Letters, 10/7: Students didn’t cheat
The dental students are not cheating. Stealing test questions is cheating.
Compiling a list of questions after a test and sharing them with future classes is compiling a study aid and has been going on everywhere since schools have existed. Anyone ever hear of CliffsNotes?
Calling previous test questions the teachers’ intellectual material is a bit of a reach, unless they have created a unique answer to the question.
To those teachers who complain that changing questions from year to year is more difficult than it appears, give me a break.
The examples of discipline at other schools were examples of actual cheating, and had that occurred here, I have no doubt the dean would have taken appropriate action, which he has in fact done given the situation here.
I hope he gets his $150 back!
Jerry Kroeger, Lincoln
Change up County Board
This is a very important election not just nationally but locally. Do all voters know what the responsibilities of the county commissioners are and the power they possess?
They are responsible for managing the county funds, care of county property, adoption of the county budget, setting tax levies and salaries of elected and appointed county officials, appointment of officials, administration of programs established by state law, approval of road plans, development of the comprehensive land use plan, management of the jail, human services, and meeting as the County Board of Corrections and Board of Equalization.
Nationally, the slogan has been “it’s time for a change;” it’s the same for the County Board. We need to get new input.
The good old boys have been there for too long. They do not function as well as they could. Our high taxes need more oversight. This is why we need Nancy Intermill, a woman of honest integrity and no obligations to the entrenched.
Lynn Darling, Lincoln
Kleeb will work for us
Last week, for the first time in my life, I made a contribution to a political campaign. It was a small donation (I don’t have much money to spare; who does these days?), but it made me feel good that I could be a part of bringing the change we need to Washington.
For too many years, we have been divided into red states or blue states. Why can’t we just be Americans? Americans who want to make this country strong again. Americans who want to make this country economically healthy again. Americans who want to make this country respected around the world again.
To do that, I’m supporting a candidate who wants to go to Washington to work for us, a candidate who believes in the future of Nebraska. I won’t support a candidate who just wants to put another rung in his personal political ladder. So I will vote to send Scott Kleeb to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 4.
Shelly Burge, Lincoln
Bikers entitled to respect
My husband and I have been biking and walking most everywhere for about a year now, so we’re well aware of how angry some drivers in cars can get at riders of bikes. Normally I’m content to, when we are confronted by a particularly angry driver, blow off steam to my better half.
Friday morning, however, was exceptional. On my way to class (on my bike), I passed a man going along at his own pace. Not half a block later, I heard a horn blare. I’m not talking about the semipolite honk to say “hello, I’m right here in the road.” This was a long and loud blare that said, “How dare you, a biker, be in my way!”
I’m not saying all drivers are this disrespectful to bikers, or even that all bikers are saints. What I am saying is that as people who are using the same roads, we are entitled to the same amount of respect given to any other motorist.
Beca Voelker, Lincoln
Compiling a list of questions after a test and sharing them with future classes is compiling a study aid and has been going on everywhere since schools have existed. Anyone ever hear of CliffsNotes?
Calling previous test questions the teachers’ intellectual material is a bit of a reach, unless they have created a unique answer to the question.
To those teachers who complain that changing questions from year to year is more difficult than it appears, give me a break.
The examples of discipline at other schools were examples of actual cheating, and had that occurred here, I have no doubt the dean would have taken appropriate action, which he has in fact done given the situation here.
I hope he gets his $150 back!
Jerry Kroeger, Lincoln
Change up County Board
This is a very important election not just nationally but locally. Do all voters know what the responsibilities of the county commissioners are and the power they possess?
They are responsible for managing the county funds, care of county property, adoption of the county budget, setting tax levies and salaries of elected and appointed county officials, appointment of officials, administration of programs established by state law, approval of road plans, development of the comprehensive land use plan, management of the jail, human services, and meeting as the County Board of Corrections and Board of Equalization.
Nationally, the slogan has been “it’s time for a change;” it’s the same for the County Board. We need to get new input.
The good old boys have been there for too long. They do not function as well as they could. Our high taxes need more oversight. This is why we need Nancy Intermill, a woman of honest integrity and no obligations to the entrenched.
Lynn Darling, Lincoln
Kleeb will work for us
Last week, for the first time in my life, I made a contribution to a political campaign. It was a small donation (I don’t have much money to spare; who does these days?), but it made me feel good that I could be a part of bringing the change we need to Washington.
For too many years, we have been divided into red states or blue states. Why can’t we just be Americans? Americans who want to make this country strong again. Americans who want to make this country economically healthy again. Americans who want to make this country respected around the world again.
To do that, I’m supporting a candidate who wants to go to Washington to work for us, a candidate who believes in the future of Nebraska. I won’t support a candidate who just wants to put another rung in his personal political ladder. So I will vote to send Scott Kleeb to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 4.
Shelly Burge, Lincoln
Bikers entitled to respect
My husband and I have been biking and walking most everywhere for about a year now, so we’re well aware of how angry some drivers in cars can get at riders of bikes. Normally I’m content to, when we are confronted by a particularly angry driver, blow off steam to my better half.
Friday morning, however, was exceptional. On my way to class (on my bike), I passed a man going along at his own pace. Not half a block later, I heard a horn blare. I’m not talking about the semipolite honk to say “hello, I’m right here in the road.” This was a long and loud blare that said, “How dare you, a biker, be in my way!”
I’m not saying all drivers are this disrespectful to bikers, or even that all bikers are saints. What I am saying is that as people who are using the same roads, we are entitled to the same amount of respect given to any other motorist.
Beca Voelker, Lincoln
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