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EDITOR
Josh Funk
OPINION
EDITOR
Mark Baldridge
EDITORIAL
BOARD
Lindsay Young
Jessica Fargen
Samuel McKewon
Cliff Hicks
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OF THE WEEK
Jesus would have walked.
Sign at last Friday’s transportation
solutions forum
We’re surrounding him with love.
A senior Bush adviser on plans to keep
Pat Buchanan from splitting from the GOP
We need to find out who’s responsi
ble. We don’t want people in charge of
things like Waco if they’re not doing their
job properly.
Rep. Dan Burton, on the belated Waco
investigations
I thought they were a bunch of cream
puffs up front.
Dominic Raiola, NU center, on the
California team
Even if the results of the study point
toward a disproportionality, they proba
bly won’t be statistically conclusive.
Allen Curtis, director of the Nebraska
Crime Commission, on the yet-to-be-con
ducted study on possible death penalty dis
crimination
Hurricane Floyd is huge, he’s power
ful, he’s fast and he’s mean.
Richard Moore, North Carolina s public
safety secretary
Blue Velcro shoes, shorts jacked up to
his chest, and he sweats more than any
other human on this planet.
Anonymous description of a UNL pro
fessor posted to collegestudent.com
At first they thought it was a waste of
money and time. They wanted to use the
money to create showers instead.
Jade Mesa, 17, on an art project at
Daywatch, a shelter for homeless people
I heard the screams, and all I thought
was, ‘Man I hope that was for someone
on our team.’
NU golfer Sarah Sasse, on hitting a
hole-in-one
It seems to be legal, so I assume there
are no real consequences.
Trevor Ponte, Harris Lab rat, on taking
experimental drugs
Maybe demand for computers in the
union is an insatiable demand.
Daryl Swanson, Nebraska Unions
director
He was very calm and looked normal
and was smoking a cigarette.
Christy Martin, witness to a shooting in a
Texas church, describing the shooter
When you grow up in Omaha, you
always want to leave.
Director and Omaha native Alexander
Payne, who shot portions of his film
“Election ” in Omaha
AND IN THIS ISSUE
They were taking off their corsets and
putting on designs of their own choosing.
Margot Mifflin, author of “A Street
History of Women and Tattoo ”
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LETTERS
‘Our View’ Not My View
It is difficult to address the multi
tude of flaws and misconceptions con
tained in Tuesday’s opinion column
regarding East Timor.
Keeping my outrage and belief in
self determination for all peoples at
bay, I have a few points that I believe
the article missed.
1. The East Timorese people,
much like the Kosovars, have been
struggling for independence for many
years.
What makes the United States
decide to become involved in the
Balkans and hesitant about East
Timor? Racism.
The most accepted reason that
NATO/United States intervened mili
tarily in Kosovo was because it’s
EUROPE.
2. The United States has been
involved in the affairs of East Timor
since their independence movement
began in 1974.
This country has funded, trained
and armed those who are committing
genocide. The United States leads the
world in the sale of weapons, making
the United States an accessory to
human rights abuses.
3. The election in East Timor
on Aug. 30 brought 98 percent of its
population out to vote. These people
knew they were risking their lives by
going out to vote and yet they did any
way.
Nebraska’s last election brought a
whopping 14 percent to the polls.
When was the last time Americans
spoke up about any U. S. policy at
home or abroad? I think it was when
they switched the Coca-Cola recipe to
New Coke.
We were pretty upset then.
Elizabeth Goodbrake
junior
international affairs
Not My View, Either
In response to “Your View” on
East Timor in Tuesday’s Daily
Nebraskan, history has shown that the
United States has set a dangerous
precedent on many occasions.
In 1965, the U.S. government
turned over the names of up to 5,000
people who were to be murdered,
along with the other 500,000 to 1 mil
lion victims of Indonesia’s former
President Suharto’s violent rise to
power.
At that point in time, over 1,200
Indonesian military officers had been
trained in the United States.
President Ford was in Indonesia
days before the invasion of East Timor
and was aware of Indonesia’s upcom
ing plans. The United States abstained
from the U. N. condemnation of the
invasion and worked to keep the
United Nations from doing anything
substantive to aid the East Timorese.
Over the next 14 years, 200,000
people, one-third of the population,
were butchered. The United States has
not been a champion of democracy in
East Timor or in many other places
around the world.
The United States has sold over $ 1
billion in military wares to Indonesia
during the 24-year campaign of geno
cide.
There should have been no inter
vention from the start. The guns used
to shoot innocent women, men and
children have been supplied by the
United States. The soldiers have been
trained by the United States.
The least the United States can do
is end its support of the violent rule it
helped create.
Ben Knauss
freshman
general studies
Ms. Flanagain
As I was reading Tuesday’s “Sunny
Side Up” column by Jessica
Flanagain, I found myself, in varying
degrees, agreeing and disagreeing
with both her and the women’s studies
department.
I understood Ms. Flanagain until
she wrote "... I happen to believe it’s a
valid field of study. The study of
women, that is. The study of lesbian
ism ... well, maybe some other day.”
If you are going to study women,
you must study lesbianism. However,
women are much more than lesbians:
they are lesbian, straight, profession
als, professional mothers, liberals,
conservatives and everything in
between.
To the women’s studies depart
ment: I applaud you for promoting the
understanding and acceptance of les
bians. But please, recognize that
women are so much more than this and
stop limiting the education your stu
dents receive.
To Jessica Flanagain: I hope some
day you are able to view the study of
lesbianism as valuable to broadening
your understanding of the world. I had
the opportunity as an undergraduate at
a private Midwest Methodist universi
ty to take a course on homosexual
studies. I learned more in that single
class than I learned in all of my other
classes combined.
Veronica Highley
graduate student
counseling psychology
No Free Rides
J.J. Harder’s column complaining
about football ticket prices (DN,
Wednesday) although true in respect
to students having high ticket prices, is
not as bad as he makes it appear.
First of all, Miami, Tennessee and
many other schools have free student
tickets. However at Miami, as with
most other schools, students are
charged a student fee of $24.50 a
semester that goes to the Athletic
Department even if you do not attend
even one athletic event.
The skyboxes, which Mr. Harder
also lampoons, will keep prices from
going up further.
He wants Mr. Byrne to throw him a
bone. Well, this year he threw you one.
Students can buy season basketball
ticket for $25, far less than last year. If
at least 1,500 students don’t attend
men’s b-ball games this year, the stu
dents should lose any right to com
plain about anything the Athletic
Department does.
James Nicas
UNL alumnus
Wichita, Kan.
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