opinion____
Who pays for IFC plan? Students, who else?
TKe inc>denta Fee Committee -nay have
committed an error Last year when they slashed
the athletic subsidy from $17 to S12 In defense of
*FC they were being hounded by students and the
athletic department and tned to devise a system
that was the most equitable to a£
But the situation is not equitable and «n the
end the students wfl have to pay
The reduction of the fee is an experiment thus
year and its success or failure depends on a
number of variables
The Incidental Fee Committee was con
cerned last year about the ever-nsmg subsidy
costs demanded by the athletic department The
committee was also under pressure from students
who did not use the athletic facilities or attend
games who resented having to fmanoa&y support
athletics
ours
Students oogmai’y proposed a plan along
these Imes two years ago However then Univer
sity Pres Wifcam Boyd overruled the plan The
ASUO appealed Boyd s decision to the State
Board of Higher Education only to lose by a vote
of 5-3 m favor of Boyd s veto
The committee attempted to strike a com
promise system designed to raise toe $222,505
toaf would be lost to athletics from direct inciden
ts i fees They hit upon toe plan to set student
tickets for football and basketball costing $2 50
and tickets for track and field events cosi ng
$1 50
The system in theory, is sound But m reality
it is shaky
A season ticket is offeree tor S" 2 50 for toe fa
season and $38 50 for the winter season A com
bination ticket is pneed $5“ and those who buy it
yours_
Postal MX system
I was matang a letter at the comer Dost
box when my good friend Herman
wntf be given a spring sports package worth
$7 50 Mike Easterty, acting athletics department
business manage' says about 800 student season
tickets have been sold
Those 800 student season tickets are tar oft
the mark — so far m fact that the fFC p4an may be
headed tor disaster
In order for the $222,505 to be raised an
average of 6,000 students must attend each home
tootbaft game and 4,000 must attend each bas
ketball game These numbers are not being met
They were realistic based on the Ducks having a
wnmng season That was the IFC s thinking at the
time
Only 4650 students attended the game with
the University of Washington Credit the Ducks
record and the mcfement weather But it created a
deficit that wtf be earned over to each successive
game
The burden of ticket sales has been unfairly
put on the shoulders of ASUO by the athletic
department
Easterly says that ' student participation has
not been sufficient to carry the guarantee."
There are still track and field revenues as an
ace in the hole," according to Jim Edmunson.
ASUO vice president for program administration
Neither Edmunson nor Rich Wilkins, ASUO
president, will publicly comment on who would
absorb a debt at the end of the biennium tt s safe
to wager that if a deficit occurs, and it seems likely
if student ticket sales don't pick up, incidental fees
will be raised substantially from the $12 figure
This is a no-win situation for students
Whether they buy season tickets or not incidental
fees will have to be increased Students can't win
— but the athletic department stands only to gam
No matter what, the athletic department has a
"guarantee of the funds it requested
Edmunson thinks track and field is hts ace m
the hole When the game gets tight and the
stakes get high, those "aces" have a way of
disappearing
waited by
“Herman I sa»d “Twenty cents to
ma* a tetter now Isn 't mat 'oObery7
"It s he sac But J have a solution
Too do7
Yes We coj'5 hand over the MX
mesne system to me =>osta; Service This
wouto solve two problems m one swoop
The °osta: Service wouc ge’ the er—a
ntomnoe it needs and me MX missiles
would have a pace to *<de from the
Russians
-»ow would yo- dc tf> as*ec
We could put me mesiies m discrete
prowr- envelopes Nooody wou>d know
the ditte-ence from the othe jun* ma>
""hat s ingenio us sa«d
Herman went or The Russ ans
would never pe ao*e to find me missies
because it would take them months to
figure out the new Zk> Code — plus tour
At the same time me new Ztp would Pe
movmg mar and missues around ever
faster ”
But what would happen rt an emer
gency when we need the mmsies nght
away0- I asked
“We i do two mngs First we is dis
courage pre-emptrve stokes dunrvg the
Christmas rush Second we have me
Option Of switching to a private company
tha* offers overnight delivery
But at ttO a pound wouidn t that Pe a
little expensive7" l asxed
Bememper toe Defense Department
•ri* be picking up me tap for ai! mis So
who s won-ied about money7
Tf,a’s true l sa-d me' added
Wouldn't envtronmentalists nave con
cerns too7
No problem if a mesne begins to
tear we : just put rt mto me dead e*ter
office stay lost for years
And what if someone becomes sus
picious when ne sees a m>ss;.e sticking
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out of a postman s pt/shcarf*
The postman can fust pass rt of* as a
can of (Jog 'epe^ant Henman ass-'ed
me
You do have a* the bases covered i
sac
Sot auhe VYeT nave to require more
' gxJ standa-ds for posta employees
They 1 hare to be ab*e to lift a httte more
than 5C pounds
Pete Kent
1190 Monroe Street
Contempt for RCYB
l am wrr?;ng thrs letter to express con
tempt for the RCYB and the tactics they
employed at then natty Friday afternoon
instead orf using the raJty as an open
forum for the exchange of ideas where
clear we*-tormec arguments could be
voced and analyzed they chose to con
duct a freak show" to entertain the
on-tookers and I'm not sure they are
aware of the damage they ve caused
Their speeches were unorganized and
thee references to Marxist and socialist
prmcto*es were shat tow and used out of
context This tended to confuse and
alienate the audience from the speakers
The manner r which these ideas were
expressed was destructive to progrev
srve socialist principles and ideas the
open forum rally and methods o* ex
changing such ideas
i think m these tim.es of socta and
pofrtica uncedamry here m the L S and
througnout the word there rs a greater
need for discussion and analysis o* the
soca arid poMica issues thaf confront
us The problems of unemployment in
flation and the eliminating of SOC'3
programs are connected with the poli
tical problem of an expanding military
complex and anti-American sentiment
abound the wood Even U S involvement
m the goers! ia mar m E) Salvador comes
down to an economic issue because as
we ve Deen to id our interests are at
staxe
With these kinds of problems and is
sues confronting us the open forum and
ra ly should be used to educate, not
entertain the student population The
RCYB by employing the tactics men
tioned above only serves to alienate the
apathetic student and turn that student
away from ran*es and open forums where
the socio-economic and political issues
must be addressed m order to provoke
greater student involvement m their dis
cussions and analysis
Michael Soiomita
U Mm exchange student
ELC opportunities
The controversy of the Environmental
Law Otnc embraces the larger issue of
the function of the law school This law
school, Wee most is doing a good job of
framing students for entry into the cor
porate wortd it is doing very little to train
awyers to be individual practitioners,
a rue to answer the needs of the general
public The conventional law school
curriculum instructs m analytical meth
ods of reasoning and rules of law but
offers little of the practical aspects of
bemg a Sawyer As a third year student I
now realize that only after taw school,
when I am under the wing of some law
firm w>: I receive the training necessary
to practice law Indeed the legions of
unskilled yet analytically keen graduates
are essential to corporate law firms who
need the research potential to handle
gigantic cases
Therefore while the law school is a
convenient breeding ground for corpor
ate associates it does not prepare us to
be professionals We are still forced to
play the academic games of our under
graduate years, learning how to take
tests instead of how to practice law The
only counter to this are the opportunities
offered by the clinical programs There
students can confront clients and deci
sion-makers and start to understand how
to fashion strategies and solutions The
Environmental Clinic serves the large
number of students at this law school
specifically here for the natural re
sources program Removal of the clinic
takes away the only practical experience
this school offers in environmental law
and degrades the entire curriculum I
hope that President Olum wifi realize that
clinical programs, although they may
spark controversy, are essential for the
training of good lawyers, and that he will
do everything in his power to insure the
Environmental Law Clinic remains on
campus in its present form
Eden Mendoza
Third year law student
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Thursday. Octobar 8,1981