The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 97, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1976 Page: 6 of 26
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The OU student Association's
(UOSA) voter registration drive,
scheduled to begin Thursday
morning during spring semester
fee payment, will not be held until
Monday due to misunderstandings
with the Cleveland County
Election Board.
John Bode, chairman of the
registration committee, said
Wednesday the election board told
Nordby said the larger portions
of "new money" are going to meet
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maintain a reserve of 3 to 5 per
cent of its education and general
fund, or about 11 million to $15
million.
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‘(Morris) said the fees were
instituted because ef the
increasing disparity between
income and expenditures at OU.’
Voter drive delayed
UOSA members the registration
drive could not be held because of
an Oklahoma statute.
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Nordby said the university is
try ing to cut down on utility costs financial pressures
the through such means as the university would
added which may be as much as three
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polls will be closed for a three-day
period after elections The
Norman School Board election
was held Tuesday, placing the
first opening of the polls on
Monday, Bode said.
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announced earlier, so students figure rone to 11,485,000 for 1975-76.
could prepare for them. The estimate for 1976-77 is
Morris said the charges are not $2,255,530.
new; many have been in existence
for some time However, there had
been no well-developed method of these costs,
announcing charges as they are
added
He explained that
recommendation to implement the
charges started moving through
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shutdown over the Christmas aciptoitton of more money. Either
holidays and the shortening of the state will have to appropriate
administrative channels about the employee hours at night. more • •
middle of last semester. The
recommendations were reviewed
in the dean's office at that time.
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Inflation necessitated lab fees
student Otherwise, the student
could supply his own materials, if
he wished. Morris said.
The question of legality involved
a requirement that all mandatory
fees must be approved by the state
regents.
Another arguement against the
charges is that the university
should have known about the
necessity to initiate the charges
when the budget for this fiscal
year was determined last spring.
Morris said, in a budget the size
of the university's, it is not
possible to predict everything that
is going to need funding.
Inflationary increases have also
been so large they could not have
been accurately anticipated, he
said
By STEPHEN HILLMAN
OU administrators said this
week the controversial lab
charges recently instituted in the
College of Art and Sciences were
nesessitated by inflationary
pressures on the university, citing
increased costs as OU's most
pressing problem.
JR. Morris, vice president for
university community, said
Wednesday the fees were
instituted because of the
increasing disparity between
income and expenditures at OU.
He said the situation has reached
the point where departments'
budgets were insufficient to pay
for materials necessary to teach
courses properly.
The lab charges have sparked
student complaints since they
were instituted at the beginning of
this semester. Student Congress
passed an act this week which
would abolish the charges and
require the university to refund
charges already collected.
The apparent reasoning behind
the passage of the bill is to bring
the situation before the OU
Regents. The bill must be signed
by Terry Womack, OU Student
Association president. Upon his
approval the bill will then go to
President Paul Sharp. If Sharp
vetoes the bill, it will return to
Congress, which can override the
veto, bringing the bill before the
regents for consideration.
Morris said there appears to be
two areas of concern about the lab
charges These areas involve the
process of implementing the
charges, and the principle
involved in the charges
themselves.
Complaints about the process of
instituting the fee are justified.
Morris said. He believed the
charges should have been
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alleviate the need to implement Morris said the charges were an dependence on foreign oil, about
the charges. attempt to cover the cost of 42.000 steam plants in factories
Van Hauen said the unexpected consumable supplies students will have to be replaced because
funds, which have been estimated would need in their courses The they cannot be converted to bum
at about $500,000, have already intention was that students could
been budgeted to meet other take advantage al the charges,
needs. He said $442,000 of the funds which were in effect a cooperative
have already been budgeted program to lessen the cost to the oil per day.
.. or tuition will have to be
Nordby said the only adequate increased.' "
answer to the financial pressures
on the university would be the
Morris said the transition that acquisition of more money Either there are needs for every surplus
occurred in the provost's office the state will have to appropriate the university may acquire He
after the resignation of I. Moyer more to the university, or tuition said the university maintains a list
Hunsberger also delayed action on will have to be increased, he of funding priorities, some of
the fees. added. which may be as much as three
The decision was finally made at r- ••
the end of the week before classes many of the costs associated with
OU are out of 1U direct control. lab charges may be illegal Saving U.S. oil ttducm
said. At that time it was decided it citing social security, insurance, because they were mandatory for
was essential that the charges be retirement programs and utilities enrollment in classes Morris said
instituted this spring. Students have argued that this is not so, that the question of
additional funds be available to legality arose when some
the university because of professors misunderstood the
unexpected enrollment increases situation and passed their
could have been used to help misconceptions on to students
Morris said the charges were an
attempt to cover the cost of
Gene Nordby. vice president of
administration and finance, said
the lab charges are due to
inflationary pressures on OU’s
budgets.
Nordby cited costs and
laboratory materials, especially Morris said the money went to
glass, as areas of inflationary programs which could not be
concern—in addition to utility funded previously
costs. Morris said these
Nordby said utilities costs have include women's studies and
more than doubled in the last few ethnic studies, the departments of
years. chemistry, science and public
Figures from the office of Steve policy and zoology, and an
Van Hauen, associate vice increase in the 1976 summer
president of administration and session budget.
finance, support Nordby's If it is realized, the $58,000
statement. Utility costs for 1972-73 surplus not yet budgeted will go
were budgeted at $742,467. This toward a reserve which the
university maintains for
unforeseen expenditures, Van
Hauen said.
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