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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014 volume 113, issue 082
Inside Coverage
Who’s watching
Big points
Net neutrality, the NSA and freedom
Huskers win 2nd game in Big Ten Conference play
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A blank canvas
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UNL graduates utilize water-based ink to set printing service apart from others. The owners of Uprise all have “a simple, bold, modern style of graphic design,” owner Kyle Jensen said. photo by craig zimmerman
DAILY NEBRASKAN
ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
$2.78 / 0.50%
$10.72 / 1.92%
FUND A: Student fees pay for a portion of printing and distribution costs for UNL’s student-produced newspaper.
FUND A: UNL’s student government provides services such as Student Legal Services and 475-RIDE.
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM COUNCIL
$8.56 / 1.54%
CONTINGENCY FUND
$0.58 / 0.10%
FUND A: With the help of student fees, this student organization puts on free events for students throughout the school year, including the Homecoming and Spring concerts. A subset of funding accounts for student discounts at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
FUND B: Fees add to the university’s emergency reserve.
DEBT SERVICE ON FACILITIES
$111.50 / 20.02% FUND B: Student fees help pay for debt owed on university facilities.
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DAILYER NEBRASKAN (SLICE NOT VISIBLE)
$0.15 / 0.03%
your money
FUND A: Student fees pay for printing and distribution costs as well as libel insurance.
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UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER
$150.89 / 27.09%
You paid $557 per semester this year for 10 funds and services. We did the math for you.
CAMPUS RECREATION
$152.48 / 27.38% FUND B: Two subsets of fees go toward funding and facilities management for two on-campus recreation centers, the Outdoor Adventures program and fitness and wellness classes, among other programs.
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FUND B: Two subsets of student fees pay for general operations of the health center and Counseling and Psychological Services, which provide services to students at free or discounted rates.
NEBRASKA UNIONS
$94.25 / 16.92%
PARKING AND TRANSIT SERVICES
$25.09 / 4.50%
FUND B: Fees contribute toward general operations for the Nebraska Union and Nebraska East Union as well as fund the Collegiate Readership Program, which supplies free copies of four local and national newspapers.
FUND B: Fees, in addition to student and faculty parking permits, cover construction, bus operation and other costs for UNL’s parking lots, garages and bus system.
Ever wonder who determines University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s student fees? Enter the Committee for Fees Allocation. The Committee for Fees Allocation is a 12-member Association of Students of the University of Nebraska committee that makes recommendations for allocation of student fees. Every spring semester, student fee users make presentations to the committee and request a certain amount of funding from student fees. These entities include ASUN, Campus Recreation, the Daily Nebraskan, amoung others. Then the committee makes a recommendation for each fee user. For Fund A users – student organizations such as ASUN, University Program Council and the DN – the vice chancellor for Student Affairs followed by the chancellor approves or disapproves the recommendation. For Fund B users, which the university defines as “institutional obligations and student services agencies,” ASUN Senate approves the CFA recommendations, followed by the vice chancellor, chancellor and the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Students can request a refund for those fees they pay toward Fund A users. Fund B fees such as the University Health Center and Campus Recreation can’t be refunded.
In 5-year period, all fee users asked for more Funding increases have nearly tripled student fees since 2009-10, increases will continue DANIEL WHEATON dn About three weeks ago, full-time students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spent $557 each on student fees for the spring 2014 semester. The fees pale in comparison to the cost of full-time tuition, but the specifics behind the amount are often overlooked. The organization that decides how
much you get charged is the Committee for Fees Allocation. Several campus groups are able to levy funds from students with CFA’s blessing. Since 2009, most groups have asked for slight funding increases for their operations. Parking and Transit Services funding has increased the most since then — in the 2009-10 academic year, students paid $9.16; now students paid $25.09. During the Jan. 21 meeting, the committee granted Transit Services $1,221,000 in funding for 2014-15. Nate Parde, a senior agribusiness major and member of CFA, said this increase was a result of increased personnel and an overestimation of how much the budget could be decreased as the university hands over full control of its bus routes to StarTran.
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Still, Parking and Transit Services is primarily self-funded. According to its website, most of the department’s revenue is made from the sale of permits, issuing citations and special event parking. Students pay for 51 percent of parking and transit’s expenses. So far, Parking and Transit, the University Health Center, Nebraska Unions, the Collegiate Readership program and Campus Recreation have pitched their new requests to CFA. The University Health Center isn’t asking for an increase this year. In a letter presented to CFA, UHC administration said “the chancellor requested that we prepare a budget that followed the conditions of Bryan Health Contract” – without increasing student fees. The medical clinic, Counseling
and Psychological Services, health promotion and outreach, administration, physical therapy and the radiology laboratory all receive funding from student fees. Selfgenerated services that UHC pays for itself are the dental clinic, pharmacy and specialty clinic. The University Program Council is asking for an increase in student fees of $1.01 from each student per semester to provide a bigger Homecoming concert. This would be an increase of $45,000 for the 2014-15 academic year, said Karen Wills, program coordinator for UPC. Peter Bock, last year’s president of UPC and a senior marketing and management major, helped present this year’s budget for UPC.
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