EDITOR Paula Lavigne OPINION EDITOR Matthew Waite EDITORIAL BOARD Erin Gibson Joshua Gillin Jeff Randall Julie Sobczyk Ryan Soderlin % Our VIEW Husker spirit Lincoln s stranded need your hotel rooms Football tickets? Check. Family in the car? Check. Hordes of Husker garb? Check. Goofy-looking foam finger? Check. Hotel reservations? Not so fast there, hoss. Please, for the love of Husker mania, if you, your parents, your friends, someone you know or anyone you can get hold of has reservations in a Lincoln motel this week end for the game, give them up. Cancel them. Someone else needs them. Someone without heat. Someone without electricity. Someone without a refrigerator for a home. /\nu me zu,uuu people wunoui electricity aren’t the only ones who need your hotel room. In the rush to get people’s power back on, Lincoln Electric System has brought in hun dreds of contractors. These folks are working long hours to get the lights back on. Don’t make them camp out in their trucks. Yeah, it is the Oklahoma game. Sure, it’s Husker football. And you have had those reservations made for more than a year. But look into your heart. Who needs a warm bed and a shower more:?.. If you are coming to town for the game, think about driving back home that night. If that isn’t an option, there is an alternative probably more fun than hotels. UNL has opened up Cook Pavilion to the Husker faithful wanting to stay in Lincoln overnight. The wide-open artificial turf will turn to bed padding for one night. And what could be better than sleeping where the Huskers practice? What Husker maniac wouldn’t go home and say with pride “I slept where Grant Wistrom sweats”? Think of all the aura. “Yeah, I slept in Cook Pavilion.” Most of Lincoln’s 3,300 motel and hotel rooms are booked. But the question is, who is sleeping where this weekend? How would you like to sleep in a cold house? How would you like it if you sought refuge at a hotel, spending serious money to stay warm, only to be evicted by a football fan? We’re sorry, but as important as football is to this state, it isn’t that important. It isn’t as important as people getting their power back. It isn’t as important as letting stranded people sleep in comfort. Football can take a back seat. Yes, even the Oklahoma game. Please, we’re begging. If you can give up your hotel reservations, or tell someone else to give up theirs, please do. A true Husker would. 1 Haney’s VIEW Guest VIEW Hell-oween Creative costuming key to glee JAMES MILLER is a columnist for the Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan. (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The holidays are stressful times for everybody. Psychologists and other people who keep track of these things say that more people commit suicide between Thanksgiving and New Year’s than any other time of the year. Think about your extended family for a minute and tell me this isn’t true. But Halloween stress is different from Thanksgiving stress or Christmas stress. On real holidays you have to worry about whether or not Martha Stewart would approve of your place settings, if Uncle Merle and Aunt Mavis are going to try and kill each other or if grandma is going to show up stone drunk, again, and start smoking joints in the bathroom after the meal. On Halloween, however, our cre ativity is called into question. We all get invited to Halloween parties, especially if the eve falls on a week end. And they sound like fun, every body dressed up and bobbing for apples in tubs of wood alcohol - what’s not to like? But then the costume question rears its ugly head. What are you sup posed to go as? You can’t just wear some stupid mask, or cut holes in a sheet. That’s hardly the best a college student can do. But what? We have limited time and resources and what ever you do decide to go as, it has to I- ... .. • •• •• -- be conducive to the muscular move ments of party:going (smoking, elbow-bending, pinching and retch ing). So, for the momentarily stumped, I offer a small list of Halloween cos tumes that will make you the life of the party, and earn the undying respect of your hipster friends. An S. A.: If you think about it for a minute, everyone can do this one. We’ve all spent some time in dorms, and consequently are rather familiar with the creature that is the student assistant. The clothes for this cos tume aren’t too exotic, just the regular jeans and sweatshirt will be fine. But the key is in the behavior. Walk around the party yanking drinks out of the hands of your fellow guests. Or pick a room away from the action of the party, sit in it all night, don’t talk to anyone, don’t leave, stare at your computer, work on your resume and think of different ways to deny the fact that people who choose to live in dorms as upperclassmen are massive dorks. Quote to memorize: “Come on guys, quiet down. You can have fun without sex, booze, drugs and loud music. I do it all the time, and look how cool I am. Come on, give me my retainer back!” Brainless Media Slut: Watch VH 1 for a while and inspiration should just fall out of the air. A black dress with Moliere cleavage and a “Friends” haircut are necessary. Smile a lot and talk about how model ing is hard work, how you’re working on a screenplay and how great it is to work with Keanu Reeves. Quote to memorize: “We were on the set for something like seven hours a day, plus at least another 20 minutes in the makeup chair. Grueling, I tell you. Grueling. Will you buy me something?” Sean “Puffy” Combs: Go ahead, cash in on some celebrity. The trick to a “Puffy” costume is to balance the two forces of his life: the hardcore gangsta we all know he is, and the millionaire media mogul that he’s become, two things that personally I feel are hand and glove. Anyway, baggy pants, baseball cap and an “R.I.P. Biggie” tattooed on your chest, combined with a picture of Ted Turner around your neck, should do the trick. Quote to memorize: “Yeah, keepin’ it real to all the young ‘g’s out there is what I’m all about. In fact, Mariah Carey and I were just talking about this yesterday.” Anti-Affirmative Action Litigant: Find a party you weren’t invited to and threaten to sue the occupants if they don’t let you in. Whine about how all the black guests were let in ahead of you. Whine if there’s black people in front of you in the keg line. Whine that it’s too cold outside, or that you don’t like the tile in the bath room. Quote to memorize: “I’m going to stand here and hold my breath until someone makes my life perfect and rejection-free for me. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Have fun, gang. Avoid the house that gives away the apples and pen nies. - ..1 Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the Fall 1997 Daily Nebraskan. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its employees, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author. The Board of Regents serves as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the 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 student employees. 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