tuesday, September 11, 1979
daily nebraskan
page 9
UNL prof essor first woman to receive agronomy award
' ' By Kathryn Haugstatter
A UNL professor of agronomy is the first woman to
receive a fellow award from the American Society of
Agronomy.
Rosalind Morris, who holds a doctorate in the Held of
agriculture, received the award in August at the society's
annual meeting, held this year at Colorado University at
Fort Collins. t
The award, the highest honor the society gives, was
started in 1924.
Morris said she was pleased because she was given the
award as a scientist, and not as a "woman" scientist.
Morris's field is cytogenetics. This is the study of crop
cells and the way characteristics are inherited.
As part of a research team at UNL's Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources, Morris studies wheat, one
of the major crops of this state. She said basic genetic in
formation is needed to develop wheat with winter hardi
ness and disease resistance.
"Without, the information, it's a matter of luck if you
come out with a good variety," Morris said.
Morris said her interest in agronomy began during her
childhood on a 50-acre fruit farm in Canada. She attended
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work will be 'used for research only" and not "for sub
mission to an academic institution." The Post Office must
prove that the company had knowledge of the paper being
used unethically by the student, Ziebarth said.
"THAT'S THE hard part," he said, "but nobody's kid
ding anybody. It (the contract) is just a sham. They're just
closing their eyes."
According to Ziebarth, the papers cost too much just
to be used as research. They cost about $5 to $6 per page
from a company, he said, and anywhere from $8 to $12
per page from private individuals.
Ziebarth said the operation is illegal because it's unlaw
ful to seek money through the mail through false repre
sentation. The term paper companies are giving false re
presentation to the students who, in turn, give it to the
professor, he said.
Ziebarth added "Plagiarism is illegal on any campus I
know about."
The UNL Student Code Of Conduct warns that using
someone else's work as one's own can lead to discipline. A
professor would have to bring the matter to the attention
of authorities.
A HEARING would be held and the student, if found
in violation of the policy, could be given a warning, put
on academic probation or suspended from the university.
The professor in a given class would determine any
grading penalty related to the use of plagiaristic material.
Meanwhile, the sellers are close-lipped about the issue.
John McGhee, president of Collegiate Research Systems,
New York, would not grant an interview to the Daily Ne
braskan. However, in an interview earlier in the year with "Nut
shell," McGhee said his company could not sell materials
to be turned in for college credit because 'That's uncon-
State Supreme Court
hears cases' appeal
By Associated Press
The State Supreme Court will hear back4o-back
oral arguments next Monday in the cases of two men
who are appealing death sentences, stemming from their
separate convictions for first degree murder.
Robert E. Williams was sentenced to death by a three
judge panel on two counts of first degree murder in the
August 10, 1977, slayings of Patricia McGarry and Cathe
rine Brooks, both 25, of Lincoln. He was also convicted
of first degree sexual assault.
Williams attorneys have argued in briefs that he de
serves a new trial because his constitutional rights were
abused through misconduct by police and prosecutors,
including the "alleged withholding of evidence that might
have helped his case. Williams further argued that a con
fession was improperly admitted as evidence and that the
trial should have been moved from Lancaster County
because of extensive pretrial publicity.
Richard Dean Holtan, sentenced to death by a three
judge panel for the 1975 slaying of Omaha bartender
Larry Loder, has already seen one unsuccessful appeal
through the state judiciary system and the US. Supreme
Court.
Holtan now wants the State Supreme Court to grant
him postconviction Telia f. He argues, among rthctWnp,
that he should hive t new trial because he didn't haw
effective assistance of counsel when the case was Initially
before the Douglas County District Court.
, Holtan, who was on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted
fugitives prior to his arrest, argued that he wouldn't have
Pleaded contest" to the chirp of first degree murder
If his attorney hid given him proper advice concemtaf
the case.
Ontario Agricultural College, and was a graduate assistant
vuiucu university in new ionc.
One professor she assisted was a Nebraskan who told
her of an opening in a new cytogenetics department at
NU, she said. In 1947, she' began assisting Dr. E. F. Fro
Iik, head of the department, who was working with the
effects of radiation on corn. x
As Frolik moved into administration, Morris took over
more of the research. In the 1950's she began studying
Morris said she spends one-third of her time teaching
and two-thirds researching.
Although she would like to ave more time for re
search and writing, she said it's good to keep in contact
with young minds.
Morris is president-elect of the Nebraska Academy of
Sciences, but she said she isn't the first woman to hold
that position. Morris said Dr. Elda Walker of the NU
Botany department was president of the academy about
60 years ago.
In 1920 Walker helped form a Nebraska chapter of
Sigma Delta Epsilon, a national organization for women in
science.
In recent years, the Nebraska chapter has separated
from the national organization. It is still active locally,
stitutional."
Research Assistants of Los Angeles, which ran an ad
last week in the Daily Nebraskan, is one of the largest re
search companies in the country. Vice-president Michael
Spencer would not speak to the Daily Nebraskan. "I've
been through this a hundred times," he said.
As for suggestions on how to curb the use of ghost
written material on campus, Ziebarth offered the follow
ing tips to professors:
-Assign term papers sparingly.
-When assigned, monitor work and research carefully.
-Make an oral presentation accompanying the paper
mandatory.
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however. Morris said members include UNL graduate stu
dents as well as professors.
"It's a good way to get in contact with other women in
science. We can find out what problems there are, and
help each other," Morris said.
Last year, the group gathered a panel of women scien
tists from all over the country for a workshop. Funds
were provided by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Morris said women in agriculture are less isolated than
in the past. This year the American Society of Agronomy
held a "Women in Agriculture" seminar that generated a
lot of interest from men and women.
Morris said she was lucky to begin graduate work dur
ing World War II. If there hadn't been a shortage of men,
she said she probably would not have been able to enter
Cornell's plant breeding department.
Although there are few women on the staff at the In
stitute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, she said she
has not felt any discrimination from the men she works
with.
She added that this was demonstrated by the fact that
it was one of her male colleagues in the department that
nominated her tor the award.
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