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Think for
your drinks
Skybox alcohol policy
easily worked around
What’s the big deal?
So what if the university is telling you
that you can’t bring alcohol into your high
priced skyboxes?
It’s not like Bill Byrne is going to burst
into the U.S. Bank skybox and tell the
bank’s president to put the beer down.
Look at any red-faced, rowdy, stagger
ing UNL student at the game Saturday. Do'
you think he or she cares that alcohol is
banned in Memorial Stadium? No.
So we have a little secret for all those
people who paid >>_
millions of dollars ••
for a prime seat at Our dry
Husker games.
Don’t fuss and StCtdilUTl is jliSt
fight because the ,
university decided uuuul uo
not to let you drink laUghable as
a Budweiser with °
your bratwurst or OUr dry
have a rum and
Coke with your CCllYipUS.
pepperoni pizza. "
Just get creative.
UNL students have been doing it for
years. Decades. Longer than that.
Our dry stadium is just about as laugh
able as our dry campus.
So in the spirit of disregard for universi
ty policy, we have a few tips to make the
game a little more memorable (or not so
memorable, as the case may be) for the new
skybox holders.
A flat bottle of rum fits nicely under
your shirt or in your back pocket. Mix that
with one of those pops served in a pricey
souvenir cup, and you are home free.
Once it gets cold, your coat can double as
a small beer-cooler. The bulkier the better.
Masking the can is the hard part. When
taking a sip from the can just stick it inside
the cuff of your coat and nonchalantly lift
the can to your mouth.
The skyboxes offer even more possibili
ties, so go ahead and use that refrigerator for
more than your hors d’oeuvres and Diet
Coke.
but it you insist on following university
policy, maybe you should do your celebrat
ing downtown before kick-off.
Or you could just go to the game sober.
A lot of people do.
And we understand why the university
wants it that way - rowdy fans, vomit,
empty bottles. Would you want to clean that
up?
But there will always be some students
who will never accept the policy, who will
never understand.
So landing an official policy allowing
alcohol in the skyboxes is really not that big
of deal. Just nod your head, smile and calm
ly accept the rules.
That’s what we do.
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Where Would Jesus Park?
Jesus wouldn’t worry about park
ing. Jesus would ride a bike.
Bicycles don’t produce poison
gases, they don’t require expensive
gasoline and maintenance and riding
a bicycle is good exercise.
Many campuses don’t even have
parking, so you flabby car-driving
sinner wimps should stop whining
and start pedaling.
Lane Phillips
senior
computer engineering
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Thanks, J.J. You spoke volumes in
your column (Wednesday).
I’m grateful to you for expressing
what single moms have always want
ed from absent fathers. '
Your mom has done a wonderful
job.
Zoe Olson
senior
advertising major
Other Sports?
I am a football fan, too, and I can
understand Regent Miller’s feelings
(Letters, Wednesday) that the football
teafn should get more money than
other teams.
Football brings a lot of money
into this university. Hbwever, he
needs to understand the views of the
other athletes, too.
They should not be pushed aside’
just because they do not generate mil
lions of dollars in revenue for the uni
versity or because Mr. Miller does not
enjoy watching them like he does
football.
Other sports are important, too.
Molly Merrell
freshman
athletic training
mi
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“Obermeyer’s View” is an unfor
tunate setback to the paper’s journal
istic integrity.
Without a united and clear focus,
the DN will lose the respect of stu
dents. How could we deal with such
an atrocity?
The DN is, and needs to be, a bea
con of light in this sea of despair
known as the “corn-belt capital.”
Obermeyer is blocking that light
with his big fat head.
Justin Grotelueschen
senior
ag journalism
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Says...
The Turing Test, proposed in
1950 by Alan M. Turing, is general
ly understood as the following:
An interrogator communicates
with a person and a computer via a
terminal. His or her task is to find
out which is the machine and
which is the human merely by ask
ing them questions.
If the machine can “fool” the
interrogator, it is intelligent.
When will a computer be able
to fool you into thinking it’s
human?
We performed a less-than-sci
entific survey of selected persons
asking them this question.
Here are the answers:
Lew, a computer engineer, said,
“I’ll build you one by 2005.”
“The year 2010!” shouted
Patrick, a New York conference
organizer.
Kat, a local bookstore manager,
said only, “Soon.”
Don, too busy bartending to be
bothered, said “Thursday.
“And I’m not telling you which
Thursday.”
And, finally, Mot-Lee, on his
way out of town, guessed, “I sup
pose it’s already happened, some
where.”
.
Currently, there are few pro
grams we know of that even come
close. They spit out grammatical
bits of nonsense like, “You do not
turn into tacos, and you WERE
NEVER THE SAME!” (from
MegaHAL, an online conversa
tional program), but this may
result, in part, from the way these
programs “learn” language and
who they learn it from.
“What is your sxual prefer
ence?” a questioner asked
MegaHAL on Wednesday.
Correcting it to:
“What is your sexaul prefer
ence?”
If you’d like to see for yourself
how one of the better talkback pro
grams work, try MegaHAL at
http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/
ttest.html, and let us know if you
find out its sexule preference.
PS Write Mack
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