IFC says subsidies to go to parents
By ANN PORTAL
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Committee
voted unanimously Tuesday
night to give childcare subsidies
directly to parents instead of the
EMU childcare centers.
Utilizing a “voucher” system
proposed by IFC chairer Jon
Neiderbach, the financial aid
office now will be responsible
for distributing $50,000 in
childcare grants, which can be
used at any local childcare
center.
The committee allocated only
$18,000 to the EMU Childcare
Center and the Childcare and
Development Center, which
received a total of $74,000 in
incidental fees last year.
The IFC’s decision came in
spite of the EMU Board's rejec
tion of the plan last week.
Parents from the centers
spoke for nearly two hours
against the voucher system,
which they say will take funds
away from the University
childcare centers.
But student parents will not
necessarily leave the centers,
said Neiderbach.
‘‘There’s no reason to believe
(parents will leave) if the centers
are as good as they say they
are.”
The EMU centers now must
compete on the free market,
added IFC member Jim Ed
mundson
Neiderbach said a Children’s
Services Division survey in
dicated only 22 percent of
University student parents use
the campus day care centers.
University students win
top journalism honors
Four University students won
first place awards in the
regional Society of Professional
Journalists’ Mark of Excellence
Competition Saturday.
Tania Dmystyshyn won first
place in radio documentary;
Emerald reporter John Healy
won first place in features;
Emerald Managing Editor Sally
Hodgkinson won first place in
editorial writing; and Emerald
Editorial Editor Bill Manny won
first place in spot news.
In other awards, Steve Toft
won second place in radio
documentary; Hodgkinson won
third place in features and By
ron Caloz won third place in
radio documentary.
The University won the most
first place awards in the contest
that included entries from
Oregon, Montana, Washington,
Idaho and Alaska.
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By subsidizing the centers in
stead of the parents, the IFC
was discriminating against
parents who don’t use the
University centers, he said.
But parents argued they were
not allowed to participate in the
voucher decision and asked for
more time to formulate a coun
terproposal.
“We don’t want a proposal
shoved down our throats,” said
EMU parent Louise Klaila.
"We just want to be heard.”
However, the IFC indicated it
would be willing to work with the
parents on a grant distribution
system. Distribution methods
and deadlines will be decided
later, Neiderbach said.
Childcare coordinator Mary
Curtis-Gramley predicted the
new system will mean tuition
increases of 12 and 34 percent
at the two centers.
“I don't know what will
happen to the centers if the
parents can't afford them," she
said
Parents also complained the
IFC will lose control of childcare
quality if parents take their chil
dren off-campus.
But the basic issue is funding
student access to day care, not
subsidizing campus childcare
centers, said ASUO vice pre
sident Chris Moore.
Indian tells of new spirit
Rolling munaer Degan nis spontaneous ais
course before a packed EMU Ballroom Monday
night with a story about the first time he piloted a
plane and ended more than two hours later by
describing a wrestling match he had with the
devil.
Along the way, Rolling Thunder touched on
topics ranging from his continuing search for
spiritual “Thunder People" to the inevitable
purification of the earth.
A Cherokee medicineman and spiritual
leader, Rolling Thunder declared that Native
Americans “are leading the way" toward a spiri
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Numerous volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
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country of people who have abused the earth, he
said.
“What we call a 'cleansing process’ and
Christians call the 'day of judgment' — it’s here,”
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