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tuesday, february 12, 1980 daily nebraskan page 5 As members of the Committee for Fees Allocation we feel compelled to reply to various criticisms leveled at our committee in the past week. - With an 1 1 -member board (six students at large elected by the student body in the spring and five ASUN senators), CFA is the primary student fees allocation body. We spent last semester familiarizing ourselves with the student fee users: University Program Council, Daily Nebraskan, ASUN, the University Health Center and the Recreation Dept. This semester, each fee user submitted a budget request. We. reviewed each budget and made tentative allocations, using the following criteria: 1 ) Reaching as many students as possible with each fee dollar, realizing that some activities of limited appeal are worthy of funding; , 2) That users have thoroughly considered alternative sources of funding beyond fee money; 3) Keeping student fees at the lowest practical level. Since CFA deals with allocating money to these fee users, the committee is by nature controversial. Even though each group believes that its budget is justified, it is CFA's duty to scrutinize these requests to determine whether fees should be used. CFA anticipates requesting a 5 percent increase in stu dent fees for next year. This translates into $3.50 in crease, or $72.50 per student per semester. We believe this to be justified because virtually all of this increase is due to inflationary factors affecting such things as salaries, utility bills, and operational supplies. The committee has allowed for few new programs and has attempted only to fund to maintain each agency at its present level of oper ation. Considering the high cost of education and the in creasingly scarce dollars students have to spend in pursuit of a degree, CFA is doing its best to hold the line on un necessary expenditures. We urge every interested student to come tonight at 7 p.m., in the Union and generate input on his or her stu dent fee dollars. It's easy to grumble about higher costs, but now's your chance to make your voice heard on stu dent fees. Eric C, Torrison Chairman, CFA Multi-national companies 1 would like to comment on the talk given by Lewis Lehr of the 3M Corporation on the global role of multi national corporations, which was given as part of the Bus iness College's B-Week program. Mr. Lehr, the vice presi dent and executive officer of one of this country's largest, multi-national firms, made some statements that I believe are totally untrue. I would first like to say that I agree with Mr. Lehr's contention that overseas operations by American firms contribute to the strength of our economy. Multi-national business ventures do indeed provide additional corporate jobs and income to American citizens, gain additional profits for corporate stockholders, and add extra dollars to the U.S. Treasury through corporate taxes, as Mr. Lehr suggested. But his contention that the foreign investments of American corporations help to build the economies of the host countries as well is ridiculous. Mr. Lehr claimed that overseas investment by the U.S. corporations aided in the building of underprivileged Third World nations by providing badly needed jobs, by contributing a large proportion of the corporations' profits to the host countries treasuries through taxes, and by providing the technology and expertise necessary to develop the host countries economies. In reality, most overseas business enterprises in the exploitation of the host country's people and natural resources. Reaching an advantageous agreement with a country's government often is done simply by bribing the author atorian leaders then in power, A typical U.S. corporation is allowed to operate plants and factories or cultivate large tracts ot land with ridiculously cheap labor, The poor working class masses of such a country are paid barely subsistence wages to cultivate crops or make products that will be sold to the significantly richer people of industrial ized nations. In this manner, the labor and natural re sources that could be used to strengthen the economy of the host country are exploited to the advantage of the multi-national corporations and the economics of their home countries. In other words, American investment in underprivileged nations is seldom more than a rip-off of a host country's precious natural resources and large labor forces, often with the acquiescence of the corrupt govern ment ot the people that Mr, Lehr claims are being bene fited, . I don't find it surprising that today, as more and more citizens of underdeveloped countries that are being ex ploited are becoming aware of their undesirable situations they are expressing their anger and resentment by rebell ing against profit-hungry US, corporations, Iran is surely the most recent and visible example of this enlightment of a country's people as to the exploitation of themselves and their natural resources, I'm notv saying that all American corporations are intent only on earning a profit regardless of the con sequences to foreign countries and their peoples, but I am .saying that unless all U.S. corporations with business oper UPC-East presents in the East Union Terraces: F(Q)WUi2! ' guitarist vocalist Thursday, Feb. 14 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. FREE ADMIOSIOtU u EAST We Spend Your Buck$. Wanna Find Out How? Join UPC-East and see. We are interested in having you on our committees: o Films o Recreation and Travel O Visual Arts O Dances and Concerts O Special Events ii i " f i Call 472-1780 or go to the CAP-East office Lr EAST yj . ations abroad approach those ventures from a tnore mutually beneficial perspective, all Americans will continue to be the target of increasingly hostile protests from millions of people tired of being exploited by the foreign capitalists. Steve Moya Senior, Business Administration Exodus . . . Continued from Page 4 Three administrators left that year and three were hired from outside the university. Kven if the back issues in the DN office were more complete, the pattern of UNL administrators leaving for other university jobs and administrators from other uni versities being hired to replace them would most likely hold true. There is little evidence that an administrator can hire on in a lower status position and be confident that, in the course of time, he will be promoted to positions of more responsibility and better pay, Since the possibility for advancement doesn't hold true, administrators leave UNL for better positions. The vacancies they leave behind are filled with people from outside, The administrators lower in the system who see a chance for their advancement taken away under' stand that the only way to get a better position is to leave, and they do. The argument could be advanced that the administra tors lower down the line, or in other offices, aren't qualified for the higher positions. They must be, though, if other colleges will hire them for those positions. Also, the general requirements for administration are familiarity' with the mission and operations of a university and the ability to administer efficiently, which they must have or they wouldn't be hired, The other argument that can be advanced is that the administrators would have left anyway, blaiming the changes on shifting job patterns and the lure of higher salaries, If this is so, the regents should decide whether they care about continuity in administration and tinker with the system so that it keeps the people it hires or, if ' the status quo isn't too upsetting, we should all stop worrying about it, . : : ' ROAD TRIPS IN THE 80'S 1 mmr v Leave March 20 -11 a.m.. Return March 23. TRIP INCLUDES ROUND TRIP BUS LINCOLN TO CHICAGO, AND 2 NIGHTS LODGING. 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