Nixing nudity
Proposed city ordinance
neglects simplest solution
Is paying to lick whipped cream off a stripper’s thigh
immoral? * ^
How about watching someone dance around topless?
One city representative thinks nudity should be out
lawed in Lincoln, and she has asked the City Council to
support her.
Two ordinances were brought to the council on Feb.
1.
One is aimed at stopping contact between dancers
and patrons. The other potentially would ban all nudity
in public places, with exceptions for art and breast-feed
ing.
The physical-contact ordinance is expected to pass
easily, but the nudity ordinance is flawed.
One city representative thinks the council needs to
outlaw nudity to show the city has a conscience.
t i i In reality, the nudity ordinance
IS a bare- wouldn’t do anything.
chested tiveThe ,erm “nudity”is t0°rela'
WOmafl Is a bare-chested woman wear
ing only a G-string nude?
Wearing only How about if she puts star
. • shaped pasties over her nipples?
^ ^-String Qr should she wear a bra, a wet
nude ? How T-shirt or a bikini top?
If a man walks down O Street
about if she without a shirt, would he be nude,
puts Star- t0°There are too many exceptions
shnned t0 a no*nudity code.
^ If the council wants to end the
pasties over problem, it should make an ordi
, -jo nance that would actually deal
her nipplesC with the problem strip clubs pre
sent.
If the council outlaws strip clubs, then dancers have
no forum to show off their bodies, and the problem
would be solved.
But the council would rather come through the back
door to solve the problem by enforcing an undefined
rule.
There is no sliding scale for morality.
If nudity is such a big problem, the council should
face it head-on and abolish all strip clubs.
The council can expect clubs that thrive off nudity
and sexual behavior to exploit any loophole left open.
If the council wants to solve the problem, it must
eliminate the problem.
The City Council just can't cover up the problem with
pasties.
Editorial Board
Josh Funk (editor) • J.J. Harder • Cliff Hicks • Samuel
McKewon • Dane Stickney • Kimberly Sweet • Lindsay
Young
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Letters to the
EDITOR
Skewed view
Did I miss it? Did I miss the edi
torial decrying Tom Osborne and his
“taking this most fundamental of
rights inherent to a republic and com
pletely skewing it to her (his)
desires,” just as you skewered Hillary
Clinton for running for Senate in
New York (Our View, 2/7/00).
Really, Tom doesn’t live in the
3rd district! According to you (if
you’re consistent), he must be one of
those “wealthy political insiders”
who will cause our electoral system
to “decay further than it already has.”
I hope the editorial board lets
Osborne know that this “get-elected
wherever-I-can philosophy doesn’t
belong in our state” and works to get
him kicked “out of our state and tell
him never to come back.”
Now don’t give me any crap
about Tom’s being a resident of the
state. That’s the way it works for
Senate races. For House races, one is
supposed to be a resident of the dis
trict - not just the state. Hillary
Rodham Clinton at least will live in
her house after the election. Osborne
will probably continue to live in
Lincoln while using his other home
for an occasional fishing trip and
voting purposes.
In case anyone should mistake
my feelings, I think both Clinton and
Osborne should be allowed to do
what they are doing. It’s up to the vot
ers of their regions to decide who
they want to represent them. It’s not
up to an editorial board that seems to
harbor a great deal of anger toward
Clinton.
Keith Bartels
UNL Communication &
Information Technology
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Idiocy indeed
After reading Chris Gustafson’s
and Lucas Stock’s column “Center of
idiocy” on Friday, a few thoughts
come to my mind. “Center of idiocy”
is a good title, but it should not refer
to the university, but rather to the
space allotted to these two simple
minded individuals.
I understand that their article is a
joke, but aside from that, there are
some things I would like to point out.
These two should have learned that
you shouldn’t make fun of something
that is above your level of intelli
gence. Obviously the fields of engi
neering, math and science are out of
the realm of comprehension of these
two writers, so they choose to make
fun of that which they don’t under
stand.
Maybe the problem
is that they looked M
at their own
majors and
realized how
worthless the}
are and <
they woul
make f
everyon
who will
ally ge
high-pa}
ing jo
upon
gradu
ation.
When I read the editorial page, I
would like to think that I would actu
ally be reading something that causes
thought or stirs controversy. My hope
is that in the future, the DN will pub
lish writers with such ideas and not
this senseless drivel we have been
reading for so much of this spring
semester.
Dave Johnson
sophomore
civil engineering
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