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Fees question. . .
Continued from page 1
He continues that regents can 'withhold student fees
from supporting speakers without violating the First
Amendment. "However, once the Board has allocated the
funds for a particular activity over a certain time period,
it cannot censor or discriminate by withholding payment
without violating the Constitution."
If the regents should decide to withhold student fee
support of student speakers this does not mean that
speakers would be prohibited from coming to campus.
It just means you would have to pay an admission
charge.
Supposing the regents do decide to withhold speaker
funding, then they have no control over who was brought
to campus. If YAF is worried that Talks and Topics
Committee is scheduling an inbalanced program now,
consider what might happen if the committee had to sche
dule speakers who would draw a large enough crowd to
meet expenses.
The recommendation suggests ASUN, UPC and the
Daily Nebraskan continue to receive student fee money.
If the regents should ax mandatory student fees these
organizations would survive, however their tactics would
have to change somewhat. (See column page 4.)
Another thing the regents might do is accept the
task force recommendation proposing a combined man-
Tumultuous. .
Continued from page 7
Court decisions ruled the regents have control and dis
cretion regarding expenditure of student fees.
In Larson V. Board of Regents (1972) the Lancaster
District court ruled mandatory student fee's are not private
funds but public funds subject to restriction. The Nebras
ka Supreme Court agreed student fees are public funds
under regent control.
In Veed v. Schwartzkopf the Nebraska Supreme Court
ruled the regents may allocate funds for the Daily Neb
raskan and speakers brought to campus.
As the court cases were being decided, university of
ficials were studying and making decisions of their own.
In November 1972 UNL Chancellor James Zumberge
created four task forces dealing with a specific area of
student fees. These included an administrative force, a
users force, a programming force and a University Health
Center force.
Kenneth Bader, former vice chancellor of student
affairs, used information from the other three task forces
for his student fee, report which suggested the creation of
a Fees Allocation Board.
In July, 1973, the regents issued "Policy on Student
Fees" creating FAB and Fund A and Fund B.
Since that time the amount of student fees have
After paying their share of stu
dent fees, UNL students taking
less than seven hours are left with
more change jangling in their pockets
than students carrying more hours.
Anyone carrying over 7 hours
piys $66.50 in students fees. Every
s.tident, regardless of the number of
hours taken, pays $3.42 to support
Fund A.
However, anyone carrying four to
six hours pays $48.50 in student
fee si. None of this money supports
bond debts.
Students taking less than four
hours pay $21.50. These students do
not pay fees to either the University
Health Center or bond debts.
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datory and optional student fees program. '
Exactly how this would work is left up to the regents
should they approve the recommendation.
The task force recommends that ASUN be granted the
allocation function now held by FAB. If this is approved
the advisory board responsible for the allocation of funds
will be an elected body rather than an appointed body.
ASUN has been asking for this responsibility before the
task force was created. The student government already
had outlined a proposal concerning a fee allocation
council should ASUN be made the official advisory board.
The task force makes three recommendations and in
this case the last is not the least. The third recommenda
tion already is drawing fire from administrators. It calls
for a student referendum before student fees are increas
ed to cover additional capital construction.
Low voter turnout at ASUN elections seems to indicate
students are not interested or do not believe they have a
voice concerning university politics.
The referundum would give students the chance to
clearly demonstrate their decisions to the regents. But.
once again the regents always have the final word.
Any vote would not bind the regents. Hans Brisch,
chairman of the task force, said the referundum would
serve as a student recommendation only. Administrators
climbed $15, from $51.50 per full-time student per sem
ester to $66.50 per student per semester.
According to Comptroller James Knisely, the increases
through the years have covered inflation and expanded
bond debts. The latest fee increase of $3.50 replenished
money taken from the Fund B surplus fund to build the
East Union.
. The number of student organizations receiving student
fees was slashed this summer when the Board of Regents
refused a proposed $4 hike in student fees.
FAB met last summer to revise its allocations, giving
top priority to organizations that serve all UNL students.
Many small international and sports clubs as well as
NUPIRG and the Cultural Affairs Center received no
money at all.
Budgets of other organizations were cut. The ASUN
budget was cut from $53,000 in the original budget
recommendation to $32,160 in the revised budget. The
UPC budget dropped from $58,142 to $55,000. The
Dairy Nebraskan allocation went from $37,500 to
$30,000.
A task force to study student fees was created last
fall and submitted its report last December. The task force
studied the possibility of eliminating some mandatory
student fees.
Mandatory student fees have come under fire again
since the Young Americans for Freedom have been writ
ing letters protesting that their fees support what they
term "inbalanced programs." They have criticized the
Talks and Topics Committee for bringing too many lib
eral speakers to campus.
And the seemingly endless discussions about student
fees continues.
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are expressing doubt about recorWndatlon thre. Vice
Chancellor Richard Armstrong said he would hate for the
regents to ask student opinion and then find themselves
not taking the advice.
It appears administrators feci safer withojit the gauge
of student opinion that t student refemndura might offer.
Ironically enough, it was a student referendum back in
1937 that initially approved the creation And collection
of student fees.
The second recommendation concern! Fund B. the
task force says this fund should be investigated in a matter
similar to the study just completed.
Besides the University Health Center and an occasion
al story about bond indebtedness there is little discussion
about the booby fund. '
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