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Up 100 percent
Standing students
deserve proper support
Bill By me, University of Nebraska ath
letic director, is out to do it once again.
The students just cannot learn to sit down
and behave during football games, he has
said. On the south side of Memorial Stadium,
the standing students annoy those quieter,
gentler ticket holders whose seats lie behind
student seats.
As a result, Byrne has told university stu
dents and officials that, unless students sit
down, something will have to be done.
And we agree with Byrne. Students
standing and cheering in support of their fel
low classmates during their university’s foot
ball game on their university’s campus, well
— that’s just plain out of line.
Maybe students, those students, who
can’t sit down should get tickets somewhere
else. Somewhere they’ll be less conspicuous
and out of the way of other ticket holders.
Somewhere like East Stadium.
II students were allotted seats on tne ooi
tom deck of East Stadium, there would be
no one stuck behind them to complain.
Then students could rightly feel they
were appreciated as important figures on the
university campus. (That is, if Byrne agrees
with other administrators that students are
central to the university.)
Perhaps most importantly, students could
be loud and spirited as they stand in celebra
tion of the glory that is Nebraska football.
Or maybe football players want their fans
to sit and be docile at their games. Maybe
they don’t like students to stand, because
standing is a physical motion conducive to
loud cheering and hollering.
Perhaps, when they emerge from that
tunnel, with the awe-inspiring “Sirius” blar
ing from the speakers, they want all the stu
dents to just sit there with “Yes, sir, Mr.
Byrne. We’ll be good.” grins on their faces.
Not standing, just sitting there with all
the excitement of an 8:30 a.m. 101-level
class. That would sure motivate the team to
victory.
Now, luckily, Byrne can no longer bump
student seating further from the playing field
without the signature of Chancellor James
Moeser.
And, in the years since that condition was
adopted, Moeser has not OK’d another
bump.
But to even suggest that students are a
nuisance because of their shining school
spirit is ridiculous.
At Texas A&M University in College
Station, Texas, students sit on one entire side
of the stadium. They all stand for the entire
football game, and any student who sits is a
“two percenter”—a despicable student who
will only give 2 percent for his or her alma
mater.
So, Mr. Byrne, are you a 2-percent
Comhusker? Or do you show 100 percent of
your pride in this university and its brilliant
athletic programs?
We think you’re 100 percent, so why
can’t students be allowed the same privilege?
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LETTERS
If You Got ’Em
Mr. Donley’s column “Smoke and
Mirrors” (DN, Wednesday) has some
good ideas, but is also misdirected.
His comment about people being free
to smoke while tobacco companies
are free from lawsuits does make
sense to me.
After all, unless you started
smoking before 1980, you surely
knew there was a risk involved with
this activity. That blurb from the
surgeon general on your pack is there
for a reason and it is not just decora
tive.
It is true that the FDA should
regulate things that are harmful to us.
However, if we regulate tobacco that
much or leave the industry open to
every lawsuit known to man, don’t
we have to do the same to the alcohol
and caffeine industries? In other
words, Budweiser and Coke could be
in trouble fast, too.
Don’t forget, by the way, these
industries worth $300 billion also
give people jobs. What effect will
that have on our economy if they’re
all unemployed? These are things we
need to keep in mind.
John Flaherty
senior
meteorology
Signed away
Recently while visiting my son at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I
locked my keys in the car. The first
thought that came to my mind was to
call campus security, which I did.
They promptly came to my rescue —
only they couldn’t get my doors
unlocked.
After at least an hour of trying, it
was suggested I call a locksmith.
When the locksmith arrived, he said
he couldn’t unlock the doors either
because a plate inside the door had
been broken. I would have to have
my car towed.
I was asked by the locksmith if the
university had me sign a waiver on
damages. I said they had. He told me
this happens very often, that either
security can’t unlock the door or they
break the locks, but since you’ve
Aaron SteckelbergDN
signed a waiver, they are not respon
sible.
A couple hundred dollars later,
my car is back to normal. WARN
ING: If you lock your keys in your
car cm campus, don’t call campus
security!!!
Mary K. McDonald
Omaha
Biased Notes
It is my hope that I will be proven
wrong upon writing this message.
Lately I have seen what appears to be
evidence of bias in the reporting of
Daily Nebraskan.
As a specific example, I point to
the recent information centered on
the implementation of Lotus Notes
on this campus. As readers, we have
seen several articles and commentar
ies in support of Notes while the
opposite side of the issue appears to
have been ignored.
There are many of us here on
campus who do not agree that Notes
will be a favorable addition to UNL’s
technological repertoire, but I have
yet to see any representation of this
point of view.
I am sure that this is not because
3f lack of material. I am aware of
several letters to the editor that have
t>een written by myself and others. If
the manner in which we have
expressed our opinions has not been
eloquent enough to merit publication,
certainly those letters at least serve to
point out a “newsworthy” issue.
Although the articles in the DN
regarding the impending arrival of
Lotus Notes suggests that its use wi 11 \
be favorable, I believe that you will
find evidence to the contrary.
First of all, we have a fully
functional standard e-mail system
intact already. Why fix something
that isn’t broken? The only complaint
I have heard about servers such as
bigred is that their high volume of
users results in slowness. If this is the
case, how will using a bulky,
resource-hungry mail-reader like
Notes improve the situation?
Maybe tfte answer to tms question
is that accessibility of e-mail will be
reduced. If the number of computers
currently in use on campus that
would not be able to handle Notes is
an indication, this reduction of
accessibility is inevitable.
We have a large number of such
computers available for accessing e
mail all across campus. Why would
we want to adopt a “more-advanced”
e-mail system if it will render a tege
portion of our current resources
useless? a >
When we look to the IBM lab in
Sandoz Residence Hall as an
example, we will find computers that
take several minutes just to load
Windows, which then runs very
slowly. Does it really make sense to
use anything otter than a text-based
mail-reader with these computers?"
I am not convinced that the
adoption of Lotus Notes is a favor- i
able action, nor am I sure that the
arguments against its implementation I
have been given any consideration., i
In the name of serving student 1
interests, I would like to see the DN
address the other side of the Lotus •*-'
Notes issue. a* ja
Jennifer Partusch
sophomore
Spanish and computer science |
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