UNL students follow national alcohol trend
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consumption of beer dropped 7 per
cent, wine decreased 14 percent and
“distilled spirits’’ fell 23 percent,
according to Impact, a publication
that covers the U.S. liquor industry.
The New York Times recently
reported the findings.
Osgood said the national decline
could be explained by a growing feel
ing among Americans that hard drugs
arc unhealthy. He said it is conceiv
able that Americans have the same
attitude toward alcohol.
A change in America’s demogra
phy is another possible explanation
for the decline, Osgood said. Today,
fewer Americans arc in their 20s, he
said.
‘ ‘That’s typically the age at which
people do heavy drinking,” Osgood
said.
Monte Steenson, manager at N
Officials consider change in dissertations
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dissertation.
Hamilton said the Council of
Graduate Schools, composed of
graduate officials from universities
around the country, is forming a
committee to study these alterna
tives.
The council docs not have a con
sensus on allowing alternatives to
traditional dissertations, he said, but
is open to looking at possibilities.
Even though “science has dic
tated change over the last 50 or 1(X)
years,” doctoral programs “have not
changed the way students prove their
mastery.”
“The burgeoning of books and
articles” in recent years has forced
doctoral candidates to read more in ,
preparation for their own research, he
said.
This has caused doctoral candi
dates in the sciences to narrow the
focus of their research, Hamilton
said, and may be a reason why stu
dents arc taking longer to complete
their degrees.
According to the National Re
search Council, the average time
candidates take to complete their
doctorates has increased from 6.1
years to 6.9 years over the last 12
years.
Most universities have lime limits
for candidates to finish their degrees,
Hamilton said, but are “pretty liberal
in granting extensions.”
Bruning said UNL has an eight
ycartime limit.
Students not driving can deny test
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session. AH it proves, she said, is that
a person has been drinking, and mi
nors can drink legally in their place of
residence.
Assistant Lincoln Police Chief
Jim Baird said there is no sanction
against non-drivers who refuse to
take breathalyzer tests.
“Only drivers of vehicles have
sanctions against them for refusing to
take a breath test,’’ Baird said.
If Dconlc arc not driving, “it’s not
a crime to refuse,” he said.
Stall said drivers give implied
consent to take a breath test when
they operate a motor vehicle.
Baird said officers arc not specifi
cally instructed how to ask someone
to take a test, but arc told to be “tact
Beacon says he
accepts challenge
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family barely knows what he looks
like anymore, he said.
“But I like the challenge, and as
long as we’re making progress I don’t
mind,” he said.
Beacon replaced former OSFA
Director William McFarland, who
resigned after saying he faced many
roadblocks to progress in the office.
Beacon said he has inherited offices
with problems at the last four schools
he’s worked at and in “most eases
made them better.”
People in such challenging envi
ronments need to do their personal
best, put their heads together and
work as a team, he said.
“We’re at the lip of the iceberg,”
he said. “There’s a lot to be done. I
don’t think we can sit back and relax
with whal we’ve done, 1 think we
need to continue at the same pace.”
ful, courteous and proper.”
Although the refusal is not a
crime, it would go into the police
report, Baird said.
Attorneys may ask later if a breath
test was requested, Baird said.
Tast said a minor’s refusal to take
a breath test would be inadmissible in
court.
Breath tests arc an officer’s tool to
gather evidence in a variety of cases,
Baird said, but ‘‘everyone can ref
use.”
Street Liquor Store, 19th and N
streets, said every liquor store in
Lincoln probably has noticed a de
cline in sales.
Steenson said he thinks alcohol
consumption will increase in a couple
of years.
But, Osgood said, calling con
sumption trends cyclical is too sim
plistic.
Drinking does not decline and rise
after a given amount of lime, he said.
Experts must weigh many factors and
influences to determine the cause of
the recent declines, he said.
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