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The Red and Black. Thuradax. February 23. I97H
Students’ options
Each quarter, a full-time
in-state student pays $234 to
attend school here, this tuition
fee encompasses several ex
penses :
--A matriculation fee of $185.
This fee basically buys the
student the right to take classes.
-A student activity fee of
$10.50, which goes to pay for the
programs and overhead of
various campus organizations.
-A health fee of $28. which
entitles the student to receive
medical attention at University
Health Services.
-A transportation fee of $5.50,
providing funds for the operation
of the campus bus system and
covering parking privileges. The
city bus system also receives $1
of the fee, providing students
with access to those buses.
--An athletic fee of $5, which
subsidizes student admission to
athletic events where there is an
admission cost.
These fees generally allow
students unlimited access to the
subsidized activities. For in
stance. you could go to Health
Services every day, ride the
campus and city buses as much
as you like, attend as many
programs and athletic events as
you can manage without paying
much more for these services
than a student who used them
sparingly, or not at all.
In short, the fees provide
benefits to those who choose to
take advantage of them. In
addition, the fees provide money
for the University to offer a
broader range of services than
might otherwise be available.
However, the fees can also
penalize the students who don’t
use the services. For instance, a
devout Christian Scientist might
not use the Health Service
facilities, but he pays for them
just the same. Similarly, some
one who disapproves of athletic
competition might not want to
pay the athletic fee, but there’s
not much way around it.
The question must arise: Is it
just to force someone to support
activities he doesn't believe in or
participate in?
It doesn’t matter whether you
agree with that person's view
point or not. The question is
whether you accept his right to
have his own beliefs. If you do,
you cannot require his financial
support for activities that do not
have his moral support.
This, we recognize, is a
minority viewpoint. It runs
completely counter to the con
ventional wisdom that govern
ments have the right to tax the
populace.
However, all the fees students
pay here could be put on an
optional-payment basis, except
one. If the transportation fee
were put on an optional basis,
drivers would have to check the
student ID of every person who
got on a bus to see if each rider
were entitled to the ride. It
would be a slow and cumber
some process, but it is similar to
a system used here in the 1960s.
As for the others, an optional
system would work. It would
complicate bookkeeping all the
way around, and it would
probably entail some cutbacks in
service. But it could be done.
SCOTT CROOK
Disadvantages of breathing
It's so hot that even a breeze from
Pandemonium would be welcome, and
thal can of Budweiser partially buried in
the crushed ice is the best thing you have
seen in quite some time -Farrah
Faweett-Majors included You tilt your
head hack and pull on that cool beer until
the sides of the can begin to buckle But
all of a sudden you have to put it down
Or, it's the beginning of fall quarter
and you have not seen your best girl
since last spring You excitedly to go her
apartment, and there she is beautifully
tanned from a summer at the beach and
just as glad to see you as you are to see
her She puts her slender arms gently
Scott t rook is a graduate assistant in the
Fnglish department
over your shoulders, and you want this
delicous. long-awaited moment to last
forever. But it doesn't What so abruptly
ends these moments ot extreme delight’’
The answer is man's ageless curse:
breathing; he must come up for air!
Granted, I know this sounds a bit off
the wall; few people think of having to
breathe as a curse. As a matter of fact,
most of my friends are very partial to
breathing, and admittedly I. from time to
time, breathe There are even some
individual breaths that I recollect vividly.
For instance, this fall while descending
into the Grand Canyon on a crystal-blue
day that still permitted tennis shorts and
a t-shirt, I stopped on a ledge, put down
mv backpack, and just hauled off and
breathed Magnificent!
Another of my favorite breaths is taken
each year during the spring here in
Athens Crossing north campus on the
way to an early morning class, the dew
causes my flip flops to squeak. Evidence
of the pastel season is everywhere. The
leaves have returned, the azaleas are in
bloom, and I revel in each breath of
dogwood air.
But there are times, however, when I
am inhaling fumes at a bus stop, or
standing in a crowded, smoke-filled bar,
or sitting around the house on Sunday
afternoon with my roommates after a
weekend of beer, and glorified steaks and
onion rings from the Varsity that I
wonder if breathing is worth all the
trouble.
I have about decided that having to
breathe has its disadvantages First of
all, it is a health hazard. When driving on
cold or rainy days with the windows
rolled up. you spend more time wiping
the glass with the cuff of your sleeve than
paying attention to which lane you are in
All the while, the people in the back seat
are huffing and puffing away, fogging up
the windows as fast as you can wipe
them off.
And what about the guy behind you in
class who has had a cold all quarter? His
hacking makes it hard for you to hear
what few things of consequence your TA
has to say, and you cringe every time
your classmate lets loose a thick, green
breath This atmosphere is not conducive
to learning, and there's no telling to
which nationality of disease you've been
exposed.
Breathing also has its aesthetic and
economic disadvantages. If mankind
didn't have to breathe, we could all be
Jaques-Cousteaus, enjoying nature
beneath the sea We could go snorkling
without snorkles, scubaing without scuba
gear Imagine spending a few days in the
aqua-marine world just off the Keys,
playfully interrupting class for a school
of sunfish, exploring the honeycomb coral
caves, or just floating about enjoying the
explosion of colors as sunlight flashes
through the ocean-prism. And all this
without the expense of diving lessons and
equipment
411 right. I can just hear the public
now. "Sounds good, but uh, I don't know
man: I've been breathing as long as I
can remember Besides George
Washington and Martin Luther King, and
Babe Ruth, they all breathed, and Dolly
Barton, boy does she B-R-E-A-T-H-E"'
Well. I don't figure this will go over all
at once; it takes time for great ideas to
catch on But maybe we can start by
making breathing optional; you know,
just to gel people used to the notion, and
then work from there.
Morf^orfTRy/^
IS THERE ANYWAY I COULD SKIP THE
"SEEING THE WORLD, LEARNING A TRADE
AND ADVENTURE ON THE HIGH SEAS ”
PART AND CONCENTRATE ON BLOWING
PEOPLE TO SMITHEREENSf
LETTERS
‘Public figures accountable for actions’
TO THE EDITOR:
If there was any doubt concerning
Kissinger's affinity with the Nixon
administration's more insidious charac
teristics. they should certainly have been
dispelled Feb 10.
In response to accusations of legal
wrongdoings made during the televised
David Frost interviews, the former
president replied that if the president did
it. it was all right <i.e legal).
At his lecture. Kissinger asserted it
was •'absurd’’ to accuse him or any
secretary of state of war crimes
committed during the Vietnam conflict. I
found Kissinger's statement absurd In a
democratic society, all public figures are
accountable for their actions.
The list of Kissinger's alleged
misconduct is considerable. He favored
the Christmas bombing of North
Vietnam, even though intelligence
reports stated that the previous bombings
of the north had been relatively
ineffective TTe most often used rationale
in favor of the bombing was that it raised
the morale of our South Vietnamese
allies. In reality, a most questionable
rationale.
Kissinger favored the invasion of
Cambodia, an act which took place
without congressional authority, a clear
violation of the Constitution Kissinger
made no objection to the existence of
“free fire zones” throughout South
Vietnam, or to the use of napalm.
Kissinger's performance was incredu
lously devious He stated that he had
given no orders for the bombing of
hospitals or civilians.
The fact remains that he did approve of
military plans which made these
inevitable. The guilt, he insinuated, rests
with the military who actually committed
the offenses. The military, however,
replies that they were only following
orders A classic example of Catch 22
Then, of course, there was Kissinger's
role in approving CIA activities in Chile.
Italy. Portugal and God knows how many
other countries. The obvious contem
THE RED AND BLACK
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porary parallel of Korea's activities in
bribing Congressional members is
readily apparent.
But the audience, short on memory,
had ample enthusiasm and was
captivated Kissinger, like William
Buckley Jr., had developed sophistry to a
fine art. The audience got what it
deserved.
The Red and Black’s coverage of the
Kissinger performance was as naive as
Kissinger was devious. Evidently your
reporters have little cognizance of the
Vietnam era or of Kissinger’s role in it.
The article by Skip Hulett ('‘Inebriated
and offensive”) showed singular incom
prehension of the values inherent in a
democratic society. His attack on Ed
Green, the student who raised the issue
of war crimes, was in the finest tradition
of yellow journalism. I recommend you
loan Hulutt a copy of the Fedcr-.i.^t
Papers and enroll him in a basic political
science course. In the meantime, please
explain to him that dissent is considered
a respectable act in a democracy
As a Vietnam veteran, I find it most
disconcerting that the lessons of Vietnam
are so soon forgotten. The Vietnam
tragedy was in part the result of men in
high public office who refused to be held
accountable for their decisions. Perusal
of the Pentagon Papers readily confirms
this fact. It is not offensive or
discourteous to question the wisdom of
political leaders Not to question them is
to silently abdicate our democratic
responsibilities.
ROY R DO YON
‘Protest
was absurd’
TO THE EDITOR:
The protest against Henry Kyemba s
speech, last Wednesday, was downright
absurd All it did was reinforce the
opinion of some people that Africans
support Idi Amin. Some of my
classmates have already taken the
protest to mean tacit approval of
Amin s State of Blood
Sure. I haven't any personal regard for
Kvemoa He was an accomplice for about
six years: he hasn't said anything new
and I believe he’s only exploiting the
situation Sure, the Western media have
on occasions exaggerated the I'gandan
•tuation but I have read some pretty
gr*m stories about it in African
magazines
It’s time to see Amin for what he is, a
•‘Hitlerish” African. He’s as disdainful as
the John Vosters and Ian Smiths of
Africa Blacks killing blacks is as
abhorrent as whites killing blacks. Black
oppression, in the name of freedom,
cannot and should not be tolerated
Am I an African'’ Sure. I am from
Nigeria, but 1 don’t believe that solidarity
is a substitute for the spilled blood of
Africans. Don’t be hypocrites Let’s sit
down and reason for we will never be
free until we are free within ourselves to
boldly condemn the attrocities of some of
our leaders against our own people
OLISOJI AKINRINADE
‘Bravo, Ellen
Mattingly!’
TO THE EDITOR:
In response to Dr. Ellen Mattingly's
editorial in the Feb 21 Red and Black,
students echo a resounding Bravo!’’ and
‘Thank You!”
When an established and concerned
faculty member becomes disgruntled
with the existing system and expresses
discontent it lends credibility to the
long standing complaints of students
Most of the time it seems that students
are at the mercy of an unconcerned
bureaucracy when it comes to advise
ment
Since, as Mattingly points out,
"...(advising) is not an academically
respectable job,” how can students be
expected to get proper information
concerning courses 0 How many students
have suffered due to misinterpreted or
conflicting information from advisors?
Since these advisors represent their
respective departments students expect
(and rightly so* to receive competent,
correct, and concerned instruction. Yet,
when such advisement is not forth
coming. students usually cannot obtain
proper information until it is too late
(This strongly shows the need for at least
a five-day drop-add period, two or three
day* is completely absurd for a
university of this size >
Arguments by administrators that all
necessary information is contained in the
Bulletin is a convenient was for their, to
avoid the obvious pitfalls in lu«
advisement situation intangibles, such
as which courses are better suited to a
particular major, which courses should
be taken first and in conjunction with
which other courses, who is a better
teacher than whom, etc., are not
contained in the Bulletin This informa
tion can only be obtained from
experienced (and well supported-
fmanually and otherwise) faculty who
are interested in helping the student,
which, by the way. is why this and any
other university exists in the first place
Mattingly also provides some viable
suggestions to help rectify, to some
extent, the problems with advisement.
We students would be overjoyed to see
some of our money going directly to
helping alleviate some of the problems of
course selection and preregistration; e g.
installation of direct computer terminals
in registration locations. (Nothing short
of a complete change in administration
attitude and preregistration format would
even begin to attack the heart of the
problem, but some things can be done to
lessen the difficulties.)
One can only hope that the criticisms
and suggestions concerning the vital area
of advisement do not fall on deaf ears;
but one cannot help but feel that history
(and the administration) will once again
repeat itself and stand idly by.
We acknowledge and thank all those
faculty members who have taken a
personal concern in their students; you
have our deep appreciation.
As for the sad state of the majority, we
urge other students to voice their
discontent and bring about a change
before fellow students, and those who
come after us. fall prey to the present
system.
JOHN K. WEST
CLIFF SHUMAN
‘Demonstrators
ruin lecture’
TO THE EDITOR:
I was hoping, in the light of the
criticism given to various people for
embarrasing students at the Henry
Kissinger lecture with their stupid
questions, that this would not be repeated
at the Henry Kyemba lecture For the
majority of the students who went to this
lecture. I am sure they were equally as
appalled as I was when a few
demonstrators took it upon themselves to
make a debate out of the lecture
Before Kyemba even had a chance to
address the students, these demon
strators stood up, denounced Kyemba,
and held up signs declaring him a traitor
of Africa. As if this wasn’t enough, every
time Kyemba said something that was
contrary to these dissenter’s view, they
would stand up and disrupt the whole
lecture with their comments. This ordeal
lasted throughout the lecture, to the
disgust of a majority of the students who
came to listen to Kyemba.
Lastly, when the question-answer
period came up, these demonstrators
stood up and denounced all that Kyemba
said, and once they reached the
microphone they asked repeated ques
tions so that many students did not even
. get a chance to ask their questions
By this time the audience was in an
uproar because the lecture had been
reduced to a verbal battle between
Kyemba and the demonstrators. This
whole ordeal made Kyemba flustered and
angry, the audience confused and
embarrassed, and the demonstrators so
mad they weren’t even talking co
herently
After the lecture I took it upon myself
to ask one of these demonstrators if he
wouldn't consider writing his views in
The Red and Black so that we could
understand his point without the
emotional frenzy he had displayed during
tenure This idea was denounced,
and I realized it would be a long time
before he could settle down long enough
to think logically
As I walked away I couldn't help but
teel that these demonstrators had ruined
an otherwise informative lecture for a
majority of the students that had come to
hear Kyemba speak, not them
SUSAN CLEMENTS
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