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30Jun 1977
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Agents' fees decisions not really all that drastic
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Considering the decisions made at the latest
Board of Regents meeting, it's no small wonder
that they decided to hold it out in Scottsbluff,
over 400 miles away from Lincoln.
At that meeting, some action was taken on a
subject that is near the heart and pocketbook of
every NU student-student fees.
UNL administrators who attended the meeting
have said that there was a great deal of confusion
surrounding the discussion during the meeting.
The results seem to confirm that: no one really
knows for certain just what it was that the Board
decided.
But whether the study requested by the regents
will aim to eliminate student fees, or just reduce
them, perhaps those involved in the study should
review the overall fees situation, while they're at
it.
It all comes down to a question of who holds
the pocketbook.
Right now the Fees Allocation Board is a
collection of appointed representatives that are
expected to deal equitably with all of the fund
requests made by different campus and student
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Last year requests were made by almost 60 of
these organizations, ranging from the student
government itself, ASUN, to the UNL judo Club.
The latter was apportioned $100 this year by the
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In addition to the student activities funds,
designated Fund A, there is the immovable bulk
of Fund B, which accounts for debt services, staff
salaries and maintenance of facilities like the two
student unions and the Student Health Center.
Fund B accounts for $62.14 of the $66.50 that
students , will be paying next fall. So after all of
the heavy discussion involving "reduction" of
student fees this weekend, if all it amounts
to is cutting fees support . for student
organizations, there won't be much of an
improvement.
And raising tuition to replace student fees, as
Regent Moylan suggests, will only transfer the
problem to another bill, with the added
disadvantage of having out-of-state students
paying three times as much as residents for the
use of the same facilities.
Putting the FAB under a student-elected
government, like ASUN, might be an effective
way of making student groups find other sources
of funds. It would add a firm base, of legitimacy
for ASUN, which it is sorely lacking now. Who
knows? When their bucks are on the line, students
might even vote in student elections.
Wovnetf's''' convention
by Mvdc Years
"Is this any way for ladles to act?"
Martha (all names are fictitious to protect
the innocent) a delegate to the
International Women's Year convention
asked rhetorically.
She and her friends from Alliance,
Fairbury and Gordon had trekked to
Lincoln three days ago. Armed with
coffee and Valium they battled the forces
of abortion and equal rights.
Now, at 2:00 o'clock on a Monday
morning, Martha and her husband kept
vigil over the ballots. The John
Birch-Pro-Life-Anita Bryant coalition
apparently had won the election. But,
Martha said. "Those lesbians want to
come up here and get the ballots."
Self-rightous jowls jiggling in dismay,
Martha, John and Flo talked of what they
had witnessed.
"I saw 40 to 50 women without bras
tad I saw at least two without anything
on under their clothes at all.
"If my daughter acted like that she'd
be across my knee in a minute.
"...and those lesbians," Flo
shuddered as she took a drag off her
Virginia, Slims. They are marching in the
lobby. It was a regular love-in. I don't
care what they say, the only way to love
is with a man" ,
In the lobby of Nebraska's Sodom and
Gommorah on Holdrege street reminders
of Flo's opponents remained. A tattered
poster urged "Support your lesbian
candidates. We oppose racisim, sexism,
classism and ageism". Handouts from
Common Cause and the AFL-CIO littered
the basemen) floor.
All in all, the money we spent on this
convention (The International Women's
Year conventions received, nationally $S
million from the Feds) was well used.
University Police made eight trips in two
days to quell disturbances there, Martha's
friend Flo called Charlie Those at two in
the morning complaining about her
precious ballots. Now that's entertain
ment, "v
Apart from entertainment, the trench
warfare at the conference highlighted the '
troubles -. trotting vv the women V
movement. Constant media exposure tr.d
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Eat them under a trco, over tfto bcoka.
and on Tuesdays at noon-eat them in lh.3
Union Mm Lounge for lha
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July 5- Prof. Rex Reckevay,
Dept. of Secondary Education.
"Archie de Bunker Diagnoses the
Maladies of Modem Education". .
Brawn Bag Ljnche3-$1.50 at Nqbf. Union Bckcry
initial success have, arroused
opposition-very determined opposition.
The women who swarmed into town
-protesting abortion and all the other
issues are the vanguards of this backlash.
It's a classical political syndrome. Two
bands of zealots fanatically opposed
collide and eventually destroy each other.
Throughout our nistbry political
movements which nave refused to
compromise, and move around their
opponents, have withered and died. How
can the feminist movement avoid this
fate? Simple-dump jthe. Equal Rights
Amendment. ;
' The ERA began life'as a rallying point.
It was a totem around which the
emerging feminist movement could
gather. Pushing . the 1 ERA bandwagon
through Congress Jani the state
legislatures allowed womeh to flex their
newly found political muscle. .
Today the bandwagon has ground to t
halt. Faced with opposition to the ERA,
the women's movement must 'make a
choice. Is this amendment important
enough to spend tints- tad money cm
while other more substantive issues are
left to wither? - 4
'.:In., Paranoid 'lirii 'American rFVHcs,
Richard Hoffsteder describes the self
destructive tendencies hidden in miny
movements. The populists became fixated
on free silver. When the economy began
to revive they clung to their banner and
went down in defeat. Barry Goldwater in
1964 felt it to be his duty to warn the
American people. Shooting from the hip
he destroyed the Republican right and his
owndrearns. ': . '.. .. - i
These groups failed because they could
not adapt to the political climate.
Conspiracy lurked behind moderation in
their minds. Compromise was impossible
with the "enemies of truth."
.' The women's movement must come to
grips with this lust for suicide. They rr.2y
choose a glorious martyrdom. Or, the
feminists may drop the ERA in favor of
real issues, like abortion. !
Whatever they choose I jast hope they
have another convection. I think I'm a
love with FloJ-
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