DN Letter to the Editor

We are very excited about the story on the Graduate Student Ethics Forum in Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan. We would, however, like to add a few details. The Graduate Student Ethics Forum is a new monthly event co-sponsored by UNL's Ethics Center and Graduate Student Association. These lunches serve the missions of both the Ethics Center and the GSA by providing graduate students, professional students, and post-docs from across the university an opportunity to discuss the ethical issues that affect them in their various roles as students, teachers, researchers, and professionals.

So far, we have had two of these events - Monday's discussion on Intellectual Property and Post-Graduate Publication and last month's discussion on Facebook, Privacy, and Whistleblowing. More than thirty students from fifteen departments have attended at least one of these lunches. This shows that there is a clear interest in ethics among students at UNL. We hope that these lunches will help to nurture this interest and promote further conversations about how ethics relates to their present lives as grad students and their future lives as researchers, academics, and professionals.

We encourage graduate students to keep an eye out for more information about our next discussion, scheduled for Monday March 29 - topic TBA. We would also like to encourage students to contact us to suggest any ethical issues that they would like to discuss at one of these lunches.

Thank You,

Aleksandra Stein
Vice-Chair of Representation,
Graduate Student Association

Steven Swartzer
Assistant Director,
Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics

Katie Wilson
Vice-Chair of Social Events,
Graduate Student Association