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friday, march 7, 1930
daily nebraskan
tramk receives forMsil reprimand1 from board
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By Mary Kay Wayman
. The UNL Publications Board Thursday night voted 7-0
to formally reprimand Daily Nebraskan Editor-in-chief
Harry Allen Strunk for a "serious breach of journalistic
ethics in his admitted plagiarism of a Time magazine
article.
Editor In chief: Rocky H.A. Strunk; News editor: Mike
Sweeney; Associate editor: Randy Essex; Managing editor: Frank
Hassler; Associate news editor: Margaret Staliord; Magazine and
specials editor: Jill Denning; Night news editor: Bob Lannin;
Features editor: Alice Hrnicek; Layout editor: Denise Andersen;
Entertainment editor: Kim Wilt; Sports editor: Shelley Smith;
Photography chief: Mark Billingsley; Art director: Rick Hemphill,
Assistant night news editor: Andre Everett; East campus bureau
chief: Kevin Field; Legislative bureau chief: Gordon Johnson;
Ombudsperson: Liz Austin.
Copy editors: Diane Andersen, Barb Bierman, Roger Budden.
berg, Cindy Coglianese, Nancy Ellis, Pam George, Kris Hansen,
Lynn Mongar, Martha Murdock, Barb Richardson, Kathy Sjulin
and Mary Kay Wayman.
Business manager: Anne Shank; Production manager: Kitty
Policky; Advertising manager: Denise Jordan; Assistant advertising
manager: Art Small.
The Daily Nebraskan is published by the UNL Publications
Board Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semest
. ers, except during vacations.
Address: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 14th and R
Streets, Lincoln, Neb. 68588. Telephone: 472-2588.
Material may be reprinted without permission if attributed to
the Daily Nebraskan, except material covered by a copyright.
Second class postage paid at Lincoln, Neb. 68510.
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The board discussed possible actions in closed session
for almost two hours after holding a public hearing at
which 15 people testified.
In the letter of reprimand, which will be sent to Strunk
later this week, the board said Strunk had "done great
damage to the image and credibility of the newspaper" as
well as himself and charged Strunk with the responsibility
of restoring that credibility. , .-.'.
"The Publications Board touched upon the severity of
what has happened," Strunk said. "It'll be the news
paper's objective in the future to restore any credibility
which may have been lost through my actions.". .
Board member John Kreuscher said Strunk's reprimand
was "very heavy and very serious." .
"Firing would have been far too much," Kreuscher
said. Four of those who testified-earlier said Strunk
should be fired.
More vengeance .
Reading the outlined letter of reprimand, Daily
Nebraskan professional adviser and board member Don
Walton said, "In the light of your status as a student, any
further disciplinary action would be more vengeance than
justice." .
"Any further serious breach of ethics will constitute
grounds for immediate dismissal," Walton said in the
seven-point letter.
Strunk said the plagiarism was "one person's mistake."
41 hope any perceived credibility loss by the readership
would be in the editor's actions and in no way carry over ,
on to the conduct of the staff," he said.
Room 216 of the Nebraska Union was filled with
spectators for the public hearing. Of the fifteen who testi.
tied, nine favored some disciplinary action other than dis.
missal and two had no suggestions.
Tom Prentiss, journalism major, said Strunk's plagiarism
"was worse than a crime, it was a blunder." But Prentiss
said he didn't think Strunk should be fired.
Student before newspaper
"Remember, it's a student newspaper and I think we
should always put the student before the newspaper,"
Prentiss said.
Kathryn Haugstatter, Daily Nebraskan reporter, said
she spoke as a former teacher in saying Strunk should not
be dismissed.
"This is a learning institution and 1 think he's learned,"
she said. ,
Brad Munn, of the Chancellor's office," speaking "as a
reader of the Daily Nebraskan," said he was concerned
about the penalty fitting the crime. Students make errors,
he said. Some action should be taken but Strunk should
not be fired, Munn said.
Eric Johnson, graduate mathematics student, said he
didn't yet have the impression that Strunk had "come
clean." - .
"There will be a loss of readers," he said.
Brent Bohlke, English department instructor,
said he had no recommendations to make to the board.
Bohlke, who wrote a guest editorial chastising Strunk's
plagiarism, said he only wanted to clarify that he spoke
only for himself, not for the English department.
Committee denies regent's request
The Legislature's Appropriations Committee denied a
request by NU Board of Regents member Robert Prokop
when it voted not to allocate state funds for the hiring of
a professional staff for the board.
During Appropriations Committee hearings on the NU
budget, Prokop appeared before the committee asking
them to allocate money so the regents could hire a staff.
He said that without a staff he was unable to determine
whether the university needed a -15 percent, increase.
The committee had previously decided to word the
appropriations bill to clarify that university employees
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could use university personnel as personal staff members.
However, upon reconsideration, the senators voted
unanimously to strike the wording out of the bill.
Sen. Donald Dworak of Columbus said he did not feel
the Legislature should have to appropriate funds for that
purpose. ' - ;
"They want us to take the responsibility and hot them
selves," Dworak said.
. Since the regents decide where university money is to
be spent, Dworak said they could also, decide whether
they -wish to hire a staff.
UNL educator says
crime rate will rise
America faces an increase in crime in the future, warns
a UNL social scientist who sees citizens from all classes
competing more and more . strenuously for increasingly
scare resources.
Chris W. Eskridge, assistant professor of criminal jus
tice, points to an increase in illegal activities as a conse
quence of America's descent from its peak of economic
power to a nation with a limited-growth economy.
Eskridge's assessment of future crime appears in "The
Futures of Crime in America; An'Economic Perspective,"
which is a chapter in a new book,-"Crime and the
Economy."
The book, edited by Kevin N. Wright of the University
- of Tennessee, will be published this summer by Oelge
schlager, Gunn and Hain, Inc.
"The U.S. is one of the most, if not the most, resource
dependent nation in the world," Eskridge wrote. "It will
therefore feel a lack of resources more severely than any
other nation as resources become increasingly scarce."
Eskridge said economic stagnation, on top of increasing
. urbanization, will tend to decrease the value placed upon
involvement in legal activities as a means of achieving
economic rewards.
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