Editorial # 3: Settle for a Slowdown

All across the world and throughout history the source of our creation has always dazzled minds. It is our nature. We are curious creatures, us humans. We think about thinking, reflect on our actions and even plan despite the uncertainties of tomorrow because of course, we have it all figured out. Everything is calculated, always. These characteristics have led us into 2010 primed to venture into the improbable. We have become so curious that we have strayed away from the possible sources of creation and taken manners into our own hands, because we can, our minds have given us the ability to do so.

But where the does the line lay? The line that humanity should not cross simply because of our curious tendencies. The question lingers and it’s evident that this line, made purely of morality is dissolving before the answer is found. Recently, the University of Nebraska at Kearney has taken steps in speeding up the dissolving process. UNK Student Senate recently passed a resolution for a bill that permits in-vitro stem cell research.

No, this does not indicate that such procedures as cloning or advanced stem cell methods will be taking place on our campus anytime soon, but it is a seed, that if planted could blossom into the intricate establishment of such methods.

Times are moving fast, there is no doubt, and as a public university UNK is required to keep up and has done just that in the last year. We have the most advanced planetarium between Chicago and Phoenix. It features state-of-the-art technology such as the Zeiss Skymaster which was funded by NASA. A state-of-the art wind turbine donated by a Tokyo based company was recently installed. It will soon create new sources or research for engineering. However, staying to speed with sciences that deal with elements of life is a race that this campus should avoid, not because it would lose, but because this race would contradict the rudiments that make UNK what it is.

This campus is home away from home for students from within the state or students from the other side of the world. Let’s face it, more times than none, this campus is chosen because of its small conservative atmosphere. Speeding things up would go against everything that has allowed this campus to develop into home away from home. UNK should settle for a slowdown in this area and stay away from God imitating sciences.