friday, march 5, 1976
page 4
daily nebraskan
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Only a halfway measure.
That is what the Nebraska Legislature's
Appropriations Committee took Wednesday when
they gave first round approval to a $2 a credit
hour tuition increase for NU students.
The move, if passed by the entire Legislature,
would permit the NU Board of Regents to raise
the tuition of both resident and out-of-state
students.
While NU resident students already pay one of
the highest tuition bills in the Big 8 Conference 4
(Approximately $663 a year), nonresident
students get a break when compared to other
schools, even though they pay $700 more than
resident students.
In short, the university does not realize the
income it should because 9 1 .2 per cent of its stu
dents are classified as residents, One of the
reasons for the current NU financial crunch is the
lack of overall student support, even though the
individual resident tuition rate is fairly high.
The highest nonresident percentage of students
in the Big 8 attends the University of Colorado,
where 34.7 per cent of the students are from out
letters to
the editor I
I'm afraid that Ms. Lundquist (Guest Opinion, March
3) has missed the boat as far as the effectiveness of a
'"revolutionary attitude" is concerned. The time for
proper channels is over-they are a dead end. For at least
the last three years students have taken their well-defined
and well-argued proposals to both the State Legislature
and the NU Board of Regents. I was present at the com
mittee hearing of the alcohol bill along with 500 or so
other students (which amounted to a packed house) who
were very well-behaved, and the student spokespeople
were very eloquent in their presentations. But this move
through proper channels apparently didn't impress the
legislators who must have wanted 10,000 to 15,000 stu
dents screaming, "booze, booze, booze," at the top of
their lungs to show their support. I was also present at a
spring 1974 regent's meeting (one of at least two times
since 1973 that alcohol recommendations have been pre
sented) when a well thought-out proposal was turned
down. This is where proper channels have gotten us
nowhere. Now is the time for action and "student popu
larity in outstate Nebraska be damned." I agree that
regents supporting student views should be elected, but
I doubt that this is the only effective means of expressing
student views. Mass violations are not "irrational actions"
after everything else has failed. However, I would suggest
that one more step be taken before violations are attemp-
of state.
Those nonresident students pay $70.77 a credit
hour, compared to the nonresident Nebraska
students who pay $48.25 per credit hour.
Clearly Nebraska does not have as attractive
an environment for out of state students as
Colorado. Nor are all of its departments
academically excellent.
Yet the lack of tuition income from non
resident students has a circle effect on the quality
of the university. It takes more state support to
make the university more competitive for out-of-state
students. And it will take more revenue
from out-of-state students to make the state's
investment pay off.
Resident students will grudgingly accept the
almost certain tuition increase. Yet at the same
time the student residents of a state attending a
land-grant institution are asked to fork over more
bucks for an education, the university needs
to seriously explore gaining more income from
(and greater numbers of) out of state students.
Vince Boucher
ted, and this is a tuition boycott., Hit them where
it hurts, the pocketbook-no student pay hisher tuition
next semester until alcohol andor 24-hour visitation is
available on campus. Proper channels have been tried and
they don't work. Now try action!
Mark Blongewicz
Independent candidate for ASUN President
I wish I had their guts
In regard to the Daily Nebraskan's March 3 letter of
"Keeping the Draft" by Phillip O. Stewart, 1 would like
to know where you get the information that the army is
made up of misfits and lazy drifters. The armed forces are
turning people away because they have been arrested, or
often for having too many traffic tickets. With the
economy and jobs the way they are, young men and
women are entering the service in such great numbers that
the draft is not needed. We have enough personnel to con
duct a "police action" again, if necessary. If a real war
breaks out, men and M-16's will be of little use against
ballistic missiles. In regard to all those who "wouldn't
face the music," I think they had the guts and determina
tion to stand up for what they thought was right. As a
Vietnam veteran, I wish I would have had their guts.
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By Arthur Hoppe
The long-awaited New Hampshire primary last week
proved so much about the candidates to the political
analysts that it has taken this long to analyze their
analyses.
For example, Mr. Ford, who received 1,317 more votes
than Mr. Reagan, thought he proved he could beat Mr.
Reagan in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, the issue was
clouded when Mr. Reagan said he'd actually won because
he got more votes than he said he thought he would get,
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Ford wasn't smart. He obviously now needs a smart win in
Florida or some place to erase the memory of his stupid
New Hampshire victory.
A lot more ran
The Democrats proved much more than the Repubi
cans, primarily because there were a lot more of them
running.
Jimmy Carter proved that a simple, folksy, oP peanut
agribusinessman from Georgia could get 22,895 New
Hampshire citizens to vote for him.
Of these votes, a careful analysis shows, 14,203 liked
Mr. Carter's simple folksiness, 2,678 liked peanuts, 1,403
liked agribusinessmcn, 23 pulled the wrong lever and the
balance were hungovcr liberals who thought they were
voting for a black peanut farmer named Georgia Washing
ton Carter.
But if Mr. Carter wins in Florida, he will have won in at
least two states that border on the Atlantic Ocean.
Mr. Udall proved that 18,594 voters don't hold it
against a man tor losing an eye in a childhood accident.
"Heck," said Vic Woolsey of Concord, N.H., "my wife
lost the whole dang family car in the parking lot after a
football game last autumn."
Life isn't much fun
Mr. Udall had to divide the liberal vote with Mr. Bayh,
Mr. Harris and Mr. Shriver. Mr. Shriver did the worst of
the lot. But he had to split the Catholic vote, too, with
Mrs. McCormack, who ran on the Pro-Life Ticket. Only
1,001 voted Pro-Life. This proved that life in New
Hampshire isn't much fun this time of year.
Mr. Shriver proved there were only 6,649 libera."
Catholic split votes in New Hampshire. But there was a
Kennedy vote, which is similar. It went td Mr. Kennedy,
all 221 of it. These are write-ins. Mr. Bayh almost never
p.ets a write-in vote because, hardly anyone knows how to
spell his name.
Mr. Humphrey got a surprisingly large write-in vote of
4,347. He didn't make a single speech in New Hampshire.
This certainly proved something.
But by getting 22,"895 votes, every analyst agreed, Mr.
Carter was immediately by far and sway the front runner
for the Presidential nomination of the nation's 50 million
or so Democrats. "
This proves that anyone who listens to any
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