University Daily Kansan, February 14. 1963
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SenEx members angered by proposed fee increases
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Increases in locker rental and family plan fees at Robinson Center would deny fringe benefits to KU faculty and staff, members of the University Senate Executive Committee said Friday.
SenEx members discussed a Recreation Services proposal to raise the locker rental fee from $10 to $15 and the family plan fee from $15 to $25.
"There are blasted few fringe benefits that we have," said Ernest Angino, ex officio member of SenEx. "I'm afraid something like this is a
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Locker rental and the family plan are extra services available to both students and staff members. Students who use the family plan pay $7.50.
SENEX MEMBERS said the increase was unfair to faculty and staff because it was disproportionate to the proposed student activity fee increase.
During Student Senate revenue code hearings last Wednesday, Recreation Services requested a $2 increase in the student activity fee. But the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee recommended only a $1 increase.
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Faculty and staff members themselves can use the center, but must pay
Wilkerson said use of Robinson's services was a privilege that both students and faculty had to pay for.
"IT'S NOT A fringe benefit, not during a time when students are paying for the fringe benefit too," he said.
Wilkerson said he thought the current family plan fee for faculty was too low.
SenEx Chairman James Seaver said the higher fee was a sign of the faculty's increasing loss of benefits.
"It's another one of those fringe
benefits that that's been denied the faculty," he said. "It's a little thing, but
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Angino said that although he did not use the center, he thought the fee increase would anger many faculty members.
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SENEX MEMBER Gerald Mikelson, who said his family used Robinson's family plan, said he thought the percentage of the requested increase was too large compared to the services provided at Robinson.
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"They're asking for a 67 percent increase in the family rate and a 50 percent increase in the locker rate," Mikkelsen said. "That's quite out of
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line with the percentage that is normally accrued in this type of thing. The money is coming out of the same pockets, and it's too large."
Mikkelson also said he thought the revenue Recreation Services received from the family plan was probably not a significant amount.
"So why raise it?" he said.
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BUT SENEX MEMBER Ellen Gold said she did not think services at Robinson, such as the family plan,
The $2 student activity fee increase Recreation Services had requested would have been proportionate to the number of family plan increases, he said.
Wilkerson disagreed with SenEx's comments that the fee increase for faculty and staff was disproportionate to the increase asked of students.
Wilkerson said that Robinson's fees for recreation services were lower than those of other municipalities.
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