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OFTHEWEEK
As I told you before, I’m ready to sit
up in that chair if you’re ready to push
that switch.
Convicted murderer David K.
Dunster, who is seeking the death penalty
I found absolutely no spot where
Mr. Dunster was not in touch with real
ity
Dr. Scott Moore, Lincoln Regional
Center clinical director
It was a new feeling. I have heard of
satellite classes, but this is new stuff. It
is exciting to be.part of history.
Zarir, part of the first-ever, three-way
Internet class
The guns are silent. We believe this
should be the end of the war in the
Congo.
Bazima Karaha, chief negotiator of
the Rally for Democracy
I have no idea what’s going on. I’ve
been trying to find out myself.
Ruth Buckhalter, mother of Correll
Buckhalter, missing I-back
There was never a time when I went
up to Coach Solich or gave him a call or
a message or left any type of notifica
tion with anyone that I was leaving this'
team.
Eric Croucht Husker quarterback, on
rumors that he, too, was goingAWOL
I’m a homeboy.
Joseph White, professor emeritus'of
the University of California and Lincoln
native
Typically, a cult-type realm of peo
ple will be active in these activities, or
carry out whatever they do here in
cemeteries.
Todd TerMaat, Wyuka cemetery
spokesman on speculation of 9-9-99
related activities>
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The U.S. can stop this in a minute if
they applied serious pressure on
Indonesia. Every hour they wait is
more people killed.
East Timorese election observer
For me, I’m not worried. But I’m
staying for the little ones.
Nelly Avila Abarca, preparing to face
Hurricane Greg from an emergency shel
ter
You do not turn into tacos, and you
WERE NEVER THE SAME!
MegaHAL, a computer program, try
ing to make sense of it all
AND IN THIS ISSUE:
It could go both ways. A lot of stu
dents probably see it as horrible, and a
lot probably say ‘Hey, he’s human.’
ASUN President Andy Schuerman on
how(UNO students may react to UNO
Student President Jon Shradar’s arrest for
disorderly conduct at Saturday’s
Maverick game in Omaha
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NEBRASKA’S CAPITAL
Global matters
Environmentally conscious solutions at our fingertips
Did You Know
Your food travels more than 1,300 miles from farm gate to
dinner plate. Better hope that all 1,300 miles are Y2K com
pliant, or there will be food shortages. ^
ducing massive amounts of com to
feed the world. Feed the world?! He
knows damn well that all of that com
is for livestock feed. It isn’t suitable r
to be ingested by humans.
Anyway, what would you rather
eat?
A vegetable grown organically,
from a local region, one that
strengthens not only the mind, body
and soul but also the local economy
and is simply a far superior product?
Or, some genetically altered, fer
tilized, pesticide-ridden, tasteless
piece of Filth from a massive, face
less chemical company?
Local Food Locally
And what do they feed us here?
Where is the UNL cafeteria that
serves food from local farmers?
We must demand that UNL sup
port food businesses that produce
sustainable and organic foodstuffs,
which include free range, organic
diet, non-hormone treated animals
for meat and non-chemically treated
J fruits and vegetables.
It’s our money and our health.
Hey, did you hear that a liberal,
Kansas dairy company, Double
Dutch dairy, wants to build an
enclosed mega-farm for 4600 milk
ing cows in Shelby, Neb.?
The Lincoln Journal Star quoted
a local farmer as saying that if the
dairy industry in Nebraska doesn’t
work for big operators, it won’t work
for smaller farmers, either.
Has this farmer been brain
washed by th^ promise of corporate
money-making schemes? Has he for
gotten the methods of his ancestors?
Has he been educated on the theory
and practice of Associative
Economics and how he will fit into a
restructured, sustainable U.S. food
system?
Have you?
What do you think is better for
Nebraska?
A diversified and vibrant econo
my with many small farmers, treat
ing the eartn and its animals ethical
ly and all cooperating to produce.
fresh, healthy foods?
Or, a mega-corporation from
Kansas that is the epitome of every
thing wrong with farming today, will
destroy local economies (as has hap
pened with grain) and produce milk
containing cancerous and birth
defect-causing agents?
Remember the small^qrganic
farmers (like Lincoln’s own Equinox
Community Supported Agriculture).
They are the epitome of everything
that is right with farming today!
The bottom line is, government
wants food production in as few
hands as possible, because that
would be easier to manage.
It’s easier to pour on fertilizers
and pesticides and radiatecrops. All
for the almighty dollar.
It’s funny how much people
spend on the surface of the body and
how little they care about its insides.
You are what you eat, right?
An Open Invitation
As co-director of the University
of Nebraska Environmental
Resource Center, let me invite you to
a forum today at 12:30 p.m. by the
Broyhill Fountain and a bike ride at
4:30 p.m. around downtown (on the
streets, of course).
The discussion will center on
public transportation and pedestrian
and bicycling issues.
Hopefully, we can find a better
solution than simply sending our
officers in blue to police the side
walks for aggressive bicyclists.
Portland, Ore., has far narrower
streets than Lincoln and the same ^
type of one-way system in its down
town and other busy areas, and it still
has bike lanes.
Can Lincoln be as progressive?
Come and find out.
The New York Times reported on
Aug. 29, 1999, that an irate group of
French farmers marked their territo
ry against U.S. cultural imperialism.
The group, the Union of French
Farmworkers, has repeatedly
unloaded dump trucks full of rotten
food and manure on McDonald’s
restaurants across France.
Said the Union of French
Farmworkers: “Globalization is cre
ating absurd economic conflicts.”
The aim of their protest is to “allow
farmers and others to feed them
selves as they think best.”
Sounds logical.
Guillaume Parmentier of the
French Center on the United States
said: “There is a growing fear of
being taken over by new types of
technology and a general ambiva
lence toward globalization, of which
McDonald’s has become a symbol.”
It’s a brave new world, all right:
mass-produced and mass-consumed,
genetically identical global food sup
ply from science fiction.
From the same Times story, one
of our “esteemed” (or full of hot air)
representatives (Senator Richard G.
Lugar, R-Indiana) seems to think
that the Europeans are caught in “a
kind of collective madness,” and “we
don’t want that to spread to the rest
of the world.”
Because if it does, then the grain
farmers will be in even worse condi
tion than the U.S. government has
already put them in.
Lugar had the audacity to state,
“The Europeans think they are pro
tecting humanity, but we think they
want to starve the rest of the world.”
Be frightened of Lugar; he makes
us look like a bunch of unsophisti
cated ignorants.
Lugar actually said that the
United States has to continue pro
(jrKAHAM JOHNSON is a graduate student m German, environmental and
social studies and is a Daily Nebraskan columnist
