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Bader terms
papers 'unethical'
by A.J. McClanahan
Term papers for sale.
Companies that write them have begun to call
them research papers. University officials feel they
are unethical and probably illegal. Some students feel
they are an aid to getting through school-if they
don't get caught.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ken Bader
said he knows from previous experience, use of
purchased term papers is difficult to detect.
According to Bader, the term papers carry erasure
marks and misspellings so they look like a student
wrote them. He said he strongly feels that the papers
are unethical and perhaps illegal.
Because there is little problem now with the
manufactured term papers, Bader said he is not
considering legal action against the companies. He
said the faculty has been alerted and added if there is
evidence of continued operation, he'd "have no
druthers about taking legal action."
The ultimate responsibility is with the faculty,
watching for the papers, Bader said.
Harry Canon, director of Student Development
Services disagrees. He said asking professors to screen
the papers is asking the impossible.
"If the Daily Nebraskan quits running the ads, that
takes care of the problem," Canon said.
The Daily Nebraskan will continue to run
advertisements for term paper companies until selling
the papers is outlawed according to Bill Carver, Daily
Nebraskan advertising co-ordinator. He added that
not running the ads is censorship.
He said, however, that the Daily Nebraskan
advertising policy has been rewritten and permits the
Publications Board to make final decisions on
printing questionable advertisements. Carver said if
the Publications Board doesn't want the
advertisements to be run, he will have to stop running
them.
Newspapers should not make moral decisions for
students, Carver said. He added that not running the
advertisements is making a moral decision. He said he
was against the Publications Board having so much to
say about ad publication, but the regents had set up
the policy.
Bader said he considers the sellinq of termpapers
illegal. There should be no doubt of its illegality in
Nebraska, since courts in several other states have
declared it illegal, he said.
The companies can do anything to hide or change
the facts, but the purpose of the papers is still to
promote dishonesty and unethical behavior, Bader
said.
One student has been caught using a purchased
term paper at UNL.
Claude P. Morton, an instructor in English, said he
detected the paper because it was obviously not the
student's writing. The student eventually admitted he
had purchased the term paper, but Morton could not
ascertain whether it had been retyped.
"An experienced reader who has spent an entire
semester with the same student can detect very easily
when a paper is not written by that student," Morton
said. He added, however, it is usually difficult to
detect the source of the paper,
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Exon's budget disturbs Simpson, NU officials
by Steve Arvenette
Gov. J. James Exon's request to force an increase
in tuition rates at the University of Nebraska as a
result of his state budget recommendations brought
swift criticism from NU President D.B. Varner,
Regent Edward Schwartzkopf and Sen. Harold
Simpson, of Lincoln who serves on the Legislature's
Appropriations Committee.
Exon's budget plan was presented Friday to state
senators at which time he called for a cut of $3.5
million in the University's requested $54.3 million
general fund request for the next fiscal year,
In the area of capital construction, Exon
recommended lowering the University's request of
$22.6 million to $8.7 million. Chief victims of the
governor's budget slash were continued land
acquisition at the UNO and UNL campuses, a new
library at UNO and the out patient clinic at the NU
Medical Center,
Despite cutting the University's request for state
funds, Exon's proposal would allocate $50.8 million
to the University, or about 6.7 per cent more money
than is being expended durinq the current fiscal year.
Under the governor's budget plan, students at NU
would receive a double blow in tuition rate increases
this fall. Not only would the so-called free zone be
eliminated (whereby students pay the same rate for
12 through 16 credit hours) but no drop would occur
in the credit hour tuition rate of $18 for residents
and $48.25 for nonresidents.
A Board of Regents proposal calls for eliminating
the free hours but also lowers tuition rates to $17 per
hour for residents and $46 for nonresidents.
"I am reluctant to see us impose on students the
kind of tuition increase required under his
recommendations, as I understand them," Varner said
concerning Exon's budget proposal. The NU
president said that a student taking 16 hours would
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be forced to pay 33 per cent more in tuition next
year.
"It's safe to say that would be the highest one-year
increase in the history of this institution and maybe
in the history of public higher education," Varner
said.
Regent Schwartzkopf said such a tuition increase
could "price students out of (the school) market.
Tuition for students is high enough."
Opposition to further tuition increases also came
from one state senator.
"I really don't think young people can afford it,"
according to Simpson, who represents an area which
includes the UNL City Campus. Such funds, he said,
should come out of tax sources.
Simpson expressed concern that a $5.9 million
request for a new library at UNO was not included in
the governor's budget statement. The dropping of
land acquisition funds for both UNO and UNL
campuses also concerned the Lincoln senator who
said he thinks the situation is "especially critical up in
Omaha."
Varner said he thinks the governor "wants this
University to move as rapidly as posssble to its goals,"
but "unfortunately, in my judgment he did not
provide the necessary funds to move on schedule."
Varner added that he is "not yet persuaded" on
Exon's proposal concerning the housing of life
science facilities. The University had requested $5.9
million on the new building but the governor called
for spending $2.2 million on the new building and
later appropriations for remodeling Lyman Hall to
house some life science programs.
Schwartkopf stressed that life science is a "high
utilization area" by students on the UNL campus and
that the regents have examined the use of Lyman
Hall.
"We need to get them under one roof to make it
efficient," he said.
He also stressed that a building should be erected
which could allow departmental expansion without
further construction.
Although Exon approved full funding for a new
Law College building, he recommended a $1.5 million
cut from the University's $3.5 million request of
funds for a veterinary science complex.
With regard to the University's request for state
funds, Schwartzkopf said he had hoped the governor
would accept the figures which the University had
presented. He said that the regents already had cut $2
million from the administration's initial request.
Schwartzkopf added that he hoped the governoi
realized "we're not playinq games" concerning the
amount requested.
Schwartzkopf said the regents would be speaking
with state senators to show them which programs and
personnel would have to be cut if the governor's
budget were accepted.