith
Kriss, director of the UNL Women’s Center, ditto
“It’s not my team. It’s not my players. It’s not my
university.”—Angela Beck, women’s basketball coach, ditto
“Standing right here and looking out at your faces and
the cheers and applause, I feel like Mickey Rooney did
at the end of the movie with tears in his eyes.” — Newt
Gingrich on his visit to Boys Town
“People don’t like cockroaches.” — Barb Ogg, Lancaster
County extension educator
“It has remained almost unchanged for over 2,000 years.
It’s held the same beliefs since its origins.” — Nicole
Russ man, on the Catholic church, in reponse to Krista
Schwarting’s Oct. 20 column
“I suggest you study Church history to discover how it
has indeed changed over the millenia. ” —Richard OBeam,
also on the Catholic church, in response to the same column
“We have been waiting 40 years for this moment.” —
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole on a impending vote on the
federal budget in the Senate
“I want to keep it from becoming this artsy, sculpture
infested campus. ”—Association of Students of the Univer
sity of Nebraska President Shawntell Hurtgen on a replace
ment for Broyhill Fountain
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LSD
One day two friends, Bob and
Jim, decided to try acid. After
taking it, both of them received a
new perspective of the world
around them.
Bob said, “Hmm, I am but a
speck taking part in a vast, con
nected universe... Cool.”
Jim said, “What? I’m not the
center of the universe? And money
isn’t the most important thing?
No!”
Then, one day, the big, grumpy
public official saw Jim and said,
“LSD made this boy insane;
therefore, no one shall have it.”
What the public official failed to
recognize was that Jim was already
insane long before he ever took
acid.
Adam Cederlind
Senior
Russian
via e-mail
Plan ahead
This past Saturday, my husband
and I went to the women’s volley
ball game following the football
game. We both love sports and
attend as many events as we can.
This particular event was asking
for a big turnout and was held at
Devaney hoping to break atten
dance records. It was a very
upsetting experience for many
people.
We came in through the north
doors. There were hundreds of
people there early wanting to get
good seats and were all excited.
Then they opened the doors. It was
a joke!
They opened one door and had
one ticket taker for hundreds of
people massed in front of all the
doors. It turned into mass confu
sion, shoving, cussing and turned
into an angry hostile crowd.
We eventually made it in the
building and enjoyed watching the
women stomp Colorado. However,
the planning for this event left a lot
to be desired.
If you are thinking big and want
big crowds, then we need to have
enough staff available to handle big
crowds. * .
I think this was a bad thing to
happen for such a great program.
Kathy Thompson
Lied Center
via e-mail
Color mo B&W
I just wanted to point out a
couple of inaccurate statements that
seriously weakened Doug Peters’
Tuesday attack on Ted Turner.
First of all, the colorization fad
has all but died, save for Fox
video’s reissues of the Shirley
Temple films and a recent TNT
broadcast of Boys’ Town.
; Citizen ICane, as you took pains
to fancifully describe, has never
been colorized.
Including Gone with the Wind
on your list was simply ludicrous,
as it was a color film in the first
place.
Secondly, I’m not sure that even
one hundred “classic” films exist in
Bret Gottschall/DN
his catalog, let alone the “hun
dreds” you claim he’s “bastard
ized.”
Sure, the MGM, RKO, UA and
pre-’50’s Warner films include
perhaps two or three dozen signifi
cant films, a great many good ones,
and thousands of mediocre movies.
Not only do you “digress,” you
exaggerate.
It would have been better to
point out that Turner’s distributor
has done a complete about-face
regarding colorization by including
the words “In glorious Black and
White” on the boxes of many of the
latest video reissues of such films.
Perhaps this would have under
scored your point that he is simply
buying up our culture and market
ing it with slick packaging.
On the other hand, had it not
been for the proliferation of video
cassettes and the rise of video
moguls like Turner, our only real
chance to experience this heritage
would be on broadcast"television,
where they edit films and interrupt
them with commercials.
Christian Erickson
Graduate Student
Music
via e-mail
Edltortaiwri** *
This letter is addressed to the
author of the Oct. 24 editorial in
the Daily Nebraskan.
We are part of the UNL under
graduate/graduate program cur
rently preparing for a model United
Nations conference in Chicago
which simulates the workings of
the UN.
At this conference, UNL
represents the nations of Brazil and
Yemen. In this endeavor; we have
built a strong working knowledge
of the current state of the United
Nations and its projects. Some of
the points you make about the
United Nations are accurate, and
we agree with your stance that
there are problems with the United
Nations, including the duplication
of roles and corruption within the
Secretariat.
nowever, one or your para
graphs is patently wrong.
You state that there are five
members of the Security Council
and that they can veto any U.N.
resolution. There are, in fact,
fifteen members of the Security
Council, with the five you men
tioned (China, France, the Russian
Federation, the United Kingdom
and the United States) holding
permanent seats and veto power
over Security Council Resolutions
only.
Furthermore, the Security
Council holds no direct power over
the resolutions passed by the
committees of the General Assem
bly or over those of the Economic
and Social Council (ECOSOC),
both of which have passed many
resolutions the United States did
not agree with.
You state that there are chal
lenges ahead for the U.N. in the
next 50 years — apparently
education about its function and
makeup should be added to your
list.
Dayne Zachrison
Graduate Student
Political Science
Terry Feinberg
Faculty Advisor/Teaching
Assistant
Political Science
via e-mail