daily nebraskan
monday, november 10, 1S75
editorial
page 4
UNL left hig
h, dry without liquor vote
Travelers through Ohiowa, Neb., and citizens
thereof, now may purchase liquor by the drink.
Voters in the Fillmore County community (pop.
156) passed the measure 46 to 19.
Meanwhile, the Lancaster County community of
UNL (pop. 22,000) is high and dry.
UNL's residents, as well as passers-through,
cannot even buy beer by the bottle, but must
travel to O St. and Cornhusker Hwy. for legal
enjoyment of alcoholic beverages.
Sound outrageous in this day and age? Well, you
must remember, it was not so long ago that
another Lancaster County community Lincoln
passed a measure like the one approved in Ohiowa
last week.
The difference between Ohiowa and UNL,
however, is that residents of the former were
allowed to choose for themselves on liquor-by-the-
drink. Residents of the latter community have no
say in the matter.
A report in Sunday's Parade magazine indicates
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cheating is on the rise at many U.S. universities,
which are abandoning their honor codes as
unworkable.
The honor systems, in which students are
responsible for uncovering and reporting cheating
among their peers, were being revised or abolished
because students at the universities cited in the
report are increasingly relunctant to turn in
cheaters.
UNL apparently has no formalized honor code.
In the 1975-76 Student Handbook, the
responsibility for rooting out and disciplining
cheaters seems to rest almost entirely on individual
instructors.
But the handbook, in the UNL Code of
Conduct, does define "assisting a fellow student in
committing an act of cheating" as academic
dishonesty, to be disciplined according to.
instructors' judgments.
That places responsibility on any students who
conceal known cheating. It amounts to an
unwritten honor system, since not reporting an act
of cheating certainly assists the cheater.
The problem with any honor code, implicit or
explicit, is that reporting acts of dishonesty has
come to be frowned upon.
Perhaps honor systems are being dropped not
because cheating is becoming more accepted, as
implied in the Parade article, but because, even in
thb age of post-Watergate morality, we are some
how made to feel ashamed for turning in our peers.
Rebecca Brite
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Free enterprise sobers Omar
By Arthur Hoppe
Once upon a time, there was a Good Arab. His name was
Omar. He was a Good Arab because all he wanted to do was
supply the world with 295-cents-a-gallon gasoline.
This angered all his Arab friends. Their name was OPEC.
"Look here, Omar," said OPEC, "we have these infidels
over an oil barrel. If we stick together and put the screws to
them, well make billions. Then we can turn this wilderness
into a real paradise!"
"A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou beside me
singing in the Wilderness," said Omar. "Oh, Wilderness were
P&rsdisc now!
"What a nut!" said OPEC testily. "Hell be the ruination
of us all." And he was.
For Omar was quite content to sit in the wilderness, sip
from his jug of wine and strum his rubaiyat (a three-stringed
Arabian ukelele).
"I wonder often what the vintners buy," he would sing,
"one half so precious as the stuff they sell."
The answer, of course, was gasoline. And, as they
charged him 59.8 cents a gallon for a good jug wine, albeit
a second pressing, he naturally pegged the price of his gas
at 29.9.
OPEC was furious. "Do you realize well have to cut our
prices to meet yours?" OPEC said. "We'll be broke
tomorrow."
"Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears Today of past
in
regrets and fears," sang Omar. 'Tomorrow! Why,
Tomorrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n
thousand Years."
On the other hand, Omar's wine-producing customers
were ecstatic. Their name was WPEC.
"Omar, you are not only a Good Arab but a True
Christian," WPEC told him gratefully. "Out of the goodness
of your heart, you have charitably solved all our problems
with 29.9 cents-a-gallon gasoline. What can we do for you
in return?"
"Come, fill the Cup," said Oinar, "and in the fire of
Spring the Winter garment of Repentance fling: The Bird
of Time has but a little way to fiy-and Lo! the Bird is on
the Wing."
"Certainly, certainly" said WPEC. "But we see we're
only charging you 59.8 cents a gallon for this great wine.
We're afraid well have to make that $14.42 a barrel."
"Why?" inquired Omar.
"Supply and demand," said WPEC "We have the supply
and you have the demand. That's what sets prices under our
glorious Free Enterprise System, which we devoutly believe
in because it made our countries great."
That was a sobering thought. It sobered Omar. Omar is
no longer a Good Arab. He believes in the Free Enterprise
System.
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1975)
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Education fraternity promotes men's involvement
Groupspcak, a Monday feature of the Daily Nebraskan
editorialopinion page, offers UNL organization and stu
dent groups i chance to inform readers of their structure,
goals and philosophies. Today's column is written by Kevin
Brown, public relations chairman for Mu Epsilon Nu (MEN).
Furthering the teaching profession is the major purpose
of Mu Epsilon Nu, an honorary fraternity for undergrad
uate male students in UNL's Teachers College. Mu Epsilon
Nu was founded on this campus and has since expanded to
other institutions as a national fraternity.
Although the Alpha chapter began at UNL (then NU) in
1958, its origins go back to spring of 1955, when a few stu
dents enrolled in education came together in an attempt to
solve some problems in the Teachers College undergraduate
curriculum.
Concerns cited by these students included lack of pride
in the profession among male students in education,
absence of social interaction between students and the need
for more professional experience.
On Jan. 3, 1958, the organization was chartered by the '
university as Mu Epsilon Nu.
These Greek letters correspond to the letters M, E and N,
and conveyed the original idea of "Male Educators of
Nebraska." M, E and N also reflected the idea of a refuge in
a sea of female education students.
Since its growth and expansion, MEN now relates the
message of "Male Educators Nationally."
MEN has five primary goals:
-T" build morale among male students in education.
-To promote meaningful relationships between students
and professional educators.
-To provide additional teaching experiences for the
members.
-To stimulate recruitment of competent men to enter
the teaching profession.
To support the significance of the student-teacher rela
tionship as a means of enhancing teaming.
Meetings are held three Mondays a month with a guest
speaker for at least one of the gatherings. Teaching trips are
held once each semester. All members travel to a school
system and spend a day in the classroom observing, actively
participating or teaching.
On Oct. 31, local MEN members traveled to the Valley,
Neb., Public Schools for such an experience at the
elementary, junior high and senior high levels.
Every spring, MEN honors the top male senior high and
junior high school teacher in Nebraska with the Henzlik and
Saylor Awards, respectively. Questionnaires are sent to
state public school systems, and through a series of corre
spondences, the outstanding teachers are selected.
Winners receive their awards at a banquet. Plaques listing
history of the Henzlik and Saylor Awards and recipients are
on the fust floor of the Teachers College building.
Honorary memberships may also be announced and con
ferred at the banquet. Recent beneficiaries of MEN
honorary memberships are former Nebraska Gov. Norbert
Tiemann and Teachers College Associate Dean Ron Joekel.
In the past, MEN scholarsiilps have been awarded to the
outstanding male high school senior in Nebraska and out
standing MEN member.
Mu Epsilon Nu's Alpha chapter now has 12 active
members. Officers are Loring Feen, psssident; Don Tist
hammcr, vice president; Jed Johnston, secretary-newsletter
chairman, and Stephen Hamersky, treasurer. One UNL
member, Gil Kettlehut, is national MEN president.
Faculty adviser is Galen Dodge, head of the Nebraska
Human Resources Research Foundation. New members,
inducted at the beginning of second semester, ere chosen
for scholarship, leadership, potential and willingness to
work.