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6 ; EDITOR Josh Funk OPINION EDITOR Mark Baldridge EDITORIAL BOARD Lindsay Young Jessica Fargen Samuel McKewon Cliff Hicks Kimberly Sweet Our VIEW. Stealing seats UNL should take - ticket theft seriously So, it wasn’t so surprising that some guy might have been letting his friends in at Husker home games; the demand for tickets is a lot higher than the supply; and what kind of friend are you if you can’t help out a friend? The C-note didn’t hurt either, one sup poses, and who, in-the end, was hurt by it? What’s the big deal? Well the fact is, anyone stealing ser vices (the crime with which Roger “Doc” Baskerville was charged) from the univer sity is not stealing from some vague “University of Nebraska-Lincoln” in the sky but from us. ‘ . That’s right, it’s our team, our seats, our stadium and our game. It belongs to us and anyone stealing services from us, well, tar ring and feathering doesn’t seem too harsh. Where is that rail they used to run peo ple out of town on? And if a person caught flagrantly steal ing from us were in a position of some authority, a role model you might say, like a school superintendent for instance (as Baskerville is) well, that person should be prepared to pay with his or her very job. Their families should be humiliated,' they should have to leave Kansas (or wher ever they live) under a cloud - just as if that person had been lifting Sansabelt trousers from a Kmart. Unfortunately for us, football lends an 1 air of sanctity to everything it touches, even crime. And also, unfortunately for us, there are probably a lot of other people doing the same thing, letting in any number of “friends” for cadi. Thieves are like cockroaches: Where you see one, there are 100,000 running around in the baseboards. You gotta bug bomb the whole house. ~ Rather than suppose that such theft is a small and insignificant problem, the uni versity should take this arrest as a warning. Between now and the next home game, a whole season lies fallow for reform. Perhaps turnstiles are in order, cattle guards, video surveillance cameras in the ticket booths - whatever it takes to end this ■ illegal and shameful trade in ill-gotten “services” (which translates into “seats” pretty quickly.) If the temptation to steal has corrupted even school superintendents, will Sunday school teachers be exempt? Veterans? Nuns? The university has a responsibility to make tfieft of our seats at our games as unappealing as it can. We lock up build ings after hours to prevent theft, don’t we? We need similar restrictions at the gate to prevent theft of what, after alt, belongs to us. 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. i 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, responsibly 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®.unl.edu. Obermeyer’s VIEW i . i i ■fHRee fop. PoK^MoN, FLfiftSfi. . /Sorry, WPS,6^r\ /lWESHcWlS/^S^\ I |*\Y FRlEMP BEN r 1 fRANKLW \ms Lr\ d To show up, \ MAYBE £ c<vu> A |yw YW (MlA \ DN LETTERS Bible Scholar In response to Sam McKewon’s article (DN, Monday) I would like to ask a few questions and make a few statements of my own. First, Sam, have you ever read the Bible? I think you should rethink your idea about how we’re all going to be saved. If you believe in heaven, you almost have to believe in hell too. Where are all the people like Hitler and Ghengis Khan going to go? Do you believe they should be allowed into heaven too? Heaven doesn’t have to be earned, you are right by saying that. The Bible states that “Men are saved by the Grace of God alone ...” When Jesus comes to take his bride (the Church) home (to heaven), he will destroy the earth. That means trees, pets and rocks will all be destroyed. Heaven is exclu sively for humans. As sad as it is, you won’t see that tree in heaven. I know it sucks, but you won’t see Fluffy, your fish, either. Brook Curtiss \ freshman general studies Profits for Profs Yes, the best professors probably “inspire students to learn,” as you wrote in your recent editorial (DN, Monday). Whether nationally known pro fessors or researchers who can bring in money for their projects are the best teachers is __ definitely debatable, v however. Yet these are the assumptions you passed on to —— your readership. I agree that teaching is the heart of a university, but I do not -—’ * subscribe to the notion of teaching as a high visibility star show. Good teachers teach out of who they are, from the framework of their own sense of self and according to what is most meaningful tojthem and what they understand to jjfc crucial to the development of their students. Most teachers liave not gained prominence or special awards for doing their work, although some have. . : v It will be interesting to see how that $ 15 million is distributed. Just as no lecturers or teaching assistants benefited from the recent salary hikes, I doubt whether students will see the benefits of this latest “priority.” In my department, will new tenure track hires suddenly replace the teaching assistants and lecturers like myself who have been doing 70 percent of the teaching? I doubt it. Prioritizing teaching could mean better support and pay for those already doing it. Anne Whitney, Ph.D. lecturer Department of English Athletic Support I would just like to thank Tonia Tauke of the UNL volleyball team for her lecture on Title IX during the exhibit “Out of the Shadows and Into the Light” currently going on at the Nebraska Union. I must admit, I am the stereotypi cal football male who had some'prior misconceptions about Title IX. I pretty much thought the ruling was created to bring women’s athlet ics up to par at the expense of some of the male athletic programs. However, Tauke explained the early hardships of those who played for the volleyball team during its con ception and how there needed to be more equality for the female athletes on campus. This dealt with equality in the area of tutors, equipment and scholarship assistance. She explained how Athletic Director Bill Byrne has fought to ensure not only that there be equality between the men’s and women’s pro grams but that it would not come at the expense of any current programs. It was a lecture that truly did change some of the ways that I thought about the issue. I recommend that anyone who has some extra time today or Wednesday stop by the Union Ballroom and check out the exhibit. Hopefully it will have the same effect on others that it did on me. Matt Honke senior advertising n As% Matt Haney/DN /