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EDITOR
DougKouma
OPINION
EDITOR
Anne Hjersman
Matt Waite
Paula Lavigne
Mitch Sherman
Anthony Nguyen
“For years and years and years, it has been
left to its own demise down here.”
— Mike Morosin, neighborhood asso
ciation president, on the Malone neighbor
hood, which is commonly associated with
high crime and low incomes
“Nebraska football speaks for itself.”
— Virginia Tech Football Coach Frank
Beamer, after it was announced that his team
would go up against the Huskers in the Or
ange Bowl
“Being a Rhodes Scholar is the academic
equivalent of winning the Heisman tro
phy.” ;
—Chancellor James Moeser, comment
ing on UNL senior Jeremy Vetter being
UNL’s first Rhodes Scholar in 20 years
“Our contention is that the truth is as far
from that as the Earth is from the moon.”
— Food Lion attorney Andrew
Copenhaver, on ABC’s claim that .cameras
and sound devices planted in the store for a
special report on the supermarket’s sanita
tion were put there with benign intent
“That’s a little cocky, but 1 tend to like a
little cocky.”
—Nebraska Women’s Basketball Coach
Angela Beck, on Brooke Schwartz’s show
of confidence in icing the Huskers’ win over
Iowa
• “When I saw his arm cock, I thought, ‘Oh
God.’”
— Texas Football Coach John
Mackovic, on James Brown’s fourth-down
pass to tight end Derek Lewis, which sealed
the Longhorns’ 37-27 win over Nebraska
“It’s a style you can do a lot with, but it’s
an awful lot of work for a 75-year-old
lady.” u oitwx
—Vera Cline, winner of last year’s Cel
ebration of Lights contest, on her house,
which “lends itself to decorating”
“We went from the penthouse to the out
house overnight.”
— Charlie McBride, NU defensive co
ordinator, on Nebraska’s loss to Texas
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“I threw it up against the wall. But now
everyone else is making it stick.”
—KFRX “Doughnut Hole” Dan Tooker,
on his on-the-air decision to “adopt a fam
ily” for the holiday season and his call to lis
teners to make donations
“Gangsta rap ... is race-driven, drug
driven, violence-driven, and, the bottom
line for these drooling corporate execu
tives, monstrously greed-driven.”
— C. DeLores Tucker, with The Na
tional Political Congress of Black Women,
criticizing Universal Studios for distributing
what she calls “profane” music
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“It draws attention to the university. But
I don’t want what we are doing to be
trivialized.”
— Ken Keith, chairman of Nebraska
Wesleyan’s psychology department, on the
school’s annual rat Olympics
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Belittlement
On learning of Jeremy Vetter’s
great accomplishment in earning the
most distinguished award given to
undergraduate students in the United
States, we were both very proud to
be a part of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoto.
Then we read Chancellor
Moeser’s quote in the Dec. 10 DN:
“Being a Rhodes Scholar is the
academic equivalent of winning the
Heisman Trophy.”
Jeremy Vetter has striven and
excelled in so many areas of life that
such a statement seems to belittle the
worth of his achievements as well as
the intelligence of Nebraskans.
Is Chancellor Moeser trying to
help the people of Nebraska relate
Vetter’s accomplishments to some
thing they can understand: football?
> Why can Jeremy Vetter not be
v honored in his own right? Must
everything be compared to football
in Nebraska? Or is that all this
university wants to be known for?
Katrina Faust and
Kristen Nicole Satteriee
freshmen
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Priscilla’s porn
I cannot recall how many letters I
have read in opposition to pomogra
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Natalie Linstrom/DN
phy in the Daily Nebraskan’s
advertisements, but here is another.
I was eating my breakfast on
Wednesday morning when I saw an
ad for Priscilla’s. I was initially
offended and disgusted when I saw
the half-naked woman trying to lure
in customers with a seductive stance.
Maybe it’s just because I am a
female that I cannot appreciate this
distasteful attempt at sex appeal
which exploits women. Or maybe I
just realize there is a time and place
for sexuality—and that is not in the
NEWSpaper I read over breakfast.
Bethany Vesely
sophomore
' music
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Thievery
To the person who stole my
German book from the Union on
Monday: Your deed did not go
without notice. Your pathetic act only
deepens my dislike for people such
as yourself.
I hope that you needed the money
more than I did, but you could have
just asked for a dollar. Of course,
your kind will not degrade yourself
to that point, but will instead steal
from your peers, oily to give |
yourself some beer money for after 1 f
finals week.
When you do finally get caught
stealing, it could ruin your academic
life here at UNL. j
I propose a new policy dealing
with thieves. They should be
expelled—simply and quickly. If
you are guilty, you should*pay the ~s
price.
You are just lucky that I didn’t see
you do it, because I would have
made you regret it. Anyway, go out
and spend your money on whatever
you like, because you took a great
risk in getting it.
My final is on Monday, and Ijsvill
find a way to study. Next time, I hope
you get caught, Mid embarrass
yourself and your family.
Chad Weidner
senior
English