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Summer students
feel tuition, sun
Students may be in for a surprise as well as sun when
they peruse their summer catalog and decide to enroll
summer term. A 12-hour load will cost them $459 (not in
cluding fees) compared to last summer’s $352.50.
Like last summer, summer school students must pay
for their education. No state “entitlement” to pay for the
13th-21st hour will be given. Unlike last summer, however,
students will pay more after the 12th hour of classes, not
the 15th. “The full-time plateau has been removed,” says
Ron Trebon of the Summer School office.
It’s regretful that summer studiers will have to pay
more than regular academic year students, however the
state board’s decision arrived at over the 1982 spring
break makes some sense.
Usually summer school students take course loads
averaging 10 hours — the rationale behind the summer
tuition decison. It’s very hard to study with the fountains
running and the sun shining. It is a minority of students
catching up summer term who are hurt by the decision.
The silver lining for those who intend to stick around
summer term includes no out of state tuition, few Friday
classes and more classes offered all day long.
The University, not unlike most institutions, uses the
all in state tuition incentive to recruit out of state
students. Trebon says in-state students would be hurt in
the long run if the University didn’t have this admissions
bait. We agree. University students might do likewise and
consider checking out another institution during the sum
mer, especially since many have lower tuition than ours.
Master students and foreign students descend upon
the campus and help pay for all of us during summer ses
sion. It’s a nice change of campus personalities.
So breathe deeply and sign up for summer term.
Classes usually are smaller, professors may be more
available and the campus is lovely, even though
expensive.
Tolerance
As I was passing by the
EMU “Free Speech” hill, my
heart sank very low. Must we
laugh and Jeer at those people
who believe differently. I am
refering to the woman
evangelist who spoke on Mon
day. Are we laughing for our
thrill, her ridicule or do we
laugh at those who hold dif
ferent belief systems? As a
humanist, I cried for you who
mocked. Laughter is for joy,
happiness. Where is the joy in
condemnation, mockery, or
rldiculo?
Are these the values that we
hold, as supposedly tolerant,
intelligent and college
educated people? Is this the
best that we, as humans, have
to offer? I believe not.
It is tolerance to allow a per
son to speak his mind. It is
tolerance to disagree and still
allow him to speak. It is
tolerance to speak in reply in
telligently. It is tolerance to
disagree and walk away. But is
it human to disagree and yet
mock and ridicule? I believe
not.
I remember hearing my high
school physics tacher men
tion that cold is the absence of
heat or warmth. Can this be
our world?
I hope not.
Slavs Ingham
math, psychology
Repression
Whenever a report comes
out showing any type of
human rights violations in
anti-Soviet, pro-West coun
tries the left mounts protests.
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your turn
Lobbyist defends session
For some time now the
Emerald has been giving their
opinion on what the ASUO
Student Lobby Group has not
been doing during this
legislative session. With the
school year drawing to an end,
we, the ASUO Student Lobby
Group, feel its time students
were informed as to what the
lobby group has accomplished
in the Legislature.
The lobby effort has ex
perienced its shortcomings,
most of them stemming from
the recent formation of the
group and its inexperience. It
has also had its failures, much
of them coming from trying to
represent a constituency that
On the other hand. I’ve never
seen the left get too disturbed
over atrocities committed by
anti-West, pro-Soviet regimes.
If somebody only relied on
propaganda from the political
left on this campus they’d
thnk that El Salvador, Israel,
Guatamala and South Africa
were the main ’’bad guys" of
the world. Who cares about
major human rights violations
in Cuba, Nicaragua, Indo
china, Afghanistan or Eastern
Europe? Apparently not the
left.
What I'd like to see on this
campus is a demonstration by
the left against repression tak
ing place in an anti-American
country. I won’t hold my
breath until that happens
though.
Daborah Bottensek
political aclanca
on the whole doesn't vote and
enjoys a sometimes deserved
bad reputation among the
state legislators.
All this notwithstanding our
accomplishments are worthy
of comment. We have with
some success reversed
legislators' opinions concern
ing student involvement. Con
trary to the Emerald's ad
vocacy of a more radical ap
proach to student lobbying,
and their suggestions of over
riding existing channels, there
is a process to follow and a
code of conduct that has been
established by the Legislature
and should be used by
students participating in the
process.
Considering students do
not use their most basic tool
— their vote, they cannot af
ford to further shadow their
reputation by using their own
means.
Our efforts concerning the
tuition freeze and faculty pay
raise aided in achieving
positive results last week in
the Joint Ways and Means
Committee hearing on the
Higher Ed budget. We also
were able to have significant
impact on the strong passage
in the House of Represen
tatives on HB 2747 (Incidental
Fees). The 48-6 vote In favor of
the bill demonstrated how ef
fective student lobbying can
be.
Regardlesss of the
Emerald’s claim that the stu
dent lobbyists have chosen
the issues and are solely
responsible for gathering stu
dent imput, we feel it is also
the responsibility of the "stu
dent newspaper" to aid in the
process of informing students
and soliciting participation.
The Emerald charges that we
‘did not get students to par
ticipate in lobbying effort."
But in fact, there have been
continued efforts by ASUO
and the student lobbyists.
All year we have provided
through the ASUO office the
means for students to voice
their opinions. Phones for
long distance calling and
writing materials with postage
have been made available.
Some of the highlights of
these efforts were seen during
our week long letter writing
campaign.
Although heavily advertised
in the Emerald and reported on
local television, students
showed no concern and put
forth no effort to take advan
tage of this oportunity. We
have repeatedly, through
advertising, requested student
participation in the lobbying
effort and again the response
was minimal.
Hopefully, the emphasis on
student activism by the new
student administration and
the renewed Emerald focus on
campus events will result in
more students utilizing the
means for student involve
ment.
Many of the shortcomings
of the Student Lobby Group
alluded to by the Emerald have
been overcome by the laying
of the groundwork for such an
organization.
The experience gained by
the lobbyists this year will
help further the lobby efforts
in the coming year. Although
an off legislative year, student
concerns still need to be ad
dressed in Salem. However,
any lobby effort can only be as
strong as the constituency it
represents.
Mark Enos
Enos Is a lobbyist for the
1982-63 ASUO Student Lobby
Group.
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