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This brings me to the second major concern regarding the fee increase. While the council??s aim is to increase its budget to allow for greater funding of campus events and student group activities, increasing the fee by such a large amount (more than doubling it) may actually defeat the goal that it hopes to accomplish. As the extremely close results of the referendum show, many students are not in favor of such an increase. While many may happily support the current $35 activities fee, increasing it to $75 will likely cause many...
Lastly, I would like to call attention to the arbitrary nature in which this fee increase proposal was decided upon by the council. Because the goal of the fee increase was to ensure that the council??s budget would be large enough for the events it wished to put on, the process should have begun with an assessment of the council??s need, with the amount of the fee corresponding to the amount of the need. However, the reverse was done: the council first chose a number (originally $100), and then discerned how many events...
...addition of 86 recycling bins, or about six per house, falls short of the council??s goal of pairing a recycling bin with each trash...
When the dust settled on the Undergraduate Council??s termbill referendum, neither side received exactly what it wanted. After a divisive debate that polarized students into “yes-yes” and “no-no” factions, students voted for the termbill fee increase to $75 but voted against making the fee mandatory...
...prevent these scenarios from seriously disrupting the council??s operations, members of the council must make a concerted effort to convince as many students as possible to pay the new fee. In other words, although the campaign to convince students to approve the termbill increase is over, the campaign to win the hearts and dollars of students has just begun. The student body has retained the ability to keep the council honest and responsive. The council must recognize the stakes involved and work even harder to be fiscally responsible and to hold events that students actually want...