Memorial Stadium would benefit from larger events
Should Lincoln create new or improve existing venues with taxes? No. It should host better acts with existing venues like Memorial Stadium. There is no sense funding new or renovated arenas not backed by intelligent booking of performers/events Lincolnites actually want to see.
Preserving the turf is important, but OU hosted U2 on theirs October 18th. They have National Championship-size reasons to be protective about their turf.
If Memorial Stadium entryways are too small to accommodate semis/gear used in stadium concerts, make them bigger.
Building/renovating arenas is more costly than creating bigger entries in a venue already in existence.
Like or loathe U2, they pad tax coffers. Book them.
Additional hotel/restaurant taxes are unnecessary when such acts play routinely.
Roger Waters, Coldplay, The Who, Eric Clapton, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Farm Aid, Neil Young and Pearl Jam have played in Omaha. Many of them will play in Lincoln.
Radiohead anyone?
UNL’s Stadium Office is immune to effects of missed revenue generated by such booking opportunities. Our concerns need serious consideration as the stadium remains idle for most of every year.
Event simulcasts at the Rococo/Ross Theatres and the Lied Center would bring in more profits/tax revenue and provide an option for those unable to afford tickets.
Everyone wonders about arena viability. Nobody wonders about the viability of booking these acts in our much loved/underused stadium.
Jason Andrew Lefler
Lincoln
Foreign policy should shift from proselytizing to peacemaking
Everyone wishes for world peace. The United States should use its power to change the world through peace rather than through war. The United States should cease to impose its ideas regarding government and politics on other countries and start imposing ideas of peace and friendship. Bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Only when the war ends can peace begin. As Mahatma Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Jessica Elwell
Senior Theater Major
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