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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1974
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Listen Up
PEAK
ATTENTtOM
tuespians
MEETIM3
TOHlGHT
Equality asked with Health Center fe
Editor:
I am a married student living
in the University Married Stu
dent Complex. Today I received
a letter from a couple of student
senators who are planning to
“present a resolution in the Stu
dent Senate which, if passed, will
request the University Board of
Directors to make the Health
Center fee of $14 per semester
optional to married students.”
After filling up the comments sec
tion and the back of the form
with my opinion on the subject, I
decided to make my opinions
known through the Battalion in
case my questionnaire is lost be
fore it arrives at the Student Sen
ate.
Why should the Health Center
fee be optional for a student just
because he is married ? Sure some
married students carry medical
insurance and some don’t. I would
imagine that many unmarried
students also carry some type of
medical insurance. If they don’t,
they could. Many students, mar
ried or unmarried, may not want
to pay Health Center fees or car
ry other insurance. They might
just want to risk getting sick to
save some money. I can’t see why
any distinction should be made be
tween married and unmarried stu
dents on this question. If Health
Center fees are optional for one,
they should be optional for both.
“What are we coming: to when these people can brazenly
hold public meeting^!”
Since I’m fairly sure this is out
of the question, I have a sugges
tion. An option should be made
for married students to pay more
One vote short
We felt the time was right for instituting an athletic
user fee at TAMU, but apparently the Student Senate has
not been convinced. The Senate, in a tragic 41-40 vote with
one abstention, decided not to recommend a $1 user fee for
home football games at Wednesday’s meeting. The proposal
would have saved those who didn’t attend any games $3 per
year in reduced services fee.
Ideally, the users of a service should pay for that
service entirely. However, in the university environment
there is power in numbers and some services can be provided
cheaply when charged to all. It would be difficult and costly
to assess a user fee for all the Memorial Student Center
committees. Likewise, student subscriptions to The Battalion
would be equally impractical. A user fee for football games
would only mean collecting a dollar when tickets are distrib
uted. Wally Groff, athletic business manager, predicts with
next year’s anticipated enrollment increase the average stu
dent attendance at games would not suffer if the $1 fee
was charged.
A football user fee would not set a precedent that would
result in a mad rush for more of the same. Each argument
for additional user fees would be considered individually and
would no doubt receive opposition both in the Student Senate
and from the Board of Directors.
In an effort to reduce Student Services Fees and place
the financial responsibility on the users of an activity we
hope students seriously consider implementing an athletic
user fee in the future.
Cbe Battalion
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than $14 if they choose for the
Health Center to take care of
their dependents, also. This would
make their other medical insur
ance unnecessary if they so
choose.
If base Health Center fees were
made optional for marrieds, then
more of the burden of supporting
the Health Center would simply
be shifted to the unmarrieds. This
would not be fair. If one pays, we
all pay. That’s the Aggie way.
Mark C. Drew
★ ★ ★
Editor:
There have been many students
dissatisfied with the laundry serv
ice for a long time. I think there
are some rules that must be
changed or at least be under re
consideration. So, I would like to
point them out as follows:
(1) There is no reason for a
compulsory service on campus.
There are a lot of washing ma
chines off campus. Students can
wash their clothes anytime they
wish. They can save from count
ing clothes again and again for
not being charged correctly. And
they wouldn’t need to rush to the
deposit place afraid of getting a
late charge!
(2) The laundry service is very
bad. Good clothes are turned in
and ruined when you get them
back. And there is no sign of any
change. Sometimes my clothes
have been lost. Under this situa
tion, I can’t see why I must have
such a kind of service.
(3) The fee is too high com
pared to the service we get. I just
wonder how many students have
turned in laundry totaling $1.47
every time. Sometimes I didn’t
have a lot of clothes to turn in.
They should have a more flexible
service.
(4) Lots of students believe the
laundry service tries to get more
money from students. For exam
ple:
a. You will be charged be
cause some of the clothes turned
in number more than allotted for
that item even if the total amount
is far below $1.47.
b. Even if you just wash a
mattress cover or a bath mat they
will charge you. They say bath
mats are listed on the sheet but
not as a regular laundry item.
How ridiculous it is!
I propose:
(1) That the laundry service
be made optional.
(2) Or, based on thep
regulations, charge the!
fee according to the
clothes turned in.
Since they count yottij
very carefully everytime,!]
can list the amount ofmo«l
should pay and not add ami
work to the laundry KniJ
fice. At the end of the saj
students can either pay i
get back the money paidtl
beginning of the semester,
We have noticed there'll
a lot of changes in this t
and we are very glad. ThtJ
dry service is one of the bin
lems that’s left and needed;]
changed a long time ago,
Liang S
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Students
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Continued from Page 1
proposal.
Concerned that only two grad
uate students were selected as
SCON A delegates, Marianne
Hamm, treasurer, said that the
matter should be looked into.
“It’s a shame we show interest
and are not given a chance,” she
said. “We could make meaningful
contributions to SCONA. We have
opinions and would like to be
given a chance.”
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