Oik ox Thursday, November 30, 1995 Page 4 Daily 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 JejfZeleny.Senior Reporter Matt Woody.Senior Reporter James Mehsling.Cartoonist Slim pickings Fat-cat boosters paw Fiesta Bowl tickets Flying tortillas in Memorial Stadium. Maybe now you’ve seen it all. No doubt that students were mostly responsible for the south-of-the-border projectiles during the Oklahoma game. But their message was clear: Nebraska is headed to the Fiesta Bowl to tiy to win a sec ond consecutive consensus na tional championship. That’s a feat that hasn’t been accom plished since the Sooners did it in their 1955 and 1956 seasons. Unfortunately, few of the students who ushered in the Fi esta Bowl era at NU will get to see the actual game. Each school participating , in the bowl is allotted 12,500 tickets. But only 5UU ot Nebraska’s tickets will be available to students, and they 1 will be distributed in a lottery. „ r acuity ana stair will nave ret o sc a chance at 500 tickets, based on the same priority seating that determined their season tickets. The overwhelming majority of Nebraska’s block— 11,500 tick ets —will go, not surprisingly, to NU football boosters. Once again, the athletic department has put the interests of the students on a back burner. Would allotting 1,000 tickets — a mere 8 percent of the total — to students have been too much to ask? And who can better afford outrageous scalpers’ prices, students or fat-cat donors? But that’s not all. Just as with the Colorado game, students must take a gamble with a lottery. That, in itself, is not a problem. But by the time students know if they have won, it will be far too late to make travel arrange ments. And, also as with the Colorado game, students must pick up their tickets in Tempe just before the game. This process involves waiting in a long line, showing two forms of identification and signing one’s name. NU ticket officials say the reason for that policy is to ensure that students do not buy tickets just to sell them. Then why no similar policy for boosters? Does donating money somehow make one’s intentions more honorable? Quit the games and distribute students’ tickets through the mail, just like the other ones. Athletic department officials need to remember that students form the core of this university, as well as the teams that make their jobs possible. Editorial policy Staff editorials represent the official policy of die Fall 1995 Daily Nebras kan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebras kan Editorial Board. Editorials do not necessarily reflect the 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 daily production of the paper. Accord ing to policy set by the regents, respon sibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its students. Letter policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to die editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publication on die basis of clarity, originality, timeliness and space available. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject all material submitted. Readers also are welcome to submit mate rial as guest opinions. The editor decides whether material should run as a guest opinion. Letters and guest opinions sent to the newspaper become the property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be re turned. Anonymous submissions will not be pub lished. Letters should include the author’s name, year in school, major and group affiliation, if any. Re quests to withhold names will not be granted Submit material to: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. [ Vl&E NOT f71 vIomen ms no n ?m IN MESS. HUH. I Tokin’ resistance The letters written by Jennifer Jacoby and Aaron Cooper in the Nov. 28 DN ignore the distinction between what is and what should be. Certainly, marijuana is illegal to possess, including on university prop erty. But should it be? Mr. Cooper argues that “if it were perfectly safe to smoke marijuana...then it would not be ille gal.” This is not necessarily true. Legal does not equal safe. Smoking cigarettes is unsafe, but it’s legal even on campus. Mean while, certain perfectly safe sexual positions are forbidden by law, even between man and wife in private, in many states. Furthermore, Mr. Cooper cites Matt Chmielewski’s assertion that smoking pot poses no danger to any one else. Mr. Cooper responds by saying, “Does that make it any less illegal?” Of course not. But it should! Imagine if Mr. Cooper had lived in the 1850’s and applied the same logic to the abolition of slavery! It would sound something like, “Well, if sla very were immoral, it would be ille gal already. Slavery’s legal, so I doubt society will ever free the slaves.” Just because a law exists doesn’t make it right. And to assert that a law is good simply because it has been passed is ridiculous. That’s where freedom-loving people need to exercise their rights and get laws like our current mari juana laws changed or abolished. Nick Wiltgen Sophomore Broadcasting via email Friendly I’m wondering if Ted Taylor has ever been outside of the state of Ne braska. Quite possibly he has never spent any time outside of the Great Plains. His column “Mr. Nice Guy” (Nov. 29) shows definite lack of worldli ness. Nothing is more evident after be ing on the “outside” than the fact that people in Nebraska and the Great Plains are far more polite and helpful than the folks in, say, Chicago or California. In fact just the other day at the public library I found a note on my car from a woman who had backed into it in the parking lot. When I called her to explain that my grill had been cracked she offered to pay for it with out any question. This is a law but I venture a guess that it’s not one that is commonly followed in less polite areas. I found this column to be very un substantive and if I were a native Nebraskan I would find it quite of fending. Nebraskans are rather polite and I appreciate their kindness. Mr. Taylor must have been experiencing out-of towners. Polly Ann Najarian Graduate Student Agricultural Meteorology via email Chill nill I am writing this letter because I feel that the college of Buisness Ad ministration has been unfairly repre sented in the Daily Nebraskan. Not every female feels that CBA has a chilly climate. I am a third year Ph.D. Student in the finance department, and I have nothing but positive experiences to relay about my graduate career at UNL. I am extremely dismayed by the bad press CBA has received in the past two years. I am specifically referring to the article front page article “Female fac ulty protest all-male CBA wall” (Nov. 29). There were numerous inaccura cies in the article which should be noted. First, the report issued by the UNL chapter of the American Asso ciation of University Professors re garding the “chilly climate” of CBA was actually issued in the spring or 1994, not 1995 as the article implied. Second, the article incorrectly states that female faculty members in CBA do not receive equal pay. On the contrary, some female fac ulty members receive higher rates of pay. This is a fact of public record and can easily be verified. Finally, it is a journalist’s respon sibility to thoroughly investigate the issues before sending an article to press. There are 11 female faculty members in CBA. It is very discon certing that only two female faculty members were consulted. Furthermore, no CBA faculty member or administrator had any authority over the selection of the 25 Nebraska business leaders who are represented on the Hall of Fame wall. Angeline Lavin Graduate Student Finance Department Tommie knocker For four years I idolized Tommie Frazier for being the superior athlete that he is. And for those four years he was a clone of Dr. Tom. He NEVER singled himself out when the team succeeded or when they rarely failed. This is why I was completely shocked when I saw his Heisman interview on the news. I had never heard Tommie use the word “I” be fore! But in the interview he must have used it 50 times. There was one quote that really bothered me: “I kept this team together through the whole Lawrence Phillips thing.” PLEASE!! Even though you ARE God, Tommie, you had a lot of help. You are a big part of the team, but you’re not the WHOLE team. When I read Troy Davis’s quote as being the best college player in the country, I couldn’t get over how con ceited he was. Don’t be a Troy Davis, Tommie. If you let that head swell down a little bit, you’ll be taking that trophy home on December 9th. P.S. Win one more for Nebraska. Doug Aliano Sophomore Chemical Engineering via email I - Send your brief letters to: toJ.L Daily Nebraskan, 34 /7/0 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., _ Lincoln, Neb. 68588, or Fax •m x “1 "t to (402) 472-1761, or email XI C l^"d id JL d kJL Uu JViXlX Letters must be signed and include a phone number for verification.