STUDENT NEWSPAPER of the UNIVERSITY of LETHBRIDGE • October 6, 2005 Meliorist Mnl'iotism (Meel'e Riz'm, Me'le E-)
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Volume 39 Issue 5 www.themeliorist.com Meliorist Thursday, 6 October, 2005 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE www.themeliorist.com • October 6, 2005 Meliorist mnl'ioTism (meel'e riz'm, me'le e-). n. the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made hotter by human effort An autonomous body, separate from the U of L Students Union SU-166, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K3M4 Phone 329-2334 The Meliorist is the student newspaper of the University of Lethbridge, published most Thursdays throughout the academic year by The Meliorist Publishing Society, an autonomous incorporated body Please address all correspondence to The Meliorist, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 or drop it off at room SU-166 Deadline for submissions is Sunday at noon The Meliorist appreciates and encourages the writing of thoughtful, concise, timely letters However, The Meliorist will only consider for publication those letters which are signed by the author (special arrangements may be made for those wishing anonymity, but absolutely no pseudonyms), contain the authors legible name, address, telephone number and student identification number (address, ID and phone number not for publication) Letters may be edited for brevity, clarity and legality The Meliorist reserves the right to edit submissions and will not print libelous material Editor-in-Chief Craig Hamilton [email protected] Business Manager "How can you resist?!" 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Thompson c Referendum debate Dear Meliorist, Centre starting September 2007." won't hold any stock, have any build on the government's vision. to contribute to a fund that will go This is misleading - once a say, or be a legitimate stakeholder. Let's say, for our purposes, towards the student loan program? mortgage is paid off there is no such This is a user fee to build that students earn on average, Will students expect to pay for all I am writing to express thing as a "FUTURE MORTGAGE badly needed infrastructure. $20,000 per year or less. This buildings that are not sponsored my concern with the CORIBUTION"!!! This is nothing Would we tolerate a fee at a makes them low income. And let's by corporations? Never mind that but misleading marketing designed physician's clinic for a hospital? not kid ourselves - a majority of we just finished contributing to the recent decision of the to fall under the radar of students. No. That's why we pay taxes. students do not have their parents library - only to have a beautiful ULSU to support funding Student fees would be slated to to fall back on. This additional fee space with a pitiful collection. the Regional Health and decrease once the building is paid 3) "The CHEQUES" does not make sense for students. In closing, I am writing this letter off, and by simply maintaining an YOU DON'T TAX THE PEOPLE to let the SU know that this was a Wellness Centre. unnecessary payment means that This is not about the government WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD IT! BAD decision. What we see now is in effect, our fees are going up! not having the money to invest in a link on the notice board with nice My concerns are as follows: post-secondary education. We are 4) Transfer of Debt words like "legacy" and "future" all 2) Control, Authority, and all expecting a nice little dividend over it, with no mention of "good l) Misleading Marketing Responsibility - And paying in December. New monies have This fee will work out to at least policy" anywhere in the add for someone else's mortgage been made available for some a $120 contribution per student, the YES side of the referendum. The fee that students currently infrastructure developments (a provided they complete their degrees Never mind the fact that the YES pay that goes towards the SUB This proposal has students one time cost) but the government in four years. A significant number side has a link to the "VOTE" page mortgage is scheduled to stop in contributing to a mortgage on a is still planning to dole out nearly of students rely upon student that says "Vote and be eligible to 2007 once the mortgage on the building that will not be under 1.7 billion in one-time bonuses. loans and student Lines of Credit win a $250 gift certificate from the building is paid off. In essence student control like the SUB is So, in this era of an "Educated to pay their tuition and fees. Such Bookstore." Oh my God! I don't really this means that our fees are now. You are asking us to pay for Alberta" we are going to employ an arrangement effectively means have to point out how unethical this scheduled to decrease at that time. a government ASSET. That is like a system of user fees for the that you are asking students to pay is, do I? I am all for incentives for The current campaign on the ULeth students. The government craves the interest on a loan for the new voting, but not when there isn't any notice board reads as such: "We are having the owner of the coffee an educated population, but is building instead of the university opposition, or any information about asking students to reallocate future shop you go to ask you to pay a unwilling to fund such an initiative. assuming the debt. Lucky us. We why one might decide to vote no. mortgage contributions towards surcharge for a new and improved Generally speaking, students don't will get to pay the interest. Great. I am disappointed. This letter the Regional Health and Wellness building - the catch being that you make a lot of money. took me 15 minutes. Did the While tuition fees might 5) The Slippery Slope SU Exec really take the time be capped at 30% of an to think through a 2.5 million institution's operating By advocating such a fee, the SU dollar decision? I don't think so. costs, there is no limit is approaching the ever popular on FEES. It is bad policy slippery slope. Asking students to Frustrated, to place an additional tax pay for the buildings in which they Jill Veenendaal on students; people that will be educated raises a number are generally low-income of questions: will it be just this one Ed. Note: This letter was sent to to begin with, to help time? Will we start asking students the SU Exec and General Assembly. For a few dollars more Just what are four condoms truly the Women's Centre really doing worth? Apparently they're worth on campus? Am I paying for the one dollar.