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nonresidents. This year, the tuition for
summer reading courses has taken a drastic
turn. The tuition now is $18 per credit hour
for residents and $48.25 per credit hour for
nonresidents. This is the same tuition one
pays for attending regular courses. This is a
rip-off by the University. Students did not
have any previous notice about the raise in
tuition by the University Extension Division.
This year fewer reading courses are offered.
What is the University planning to do to
i.U:rients? What with increase in dorm rjs
and increase in next year's tuition?
L.M.
Ugly truth
Dear editor:
Once again the ASUN election has come
and gone amidst a flurry of posters and
column space in the Daily Nebraskan. And
again, I did not vote. I find that I have but
one consolation in facing this ugiy truth, for
which I thank the Board of Regents, God,
President Nixon, etc.: while I had no effect
on the outcome of the ASUN elections, I am
confident that in the coming year, the
outcome will have absolutely no effect on
me.
508-68-931
Library policies
Reading rip-off
Dear editor:
When the University started offering
summer reading courses, most students
thought it was a good idea. They could earn
credit hours during the summer without
going to classes. It was independent study,
and there were advantages: students coulo
go home and still take courses. Also, tuition
was reasonable both for residents and
nonresidents: $20 per credit hour for
'esidents and $21 per credit hour for
Dear editor:
It seems that "screw the undergraduate"
is the policy theme of our UNL library
system. Besides all the time restrictions
imposed on the loan of books to
undergraduates as opposed to graduate
students, fines for delayed return of books is
so great, they could almost start going into
business with it! After due day, the fine is
$1 per book. Then an extra dime per book
per day is added on if the book is not
immediately returned. Thus, once you've
crossed the deadline, it makes little
difference how much longer you want to
keep the book. Moreover, there is no
provision for special cases or even a
discussion of the matter. Students could
miss a final exam and with good reasons be
given a second chance. Our librarians,
however, have no time for discussions. You
could be dead by the deadline, but you
would still have to pay the fine! I propose an
ascending fine, not one that starts at $1 and
goes down to a dime. There at least should
be provisions for special cases the two
weeks we are allowed is not much.
Raad H. Hermes
Fees battle fatigue
The Unicameral's Education Committee currently
is considering Millard Sen. James Dickinson's LB362
which would cut off all student fees exepet those
earmarked for debt retirement. University lobbyist
Ann Campbell has worked closely with the
committee during its deliberations on the fees issue.
Throughout the fees debate, the University
administration, through Campbell, has maintained
publicly that it supports the current fees system. It
now appears that University administrators have been
singing a different tune in their private strategy
meetings.
Campbell was at Wednesday's ASUN meeting to
explain her activities on behalf of the NU
administration in this most recent student fees strife.
She again said that the University is officially against
LB362. but she also said that the University had itself
drafted an amendment to that measure which would
allow fees to be eliminated from the campus speakers
program. Perhaps Campbell is too close to the battle
to be able to distinguish the enemy. But there does
seem to be some amount of inconsistency in the
various positions the University has taken on the fees
issue during the last two weeks.
University officialdom evidently has been
intimidated by what Campbell termed the "political
reality" of the fees dispute. ASUN's legislative liaison
has been ineffective. It is time for involved and
concerned students to organize their own lobbying
effort. Again, it appears that administrators,
University or student, are poor advocates of student
concerns.
Tom Lansworth
Peace, patience
needed for Indian
advancement
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The Indians who siezed the tiny
town of Wounded Knee, S.D. more
than three weeks ago to dramatize
what they claim is a long series of
broken promises and violated treaties
are in the process of forfeiting
whatever sympathy that people in this
county may have tor them.
Instigators of the conflict, the
militant American Indian Movement
(AIM), have succeeded in bringing the
plight of their people before the eyes
of what has become an overly
complacent and apathetic nation. Now
having attained the spotlight, however,
they appear loath to leave it and, in
continuing to hold the village, are
seriously damaging their case of
legitimate grievances.
Their persistent intransigence in
refusing to negotiate their demands
speaks little for the reasonableness of
those demands or for the persons who
assert them. Their further declaration
that they no longer recognize the U.S.
government and are instituting their
own government casts additional
doubts about the wisdom of the
Indian leadership.
While both sides seem to be
exercising restraint, the possibility is
omnipresent that lives will be lost
town have already exchanged shots,
although only one minor injury has so
far resulted.
Evidence indicates that AIM has
done extensive damage to certain
buildings in the vicinity. Similar Indian
demonstrations at Alcatraz in 1969
and an invasion of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs building at Washington
last autumn also resulted in
widespread vandalism. This, again, is
needless and hardly conducive ' to
advancing the Indian cause.
Of course, it is high time that the
entire handling of Indian affairs
undergoes a wholesale revision. The
concept of keeping descendents of the
original settlers of this land on
reservations as vassals of the state is
ridiculous. And while the Indians
have every right to their tribal
background and rich cultural heritage,
there is no reason why they cannot, at
the same time, share the advanced
developments of our civilization like
anyone else.
john vihstadt
"Violence surely does attract the public's attention to an
issue usually the hw nnrl n-rfor in"."
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before the occupation is ended.
Indeed, the heavily armed Indians and
the government forces outside the
The Nixon Administration is
making quiet yet rapid strides toward
Indian progress. Current budgeting for
the Health Services and Mental Health
Administration for Indian Programs is
up $19 million over last year.
Indian-operated businesses have been
encouraged by grants from the Indian
Business Development Fund to Indians
unable to qualify for small business
loans from other sources.
Three-fourths of the 20 executive
positions at the Bureau of Indian
affairs are filled by Indians. This kind
of headway is no less significant just
because the liberal press does not
choose to give it the Drioritv attpntirm
it deserves.
Hundreds of years of obvious
wrongs perpetrated against our Indian
citizens will not be righted instantly.
Nor will they be corrected by violence
and demonstrations such as Wounded
Knee. Peace, patience, cooperation
and compromise are what is needed
tor Indian advancement.
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daily nebraskan
thursday, march 22, 1973