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While progress within a university is desirable and
necessary, progress hastily made can be a detriment
to solving problems. Wnen new schemes are adopted,
the effects can be so overwhelming as to kil! any
chance of further reform for years.
Such might be the ca:e with the newly-formed
Student Fees Allocation Board. The board is
the brain-child of student-faculty-administration task
forces, set-up last year to change the current student
fee system. It was spawned in dosed-door meetings
and was approved hastily by the Council on Student
Life in May.
The master plan implied that the student fees
system should be changed by the end of this year.
Last year was taken up by studies of possible
alternatives to the current system, public discussion
of the alternative proposed, approval of the proposal
and efforts to begin implementation of the new
system. This year was to be devoted to studying the
financial needs of student activities and
recommending amounts of aid to be given.
But things haven't worked that way. The first year
went smoothly. A plan was devised and approved.
But although the infant student fee board now is
beginning to take its first steps, it seems it won't be
ready to waik this year. The board was to be
appointed and begin meeting in September. It wasn't.
Appointments were made too late, and scheduling
conflicts kept it from getting underway .until
November.
The group now is meeting, but no permanent
leader has been chosen, nor has it formulated bylaws
or other necessary plans.
It has launched a study of what it needs to begin
operation, but if members of the board think it can
function as it should, they are fooling themselves.
The board already is three months behind
schedule. Clearly, this is not the time for it to go into
operation. The members of the board are not
knowledgeable in the distribution of fees and they
don't have the time needed to do the thorough study
necessary to make a just distribution.
The board needs at least one more year to
establish itself, study the fee system and arrive at a
fair distribution method. To try to reform the fee
system now without the necessary facts or thought
could be disasterous.
Michael (O.J.) Nelson
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With (Mi full force of the energy cnsis arid gas
'iiort.-rji' i.i'i'i us, many Americans are adopting
.ip: it ;..J ' toward insuring a supply of
Z1 .- .-I',:, tt-io consumer qioups being for mod to
t'i ' '.'iji. o an at (unijlion known as the
v, America's G.is", (CAG) society. This
u-).i,v) ,j'd i'!'kif.n?ial organisation has
1 .' ci r.'iniui.i of civiqy and gasoline saving
cit.ji ,riv I spoke with their president, Mr. H.
' ' ! "M '."i , cuni.cmi iy these programs and the
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"V of the Conserve America's Gas society are
! ni" r,"! to the maint.2n.ince of Life, Liberty, and
A--. . igr, W.j v - all of which vitally depend on
;, Tl i Automobile. And it is toward this
A :.' -it..! t! t w:? Dedicate our time and energies, long
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Mr. Homblower, vvh3t are some of the programs
your riiuuo has recommended?"
"i.'AG offers intoi mat ion to the consumer on ways
!o !-..' the j.i'-oline shortage. Our test selling
p.iiii!M"; 1 1 entitled 'The f amily Gasoline Shelter.' In
' l'1'''11 to the easy step by step instructions for
v.o:. unction in the average basement, it includes
hel( oil 'nuts on storage and bootlegging, procedures."
'Yim nc in you'ie "ocouraging people to build
ti'O v .' 'i n or 'l:ni' storage tanks7"
' C.-r i,'. !l'.. ..very American's duty lo see that
his I noi'v i , protected,"
"tUit isn't his 'protection,' as you call it, simply
gs hoarding?"
"'"Jot .it oli. It is simply a safeguard against some
unU'i s.jt rlisa'.rei that might threaten to turn off the
gai fiunips. We "nvision the establishment of local
she! hi' i; f've.y cui oinunity vvhich wouki be designed
to withstand ,.; loihj tutn-off period. This, coupled
w'Ji ;!o indivdual family shelter, would assure
An (.(.(... safety, whether attacked by the Arabs or
by C .g:cv, "
"Hc.v will you be able to maintain these shelters if
la'ioning :s institutf.rl?"
"Casy. Ai,oi!i(,r publication we put out is the
'H -j.v tu r-'ot liatiijimig HandUiok.' It includes all
the infoimation a poison needs to get the most out of
rationing Some of its most profitable chapters
include: How tu gain ration books with the license's
of lecently deceased relatives,' and an
up JO'the minute list of 100 'sure fire' sob star ios to
lay on gullible station attendants."
"Do you really expect people to take advantage of
the rationmg systnm like that?"
"Why o'rtamly. Tor rationing or any other
government program to succeed, all cdims - rich and
poor-must .. willing to pitch in and help themselves.
After all, that's what America's all afout, isn't it?
God helps those who help themselves, I always say.
By the way, besides our regular activities we have
lOvmied a youth gioup, the "Conserve America's
Gas Youin." The CAGYs have undertaken their own
project to save gas, which once again proves that tht
strength of America lies in the sure, intelligent
thinking of her Youth."
"fk'ally? What is their project7"
"ihe methodical disablement of every Cadillac in
the city."
You can't mean that! Hov can wrecking the
Cadillacs help ease the energy
crunch?"
"Elementary. Cadillacs get the worst mileage of
any car on the road, right? Well, the CAGYs decided
to limit this diam on gasoline by eliminating big gas
hogs. After all, the dune buggies gotta keep roiling.
By the way, what make of car do you drive?"
"An Opel. I have time for just one more question.
Mr. Homblowcr, what does your organization think
of the current world situation which broughl about
our present crisis?"
"As far as foieign policy is concerned we're behind
the Piesident one hundred percent. It's hat d for those
who aren't in the know to understand what the
President is doing, with the detente and all, but we're
not worried. We know it's just another plut to get the
Arabs and Huskies to lower theii guards, then
whamol We even sent Mr. Nixon a telegram, pledging
the use of our reserve fuel supplies for the big push.
With interest, of course."
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