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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
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“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.
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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
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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
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