Prior to writing this letter I went about the
Boos for bootleggers
Dear editor:
The Don Ellis concert at O'Donnell Auditoriumon
the Wesleyan campus Saturday night was fantastic,
but I was deeply disappointed and almost shocked at
those around me who were illegally attempting to
record the concert.
One gentleman (is that the proper word?) left his
tape player running, ruining the end section of a
really well-done tune.
Sure it's fun to tape Ellis live, plus you'd have an
excellent recording (bootleg too, maybe you could
get rich by selling copies to your friends) but it seems
that this behavior is an insult to Ellis.
Ellis is a fine technician, composer, director,
arranger and performer and was certainly not worthy
of such treatment.
J. E. Jacobson
Defining plogianism
Dear editor:
. Following are two definitions which I feel should
be presented to help clarify a point. They are from
the American College Dictionary by Random House.
Plaeiarism: n.l. copying or imitating the language,
ideas and thoughts of another author and passing off
the same as one's original work. 2. something
appropriated and put forth in this manner,
-plagiarist, n.
Copyright: n. 1 .the exclusive right, granted by law
for a certain term of years, to make and dispose of
copies of, and otherwise to control, a literary, musical
or artistic work. -adj. 2. protected by copyright.-v.t.
Last week there was an article in the Daily
Nebraskan regarding writings authored by one of
NlTs Regents. In your article it was shown that one
passage from the regent's report on homosexuality
closely resembled a paragraph from a book on
homosexuality written in 1957. I think it was more
than pure chance that the two passages were that
close. If you note the first definition above, it could
be called plagiarism.
I was taught before coming to college that it was
not right to plagiarize someone else's works because it
was not honorable. So I come to a university where
the regents tell the students what should be done and
what should not. There is even a small sentence on
page 21 of the Campus Handbook. "Students are
expected to be honest in all aspects of their course
work."
As for the definition of copyright, I always
thought the works of an author were protected by
giving proof that his work was the original work.
Thus he can sue anyone who tries to sell his work as
theirs.
campus looking for some offical statement regarding
plagiarism and found none. I guess it is a good thing
there is no binding policy concerning plagiarism since
if there was, one of our Regentsmight have broken it.
Perry Michael Whye
Pregnancy counseling
Dear editor:
The Student Affairs staff, in response to a recent
pregnancy counceling service for women
advertisement, encourages students who are seeking
pregnancy counseling to seek assistance from reliable
local and known resources. The Clergyman's
Consultation Service (abortion referral, adoption,
prenatal care-472-33 1 1 or 475-5171) and Birthright
(alternatives to abortion-477-8021) offer a variety of
possibilities and can better meet the individual's
needs, rather than relying on an out-of-state
telephone answering service that offers only abortion
assistance.
Janet Krause
Administrative Assistant
Student Affairs
Abortion rip-off
Dear editor:
A letter of thanks for withdrawing the
advertisement for Women's Free Choice in the Daily
Nebraskan. Upon investigation we found:
1) This is a commercial abortion referral clinic that
requires an $80 fee before giving any information or
making any arrangements.
2) There is no pre-counseling to discuss the
alternatives in a problem pregnancy.
3) They do not supply the names of locial doctors
or clinics to see before or after an abortion.
4) The abortion fee is $105-makL-?g a total cost of
$185; the best clinic in New York charges $125 with
a lower fee possible in hardship cases arranged by a
member of the Clergy Consultation Service.
5) The clinic named in New York is not licensed
by the state of New York and not approved by the
city of New York Health Department. The doctor
whose name was given has been fired from one of the
better clinics for poor medical practice.
6) Commercial referral agencies are now illegal in
New York so this contact is in Philadelphia-there is a
legal question about any New York clinic working
with a commercial agency in any other state. The
Clergy Consultation Service, with 65 experienced
counselors in the state of Nebraska will discuss the
alternatives to a problem pregnancy. There are
various good medical facilities available with no fee.
Let's thoroughly investigate our sources in the
future.
Twig Daniels
Fringe benefits
Dear editor:
Col. Hemingway, (Daily Nebraskan, Jan. 31) "Try
it. . .you'll like it?" speaks of 1) Life-long free
hospitalization and medical care. The Dec. 15 Air
Force Times reports that dependents and retirees may
be barred from military medical facilities. Uncle Sam
does not assure free medical care for life.
2) Flying to many places in the world at no charge
is great, but when American forces leave these places,
Sam will probably stop flying to them.
3) Retirement in the grade of colonel is swell for a
colonel at $ 1 7,398.80 per year.
The Jan. 26 Air Force Times reports that defense
planners think the military retirement pay could
reach $7 billion per year. Defense experts don't
believe such retired pay heights will be reached
because taxpayers won't stand for it.
Using the 1958 reduction of military retired pay as
an example, I now understand that Sam is not
keeping the promises he made to the young people of
1952. Why should 1972 people believe Sam will pay
off in 1992?
John W. Schumacher
TSgt, USAF (Retired)
john p
roche
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Unless an old friend who is accompanying President Nixon
to China lets me down, the Ministry of Education in Peking
will shortly have in hand my proposal for massive educational
interchange. Every year, with, I hope, foundation support, I
propose to recruit 50,000 American college students for a
junior year in Sinkiang-modeled on the common
junior-year-abroad programs. There is one major difference:
these volunteers will be selected on the basis of their
ideological committment to Maoism.
My last effort in this direction aborted because Fidel Castro
nurses petty bourgeois instincts. Thus when a group of young
Americans went to Cuba to help cut sugar-and rapidly
discovered that cutting cane was not their thing instead of
treating them like Cubans, Castro let them sit around
campfires and play guitars. However, I am assured that the
Chinese Communists have long since purged themselves of
such sentimentalism. They will in fact treat Americans just like
Chinese.
.Indeed, a Chinese Communist diplomat with whom I
discussed the project offered a guarantee of equal treatment:
"We will put your first contingent to work (he said) getting
anti-American slogans and posters off the walls." He then
quoted some "Thoughts of Mao" which reminded me a bit of
the infantry manual
What these dedicated, virtuous young Americans will have
to appreciate is that the discipline is not .authoritarian.
Everyone wants to be like everone else; to differ from the
revolutionary masses is to demonstrate decadent egotism. To
tne outsider, uniamiliar with the reasoning, : this may seem
extremely rigid, even puritanical, but our young American
Maoists will surely accept it without qualms.
The Junior Year in Sinkiang, out in Central Asia, will see
the American visitors totally integrated into the life pattern of
their Chinese peers. A variation of the work-study programs of
many American universities, the Chinese version has the
students out working in the fields 2nd factories. Again it
should be emphasized this is not a bourgeois game. The
students are not voyeurs out peeping at the life of the masses;
they are put to work full time with total revolutionary
discipline. In. Sinkiang they live in communes (which resemble
military camps) and every morning the gong rings at 5:30.
First vigorous calisthenics, then a common reading of
"Thoughts of Mao," then breakfast. A hard day perhaps out
road-building; dinner, and then, to wind up the day, a vigorous
session of self-criticism. Maybe it will be called to the
attention of Comrade George that he seemed to be slacking off
a bit in his ditch digging. Why? Can it be that down inside he
has no respect for common labor, that secretly he nurses the"
parasitical dreams of the corrupt, bourgeois intelligentsia?
Well, this is the outline of my Junior Year in Sinkiang
proposal If the Chinese are interested, we will set to work
recruiting. There is one hooker that should perhaps be
mentioned: anyone who signs up must stay the course -the
Revolution will permit no dropouts.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1972
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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