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Sticking it to students
As the University ponders which student fees
to increase next fall, we hope the Student Affairs
department will keep one thing in mind:
Students aren't bags of money. A big jump in the
bill we pay each quarter would hurt most
students badly. And such a jump is a distinct
possibility.
The University has already said student-
activity fees will have to increase next fall,
perhaps even double. The regents are talking
about a tuition increase of some 8 percent, more
than last year's 5 percent increase. And now
Vice President for Student Affairs Dwight
Douglas says there is at least an outside chance
that every fee students pay — health, tran
sportation, etc. — will go up. Douglas estimates
the cost of attending school at the University
will rise about 10 percent next year, not counting
food and housing costs.
We recognize that costs do increase for the
University, and students must be prepared to
help cover higher expenses if they want to see
services and programs retain their quality or
improve.
Yet the University should keep in mind that
some fees have literally soared over the past
few years, and students who came here under
the impression they’d face only gradual fee
increases have gotten a rude shock.
Matriculation fees for in-state students in
creased 5 percent in 1979, a whopping 20 to 40
percent in 1980, and 5 percent in 1981.
Add in other fee increases over the past four
years and you get this stark comparison:
Students who entered the University as fresh
men in fall 1978 paid an in-state fee bill of $185,
while those same students as seniors paid a fall
1981 bill of $318. That’s an increase of 72 percent.
For out-of-state students the increase has
been even higher: from $317 in fall '78 to $811 in
fall '81, a jump of 155 percent.
By comparison, the Consumer Price Index for
the period Jan. 1, 1978 to Jan. 1, 1981 went up
some 50 percent.
Those increases are nothing to laugh about.
We know inflation continues to take its sad toll,
and some hikes are inevitable; but the
University must understand how difficult it is
for students and parents who plan their budgets
in advance to grapple with increases that out
strip the general inflation rate.
Douglas correctly points out that percentage
increases don’t tell the whole story on student
fees, because many University charges are
considerably lower than those of comparable
state institutions. That is true; but it may also
be the reason a lot of students choose the
University over other schools. Isn’t it a bit of a
cruel joke to lure them here with low charges
and then hit them with big increases?
In all fairness, Douglas is responsible only for
a small part of each student’s total fee bill. The
regents set matriculation and tuition charges.
But the vice president does have the power to
help keep some fees as low as possible, and we
call on him to explore every alternative before
sticking students with yet another big increase.
Honesty honestly
"Open mouth, insert foot” must be standard
operating procedure in the Reagan ad
ministration. The latest gaffe belongs to Office
of Management and Budget Director David
Stockman, who told an interviewer from the
Atlantic Monthly that, yes indeed, the Reagan
economic plan is merely a reincarnation of the
old Republican trickle-down theory. Yes indeed,
Stockman admitted, this was a rich man’s tax
plan. Yes, he conceded, the Pentagon was a
Reagan sacred cow, but he pledged to go after it
with his budget knife next year.
Well. You can bet there was glee in
Washington's chambers of liberalism the
minute the December Atlantic hit the streets.
Stockman was left wiping egg off his face, and
his press flacks issued lame statements at
tempting to discredit the article without denying
its substance.
Honesty the best policy? In this ad
ministration, as Stockman has discovered,
honesty is quite a mistake.
The maddening side of A1
Al Haig has a way of making some of
the people mad all of the time, and all of
the people mad some of the time, but we
should not all be mad all of the time. In
fact, don't get mad, get glad: about
some of the people who get mad
We should have no qualms about
irritating imperialistic communists
w ho are willing to deny human rights to
advance totalitarianism This means
bringing not peace, but a sword to all
communist Marxism, which is
ideologically constrained to im
perialism Even though the triumph of
the proletariat is supposed to be
inevitable, when it inevitably begins to
falter, Marxists with a vision are not
adverse to a little bloodshed here or
there After all. what's life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness when historical
progress is at stake?
What belter example of aggressive
communism than Cuba's supplying
arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador'’
And surely any arms Castro has to offer
are really "From Russia With Love.”
The early scoop in El Salvador was
that the revolution had popular support
But now the Catholic bishops there say
the agitators are only stirring up un
welcome violence Apparently the
proletariat in El Salvador just is not
ready for its inevitable triumph But
imperialistic communism wil have
none of that backwardness
I hear on NPR's “All Things Con
sidered" that Haig is considering a
military response to Cuba's cam
paigning in El Salvador This will make
many of the people mad. Castro will not
be delighted, and that is not so bad. We
cannot base our foreign policy on
pleasing dictators.
On the other hand, we cannot so
enrage them that negotiations are
impossible unless their transgressions
warrant the antagonism. Negotiation is
always preferable to war, while not
always feasible. The idea is to avoid
foreclosing feasibility.
Haig could stand some extra delicacy
in his public announcements, although
he has come a long way from the ex
cathedra excesses of “I’m in charge
here,” after Reagan was shot. Anyway,
he is in a better position than I to judge
what must be done. It may be that he
just has the courage to say these things
that Jimmah and his boys could not
muster.
Here at home, the non
discriminating, daisy-in-the-rifle style
pacifists, who will not use force even for
self-defense, will (yawn) be outraged
as usual at Al's admonitions These are
people, by the way, who would be
quietly purged if the principles they
condone were to reign (Conscientious
objection is a capital offense in Russia i
No responsible foreign policy will
satisfy these '60s throwbacks.
Al has made some others mad,
though Naturally the Senate Defense
Committee got a burr in its underwear,
if for no other reason than that it was
not consulted before the El Salvador
statement.
Big Al loves coming through the
swinging doors, spurs ajangle, with a
smoking Colt in his hand Now this
certainly sends the right message to
Moscow, but he usually forgets to fire a
warning shot to Capitol Hill first.
This is where Ronnie sharpens up his
rein-hand on Haig. Reagan has the
political savoir-faire to fire his warning
shots at Congress' feet so that it does
the “hustle ' It could not hurt to take Al
•out to the ranch for a little shot prac
tice Now that we are firing a sufficient
caliber of ammo, we should be sure we
are all together in aiming at the right
target
And besides, if Haig leveled with
Congress, it might very well support
him more often than he thinks, and he
would be less likely to shoot himself in
the foot
Birney Bull is a second year student in
the School of Law.
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“Simon’ is not only humorous, but intellectually stimulating as well’
TO THE EDITOR:
In reference to the letter to the editor
concerning Man Martin’s comic strip
Simon,'' in which the writer accused
“Simon" of being unfunny and of
fensive to blacks: I take exception to
those opinions.
First, “Simon' is not only funny, but
at times intelligent True the humor is
sometimes subtle, provoking more
chuckles than guffaws, but it is also
more original. For instance. Martin has
managed so far to avoid completely the
ubiquitous frightened freshman who
cannot gel a date storyline.
In fact, his characters are not
students as much as they are people
who attend college, and that in itself
gives the strip a freshness
Martin uses the strip format to his
advantage by not cluttering the panels
and by using a drawing style that
visually suggests a close link to reality,
which is totally in concert with the
artist's style of humor, a style
reminiscent of both Thurber and
Trudeau.
Now as to the offensiveness charge:
This is the first strip in The Red and
Black that is not entirely about white
Anglo-Saxon freshmen (even Murray,
the freshman rabbit, was white).
Martin can at least be credited with not
only having a black character in the
strip, but also with including up
perclassmen.
On the other hand, although the black
character is not inherently offensive, I
can see the complaintant's point in that
Franklin has only appeared when his
blackness was the point of the joke; a
fault that also plagues "Doonesbury,"
"Peanuts" and practically every
motion picture that comes out of
Hollywood.
Again, Martin needs to develop his
characters more, so that Franklin
sometimes can be a part of a joke
dealing with his blackness, and con
versely another’s whiteness or
brownness, and, at other times, be
nothing more or less than a person
CHUCK ANDERSON
Graduate Student, journalism
‘Reconciliation
beats about bash’
TO THE EDITOR:
I have followed the discussion on
"discrimination" and "reconciliation"
in The Red and Black with both interest
and disgust, and I feel it is time for me
to add my voice.
Discrimination and segregation do
not begin and/or end here on the
University campus To talk about
reconciliation on campus without going
a little deeper is to beat about the bush
Blacks are never the cause of
discrimination and segregation on
campus and therefore, very little, if
anything, can be expected of them if we
are to solve these problems.
Discrimination and segregation are
at the very core of the social institution
which blacks find themselves a part of
as the minority Thus, they only react to
these situations
It is, perhaps, difficult for a white
student to understand, but if you have
ever been to a place where you were
told that you did not belong there
because of the color of your skin, you
would not need someone to tell you to go
somewhere else where you would be
welcome and feel a sense of belonging.
It is unfortunate that whenever the
question of segregation comes up. it is
the black groups that become the ob
jects at which fingers arc pointed. In
this society, it is okay for whites to get
together and do their own thing, but
when blacks get together to promote
their culture, it is segregation
To white America, interaction and
conciliation do not mean sharing and
embracing others' values, bu the
abandonment of one's culture and total
assimilation into the majority's Quite
unfortunate, isn’t it?
1 am not a separatist Far from that.
However, I believe that until all at
titudes of colonialism and patriarchy
have been eradicated from the society
and our lives, there will be a distinct
and urgent need for different programs
and activities to exist and function with
a large part of autonomy within the
society.
I also believe that until we give up the
power that legitimizes attitudes of
sexism and racism and embrace
unequivocably the will to transform the
fabric of our existence, there will
always be the need for people of
common descent to get together and
promote their culture where conscious
efforts are taken to wipe them out
“Slavery is over in America.
Prejudice is not," maintains Dorie
Bargmann Yet. Bargmann is confident
in asserting that “It is every person’s
duty to reach out a hand of recon
ciliation" while we are still prejudiced
against each other. What is that?
Bigotry or hipoerisy?
KOJO AGYEMAN
Afrikan Students Union
‘Mattingly has
done a good job’
TO THE EDITOR:
Tom Lee’s column on Sen. Mat
tingly’s legislative effort in Tuesday's
edition of The Red and Black does not
present an accurate assessment of
what the senator tried to do in
Washington last week.
Senator Mattingly introduced several
amendments to bring appropriations in
line with the president’s budget request
figures. For instance, the Energy and
Water Bill came in 2.6 percent over
w hat the administration had requested
Mattingly's amendment brought the
total down by 2.6 percent. Where the
cuts were to be made was left to the
department head in charge of energy
and water, with the stipulation that no
more than (.5 percent of any specific
program could be cut.
Sen. Mattingly has hardly given
department heads an uncensored axe.
He has done his best to keep Congress
within the bounds of President
Reagan's proposed budget.
HARRY F. KNOX
Junior, political science
‘I would like
my 5 percent’
TO THE EDITOR:
1 applied and was approved for a
Guaranteed Student Loan at the beginn
ing of this academic year. Five percent
of my loan was taken off the top and
paid in the form of an "origination fee,"
whatever that means, to the bank issu
ing the loan
Prior to this administration, the
federal government paid this 5 percent,
nearly adequate to pay one quarter's
tuition It seems to me the federal
government would be willing to make
this small investment in future leaders
and not further penalize those who are
working hard for an education and can
least afford it.
CURTIS R. FELDMAN
Graduate student. Ag education
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