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Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student
affairs, last week unveiled what he termed a
"working paper" on the question of fees paid
by UNL students. In effect, Bader's working
paper can be read as the vice chancellor's
long-awaited final recommendations on the
student fees.
The report, which Bader says is based on
all the student fees data, task force reports
and subsequent reactions he has received
through the year, primarily deals, as
anticipated, with the administration of
student fee money to UNL organizations. But
Bader's latest fees thesis differs substantially
from the earlier released Student Fees
Administration Task Force report.
Apparently, Bader and those who worked
with him on the working paper are
determined to throw the allocation of student
fees into the arena of student politics. The
vice chancellor continues to recommend the
establishment of an allocations board, which
was first proposed by the administration task
force. However, this time around Bader
correctly decided that students should have
the majority membership on any such board.
Although an amendment to Bader's report
passed last Thursday by the Council on
Student Life (CSL) demonstrates that there
continues to be some disagreement on what
constitutes a proper appointment process, the
vice chancellor's recommendation that five of
the student members be named by the
governing bodies of the five major fees users,
with the other three student members named
at large by a CSL subcommittee, is a sound
and workable proposal.
Bader's latest recommendations still
include the zero-base budgeting concept,
although it would not be totally in force until
the second year of operation under the
proposed system.
The report also makes the allocations
board accountable to the vice chancellor of
student affairs, i.e., Bader. Bader has not
clearly stated whether this means he has
ultimate veto power over the board. He
has said only that to make vetoes would be
"putting his neck out pretty far." Bader
should be required to more accurately define
this important area of his report even if that
would cause him to stick his neck out or
jeopardize chances of student approval for his
recommendations.
Bader said he hopes CSL will act swiftly
enough to enable him to place the working
paper on the regents' May aganda. He had
similar hopes for the March and April regents
meetings. His new recommendations are a
step in the right direction-away from the
proposals of the Student Fees Administration
Task Force report.
Tom Lansworth
editor
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Hologram chuckles
Dear editor:
I want to congratulate Bob Russell on
his column about the hologram UNL
(Daily Nebraskan, April 18). It mdde me
chuckle several times and was very
enjoyable reading altogether.
I'm supposed to be editorial editor of
the Fairbury Junior College rag, but I feel
the Fairbury Junior College Journalism
Department here, and the paper in turn,
would compare favorably with that of
just about any Class A high school in the
state.
If only the clowns who are supposed
to work for me could come up with
something relative to that piece of
Russell's. If you think I may have
expressed myself a bit unusually in this
letter I plead insanity on the grounds that
I'm nearing the end of two years at what
I think is supposed to be a college.
Don Johnson
Editor's note: Russell's column about
the hologram UNL was his last horse
sense effort of the semester. Russell left
last week to attend a conference in
Rome. Also, your letter implies that there
is a connection (as is the case at Fairbury
Juior College) between the Daily
Nebraskan and the UNL School of
Journalism. That implication is incorrect.
The Daily Nebraskan is independent of
any UNL school or department, although
many of our staff members are students
in the School of Journalism.
'Prose' remarks
Dear editor:
If George E. May really wanted to live
in a world where people shake hands,
hear babies cry, speak kind words, hear
happy children laugh, have pets, have
trees and have money he shouldn't have
written bad checks for 17 years. I'm
sorry, my heart doesn't bleed.
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daily nebraskan
monday, april 30, 1973