Union dues
At last night's Council on Student Life
(CSL) meeting Mary Cannon, president of the
Nebraska Union Board, announced that the
proposed 25-cent fee for check cashing in the
Union is being reconsidered and that the
25-cent rate may be discarded entirely. The
fee was to have taken effect on July 1.
Cannon, along with Union Director Al
Bennett, reported to CSL that the data upon
which the 25 cent figure was based later was
discovered to be partially invalid. Union
Board has now decided to conduct a survey of
Union facilities and programs usuage. The
results of that survey will help determine the
final decision next week on the nature of the
check cashing fee, if any, which should be
introduced.
Since the check cashing charge was
approved by the Union Board at their March
22 meeting, a number of persons who are
regular users of the Union's check service have
voiced opposition to the imposition of any
fee, and especially to the seemingly high
25-cent fee.
The implementation of a check cashing fee
has become necessary, according to Bennett,
because the First National Bank of Lincoln
has changed its policy in regard to the Union's
cash account with that institution. Up to this
time the First National Bank has not charged
the Union the normal charge for processing
the thousands of checks cashed in the Union
each week.
If there was anything that was made
perfectly clear by Bennett last night, it was
that the Union's operating budget will not
increase during the next fiscal year or anytime
in the near future. Apparently, there is
nothing the Union can do, because of the
legal restrictions placed on it as a state
institution, to either change the bank's
decision or move its account to another bank.
So the S1 4,500 annual cost incurred by the
Union's check cashing service will have to be
compensated for either by the charge to the
users of the service or by reappropriating
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money from another area of the budget. The
Union Board correctly has decided that the
costs should be absorbed by those who are
served. However, the 25-cent rate is
unreasonably expensive and should be
lowered.
As was pointed out by the Union
representatives, if the Union continues check
cashing for free, the money to subsidize such
a service would likely be taken from the
programming budget. That likelihood is
unfortunate, but that is the current
disposition of the Union Board, so the matter
must be considered within that framework.
Also likely is the selection of the Talks and
Topics appropriation as the most vulnerable
item in the Union budget and, therefore, the
most probable candidate for a cutback or
total elimination. Every effort should be
made to prevent a programming cut of this
nature.
Obviously, it is possible to suggest
cutbacks in the programming budget which
would be more justifiable than any slicing of
the Talks and Topics appropriation. However,
it appears to be the fee ling of some members
of the Union Board that Talks and Topics
does not serve the University community to
as high as degree as do programs like the Style
Show or the Miss UNL Pageant.
Perhaps the time is past due for the Union
Board to redefine the proper role of the
Union. Some of the comments made at last
night's CSL meeting, if they are representative
of the total membership of the Union Board,
indicate a somewhat callous attitude toward
the needs and desires of the student
population served by the Union. In response
to questions from CSL members, Cannon said
that "by rights, students should be charged
for the most highly-used services in the
Union." And she added if they don't like the
imposition of a check cashing fee, they can
just take their business downtown.
Cannon, and the Union Board, should
remember that students are automatically
charged, through student fees, for the services
and programs provided by the Union.
Students needs and interests should be the
primary consideration prior to any change in
Union policy.
Tom Lansworth
Buck Ace in A Beautiful Day for Bombing
Scene: The cockpit of a B h7. At
the controls is thdt squaie jawed,
be medalled, vet ','i an bombot p'lot,
Major Buck Ace. At Ins side is Ins
co-pilot, oung, eagei Lt. h dgar
Beavei, who is fresh from the States,
making his first sortie,
Beaver: Gosh, say it's site a
beautiful day fot bombing, noi a Hud
in the sky.
Ace: That's right son. In a11 ny
many years of bombing out hen; I've
never seen a better one.
Beaver: And I see' ..'(. ' ve qot every
available B 52 up a'jam toda boy,
we're really go;ng to b'ast Hn'y h"t.k
out of those Vietnamese down ti re
Ace: That's not Vietnam,
Lieut e'Uint, f hot's Cambodia.
Beaver: Oh, orry, iii .
Ace: An und" standab'e m-taki .-,
son. h'Sjttkl, these Asian count1 ie s
look in ike to me.
Beaver: But I thought we wi"t'
bomb1 ng Vietn.itn.
Ace: That was last mouth. I think
ou'll find, son, that vsln'e bombing
arena noDoe
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innocen
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bystander
Asian countries is fulfilling lot the
moment, the gi atificatton dor". n't !,;,!
Bomb one and a month latet ynu'll
.want to bomb jnot hei .
Beaver: Yi-s, sn. But I've been so
out of toui h late'y I didn't evn know
we- wei c at w.ji With (J.imbodia.
Ace: We'ie t j so'i. They're? our
allies. Most of the i:m out here, we
bomb ou' uliies.
Beaver: Oh, su;i;, I lemembct.
Wi.'te probably rlcjing it to honor our
sat id r.i if 1 it'ti 1 1 u set d to General . . .
What's Ins name? Nun LoP Lol Non?
Ace: burnetii ng I ke that. But we're
not bomb'ng him. His own air force
h,!S b'-en tak'ne (,a'e of tliat.
Beaver: I see. We're bombing them
to 'top them from bombing each
' '.i ii Y(J! know, that doesn't sound
i ,'ght. Wa t! It's the Domino Theory.
As Cambod lf ty, s, so goes . . . Wh.it
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Beaver Is na ip rig he, t n ajei s) :
M.r.ds arid hea'ts1 We'o bombing
Pii'Mi u w n ihe t'ends and he.ji ts of
peup'e a!' mi'i the v.'i.e id
Ace (ya.vn tig) ' Why not
Bejver: No, v..jd. I hnijnt what the
Pn.' .ideiit sa:d I he President, who
iiilii'i iled itn; vVar 'd Cambodia fiom
h.s previous Admirnsti atirjti, said we
had to keep bnrnlVng to protect the
liY'.".. of our American boys down
there.
Ace: Look, L leutenaut, we haven't
had any troops in Cambodia m yt-'ars.
Beaver: No, I mean in Vietnam, sir.
Ihs' (-'resident said the only reason he
invaded Cambodia Was because' the
enemy was usmg it as a staging a'ea to
attar I- our boys in Vietnam, bo we're
saving Amei ican lives.
Ace: Look, Lieutenant, we haven't
had any troops in Vietnam in weeks.
Beaver: Oh-1 Well, anyway, we've
got to keep bombing them to make (frowning) No offense, sir, but
them release our POWs. We'll never couldn't you give me just one good
rest until our POWs aie home. Right, reason why we're bombing Cambodia?
sir? Ace: Sure, Lieutenant, (he presses a
Ace: All our POWs are home, button) Because - Bombs away! - it
Lieutenant. is there.
Beaver: Gosh, I didn't know that. (Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1 973)
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friday, april 13, 1973