thursday, april 16, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 106, no. 64
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Zorinsky favors economic aid first, then military
By Reid Warren
U.S. Sen. Ldward Zorinsky of Nebraska had some
harsh words Wednesday night for the way the United
States has pursued foreign policy in Latin America.
The United States should support Latin American
countries economically Zorinsky said, and not militar
ily. "I support the U.S. staying out of military solutions
when there are other solutions available," Zorinsky said.
Zorinsky spoke to about 100 people on "Perspectives
of U.S. Policy in Latin America". The speech in the Last
Campus Union was sponsored by the Institute for Inter
national Studies.
Zorinsky has been made a spokesperson for Latin
America affairs by serving as chairman of the Senate
subcommittee for Western Hemispheric Affairs.
Zorinsky said the United States has dual policies
in foreign relations and uses unevenhanded approaches
to foreign policy.
The times of supporting a dictator such as Anastasio
Somoza of Nicaragua, who was overthrown by revolution,
are over, Zorinsky said.
The United States supported the Somoza regime while
90 percent of the Nicaraguan people opposed it, Zorinsky
said.
Zorinsky said the Soviet Union does not cause revo
lutions but exploits them with the United States' help.
Zorinsky said the United States will abandon a country
during a time of crisis, while the Soviet Union increases
its influence.
This means the United States ends up on the outside
of the country looking in on the Soviets and Marxists.
"If there's anybody in this hemisphere that should be
helping poor people it's the U.S., not Cuba," Zorinsky
said, drawing applause from the crowd.
Given a choice between U.S. support and Communist
support. Zorinsky said, a country "will choose us every
time."
Zorinsky used Jamaica as an example, pointing out
that Ldward Seaga was elected prime minister of Jamaica
in a free vote depsite his opponent being charismatic and
supporting of Fidel Castro.
Zorinsky also dished out criticism to the State Depart
ment. Zorinsky said the State Department's statement that
the situation in LI Salvador is "overblown" is misleading,
because "they're (the State Dept.) the ones that made it
important."
Secretary of State Alexander Haig's notion of a Soviet
Union "hit list" of Latin American countries, Zorinsky
said, indicates his lack of knowledge of history.
"Alexander Haig must be having delusions to think
there is any kind of a hit list," Zorinsky said.
Zorinsky said the United States should not deal with
Soveit leader Leonid Breshnev in Latin American relat
ions, but rather with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
President Ronald Reagan, Zorinsky said, has one of the
greatest opportunities in history to put pressure on
Castro.
Because the United States judges each country on a
case-by-case basis it lacks a cohesive foreign policy.
Countries in Latin America, Zorinsky said, should
have the opportunity to be our friends rather than having
the United States "chase them and push them to be our
enemy."
Zorinsky, who traveled to Nicaragua during his stint
as committee chairman, complimented the Reagan admin
istration for supporting agrarian reform in El Salvador
by purchasing land at low rates from rich owners and dis
tributing it cheaply among the poor.
Jimmy Carter, Zorinsky said, was a good person
but one who lived in a Utopia as far as dealing with Latin
America.
But, he added, "I think we've learned lessons from the
past three years."
"We're finding more and more who our friends are and
who our friends aren't." he said.
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Photo by Kent Morgan Olsen
Sen. Edward Zorinsky
In other areas, Zorinsky attacked the grain embargo,
calling it "dumb and asinine," and said the United States
must reduce its energy dependence in order to stop let
ting Middle Eastern nations "set our foreign policy
for us."
UNL officials : Cheating reaching epidemic rate
By Tom Prentiss
II Moses had received an eleventh commandment
about school, it probably would have said, "Thou shalt
not cheat."
But apparently cheating at UNL has reached such epi
demic proportions that faculty and administrators are try
ing to figure out new ways to counter it, say two members
of the Unversity's Judiciary Board.
Outgoing chairman Don Kahl and board member
Jeremiah Murphy have both spoken to the ASUN Senate
and other groups this year about the increasing cases
of academic dishonesty.
Kahl spoke to the senate last Wednesday night and
Murphy did the same on Marcli 4. The Judicial Board
dispenses disciplinary action against students found guilty
of cheatimi.
The national epidemic
of cheating doesn't need
to spread to UNL , according
to a UNL administrator.
For more on the problem,
see Page 3 . . .
The real problem of cheating at UNL is that no one
seems to think it is wrong, Murphy said.
"Cheating has a degree of acceptance on campus."
he said.
Kahl said most students don't think it is a serious of
fense or any offense at all. Murphy said it is becoming
so common that students often consider "cheating before
dropping a course."
Kahl said students' reasoning for cheating probably is
based on the ease of accomplishing it and on current
student attitudes.
A demand for a high grade point average sometimes
can pressure students into cheating, he said.
Murphy and Kahl said the caseload the board has heard
has at least doubled in the past year.
While saying that no form of cheating should be toler
ated. Kahl said cheating techniques are becoming more
extreme.
Delores Simpson-Kirkland. assistant to dean of stu
dents, said cheating is going beyond just "crib notes" and
is becoming more sophisticated.
Cheating accepted
Kahl said students are hiring others to take tests
for them, stealing exams and sometimes breaking into
piofessors' offices U change grade books.
Kahl called cheating "academic prostitution and said
it "hit at the academic integrity of the institution."
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Simpson-Kirkland said her main concern is that "90
percent of the time students respond by saying 'I didn't
know it was wrong to cheat.' "
She said some have even said they didn't know it was
wrong to take a test for someone else.
Kahl said the problem needs to be brought to the
UNL students' attention.
He said students need to know what the UNL Student
Code says about academic dishonesty and about the
judicial and appeal boards that may impose sanctions
on the student.
Upperclassmen not reminded
Kali said the boards don't tolerate cheating and will
mete out sanctions when necessary.
The student conduct code is in the UNL Student Hand
book, which is given to all incoming freshmen.
Past ASUN members said the handbook should be given
to all students, not just freshmen, so they can be aware
of the rules.
Kahl and Murphy said students at the university level
shouldn't have to be reminded that cheating is wrong,
but that apparently is what is needed.
Murphy said there is no typical student who cheats.
Many good students cheat, which makes him worry
about the people who are supposed to be the top students,
he said.
Kahl said it is too bad that the Judiciary Board has to
be cast as the "bad guy" in the struggle to rid the campus
of cheating.
But he said two options open to the unviersity -behavior
modification and having an authoritarian boaru
to punish cheating students-can work hand in hand.
He said the board has suspended some students. He
said it has used all its forms of disciplinary action except
complete expulsion from the university.
"Cheating attacks the integrity of the institution and
it attacks the integrity of each student here," Kahl said.
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Take it lasy: Former UNL Professor Paul Cameron s
book. Sexual Gradualism, advocates sexual fun without
intercourse for young people Page 6
Less is More: New extended-play albums from Devo and
The Pretenders tame the anxious masses Page 10
Rags to Riches: Seattle Quarterback Jim Zorn tells
of his not -so-routine entry into pro football . . . Page 12