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Monday, August 23, 1533 Pcno4 Dally Ncbraskan It" Tuition increases warranted as students' Tair contiibutiori' Nobody i3 surprised anymore when the NU Board of Regents raises tuition rates. It has become an annual event on this campus and students usually accept the increases with little or no . dispute. But the Increase planned for 1034 85 may create some controversy. At their July meeting, the regents gave preliminary approval to budget guide lines that call for a 10 percent increase in undergraduate tuition at UNL and UNO. Students are paying $34.50 for each credit he ar this year and if the 10 per cent increase gets final approval, they will be paying $33 an hour next year. For a student taking 15 credit hours, that means tuition will rise from $5 1 7.50 per semester to $570. A 10 percent increase may seem out of line to some students, especially since the cost of living has remained relatively steady in recent months. But considering the financial condition of our state government, we find the tui tion hike acceptable. . . No one likes paying higher tuition. But no one liSes watching UNL's aca demic standing continue to decline, or its professors continue to be among' the lowest paid in the nation. Anyone who has followed the news lately knows the fiscal plight of this, university. NXTs academic standing has slipped and will continue to do so until sufficient funding is provided. f That additional funding cannot and should not come from the state's al ready over-burdened taxpayers. Ask ing for more appropriations is an easy way out, but considering past successes before the Legislature, it seems unreal istic. In fact, we question the logic of ask ing for a 13 percent increase in state funding, as the regents have proposed for next year. Nebraska residents already are pay ing more taxes than they've ever paid before. The state cannot afford to .make that tax burden even bigger in order to provide additional funding for the university. v " Public support of NU i3 important, of course. A strong university provides benefits for the whole state and allows students who cant afford private in stitutions a chance to further their education. But taxpayers should not be expect ed to carry the entire burden of increas ed educational costs. Students must foot a fair share of the bEL If approved, the budget for 1934-85 will be just more than $465.6 million. Even with the 10 percent increase, tui tion is expected to account for only 8 percent cf that amount. ,It is not unreasonable to ask stu dents to pay for that small portion of theba fojX guess I whet do Xft ferity T7 v vj ill 1 yrA 'V, II Wilt lllif -. S: ; V ) 1 1 1 VietnamaliaiiiMis eizen those who didn't .go "The day I turned 19, 1 went down for my physical and had my first and only experience of Army life. I took with me a letter from Dr. Murphy, my child hood doctor, describing in incompromising detail the asthma that had been a major part of my life up Q to 16." Thus begins an article by Christopher Buckley in the September issue cfEcuire magazine an arti cle that should spur millions cf members cf a gener ation of American men to question a part cf their lives that they had thought they put behind them long ago. :,-v . " ''-'.,". Buckley the son of conservative columnist Wil liam F. Buckley Jr. describes in the article how he had received a medical deferment from the Army, and thus how he had escaped going to Vietnam. The article is titled "Viet Guilt," and it addresses itself to those millions of young American men who did not go to Vietnam and who are beginning to realize, all these years later, that by not going they may have proved something about their own lack of courage. Enough words have been devoted to the moral issues of the war. The point Buckley makes is that, if tlwtruth were really to be told, most of the men who managed to stay home from Vietnam did not do so for reasons of morality alone,. Young men of my generation got out of Vietnam because of college deferments, because of medical deferments, because of having a "lucky" number in the Selective Service birthday lottery that was initiated toward the end of the war. Three million men of fighting age went to Indochina during the Vietnam War, 16 million men of fighting age did not Buckley was one cf the men who did not and I was, too. Reading his article made me realize the truth of the emotions I have been feeling lately about that particular subject Those of us who did not go may have- pretended that we had some moral superiority ever these who did, but we must have known even tuck then . that that was largely sham. A tiny, tiry minority served jail terms the rest of us zvcilzd the" war through easier methods. The men v. ho t;er.t to Viet nam were no more involved with the pclltics of the war than we were. They were Cw,rcr.t from us in only two important ways: They ha CzCt f! ured out a successful way to get out cf geir.g, ar.d they had a certain courage that we lacked. . Not "courage" as defined the way we like to define it; not "courage" in the same sense cf opposing the government's policies in Vietnam. But courage in an awful, day-to-day sense; courrge in tciuj wiuing to be over there while most cf their ccr.crutisn stayed home. When I meet men my ag3 who are Vietnam vete rans, I find myself reacting the scrue way Buckley indicates he does. I find mycclfautemiiieuy feeling a little lacking. 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