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Quotes of_the
WEEK
I understand the concern that at the
same time we’re making cuts, we’re
talking about a $25 million baseball
stadium.
Lincoln Regent Charles Wilson
The room numbers are consecutive,
right?
' An obscene phone caller talking to a
student in Burr Residence Hall
We conclude that, given the legiti
mate expectation of some measure
of privacy in the hallway, the canine
sniff for illegal drugs ... violated the
Fourth Amendment.
Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, over
turning a 1997 drug conviction
It seems like we just came out timid.
NU volleyball player Mandy Monson,
on the team s loss to the Aggies
That’s where the name comes from.
Reinhold Messner is the patron
saint of underage drinking.
Darren Jessee, of the band Ben Folds
Five, on the title of its newest album,
“The Unauthorized Biography of
Reinhold Messner ”
... gorgeous, sweet and respectful of
its subject.
The New Yorker on the “black
Madonna ” of the Brooklyn Museum of
Art’s controversial “Sensation ” exhib
it
It would scare you to know every
thing that went on that day. It would
make you shudder. It was no differ
ent from (African-American
protests in) Montgomery, Alabama,
in the ‘60s. That should scare you. It
shoulcf raise red flags.
American Indian activist Frank
LaMere, on the treatment of protesters
at Whiteclay in July
In the end, ignorance costs more
than education.
Lincoln resident Ryk McCurdy, on the
school bill vote
Those kids had a lot of fun with that
goal post. I have been here 16 years,
and we haven’t had a goal post torn
down for 16 years, so it was a neat
deal.
Red Raiders football Coach Spike
Dykes, on his team’s victory over the
Aggies
We have had 30 sign-ups in the 30
days we have officially been consid
ered a major.
Film professor Wheeler Winston Dixon
on NU’s new film studies major
Who cares? The DN will just make
some degrading cartoon anyway!
Homecoming Court candidate
Timothy Hodges answering the ques
tion “Moeser vs. Solich in a fight. Who
wins and why? ”
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Obermeyer’s
VIEW
DN
LETTERS
Who’s Kidding Who
Just who are Regent Wilson, NU
President Smith, and the others
involved in the new baseball stadium
kidding?
Yes, the money will not be gener
ated through tuition or state funds.
However, the donors who will sup
port the stadium probably will not be
willing to then support other pro
grams on campus. Donations are
tight!
And trying to generate more than
$10 million for this athletic program
will make it all the harder for other
programs to raise half as much.
I’m NOT suggesting that the
Athletic Department should not be
allowed to raise funds. I AM suggest
ing that the Board of Regents and
President Smith should be knocking
on any donor’s door before the
Athletic Department does.
Daryn Warner
senior
theater arts
and international affairs
Old Tyme Religion
The negative news about the NU
football program has become old and
depressing.
The other night, I went to see a
YMCA flag football game at Wright
Field park. It was like a breath of
fresh air.
The refs and coaches were there
to volunteer their time, family and
friends were there to cheer and the
kids were there to have fun.
There was no money exchanging
hands, no distractions and the fans
had the best seats in the house. It was
football in its purest form.
At the end of the game, it didn’t
matter who won or who lost. The only
thing that mattered to the adults was
if the lads had fun.
As the kids made a beeline to the
pop cooler; the only thing that mat
tered to them was that the adults were
proud of them.
Bryan Ottoson
sophomore
academic transfer
Anti-Christ
It has been said that anti
Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of
the libera! elite. I wonder if Mo Neal
would have questioned the sincerity
of a Jewish mayor who protested the
degradation of a sacred Jewish sym
bol?
Rudolph Giuliani, as it happens,
is a devout Catholic, and it is scur
rilous, and indeed bigoted, not to take
the sincerity of his religious beliefs at
face value.
Gerard Harbison
chemistry professor
Racism reaction
Every single day it is mentioned,
and every single year we read our
share of it. I’m talking about racism,
and as I opened Tuesday’s DN, I was
hit by it again. Ren Townsend (DN
Letters), the definition of racism and
discrimination has nothing to do with
the fact that you say hi to anti-social
people.
called being rude. Personally, I don’t
go out and try to be rude to everyone,
but it’s my right to be that way if I
want to be.
The solution to your problem may
be as easy as getting over the hump of
blaming everything that doesn’t go
right in your day on the fact that I did
n’t say “hi” back to you.
Racism is a very serious accusa
tion. And honestly, there is some
merit for a lot of it.
Aren’t you discriminating by
assuming that we’re all racists? I’m
just sick of being a racist, a discrimi
nator and the enemy just because I’m
pale-skinned.
By the way, HELLO!
Joe Scharfbillig
junior
advertising
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rarely listening to other people
because I’m not expecting
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Delan Lonowski/DN
