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Show 4. Page Five The Summer Chronicle, Thursday, July 17, 1975 increase confusion over the $15 in summer quarter If Anybody Cares by DAVE BJORKMAN tuition and fees has culminated in the withholding of fee receipts for those students not paying the increased fee. According to the Registrar's office the problem resulted from the late decision of the legislature and State Board of Regents concerning the tuition increase. Traditionally fee increases are effective fall quarter, but the Registrar's office was notified in May of the increase to be effective summer quarter. At the time of this notification the fee cards for summer quarter had already been printed, and were mailed quoting the previous fee schedule to those students adparticipating in vance registration. Max Welcker, University Registrar, told ASUU officials Tuesday that every effort was made to notify students of the change by way of in-pers- Sick Fee change hassle s posters, signs and new fee schedules distributed at the time of registration. In spite of these efforts many students were not aware that the increase became effective summer quarter and relied on the outdated information included in fee the official registration Those the at packet. paying window were abruptly informed that they owed $15 more, but those students mailing in their tuition such received no notification from the University and patiently waited for their receipts to return in the mail. No such receipts ever came. In order to obtain the "delinquent" fees from the students the In come Accounting Office has held the receipts. to According of that office, if representatives fee is not paid the extra registration will be held for fall quarter and transcripts will be held in case of graduation. But summer quarter registration will not be affected and receipts will be mailed upon notification of the student. At the present time the University is not notifying the students of their debts, but is waiting for them to call. Readers' Right Editor! The Editorial editors, (Which means T.A.J. and R.N.) You blew it. It is nearly unforgivable, and there is nothing you can do that will rectify the error. I refer to your crass betrayal of Thomas Milton Tinney (A.K.A. Jacob Smith). I respect your decision not to publish letters pseudonymously. If you are consistent, i.e. if you never knowingly print a letter over a pseudonym, there are good reasons for requiring all writers to use their own names and stand up for what they have to say. Of course, there is a brand of wicked pocial satire and commentary that cannot safely be printed over the name of the author, if the author cannot afford the exposure, and, therefore, you will not get the kind of witty letters such closet satirists send in under a pseudonym. I do not condone your arbitrary and unelegant revelation of Tinney 's pseudonym. You could have printed his letter over his own name without revealing that he is also Jacob Smith. It strikes me as extremely bad taste to print Tinney 's request for anonymity as part of his letter. Tinney did not ask you to tell the world that he is J. Smith. What you have done is betray a trust. The case is all the worse for the fact that your action is an abrupt and arbitrary reversal of past policy. There has been no notice given that you would print both a man's name and his request for anonymity. In factTinney has sent in several letters in the past year and last year's editors (Joe and Bob) pu bushed them over the name Jacob Smith. In other words, Tinney was as justified in expecting the precedent to hold as you bozos are justified in trying to hold ASUU to the pro rata funding precedents in your suit for release of frozen funds. Your suit stands or falls on the issue of whether or not ASUU's is action and arbitrary since discriminatory, especially you keep insisting that their policies require one year notice of intent to change. Note this, well: your letters policy box is the same this year as last year, (the policy is the same, the phvasing is more verbose.) It makes me sick, but there is nothing you can do to reverse the damage you have done to Tinney by broadcasting his pen name. Let me repeat, there is nothing wrong with refusing to print letters over a pseudonym-thfault is in your irresponsible betrayal of his confidence. Well, what do you have to say in your defense? Bryce Carey Editor's Note: Our policy is the same, our enforcement is not. We believe that real names should be printed on letters unless there is a good reason not to. We do apologize to "Jacob Smith," but we feel the only way to have a policy is to enforce it ruthlessly. e Chronicle carried a story about a graphic design contest which is being conducted to find a logo for our fall conference. My concern about that story is that the first sentence might be confusing to some readers. It reads, "The entry deadline of a women's graphic design contest has been her debt to the University. Some irate students think the actions of the Incoming Accounting office are illegal on the grounds that they were quoted one price for tuition and have now been denied their receipts for not paying an increase of which they were never notified. ASUU efforts to enlist the aid of the Better Business Bureau have the actions. A resolution will come before the ASUUAssemblyThursday in protest of the actions and asking for notification and apologies to involved. students those Whether this will placate the many students inconvenienced by the situation is questionable, and perhaps all that one can do is agree with Mr. Welcker, who said in response to ASUU questioning on the subject, that the situation is "unfortunate." The Summer Chronicle Editor-in-chie- Rex Nutting f Frank PUtt Business Manager Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Manager Neil Robinson Robert Walker .Gary Goodfellow Jim Harris Tom Jennan News Editor Editorial Editor Copy Editor Ass't Copy Editor Entertainment Editor Head Photographer Karen Juell Leslie VanFrank H. Chris Sorensen Bob Bauer Published twice weekly, except during test week, by the Publications Council of the University of Utah. The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of the Summer Chronicle do not necessarily represent the views of the studentbody or the University administration. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESENTS given to one sex or the other. Prizes will be awarded to the best ON TOUR preferential treatment being entries. JAPANESE YASA DANCES Women's Resource Center 10) TRADITIONAL SAMISEN MUSIC 4 1 w would receive no receipt, and would not graduate until she paid The contest is not limited to women's entries. The steering committee is seeking entries from both men and women and they will certainly be judged on an equal and fair basis without any Margaret Wilde Program Coordinator (July registered for summer quarter, extended." Equal rights Editor: Last Thursday's fs A student who happens to call the Income Accounting Office because he misses his receipt is likely to get a much different story. Recently a student called and was told she would not be failed because it. as a government supported agency, will not the action take against fine University. In any case, the print on the fee card stating the may change without notice may provide a legal shelter for , ? t f ; v . V. I Vi J UNION BALLROOM July 19 ADMISSION I if U mm I i W ri 1 VrrTfTTarTh KY 1 1 "a , TT AIwV IHX&K) tvytiill 8 P.M. ADULTS: $2.00 CHILDREN: $1.00 union proar. |