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November 10, 1986
Pomrn stadly wrong
ACLU attorney attacks Meese report
By Jeanne Bourne
Night News Editor
The First Amendment is under attack,
said Burton Joseph, an American Civil
Liberties attorney and special counsel
for Playboy Enterprises, at the fifth
annual Bill of Rights dinner Saturday. '
The "threat to the First Amendment
not only attacks sexually explicit
materials but books in our libraries,
materials in our schools, thoughts and
ideas that are thought by some to be
dangerous," Joseph said to a crowd of
approximately 125 people.
"To blame pornography or sexually
explicit material for society's problems
is just a scapegoat," he said.
"It's much easier to say insidious
books and magazines cause problems
of rape, abuse and promiscuity than to
look for the root causes," Joseph said.
He said he does not defend obscen
ity but he does defend the First
Amendment.
"One man's vulgarity is another man's
lyric," he said to emphasize the inabil
defined word "pornography."
Oppressive laws are aimed at the
lowest people in society but eventually
they touch everyone, he said.
Sexually explicit materials are not
the object of censorship but the begin
ning of censorship and it must be
stopped at the beginnning if it is to be
stopped at all, Joseph said.
The recent report released by Attor
ney General Edwin Meese's commis
sion on pornography showed there was
adverse affects from exposure to vio
lent, explicit sexual materials, he said.
Joseph called the commission under
qualified, undistinguished and wrong
in its conclusion.
He said the commission did not do
any new research but merely held hear
ASUN: KSC's name should remain
Proposal thought harmful
By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
The ASUN senate defeated a resolu
tion last week endorsing the proposed
name change of Kearney State College
and the upgrading of it to university
status.
The resolution failed by a vote of 11
to 18 with one abstention.
Teachers College Sen. Richard Burke
proposed that ASUN support the KSC
Student Senate's decision to push for
upgrading Kearney State to university
status if that move didn't hurt UNL
Burke said in the senate's weekly
session that the change in status would
help Nebraska and UNL by attracting
more students to the state. More peo
ple would rather go to a university than
a college, he said.
Mark Otten of the engineering col
lege said the reputation of the institu
tion, not its name, attracts people to it.
Graduate Sen. Tim Howard said that
having two state-funded universities
would be better because it would give
students who wanted to attend a uni
versity an alternative to the three NU
campuses.
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ings from victims of sex crimes and
religious fundamentalists.
Of the panel, three of four women
dissented from the conclusion, he said.
Joseph compared Meese's investiga
tion with' one commissioned by Presi
dent Johnson in 1970. Johnson's com
mission with a higher budget did more
in depth research and found there was
no correlation between exposure to
explicit materials and adverse social
consequences, he said.
What is under attack is not only por
nography but what is in every library in
the country, he said.
J.D. Salinger is the most censored
author in America today, he said.
"Catcher in the Rye continues to be the
primary target of censors," Joseph said,
said.
Contrary to the group that wants
such works censored, every time an
issue of censorship is put before the
voters, freedom is sustained, he said.
Joseph said he gets a good optimis
tic feeling when he understands that
censorship is not a publicly accepted
alternative to finding the roots of the
problems of society. He said he gets
depressed when conservative and radi
cal politicians make emotional appeals
for the use of censorship as a tool
against these problems.
What is this country coming to if we
tolerate this partisian, parochial attack,
he said.
Civil Liberties Awards were pres
ented to: Paul Fell, political cartoonist
with the Lincoln Journal Star; Randall
Brown and Jean Walsh, plaintiffs in the
recent NCLU lawsuit against UNL over
the cancellation of the film "Hail
Mary"; and Bob Broom, attorney with
the Omaha law firm of Broom and
Johnson.
Bob Shambora of the business col
lege, who spoke over a teleconference
machine from St. Elizabeth Community
Health Center, said the change in sta
tus would hurt UNL because it would
attract students to Kearney, and enrol
lment at UNL would decline.
Graduate Sen. Ed Miller said ASUN
needed to stop "looking out for number
one" and help Kearney State.
Greg Dynek of the business college
said that maintaining the quality of
education at UNL is ASUN's main
objective. Dynek agreed with Sham
bora that upgrading KSC to a university
would hurt UNL
Both the KSC Student Senate and
Faculty Senate voted in favor of chang
ing the name to a university.
Burke said it would be selfish of
ASUN not to help Kearney State by
supporting it.
Agriculture Sen. Jerry Roemer said
changing KSC to a university would
hurt the other three state colleges
because, as a university, Kearney would
have increased enrollment, and it would
cost more money to run. Roemer said
the money would come from the Other
state colleges.
Daily
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Burton Joseph, a former national board member of the American Civil Liberties Union and
special counsel to Playboy Enterprises, spoke to about 125 people at the fifth annual Nebraska
Civil Liberties Union Foundation Bill of Rights dinner Saturday night.
Scholars swap ideas, opinions
in visiting scholars program
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Business corporations likely will find
themselves using methods from one of
three ethical "climates" to deal with
the public, a UNL assistant professor of
management said Friday afternoon.
"The ethical climate is a set of
answers to the question what ought
you do?" said Bart Victor at the Intra
University Visiting Scholars Program.
The first climate, he said, is "egois
tic." The company or its employees do
what is best for themselves. Efficiency
for the company is paramount in this
climate, Victor said.
Those in the second category, the
"utilitarian" climate, do what is best in
terms of the consequences. These
companies or individuals are more apt
to be socially responsible, Victor said.
The final climate, the "teontologi
cal" climate dictates that rules should
take the highest priority.
E.F. Hutton clearly operates in an
egoistic climate, Victor said. Several
mid-level managers were recently found
guilty of holding checks for longer
periods of time than is allowable, he
said.
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conflict with other interests, such as
the law," he said. "However, they did
not see themselves as deviant."
In another presentation at the event,
Steve Wise, assistant professor of edu
cational psychology, explained how
different kinds of computer testing use
different forms of feedback.
They did it to help
the corporation along.
This puts them in
conflict with other
interests, such as the
law. However, they did
not see themselves as
deviant.'
Victor
Some computer testing gives imme
diate responses to the answers, and
then goes right on to the next questioa
Other systems, however, will determine
the users ability level and will auto
matically choose the next question
based on the previous answer.
People get less bored and frustrated
with the latter form of testing,-Wise
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said.
In a study with introductory statis
tics students, Wise discovered that
when questions get progressively harder,
no feedback is needed to help retain
material.
Wise also discovered that feedback
leads to higher anxiety, which lowers
the test performance, he said.
Another study showed that feedback
made no difference with third- and
fourth-graders, he said.
Wise said in some cases, delaying
the feedback on the computer test may
actually enhance retention of the
material.
"The large challenge in the decade
or two is if we can get some other
measures other than right or wrong,"
Wise said. For examply, it probably
would be difficult to use computers in
testing about ethical questions, such
as those being asked in the E.F. Hutton
The Intra-University Visiting Scho
lars Program is designed to bring
together faculty from different depart
ments to explore disciplines' different
views of similar subjects. The program
is sponsored in part by a grant from the
National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln.
