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Quotes
OF THE WEEK
“Show the camera why you like to
drink milk!"
- Milk campaign spokesman Bill Hyland
to students competing for a chance to be in a
national milk mustache advertisement
“I’ve given up sleep for coffee."
- Legislative page and University of
Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore political sci
ence major Ryan Junck, echoing many stu
dents ''fuzzy thoughts about the winding down
of the Legislature and of the spring semester
“There comes a time to do the right
thing."
- Sen. Jim Cudaback of Riverdale on
advancing a bill prohibiting the execution of
the mentally retarded
“The music had to get louder to com
pete with the noise of the city.”
- Larry Boehmer, owner of the Zoo Bar,
on blues music
“I’m disappointed because they missed
an opportunity to tell young people, ‘We’re
willing to create incentives to keep you
here.’”
- Gov. Ben Nelson on the Legislature s
failure to pass "brain gain ” legislation
“The sunlit moment is not a time to
rest... If we act now, we can ensure strong
retirement benefits to the baby-boom gen
eration without placing an undue burden
on our children and grandchildren.”
- President Clinton, at a town hall meet
ing in Kansas City, Mo., on what needs to be
done about Social Security
“Tell the individual to give you his or
her car for 90 days and $700, and then hit
'them in the head with a hammer. That is
u<Whiit basically happens when you get
caught That is, if you don’t kill someone.”
- Mark Zmarzly, DN columnist, on the
realities of drinking and driving
“Of course we kept cheering, but we
knew it was over.”
- Nebraskafreshman gymnast Amy Ringo
on the Comhuskers failing to qualify for the
NCAA Championships for the first time since
1994
“We are not done. We tore going to grind
our asses because we have something to
prove.”
- Nebraska Men’s Gymnastics Coach
Francis Allen on focusing on the NCAA
Championships individually despite not qual
ifying as a team
“It felt great” ^
- I-back DeAngelo Evans, who has been
battling back from a pelvic injury, on being
tackled Wednesday for the first time since
Dec. 7,1996
“I’d love to strap it up right there and go
at it I’m sure they would, too.But obvious
ly, that’s not going to happen”
-Fullback JoelMakovicka on visiting the
White House Thursday with co-champion
Michigan
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LETTERS
Clone this!
Once again someone writing an
editorial forgot to do their home
work. J
In Tuesday’s column by Cliff
Hicks on cloning he made several
“mistakes.”
Hicks referred to cloning as
something you can use to grow new
body parts and new organs for
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spontaneously create a full
adult without going through
the stages of life.
That’s not at all what it is.
When you clone someone,
you use an embryo and
destroy its originality through
duplication. Instead of the
embryo receiving 13 chromo
somes from each partner, it
receives the full 26 from
ONE individual: an exact
duplication of looks only.
Personality and other
traits are influenced by the
environment. You can’t just
“make” another human and
have it be the same age as die
original who was copied.
They would look identi
cal but be different ages
unless cloned in the embryo
stage much like identical
twins are.
You also referred to
“growing” a clone under
sedation to use for one’s own
purposes-. It would be won
derful if this were possible,
but it’s not.
Growing human tissue
and cloning are two totally
different things. The ONTJY
possible way to clone is to start
with the embryo and go through all
the normal stages of growth, which
would include consciousness.
A bizarre possibility to consider
is that a woman could give birth to
her own identical twin! What would
....:
one think if one were walking down
the street and saw a mother and her
identical looking children walking
side by side?
Cloning is an important topic that
needs to be further researched before
even scientists fully understand it. It
took years and hundreds of tries just
to clone the first sheep, so cloning
humans successfully is a long way
off.
No decision needed, dangit!
Just when I thought the madness
was behind us, another pointless
column appears in the Daily
Nebraskan.
I am referring to the latest
pathetic claims that were made in
the “Showdown in D.C ” article on
the opinion pages.
The article lacks sound argu
ment and is obviously
nothing more than a
biased fan screaming far
the attention of his/her
fine Cornhusker
faithful.
If you are looking for
a source to justify your
shallow claims, I person
ally challenge such a dis
covery.
The University of
Michigan Wolverines
and Nebraska
Cornhuskers football
teams will NOT meet to
settle any supposed
debate over No. 1
because no debate
exists.
Two teams completed
the NCAA season unde
feated - two teams
deserve to be designated
College Football cham
pions, period.
I am ashamed to be
in such company.
Having been born and
raised in Flint,
Michigan, I am proud to
be a Wolverine. Both
schools should be more
grateful for what they
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case should have been closed
months ago.
Calvin Webb
senior
English and psychology
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Next time, Cliff, fully understand
the subject you’re discussing.
Ryan Stairs
freshman
computer engineering
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