Wednesday, january 14, 1976
daily nebraskan
page 7
Fee pays services senators reject
third
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student
fees
Rv Theresa Foreman
Muttered grumbles and sighs at tuition time and an
occasional letter to the editor are all that remain after
UNL's student fee controversy in the early 1970s.
Ken Bader, vice-chancellor for student affairs, said that
although the debate over student fee use has died down,
it is unlikely it will stay that way.
While objections to student fee uses are not as dramatic
as those of a few years ago, there are complaints.
At tuition-billing-time last year, Bader said he received
four or five complaints about student fees each week.
Most of the students told Bader they objected to paying
for something they do not use, he said.
Bader said he would like to do away with student fees,
but that they are a necessary evil because some persons
in the state are not willing to pay for education which
occurs outside the classroom.
The Nebraska Union and other student fee users are a
vital part of a quality education, Bader said. The Nebraska
Legislature does not agree.
Dr. Kenneth Hubble is director of the University
Health Center, which received more than 40 per cent of
the total sutdent fees this year. He agreed that the health
center is a vital part of a college education, but said it
would be difficult to convince taxpayers it is a legitimate
educational need.
"The state tends to look at underwriting the health
center as charity," Hubble said.
Student Fees necessary
Officials for the major fee users, the Union, health
center and Recreation Dept. agreed they could not
operate at the current level without student fees.
Since their inception, all three have been financed
partially by student fees, which, the directors said, is
the best means of support available.
Allen Bennett, director of the Nebraska Union, said if
student fees were not collected, the Union would be open
fewer hours and income-producing businesses would have
to be added to the building.
Bennett said that more than 100,000 persons were
served in the Union last year, which he said showed that
the union is worth keeping open.
Costs could increase
The health center would be forced to eliminate services
or increase the cost of current ones if student fee support
was discontinued, Hubble said.
Students using health center services are charged
approximately 50 per cent of the cost of services, he
said. Student fees account for $1.1 million of the $1.4
million health center budget for fiscal 1976.
Health center doctors served more than 58,000
patients last year, he said, and the city's doctors could
not absorb this patient load.
He compared the student fee levy to a road tax.
Although we all pay for roads in Western Nebraska, some
of us never will drive on them, he said, but they are avail
able to anyone who needs them.
If the Recreation Dept., health center and Union are
found to be essential to UNL's quality of education, the
only fee use left to question would be the $14.50 per
student debt service fee used to finance buildings which
house the Union and health center and the $8.11 per
student earmarked for student organizations and
activities.
The debt money has been legally committed by the NU
Board of Regents to the year 2000 or "whenever it is
things like this get paid off," said Jim Lewis, Fees
Allocation Board (FAB) member.
Diversified Powers
While FAB has review and advisory powers over the
health center, union and recreation funds, it has almost
absolute yay or nay power over the $8.1 1 up for grabs
by student organizations this year.
So, how was' it that FAB decided to give $64 to the
Geology Club this year; $8,525 to the Black Student
Coalition and $0 to the Rodeo Club? Very subjectively,
according to several FAB board members.
Although the board follows general guidelines, such as
"fees are to be used to enhance significant out-of-class-room
cultural, social, educational and recreational oppor
tunities which imporve student life at UNL," most
members affix their own interpretation and personal
biases to the allocation process, said Kitty Policky,
student FAB member.
According to board meeting minutes, the Rodeo Club
was denied student fee money because it had a large cash
reserve fund and because of its policy of donating a per
centage of its revenue to charity.
According to the yellow student fees pamphlet publish
ed, by the Center for Students and Organizations, FAB
was created to provide a centralized process and a
representative board to ensure that all student
organizations have equal opportunity to request student
fee support.
Now, all organizations have the ability to request fees
but it's questionable whether the fees allocation process
is fair, said John Dobitz, student FAB member.
'Taxes should be dealt with by a representative
student body and ASUN (Senate) is the closest thing we
have to a representative body " Dobitz said.
No fair distribution
Jim Lewis, a FAB faculty member, questioned whether
student fee distribution would be treated more lightly by
the ASUN Senate, but added that he could not think of
a fair way to distribute fees.
ASUN is a major fee user, and Pres. Jim Say says a
fee-distributing board elected by the student body would
be more responsible to students since it would face
reelection annually.
Continued on p. 8
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