EDITOR
Paula Lavigne
OPINION
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Matthew Waite
EDITORIAL
BOARD
Erin Gibson
Joshua Gillin
Jeff Randall
Julie Sobczyk
Ryan Soderlin
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UNL landscape
requires restoration
As the snow tore limbs from the trees on
our campus, so went our heartstrings, ripped
from us like the power lines in the blizzard of
1997.
It wasn’t all that many years ago that one
could look around our campus and think of
what a less-than-beautiful site it was.
But starting four years ago, a real, well- •»
funded and concerted effort was undertaken to
improve the look of our campus. The landscap
ing department at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln won a national award two years ago for
its efforts in making our campus beautiful. For
as much as people complained about losing
parking spaces in place of grass, the look of the
campus was greatly improved.
But Mother Nature is not to be trifled with.
And neither is love.
The labor of love that was making our cam
pus beautiful was dealt a serious blow Saturday
night and Sunday morning.
A heartbreaking loss.
In just over 12 hours, years of work and
decades of growth were ruined.
Groundskeepers have said it will be years
before they finish repairing all the tree damage
done by this bout with the blizzard.
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The two Lincoln campuses are places in
which we all take pride. From showing off for
parents, friends, visiting professors and
prospective students, we all want to look
around and say, “Yeah, this is where I go to
school.”
For alumni, it is the same. They want to
point to where they went to school with pride
> and show it bff from time to time.
And the Athletic Department is the same. In
the fall, they open some of our campus to
76,000 folks and show it off (albeit most of
them aren’t much interested in the state of the
academic buildings or the landscaping).
But it’s these people that should be looking
inward now.
Our campus needs us.
What we are proposing is a fund, main
tained by the vice chancellor for business and
finance (who oversees the landscaping depart
ment) created for the sole purpose of buying
new trees to replace the old ones and funding
landscape improvements.
Specifically, those who are able in our cam
pus community should open their wallets.
Trees aren’t cheap, but they are a serious invest
ment in the future look of this campus.
Our alumni talk of building a solid campus
for the future. Trees should be part of that
future. At a time when need is there, our alum
ni should be there as well.
Our Athletic Department has been gener
ous in the past with other campus organs in
need, such as the library. With another success
ful football season well under way, the folks in
Memorial Stadium should think long and hard
about what this campus will look like next sea
son.
But this fund should have money from us
all, faculty, staff and students alike. We all
work, play and live on this campus. Until this
weekend, most of us never gave a second
thought to the trees lining the sidewalks.
Let’s plant the seeds for our future.
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LETTERS
Get it right
I would like to set some facts
straight in regards to Barb Churchill’s
column about Microsoft (DN,
Monday).
First of all, IBM is much larger
than Microsoft. The figures reported
for profit on both companies are
incorrect. IBM’s profit for the last
quarter of this year was $1.4 billion
dollars on revenue of $18.6 billion
dollars. This is for one three-month
period. During the same period,
Microsoft had revenue of $3.13 bil
lion and profit of $663 million. IBM
is by far the larger company. None of
the figures reported for the sizes of
the other companies is accurate
either.
Second, the core issue of the dis
pute between Microsoft and the
Justice Department is whether or not
Microsoft can make companies take
Internet Explorer as a condition of
licensing Windows 95. Also at issue
is whether Microsoft has deliberately
tried to hold up the DOJ investigation
by threatening computer manufactur
ers with the termination of their
license agreements.
A great site for the information on
the Microsoft vs. DOJ dispute is
http://www.news.com. Before writing
your columns, please check your facts.
Jon Frohlich
junior
computer engineering
Thank you
I’d just like to say thanks again to
the members of the Alpha Gamma
Rho Fraternity, on the corner of
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Idylwild and Holdrege, for their gen
erous help on Sunday.
The storm Saturday night
wreaked havoc on the big trees on
Idylwild and these kind individuals,
after cleaning up their own debris,
helped my neighbors and I clear the
branches off of our yards and drive
ways.
I want the several guys who took
part to know that their help was very
much appreciated. I know that I
wouldn’t have been able to get the job
done by myself because the branches
blocking my driveway were quite
large and extra heavy with the snow
covering.
So, thanks again guys. We need
more people like you!
RyanAhlman
senior
business administration
Broken record
I question the statement in (Erin)
Gibson’s and (Josh) Funk’s story
headlined “Bad conditions cancel
classes for second day,” in Tuesday’s
Daily Nebraskan.
They wrote, “For the first time on
record, the University of Nebraska
Lincoln will cancel classes for the
second day in a row today because of
dangerous conditions on campus.”
Check the record for Feb. 21-28,
1971, or thereabouts. I recall the uni
versity closed for at least two days
because of a snow storm, during my
fraternity initiation week. That pro
vided the upperclassmen with a nice
opportunity to attend to us pledges
without the distraction of classes.
If your files show the closure was
for only a day, it seemed like it was
for days!
Michael P. Carlson
UNL Veterinary Diagnostic
Center
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