Because $200 will get you affordable child care in NYC for four months.

Also, the use of the variant spelling of "dependent" pisses me off.

Dear Graduate Student:
The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the
Student Resource Center
are pleased to offer a Bursar credit in the amount of $200 per
semester (up to a
maximum of $400 per calendar year) for full-time graduate
students who have
dependant children requiring child care services. To be
eligible for a Bursar credit, students must be currently enrolled for full-time
study in a degree program as verified by the Registrar, and their dependant
child must not have reached his/her sixth birthday.For more information, please
visit http://www.nyu.edu/gradchildcare. The application deadline for Fall 2005 is November 1, 2005If you have any
questions about the subsidy program, please e-mail gradchildcare@nyu.edu or contact Ms. [redacted]
Coordinator of Graduate Student Life, at [redacted]. Thank you for your
interest in the Child Care Subsidy Program for graduate students.