Dear editor:
Eighty children, from six months to five years of
age, along with their parents, have become victims of
ASUN's presistent negligence and irresponsibility in
its failure to respond to the needs of an integral part
of the academic community.
ASUN's inability to use foresight and to view
needed child care facilities in a larger, more relevant
scope only emphasizes more strongly the need for
revising the student fee system and the methods by
which these fees are allocated for the various student
service groups.
We parents and children have not been given a fair
and adequate hearing by ASUN. It is quite evident
how misguided their (ASUN) priorities are when a
rowing team, of little or no benefit to any student on
this campus, receives $900 as opposed to not giving a
penny toward the welfare of our children, our
greatest natural resource. The ability of individuals
(serviced by these groups) to remain in school was
and is not contingent upon these groups receiving or
not receiving funds to operate. For 270 individuals on
this campus, it is now a dire problem .as to whether
we can remain in school any longer, since we are a
low-income group with more responsibilities than the
average student.
From 80 parents, the amont of fees paid each
semester amounts to $4000. We strongly feel that we
should have the right to direct the use of these fees to
areas that are of the most concern to us rather than
have the fees whimsically and arbitrarily given over to
some groups whose very existence, Jet alone their
funding, deserve thoughtful questioning on the part
of each and every student. We live on limited incomes
and cannot afford to pay $80 a month per child that
would be charged us for the same services that have
been given us and our children at the Day Care
Center.
We have tried and exhausted every source
imaginable, so that we might be funded. Wherever we
have gone, though, we are repeatedly told that we
cannot receive help unless we have the recognition
and backing of the University. ASUN has told us that
we have not tried hard enough and has also
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expressed the feeling that our services are not wanted
and needed by a sizable part of the student body. We
have a waiting list that exceeds 100 people and daily
have to turn people away due to lack of funding and
staff and larger, better facilities. It seems now that
those waiting 100 people, their children and ourselves
are to be denied the right to an education and good,
inexpensive child care by the bludgeon of ignorance
and indifference, deftly wielded by those loving
people of ASUN.
-Student status, along with the times, is rapidly
changing; the stereotype is challenged by our
attendance and involvement in the University. Any
institution of higher education that fails to
understand and respond to the problems and needs of
the "student family" is seriously jeopardizing its
integrity and its future. The .implications of these
changing times implore that all factions be recognized
and dealt with according to their needs.
We will run a parent, or sympathetic candidate, for
every position and office in ASUN if that is what it
takes to help proviae tor tne cnnaren ana the oetter
education of their parents, who are all an integral part
of and a great deciding factor in our collective
futures. DeLana M. Cromer
for Day Care Center staff,
parents' organization
and children
Pen pal
Dear editor:
I am an inmate in a branch of the Ohio
Penitentiary, I was a college student before my
incarceration. I have lost contact with a lot of people
since then and I would like to hear from any students
or faculty members interested in corresponding-and
bringing a little sunshine into a guy's life . . . who has
found out what darkness, is all about.
Milan B. Martin
Box 69-132112
London, Ohio 43140
Budget logic
Dear editor:
Is it Dossible that ASUN's Budget Committee was
exercising some justifiable logic in not recommending
the allocation of funds to the Day Care Center-even
a reduction of the $702 which was requested?
In view of the other causes which were given
priority, an explanation is in order. Of those
requesting funds, the Day Care Center is among the
few whose continuance could determine whether a
student is able to remain in school.
i Before the final approval next week, serious
discussion should be held and necessary changes made
in the proposed budge.
Elizabeth Ziers
ASUN aristocracy
The following letter was printed with the unfortunate
inclusion of a number of editing and typographical
errors in the Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 1. It is reprinted
below in its entirety.
Dear editor:
Confronted by a sense of irony, we find it amazing
that ASUN can criticize anyone. In the past year,
ASUN's present regime's actions have shown a lack of
creativity, direction, resiliency, responsiveness and
strength.
The number of student services has not inr i.ed
in the past year (indeed, they may have decreased.
They have allowed PACE to go down the drain,
which is unforgivable. And they have bumbled the
Koop. Why does it take three people a summer and
semester or organize a Koop? And what about the
Book Exchange?
The present regime has not come up with any new,
creative ideas. The Koop and student regent ideas
have been kicked around for years.
We also question the motivation, or lack of it, of
many of the senators. Ideally, we need a
representative assembly responsive to and interested
in the student body. The senators should realize the
obligations and responsibilities of their office. If they
are unable to fulfill these, then they should resign.
The present ASUN Senate has also shown an
unwillingness to take any type of stand on
controversial issues. If they are afraid to stick out
their necks on anything, why have a student
government at all?
Finally, it is amazing that Michele Gagne can
decide to spend $2040 in student money on
advertising ASUN in a newspaper criticized by the
same student government. If what ASUN is doing
isn't newsworthy it seems hopeless to dig up old
items of interest and pay to make ASUN seem bigger
than it really is. This executive decision is another
example of the aristocracy of our current ASUN
executives. We sincerely hope that positive ASUN
activities such as PACE, the Record Store and
Women's Resource Center will not be sold out for the
inflation of three people's egos.
Joe McCartv
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