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OF THE WEEK
“He was a good farmer who worked
all day on civic projects and all night on
the tractor.”
Sen. Speaker Doug Kristensen, remem
bering the late Sen. Stan Schellpeper
“Life is not about the rush to meet
deadlines. It is about the moments of
love and friendship between women,
between women and men or between
friends.”
Maria Hinojosa, CNN correspondent,
on what’s important to her
“They’re not looking pretty tonight,
but they’re getting the job done.”
Assistant Coach Rob Drass, on the
women’s gymnastics team earning a shot
to compete for the national championship
“We extend our apologies and we
would like to thank everyone again. It is
almost finished.”
Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Unions
director, on the union construction
“Family agriculture has been the
backbone of the country for 200 years.”
Roger Wehrbein, Plattsmouth senator,
on why LB630, a bill to give retiring farm
ers a 5 percent income tax credit, is neces
sary
“You get so involved with (sculpting),
you forget. You smash your fingers. You
scrape your fingers.”
Colleen Flores, senior art major, on
her passion for sculpting
“There were a few of us who had
been around for a long time who kind of
.missed the clutter and the disorganiza
tion of the other offices. But we didn’t
miss them enough to stay.”
Paula Lavigne Sullivan, former Daily
Nebraskan editor, on the DN’s move into
its new offices
“I’ve said, ‘This sucks,’ many times.
But I’ve never said, ‘I don’t know if I’ll
be able to come back.’ I tell myself,
‘When I come back, I’m going to be 10
times more aggressive and more moti
vated.’”
Bobby Newcombe, NU quarterback,
on his determination to get back in the
game
“I could hear the yelling and scream
ing and pounding a block away. It was
wild.”
Duane Hutchinson, storyteller, remi
niscing about how he used to tell stories at
a YMCA camp in the mid- ’70s with 50
white children, 50 black children and very
high racial tension
“I had to practice saying the words
‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ in the mirror.”
Janet Tucker, Lincoln educator, on
teaching sex education
“They are telling the story ina mov
ing way, and Americans are always sym
pathetic to the underdog.”
CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, on
the situation in Kosovo
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LETTERS
Smoke story
LB505 was written to curb teen
smoking. The bill attempts to accom
plish this goal by placing a proposed
$.33 tax on tobacco products.
Any economist would confess that
if a tax were placed on a good, and
individuals decided that the new price
exceeded their available disposable
income, demand would drop.
However, the authors of LB505 fail to
understand the group they are attempt
ing to help. For the most part, 100 per
cent of a teen-ager’s income is dispos
able.
Considering that teens today are
willing to spend money on fashion
magazines, expensive clothes and jew
elry, how could anyone believe that a
$.33 tax on tobacco products would
affect anyone other than legal smok
ers?
Instead, why not actually enforce
the laws that are already on the books
and send teens home to mom and dad
with a ticket? If the goal were to reduce
disposable income, issuing tickets to
those who break the law should work
perfectly.
Thor Schrock
business administration
junior
Come together
Jessica Flanagain (“The good
fight,” 4/15): Your equation of plurali
ty in American culture with'the perver
sion of the “Truth” is unjustified.
This whole century has been about
lots of people getting together and real
izing that we aren’t all the same, after
all, and a lot of us don’t want to be the
same, either. This, in my opinion, is a
recognition of the truth, of the reality,
not a perversion.
My. only problem with the
Christian agenda is that it wants to stop
thinking in terms of plurality.
It wants to go back to a white-bread
understanding of morals by passing
laws that decide for all citizens what is
right and what is wrong. It wants to
think of the country as fundamentally
Christian, as sharing common beliefs.
But we can’t regress now to that
point. We know too much about our
selves. We know about all the religions
of the world, all the cultures and all the
people and fights and moralities.
There’s no way to go back to a sim
plistic, Christian vs. Evil mindset,
because the world just isn’t that simple.
People tend towards this mind-set
because it’s easy, it doesn’t take much
thought. But we must challenge our
selves to move forward, to open our
minds to an infinite number of utopias
that could lie before us, and not
behind.
I think that Christianity is a part of
this moving forward, but it can’t be the
only part.
We must come together and realize
that we are autonomous human beings
first, and then together elect to move in
a direction where the liberty of every
last citizen is upheld, and every gener
ation is challenged to reach a level of
awareness that supersedes the previous
generations’.
We must think as individuals, not
as liberal organizations or as conserva
tive coalitions.
Please, we’ve made some progress
this century. Let’s not bunk it up by
entrenching ourselves in outdated
thinking. Let’s think originally.
Jake Glazeski
music/math major
junior
Bread bombardier$
My wife and I were at Pioneers
Park one afternoon, enjoying the beau
tiful weather. We chose a spot near the
pond where families often feed geese
and ducks. I spread out our blue plaid
blanket and pulled out my pad to do
some “serious” writing, while my wife
grabbed her new book. We sat for a
while enjoying the lovely weather,
attempting to read and write, but we
were drawn to watch the local wild life.
That is, two middle-aged women and a
girl of around five.
They walked past us, one of them
hauling a large plastic grocery bag.
The trio progressed to the water’s edge
and revealed the contents of the bag.
Bread. By my estimate, at least six
loaves (farmer’s loaves, I believe, two
for a buck) were produced from the
white bag.
They then began to throw entire
loaves of bread, slice by slice, at the
geese and ducks in the pond. They
seemed to have no concept of “feeding
the ducks.” Instead, a virtual bread
storm occurred before our eyes. Slices
flew by like frisbees, all while my wife
and I sat attempting to enjoy the day,
barely holding back our laughter.
Meanwhile, the ducks and geese
were being attacked from^bove by
another barrage of air-to-duck grain
missiles. (I think those are Russian.)
The larger ones pushed the smaller
aside to avoid losing their entire popu
lation in the battle.
Finally, after throwing the contents
of the fourth, yes fourth, bag of bread
into the lake, this time in the style of an
Olympic discus thrower, the shelling
subsided, and the attackers began to
pack up their ammo and head toward
another battle.
I heard the oldest woman say to the
little girl while walking away, “Now
we’ll go see the buffalo and deer.” I can
only imagine what they might throw at
those poor beasts.
Timmothy G. Hoff
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