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Mommy
dearest
Sororities should
have voted on policy
Sometimes Mommy doesn’t know
best. Sometimes sorority presidents don’t
know best, either.
They both mean well.
When sorority presidents and social
chairwomen decided to sign their chapters
onto a sorority-wide alcohol policy, some
talked to their chapters. Others may have
taken a vote. Some may have glossed over
that part altogether.
The presidents seemed to be for the
policy, but a lot of social chairwomen
dragged their feet. Some sorority mem
_ bers didn’t
•• want it at all.
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on a policy
because the national Panhellenic man
dates it.
This time was different.
Sparked by a concern from presidents
about the potential for binge drinking at
pre-football game parties, the presidents
stepped in, like mothers, and decided what
they thought was best for their chapters.
Panhellenic representatives point out
that the agreement basically reinforces a
rule that is state law and university policy.
They also said the policy is a show of sup
port for a national Interfratemity Council
program to have every college fraternity
dry by the year 2000.
Regardless, each sorority did not vote
on the policy, and now they are forced to
abide by it.
It is good to have someone to look out
for you but not good to have something
crammed down your throat.
And although Panhellenic representa
tives said the majority of women were sat
isfied with the policy, some women are
not.
We appreciate that Panhellenic repre
sentatives acknowledge the fact that the
way the policy came out wasn’t fair.
Panhellenic representatives said they
learned from it, and we hope the same
mistake is not made again.
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LETTERS
Queer Thinking
Josh Moenning (“Be a man” DN,
Tuesday) has found a valid concern in
the formation of the modern male
identity: wussification.
When a society accepts the sanc
tion of homosexual “love,” it
inevitably will accept the blurring of
gender lines, to the point where even
the male role models are willing to
cross the line into femininity.
This is a problem because hetero
sexual people are not complex or
original enough to think in terms
other than a male-female dichotomy.
So, for the sustenance of all that is
right about society today, we must
fight the good fight against wussifi
cation.
Males must reinvent themselves
by returning to their traditional roles
of imperviousness (which, by conse
quence, will require females to return
to their traditional roles as well), and
by rejecting the quasi-male standards
that homosexuals have infected our
society with.
Jake Glazeski (a queer)
senior
music/math
Feminine Intuition
Josh Moenning, is this for real?
The “wussification of men”? There
are so many things wrong with that
idea that I don’t know where to start.
Although you don’t mention
women in your article, as a woman I
feel a direct insult by what you are
implying: that men are becoming too
sensitive, that we should conform to
stereotyped gender roles, idealized
and shoved down our throats by
Hollywood and the media in general.
Maybe as a man you’d like to
believe that men are stronger than
women, or at least need to act so, but
I challenge you there.
I have a different definition of
strong, and it has nothing to do with
football or John Wayne. I would
respect a man much more for being
who he is, disregarding some macho,
testosterone-filled ideal and showing
a bit of compassion.
A strong man is not intimidated
by being placed on an equal plane
with the rest of the human race, even
women!
Sarah B. Schenck
senior
art
Falsies
What’s disturbing about Josh
Moenning’s column’s emphasis on
old-style film actors is the fact that
the characters played by Bogart, John
Wayne and the rest were quite obvi
ously fictional.
Basing your life’s conduct on a
fictional character is far more dis
turbing than the “wussification” that
Mr. Moenning seems to be so terri
fied of.
If any man takes the advice pre
sented in the column, he will be liter
ally acting like a false man.
Paul Ward
graduate student
English
Damsels in dis Dress
Maybe we should all wear a dress
on Friday in honor of wussification
day.
Karie Fahrenholz
UNL law student
Stand and Cheer
This goes out to Lucas Johannes
(Letters, Tuesday), greeks and all
those who attend the football games.
First of all, there is no excuse for the
greek members around you to be
standing on the benches.
They have chosen to identify
themselves with an institutionalized
group and live their lives by certain
standards and lead by example. It’s
nice to see the fraternities are turning
out such fine, young gentlemen (sar
casm intended).
Secondly, I don’t know what plan
et Lucas lives on, but the football
tickets we buy do not say “general
admission.” If they did, I’d be at every
game by 9 a.m. sharp to fight for
seats on the 50-yard line.
At each game for almost four
years, I’ve kicked people out of the
great seats my friends and I pur
chased. I arrive 20 minutes early
every time and think I deserve a seat
in the sixth row and will stick to my
guns to get ‘em.
We bought them as a group
through the lottery system; heard of
it? Greeks have as much right to sit
together, too. So, why were you barg
ing into their OBVIOUS block of
seats?
Brett Otte
senior
finance
Greek Speaks
Why is it that the DN and others
repeatedly bash the greek system? To
my understanding, the greek system
promotes a strong support system
throughout our years of college,
which quite frankly, I don’t know
where I’d be without.
We laugh, have a good time on
weekends (yeah, I guess that means
we like to throw a couple back at the
bars and at parties) and establish a
“home” away from home by creating
special friendships with others.
As a whole, we have raised thou
sands of dollars this semester for our
philanthropies. With the help of oth
ers (greeks, non-greeks, professors,
friends and parents), my sorority
raised over $2,000 to support
Children’s Cancer Research while
having a good time eating Village Inn
pancakes on a Thursday night.
Not only does our house help out
the community, but so do other hous
es.
There are ice cream socials, bas
ketball tournaments, the Laura
Cockson Memorial Scholarship
Fund, green eggs and ham (literally),
spaghetti feeds (my favorite) and
pumpkin carving contests. And all
these support someone or something
dear to us: a stroke patient, cancer
patient, diabetes, glasses for an
underprivileged child or someone
who was killed by a drunken driver.
But to me and so many others, it
will always be one way and that is
this: We’re damned if we do, damned
if we don’t. Remember, our positives
by far outnumber our negatives.
Lora Peterson
senior
English
member of Tri Delta Sorority
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