Word: fee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote will cover all three proposals: a $12 student activities fee; compulsory subscription to The Radcliffe News; and appointment of the N.S.A. delegate to a new second vice presidency of Student Government...
First issue to be decided in the current reforendum was presented on the previous ballot--which was reprinted in shortened form for the new vote--as follows: "Resolved, that there shall be payment of a student activities fee required of all Radcliffe students: Student Government, $1.50; the News, $1.50; class dues, $2.00; yearbook, $3.00; Signature, $1.00; club dues (two clubs), $2.50; Idler tickets, 50 cents; total...
Arguments advanced for this issue included the claim that the fee is a bargain, since the same items now cost 'Cliffedweilers $17,00; the assertion that activities would thrive with the all-college backing they now lack; the belief that organizations now dependent on Harvard membership would win new independence; the possibilities of a year book which would chronicle affairs of all four classes instead of one; advantages of a pooled emergency fund for all clubs, publications and groups like Radcliffe; and the ease of collection...
Opponents of the blanket fee have protested that they prefer to contribute directly to clubs and activities of their own choice, as they do under the present Pay Day system; have declared that the fee taxes students who choose to remain aloof from undergraduate activities; and have charged that the increase from $5.75, the present minimum levy, to $12.00 is too great a boost...
Finally, the Student Government has been wise in announcing a clear-cut policy on tallying the votes, making it plain that only the activities fee issue will be forced to reach the total majority requirement for a final decision. The Student Government has provided lucid directions; the simplest measure of compliance by the Radcliffe student body will settle three troublesome questions this spring...