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A rain puddle reflects the image of a passerby Wednesday afternoon.
Rain came to Lincoln Wednesday, ending our pleasant summer weather.
For more on the weather see the forecast above.
Big Eight schools split
over alcohol on campus
By Jeanne Bourne
Staff Reporter
Editors note: The following story was
done in conjunction with National Col
legiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Oct.
20 through 26.
The consensus of Big Eight universities on
allowing alcohol on campus is split.
UNL and three other Big Eight schools the
University of Missouri, the University of Okla
homa and Oklahoma State University where
alcohol cannot be stored or consumed in resi
dence halls, fraternities or sororities.
Three of the four schools with "wet" cam
puses the University of Colorado, Iowa State
University and the University of Kansas allow
the sale of 3.2 beer in their student unions. ISU
also allows students of legal drinking age to
consume any type of alcohol in its residence
halls. At CU, students ages 18 and above may
consume 3.2 beer in the residence halls. Those
21 and above may have any type of alcohol in the
residence halls.
Students of legal age at KSUcan have 3.2 beer
in the residence halls, but alcohol is not sold in
the student union.
State drinking-age laws seem to have a direct
bearing on university alcohol policies. Two of the
four schools with wet. campuses are in states
that allow 18-year-olds and some 19-year-olds to'
drink: Colorado, where 18-year-olds may drink
3.2 beer, and Iowa, where a grandfather clause in
the new law setting the legal drinking age at 21
allows anyone 19 years or older last July 1 to
consume alcohol.
Spokesmen from both wet and dry campuses
agreed that the behavior stemming from alcohol
use, not the alcohol itself, causes problems.
Bill Schafer, director of student conduct at
CU, said 40 to 60 percent of behavioral incidents
are alcohol-related.
William Sutton of the Educational and Stu
dent Services department at KSU said alcohol is
not a serious problem on campus. Kansas law
allows .iinors to enter bars but not to drink.
"Underage people don't have a problem get
ting it," he said, but behavioral incidents are not
a problem.
At UNL, Bill Welsh, coordinator of residence
hall administration, said behavior problems
force student assistants to investigate for alcohol.
"We don't go out of our way to look for trou
ble," he said, but when it's obvious there's a
party going on, the student assistant will con
front it.
Punishment at most Big Eight universities for
alcohol violations are neither swift nor severe.
Norman Moore, vice chancellor for student,
personnel and auxiliary services at the Univer
sity of Missouri, said enforcement is good in
residence halls, but minor in possession viola
tions still are common. Missouri laws allow
minors in bars but do not allow them to consume
alcohol. Moore said the bars are raided fre
quently for enforcement.
Only after repeated violations at UNL resi
dence halls will a student be asked to move out,
Welsh said. If a resident has a party, is put on
academic probation and has another party, he or
she may be asked to leave the hall, he said.
The high cost of liability insurance is scaring
some Oklahoma fraternities and sororities into
obeying the rules, said Elaine Kumin, adminis
trative assistant to the vice chancellor of stu
dent affairs at Oklahoma. The fear of being held
liable for a minor's alcohol-related accident for
ces fraternities to remain dry, she said.
Alcohol is allowed only in KU's student union
because it can be controlled there, said David
Ambler, vice-chancellor for student affairs at KU.
Since the majority of residence hall students are
under the legal drinking age, he said, alcohol
could not be controlled in the halls.
Ambler said he thinks society sends mixed
signals to young people. They are expected to act
like adults but are denied some adult privileges,
he said.
Coumsel speafes on laws
Refers to present
antitrust policies as
"anti-competitive"
By Jim Rogers
Editorial Page Editor
"Antitrust laws are anti-competitive
and anti-consumer," according to Dou
glas Riggs, General Counsel of the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
Riggs preached the benefits of the
market system before a standing-room-;
only crowd Wednesday at the UNL Col
lege of Law. In a f$$atiQ spon
sored by the Federalist? Society (a
group of conservative law students),
Riggs defended the Reagan adminis
tration's wide-ranging proposals to
significantly alter U.S. anti-merger laws.
Currently, the law allows the federal
government to prevent corporations
from merging when the effect, "may be
substantially to lessen competition, or
to tend to create a monopoly." The
Reagan proposal will change this lan
guage to a more lax standard of prohib
iting only those mergers that, "will
increase the ability to exercise market
power."
In an interview before the speech,
Riggs said the productive ability of U.S.
firms is constrained because of the
current law.
In contrast to the early days of anti
trust enforcement, Riggs said, the Uni
ted States "has the luxury of being
overregulated."
He said that the current wording of
the anti-merger law has had the effect
"of chilling pro-competitive activity at
the margin." In today's world of strong
international competition, "the mar
gin's important," Riggs said.
The ultimate question is "what, is,
the appropriate role of government," .
he said. On one side are "those that
believe the government ought to make
lall resource allocation decisions," biif :
"this administration believes that is
not a correct proposition."
There is a value in relying on the
market, Riggs said. Winners and losers
should be chosen by the market," instead
of by the government.
Riggs said that support for the ad
ministration's proposal to amend the
antitrust laws particularly Section 7
of the Clayton anti-merger law is
widespread. "People across the politi
cal spectrum are challenging antitrust
laws," Riggs added.
Instead of looking at the efficiency
of an industry or firm, the law should
look out for the consumer and "the
consumer gets screwed only if the
(merged) entity can raise prices," he
said.
Riggs rejected economic evidence
criticizing the administration's prop
osals as, "imprecise at best."
He added that professional econo
mists are beginning to "look at the
empirical work," and "question the
validity of the work."
He termed economists that raised
doubts about the proposals as "main
taining faith lia the old $spel." They
are "dinosaurs'., j '..equivalent ,pf Ihqse.
: who believe the "world - is 1 flat," Riggs!
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the speech, UNL economics professor
Craig MacPhee disputed several of
Riggs claims. MacPhee said that
mergers were inefficient because they
resulted simply in monetary transfers
when firms could be investing in new
productive capacity.
He also disputed the viability of the
amendment's phrasing. He said that
firms would be able to hide market
power because, "there are lots of ways
to hide profit."
MacPhee added that the adminis
tration "sounds like it's backing off'
on antitrust exemptions for those
companies threatened by foreign competition.
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