- ' ■ EDITOR Josh Funk OPINION EDITOR Mark Baldridge EDITORIAL BOARD Lindsay Young Jessica Fargen Samuel McKewon Cliff Hicks Kimberly Sweet Our VIEW A dollar, a difference Donating to Habitat can improve lives On Aug. 17, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes in a deadly earth quake in Turkey. The quake devastated housing through out the northwest part of the country, leaving thousands living in flimsy tents, unsuitable for winter. \ Less than a month after the Turkey quake, about 100,000 people - equal to half of Lincoln’s residents - were left searching for shelter after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit Athens, Greece. When a quake shook Taiwan just last week, about 80,000 people lost their homes. The homeless were left camping in open spaces with sanitary conditions worsening by the day. Not across the seas, but right in our own . country, floods continue to ravage eastern North Carolina, where about 2,100 people leinain in shelters, their homes swamped with water or sim ply unsafe. It has been estimated that eastern North Carolina has suffered about $70.2 million in housing damage. That includes more than 3,000 homes destroyed or _:__ i .. ii This is just one of the many opportunities you have to help people not able to end the day in a nice warm bed after eating a full meal. d ^ i i sj u a i y damaged. These recent disasters worldwide forced hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes and into the streets. Millions of people every year are dis placed because of war, famine and disasters, and poverty and squalor is endemic in much of the developing world. It’s part of life. But we can help, and an opportunity lies right at our feet. The UNL chapter of Habitat for Humanity International is raising money to build a house for a Lincoln family in need. It’s simple really. Drop a dollar in the box next to the Shantytown set up on the Nebraska Union plaza. If every person on campus did that this week, the house would be paid for. This is just one of the many opportunities you have to help people not able to end the day in a nice warm bed after eating a full meal. One North Carolina woman, who now lives in a government-provided trailer, recently told CNN: “I wish I could go home.” We could help her do that. Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the Fall 1999 Daily Nebraskan. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its employees, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author. The Board of Regents serves as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL Publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of its student employees. Letter Policy The Daily Nebraskan welcomes brief letters to the editor and guest columns, but does not guarantee their publication. The Daily Nebraskan retains the right to edit or reject any material submitted. Submitted material becomes property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned. Anonymous submissions will not be published. Those who submit letters must identify themselves by name, year in school, major and/or group affiliation, if any. Submit material to: Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. Lincoln, NE. 68588-0448. E-mail: ’ letters@unlinfo.unl.edu. Obermeyer’s VIEW Ft'ivt sorry, shantytown is Mere 1 '•fo RAISE MOHbI AND AWARENESS fof? habitat EoA HumaniT/, WH|oH BVM6ol.tZ.ES THE PLIGHT OF THOSE IN . substandard and Poverty housing k- not iwe Homeless. \ SORRy FOR THE \misundeRStanpiwg. DN LETTERS Bad Science Reading Mark Buhrdorf’s letter (Monday, DN) should serve as a reminder to everyone to pay attention during basic biology classes. His quote “Ontology recapitu lates philogeny” should read “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” Ontogeny is the development in stages of an individual organism from fertilization through birth, phylogeny (note spelling - it is important some times) is the development in stages of a species from its ancestral forms. “Recapitulates” does NOT mean the organism in the womb IS whatev er developmental stage it looks like, only that it resembles that stage in certain ways (appearance, body parts, certain biochemical functions). Perhaps Mr. Buhrdorf should repeat Biology 101 and this time try to actually understand the concept before giving his views on this bit of “medieval quackery” that more enlightened people see as modern biological science. Regardless of your stand on abor tion, when you use bad science as a means of attacking the other side, you do no good for anyone and only show your own ignorance. Jim Cornwall graduate student geosciences Jessica: No (in) Class I am not, in any way, trying to make a cheap shot at Jessica Flanagain with the following obser vation: This semester I am attending a women’s studies class in which Jessica is also enrolled. I also had a class with her this last summer, which invariably was a women’s studies course. I’ve noticed that Jessica hard ly ever attends class. With that in mind, I have a few questions: If one does not attend class, how does one know what is being taught in the class? I will not question the fact that Jessica negatively targets the women’s studies program in her DN columns while continuing to take the classes. I do, however, question her motives for doing this, since she is so outwardly disinterested in the classes themselves. Since everyone has an agenda, I’d like to know what hers is. I can honestly say that I have com pletely disagreed with at least half of my professors, some of whom were teaching women’s studies courses. However, I chalk that up to differ ences of opinion, or agenda, if you will. I don’t see those differences as being valid points of contention with which to wage war on the entire pro gram. Amanda Lighter senior women’s studies English Everyone’s a Critic In regard to Emily Pyeatt’s review of the film “Double Jeopardy” (Monday, DN). Whoa there, Emily! You shattered the first rule of movie reviewing: Don’t give away the plot. I can’t believe you actually out lined, scene by scene, all but the last 15 minutes of the film. What were you thinking? All you needed to tell us is that it’s a film about a woman falsely accused of murdering her husband. Anyone who’s seen a trailer or TV commercial for the movie already knew that much anyway. Everything else you gave away is inappropriate and is going to ruin the film for anyone who read your review. I agree that the movie is pre dictable, and your money would be better spend renting “The Fugitive,” but still, that’s no reason for you to “give away the farm.” Next time write about the actors’ performances, the camera work, the quality of the dialogue and the themes or issues raised in the film. If you think the plot is predictable, sim ply say so. Don’t tell us the entire story! Your review’s grade: F. Curtis Bright class of ’90 former KOLN movie critic Funny ha ha? I found it rather funny how the 40 cases of confiscated beer were sold to Mum’s. Now this weekend other stu dents will go and buy those cases of beer, and this cycle of cat-and-mouse will start again. Behrouz Zand junior psychology P.S. Write Hack Send letters to: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 1400 "R" St., Lincoln, NE 68588, or fax to (402) 4724761, or e-mail