"It was heard and cited during the Ayers slap that Jane Fonda had spoken on campus. People might not see that as controversial, but at the time, it was. She was invited to speak in the early (1970s). Sometimes, controversies are within a particular time and movement, in a context."
-University spokeswoman Kelly Bartling. Bartling gave comments regarding UNL's decision to cancel Bill Ayers' speech.
"Success doesn't happen overnight, and failure doesn't happen overnight either."
-UNL alum Joe Chavanu, who returned to Nebraska from playing in a band in San Diego to start a fitness-based Web site, recounts the trials and enjoyment of starting and running your own business.
"While many of us long for teaching as something transcendent and powerful, we find ourselves too-often locked in situations that reduce teaching to a kind of glorified clerking, passing along a curriculum of received wisdom and predigested and often false bits of information. This is a recipe for disaster in the long run."
-Bill Ayers, IN A GUEST editorial, EXPLAINING WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DISCUSSED HAD HE SPOKEN AT unl
"Coal plants around the nation, doing a vital part in keeping up with Americans' high energy demand (someone has to power Cyndi Waite's newest vibrator), are spending millions of dollars to construct additions to prevent sulfur release, facilitated by clean coal technology."
-Senior chemical engineering major Keith Rodenhausen, responding to Monica Sanford's Nov. 13 column, "Geothermal energy tops 'clean coal.'
"This year we increased the student allotment of tickets and accommodated every student on the wait list. We hope that you will make plans now to come to the Colorado game as well as the Creighton men's basketball game at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Nov. 29, even though both events fall during Thanksgiving Break."
-NU Athletic Director Tom Osborne, in a Nov. 17 guest editorial. Osborne thanked students for their support and encouraged it to continue, despite the holidays and cold.
"I really think in a war, it's not just army dying. It's a lot of innocent people and children. What do we know at age five? Nothing really. We know how to play - that's it. They don't know what is peace. They don't know how to defend themselves."
-Bosnian refugee Mirsada Kulovac. Kulovac shared her experience in a Daily Nebraskan arts story titled, "Bridge to a new home;" here she explains the affects of war on children.
"We can look forward to the completion of a beautiful new child care facility for the summer of 2009. But for now, it is with shame that we shake our heads at the administration - asking them, where are your priorities?"
-Daily Nebraskan Nov. 19 staff editorial. The editorial board critically looked at the administration's lack of foresight in child care planning for UNL faculty, staff, students and alumni parents.
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