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Oh n ion "1 Friday, April 19,1996 Page 4 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln J. Christopher Haiti.Editor, 472-1766 Doug Kouma..*....Managing Editor Doug Peters ..Opinion Page Editor Sarah Scalet. Associate News Editor Matt Waite.Associate News Editor Michelle Garner.Wire Editor Jennifer Mapes.. Columnist .. .... .... .. .. “Clearly, I would want all my children to die in a state of joy. I mean, what more could I ask for?” — Lisa Blair Hathaway, mother of 7-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff after her daughter's plane crashed near Cheyenne, Wyo., last week. “Out-of-state, they work as good as a real one.” — Fake ID maker “William, ” on his handiwork. “I think the time has come to put whatever legal pressure we can on the TV networks and force them to quit pollut ing the minds of our youth.” — Nebraska Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Don Slenberg. during a discussion with opponent Chuck Hagelat the Nebraska Press Association Annual Convention. “One person called and said (his street) looked like a used car lot.” —Joe Turek, supervisor of the Lincoln housing department, on problems neighbors have with students who violate the ordinance saying that no more than three un related people may live together. “I left right before the hippie era where people didn't want to have their hair cut anymore.” Frank Kuhn, assistant director of operations for the Nebraska Union, on his decision to quit his job as a barber and enroll in business courses at UNL. “I didn't hear back.” — Omaha Catholic priest John McCaslin, on the letter he sent to Lincoln Diocese Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, urging him to “gel on with his life. ” “This is what we got a Ph.D. for?” — Brett Ralcliffe. professor and curator of insects, on the make shift repairs he has made to protect more than $140 million worth of irreplaceable artifacts from rainwater in Nebraska Hall. “People don’t realize when they destroy one group, humanity is destroyed.” — Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, during a speech Tuesday at the Lied Center for Performing A rts. “God, to me, isn’t the answer. God is the question. I still don’t understand. At the same time, what can I do? Divorce God?” — Wiesel. in a press conference Wednesday. “I think this is economic racism. They are trying to treat us like a third world country.” — Arthur “Butch ” Denny. Santee Sioux tribal chairman, after federal authorities seized the bank account of the tribe’s casino. “We’ve continued to expand the state’s contribution to higher education in Nebraska, but it’s never enough or as much as you’d like it to be.” — Gov. Ben Nelson, at the MTV “Choose or Lose" bus at Broyhill Fountain Wednesday. f Editorial policy Staff editorials represent the official policy of the Spring 1996 Daily Ne braskan. Policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Boaid. Editorials do not necessarily reflect the views of the university, its employees, the stu dents or the Nil Board of Regents. Editorial columns represent the opin ion of the author. The regents publish the Daily Nebraskan. They establish the UNL Publications Board to super vise the daily production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its students. Letter policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publication on the 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. ZlTTte PIGS Unit FIGS UT IAF IN / tt) VJAH,V)ERF..HIC.. STOCNIWj FOR FINALS)/ I — Lincoln diocese “embarrassment In response to the April 17 letter to the editor about the (Bishop Bruskewitz) editorial cartoon: Coming from the faith-filled Archdiocese of Chicago and having both a grade school and high school Catholic education, I am continu ously outraged that the diocese of Lincoln doesn’t follow “to the letter” Vatican II. The alter may be turned around, but the lack of female extraordinary ministers, readers and lectors makes me wonder where your bishop is leading “his” flock. The ■ cartoon in the Tuesday DN is simply 9 an expression of the embarrassment 9 Catholics across the nation are A feeling towards Lincoln. of those freedoms. Allison Rettker If Mr.Bosselman and Mr. senior Gregorius so dislike the United family science States, they are more than welcome to leave. BretGottschall/DN Patriot Games Why is it that every time Vecra Supinen writes a column for the Daily Nebraskan, she ends up criticizing the United States of The sequel I was astounded by the responses to the article “Flag Defamation.” Mr. Bosselman and Mr. Gregorius do not seem to understand that the flag is much more than simply “little more than colored fabric”; it is the symbol of the United States and the virtues for which the country stands: justice, freedom, and peace. Defaming the flag cheapens those very rights, as well as the right to free speech. This may not be a perfect nation (what in this world is?), but its citizens have tried to correct injustices committed in the past. It is ridiculous to condemn the whole nation for events in its past that are over and done with, or in the present that are being faced. Not everyone must agree on everything, but the people should respect the symbols of the freedom that allows us to disagree. As the daughter and sister of members of the military, I am highly offended that Mr. Bossclman and Mr. Gregorius expect to have the right to defame this nation’s symbols without thinking of the price paid so that they can have that right. It is an insult to every veteran who ever lived or died in defense of our freedoms that these two and others like them can so defame the symbol Lori Brannen junior music performance Tasteless ioon I found the cartoon of Bishop Bruskewitz (April 16) to be very offensive to my faith as well as in extremely poor taste on the part of the Daily Nebraskan. The message you were trying to convey was that the Bishop was attempting to kick even Christ out of the Catholic Church. Had you researched this controversy sur rounding the Bishop and the stand he had chosen to take, you would realize your cartoon was way out of line. As was pointed out by John Hogg’s letter, the Bishop was merely trying to bring people closer to Jesus by making them review their faith on a deeper level and really evaluate their life’s priorities. Your cartoon’s message was not even close to shedding light on the real issue. In fact, if anything, you have only accomplished the pointless task of confusing people further about this issue. Shari Rcimer junior speech/language pathology America? Wednesday, it was how driving was so much better in Finland, and in other columns it has been Finland this, or Europe that, and how every other country was better than the United States in general. Am I stretching it? I think not. Now, I respect Veera’s right to write her columns, and she can think what she will (this is America after all). But she should be aware that we already know about these things, and with the exception of a very small number of Americans (Ted Kaezynski comes to mind), we like things the way they are. I for one would like to believe that Vecra is enjoying the relative freedom and benefits that come from living in the USA (note: benefits does not refer to the government kickbacks like unemployment and welfare benefits that is currently draining the work ethic of many European countries), but if she really doesn’t like America, and the concept of indi-i vidual responsibility, then she can go back to Russia, Germany, or whatever country Finland would now be a part of if the United States of America, and it’s laws, heritage, and people had never existed. Joshua Hesse sophomore computer engineering _ ^ , !