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THREE GENERATIONS of the Paczosa family show off their combine Thursday afternoon at their farm west of Columbus.
Clockwise from top are Tim Paczosa, a junior mechanized systems management major; TSm’s grandfather Ray Paczosa; and Tim’s
uncle Louis Paczosa. Ray Paczosa celebrated his 73rd birthday in the field Thursday. Louis says of his father, Ray; Tve seen
drought, floods. Tve seen bugs get him. 1 don’t know how he did it and then raise eight of us.”
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UNL students skip classes to bring in record corn yields
By Erin Gibson
Staff Reporter
East Campus classrooms are a bit emp
tier now that fall harvest is bustling.
A record com harvest was predicted this
fall, and with crop prices high, agriculture
students are flocking home to keep the com
bines humming.
George Pfeiffer; professor of agricultural
economics, said the growing season is over.
Fanners are rushing to complete the fall har
vest before November snow arrives.
“The crop is pretty much made,” Pfeiffer
said. “It’s just a matter of getting it har
vested.”
And that is where students come in.
Some students skip class a few days in
October to work extra hours harvesting on
family farms, Pfeiffer said.
TimPaczosa, a mechanized systems man
agement junior, said he spends a lot of week
j i^ds and some weekdays during harvest time
on his family’s farm west of Columbtis.
His family appreciates the extra heh> dur
ing die harvest rash, he said. This year’s
record yields mean they need him to spend a
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Most teachers on East Campus are a bit more
understanding than those on City Campus.
They know it’s almost critical that (students) do
get home and help out.”
ScottKloke
senior animal science andag business major
little more time harvesting this fall.
'It’s paying my tuition,” Paczosa said.
“And I enjoy doing it Sometimes it’s a good
break from class.”
Besides, work in fields is a necessary part
of an agriculture education, he said.
Although East Campus instructors teach
students to maximize crop yields and prof
its, and improve farm management tech
< niques, farming is a hands-on experience, he
said.
“Farming's like driving a car, you have
to go out and learn,” Paczosa said. “You can
read all die books you want, but it doesn’t
do any good unless you get behind the
wheel.”
Paczosa said he got behind the wheel of
a tractor at age 10, Farming involves a lot of
patience that professors cannot teach, and it
is best if an agriculture student has grown
up with the profession, he said.
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Ethics code
for students
still in draft
By Kasey Berber
Senior Reporter
UNL’s first student code of ethics is making
progress, although a little slower than ASUN
President Eric Marintzer expected.
The code is meant to tell students what the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stands for and
expects from its students. Chancellor James
Moeser decided to implement the code for UNL
this year.
At the beginning of the semester, Moeser
asked the Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska to work on a draft of the
code.
Marintzer originally predicted that a rough
draft of the code of ethics would be presented
to Moeser a month ago.
“I didn’t think this was going to take as long
as it has,” Marintzer said. “But this is some
thing that shouldn’t be rushed and can’t be
rushed.”
James Griesen, vice chancellor for student
affairs and ASUN adviser, said that an official
deadline never was set for the code of ethics.
He said Marintzer’s original goal to have a
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Educators unite
to oppose ‘quality*
school initiatives
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
Two ballot initiatives that would cut prop
erty taxes and make “quality education” a con
stitutional right were renounced Thursday by
Nebraska educators.
Twenty-six university, state and community
college administrators signed a statement say
ing they did not support initiatives 411 and 412
and feared postsecondary schools would be
forced to compete with grade schools and high
; schools for limited funds.
The signatures included UNL Chancellor
James Moeser and NU President Dennis Smith.
The Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education released a similar
statement. Eric Seacrest, vice chairman, said
411 puts too much weight on elementary and
high schools.
“Both K-12 and postsecondary schools are
of great importance, and one ought not to be
more important than the other,” Seacrest said.
Initiative 411 would constitutionally guar
antee a quality education to all Nebraska chil
dren. This means people who thought their chil
dren were not receiving the education they de
served could take their complaints to the courts.
Opponents of 411 say the word “quality”
leaves appointed judges too much leeway in
their interpretations of the amendment.
The amendment goes hand-in-hand with
Initiative 412, which would cut about $500
million in statewide property taxes, leaving less
funds for education. Those who support the bill
say it won’t take away from education funding.
Seacrest said people should understand the
issue before they make snap judgments on how
the initiatives will affect education.
“It’s a very complicated issue,” Seacrest
said. “There are many ramifications that are not
readily apparent” ,