Fee necessity is hearing consensus
Bv Marv Jo PiM
Although interests and proposals varied, the students
faculty and staff speaking at the UNL student fees hearing
,.v Wednesday agreed on one thing-UNL must keep assessing
student fees.
Speakers representing student organizations and
campus services addressed a three-member panel studying
NU student fees. The panel is part of a 10-member task
force appointed by the NU Board of Regents to examine
the student fees structure and to present proposals to the
board. Hearings also were held at the University of Ne
braska Medical Center (UNMC) Tuesday and at UNO
Monday.
Fifteen prsons attended and spoke at the afternoon
session. All testified that mandatory student fees are
necessary, but only proposed alternatives to the current
fees allocation system.
ASUN second vice president Ken Christoffersen said
that ASUN, not the Fees Allocation Board should allocate
student fees to student organizations. ASUN has greater
accountability and responsibility , he said.
He said ASUN is "definitely opposed" to fee alterna
tives such as: eliminating student fees, making the cost of
student fees part of tuition or limiting funding to major
student services.
The budget and fees committee is considering the
possibility of an optional user fee for student organiza
tions catering to specific interests.
Larry Doerr, a member of the campus ministry staff of
the United Ministries in Higher Education (UMHE),
presented a two-page fees allocation recommendation to
the panel. Doen's proposal would divide student fee
money into two categories. A student-controlled board
would be responsible for allocating the major portion of
fees.
Several speakers voiced disapproval of the current fees
allocation system. They suggested that the faculty and
staff pay a user fee for campus services funded by student
fees. They also suggested that the possibility of making
student organizations financially independent from any
fees assistance be examined. .
Mary Jo Ryan, University Child Care Center director,
said forcing student organizations to support themselves
would cut back on the amount of work an organization
could produce.
"There is a limit to what students can do to support
the things they believe in,' Ryan said.
Michael Wilson, who identified himself as a student
with no ties to any student organizations, asked the panel
to keep the student budgets in mind when revamping the
fees structure. y
"It's all economics,' he said, pointing out that many
students are trying to get through school as quickly and
inexpensively as possible.
The task force will consider recommendations and
ideas presented at the hearings in formulating student fees
proposals to the regents in December.
A copy of the Wednesday hearing will be" on file at the
office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
Panel members included Richard Flynn, director of
the UNO Health, Physical - Education and Recreation
Dept.; Sybil Sedivy UNMC student affairs advisor for the
College of Nursing, and Dennis Martin, UNL student.
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Richard Drucker testified Wednesday in defense of
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thursday. October 6, 1977 voMOl no, 21 lincoln, nebraska
Civil Liberties Union examines concert procedures
By Brenda Moskovits
A warning to Crosby, Stills and Nash concert fans not
to bring parcels into the Sports Complex during the
upcoming concert is being examined for possible rights
violations.
The procedure to be used at the Oct. 28 concert
will te the same as at the September . 15 Fleetwood Mac
concert, according to Robert Edmunds, University Police -captain.
It also is being scrutinized by the Nebraska Civil
Liberties Union (CLU) as a violation of constitutional
rights, according to Barbara Gaither, CLU executive
director.
According to Edmunds, Fleetwood Mac fans "were
forewarned through the media not to bring parcels into
the building,' and signs to that effect were posted outside
the building. .
'"If they had something (a package) that looked maybe
like a six-pack of beer, they were told they would have to
return it to their vehicle," Concert-goers also were asked
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Downtown banks dump free checking
By Tarn Lee
' Students will have no nearby bank to switch to
when three downtown Lincoln banks discontinue free
checking in November,
First National Lincoln, National Bank of Com
merce and Citibank are starting service charges on
checking accounts with low balances because they
cost the bank too much to maintain the account,
according to bank officials.
The closest bank to UNL offering free checking will
be West Gate Bank, 1204 West O St.
The other banks in town with free checking are
Union Bank 3643 S. 48th St. and Comhusker Bank
at 14th and Cornhuskcr Highway.
Comhusker will decide whether to continue free
checking at a meeting next week.
lt costs the bank somewhere between $40 and $58
a year to maintain a checking account," according to
Ross llecht, NBC senior vice president-consumer
division.
$100 minimum
NBC will charge $1 a month and 10 cents a check
on accounts that fall below $100, llecht said. If the
account has a minimum of $100 or averages at least
$200, there is no service charge, he said, lie estimated
the check charge will affect 20 to 25 percent of the
customers.
First National will offer free checking for customers
who keep a minimum monthly balance of $300 in
checking accounts, according to vice president Don
Dischner.
If the balance falls below $300, the customer will
be charged 50 cents a month and 10 cents a check,
Dischner explained.
But the bank also will credit, a five percent earnings
allowance based on the account's average balance
during the month, he said. The credit is used only to
offset service charges. It is not interest on the 'account,
he said.
For example, if an account averages $100 over the
month and 10 checks were written, the customer
would be charged $1 for the checks plus the 50 cents
maintenance charge. An earnings allowance of 42 cents
would be credited to the account and the customer
would end up paying $1.03, instead of $1.50 for the
checkittg account, Dischner said.
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to open their purses and pockets to check for cans and
bottles, he said.
No arrests, were made at the concert for illegal
possession of controlled substances but marijuana, alcohol
and questionable items, were confiscated from people
entering, he said.
One woman was arrested by university police officers
. for public intoxication and was later taken to a hospital,
he said.
Violation of right
Gaither said "the situation described to me is a vio
lation of people's rights. We can't bring action unless
someone who is affected contacts us."
One individual contacted her office and was advised to
. find others with similar sentiments and call, but no one
'has done so.
"If it's a search and seizure procedure ... it is illegal,"
she said. Advance media warning is "more evidence that
they were doing an indiscriminate type of searching," she
said.
Edmunds said, however, "it's aginst the state law to
consume alcohol on state property. The law is the con
sumption and not the possession,
It isn't even logical to permit someone into a place like
that (with alcohol) and assume they're not going to drink
it." '
Frisbee confiscated
Fleetwood Mac "requested that nothing but cameras
and binoculars be permitted in the vicinity. The majority
of concerts don't want these things, so we try and com
ply. If it's their wish, it's also our wish," he said, A fris
bee was among the items confiscated at the concert,
Efforts to keep alcohol out of the sports complex were
not altogether effective, Edmunds said. Empty bottles and
cans were found in the building after the concert.
Consideration also is being given to printing on future
tickets that parcels will not be allowed in the building, he
said.
Gaither said a situation similar to this happened four
or five years ago with Pershing Auditorium. The CLU
distributed pamphlets at the auditorium door, informing
concert-goers of their rights.
"People didn't know what they could object to. We
might do that (here) rather than take legal action," she
said.
Observers from the Civil Liberties Union may be at the
Crosby, Stills and Nash concert, to evaluate the situation,
she said, .
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Canoe for you: UNL students take class in the
land of sky blue waters ............ ... .p. 5
Dressed to the kilt: UNL's Scottish lad recently
has taken up the pipes - .p, 12
YouVe probably got his autograph: Al Papik,
former famous football coach now fills
forms. p. 14
