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Monday, October 6, 1986
Senator says all students should be heard all the time
The first misconception about the
much-maligned ASUN Sen. Howard is
that he may be a lot of things, but he
ain't no liberal. He's out there on the
anarchist fringe with me. The question
that should be posed, then, is this: Why
are two anarchists serving on ASUN?
Just that crazy anarchist sense of
humor, I guess.
I am concerned when Jim Rogers
describes the concerns of a fellow
student and ASUN senator as petty and
.obscene When any student voices a
. concern about the university, I fail to
see the pettiness in the concern. About
the labeling of Howard's proposed
remedy as constitutionally obscene, I
am certainly glad that the Supreme
Court doesn't share Rogers view of
obscenity. Otherwise, dissent would
never get published.
Rogers' claim that ASUN funding
constitutes a meager 6 percent of the
financing of this last bastion of edited
free speech, and I believe that he is
correct, raises some interesting points.
Judge Urbom states that slashing funds
would violate the First Amendment.
On the other side of the coin, maybe
ASUN should freeze funding levels so
as not to appear to endorse one type of
thought, prevailing through editorials,
over another. Or perhaps ASUN should
increase funding so that the DN could
publish all letters to the editor,
positive and negative. I would favor
increasing funding if only because of
my belief in the right of a student to
express himherself through an instru
ment that student funds support.
The fundamental difference between
Rogers and myself lies not in the
opinion that slashing funding would be
unconstitutional, but in the fact that
editorial censorship of expression is
something to be seen as repugnant, no
matter how widespread the practice.
Finally, I would like to point out the
contradiction of a conservative, like
Rogers, quoting an apparent liberal,
like Judge Urbom, in his column.
Politics, the press and the. courts
certainly make strange bedfellows.
Ed Miller
graduate student
ASUN senator
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Student criticizes Orr's avoidance of campaign's main issues
Helen Boosalis does not favor a tax
increase. Boosalis has stated repeatedly
that she opposes tax increases and
promises $1 for $1 property tax relief.
It's unfortunate that a second-year law
student (DN, Oct. 2) can't understand
the difference between the concepts of
tax increase and tax substitution. .
It's also unfortunate that Kay Orr's
campaign can't get beyond this rudi
mentary concept and move on to more
compelling issues. It seems to me that
Orr's campaign is grasping at straws.
Why else would they continue to attack
the same non-issue with the same weak
argument week after week?
It's time we take a look at the real
issues such as Boosalis' new ideas for
agriculture and education and compare
them to what the Republican party has
dictated to Orr's campaign.
Boosalis will be a governor for all
Nebraska, and her leadership, innova
tive ideas and respect for all people
will make Nebraska the "Best Life" for
all of us.
Shawn M. Boldt
senior
speech communications
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GOODMAN from Page 4
mathphobics among us, Moorman is an
analyst of marriage and family statis
tics. She did not genuflect to the three
Ivy League statisticians.
At 36 and married only three years
ago, Moorman said to herself, "I just
didn't believe that the current 30-year-olds
were not going to get married.
There is an awful lot of marrying going
on right now."
Moorman and her colleagues did
what statisticians do. They ran the
numbers. Here is what they came out
with:
Of college-educated, 30-year-old, never-married
women, 66 percent will
eventually marry.
Of 35-year-olds, 41 percent will marry.
Of 40-year-olds, 23 percent will marry.
Of 45-year-olds, 1 1 percent will marry.
The above information if offered to
you in a form suitable for framing. Or
for passing around at parties. One of
Moorman's colleagues has found this a
more effective mood brightener among
her peer group than unlimited amounts
of chardonnay.
Is this just a case of dueling statis
tics? It's more like a case of dueling
mathematical models.
The Harvard-Yale people got into
this whole catastrophe as an experi
ment; for the first time they used some
thing called a parametric model. I will
spare you the details, but it is regarded
by its designer as risky for these sorts
of projections. The Census Bureau peo
ple used the standard model.
"They think I'm wrong and I think
they're wrong," says Moorman philoso
phically. But she points to other weak
nesses in The Study That Would Not
Die. The sample, divided and subdi
vided, was rather puny. The dimmest
prospects for black women were based
on about 100 in each age group.
Moreover, what separates these two
sets of statistics the difference that
produced the Old Maid Revival is a
dispute over whether educated women
are postponing the marriage option or
closing it out. Here too, the trends are
in the Census Bureau's direction. Not
only has the median age of women at
first marriage been rising rather dram
atically, especially for educated women,
so has the overall marriage rate.
The statisticians behind both The
Study and The Rebuttal do agree on
one thing. One of the Harvard-Yale
team attests, "The bottom line is that
we really don't know what will happen
in the future."
These are statistics, not tea leaves,
projections not predestination. Nobody
predicted the baby boom itself, and
nobody can predict when, how and
whether the boomers will marry.
The appalling part of the media hype
of The Study is that it transformed mar
ital choices into marital chances. We
have analyzed the glee that accompan
ied this feat. It struck with the power of
a backlash.
How nice now to have a second, user
friendly set of numbers that add up to
one message: Relax.
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Goodman is a Pulitzer prize
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