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...question, which will appear on the online ballot for council president, will ask students if they support a new clean energy fee on their termbill and if so, whether the $10 yearly charge should be opt-in, opt-out or mandatory...
Over the past few weeks, the energy campaign has consumed many of its supporters’ waking hours, as they lobbied council representatives in advance of last week’s votes and prepared an all-out effort to win student support for a new fee...
While presidential candidate Tracy T. Moore II ’06 did not respond to requests for comment, Ian W. Nichols ’06, Moore’s running mate, has said he views a termbill fee as only a “temporary solution,” and that the administration should eventually foot the bill for renewable energy...
Even so, a spring 2003 survey conducted by REP suggests that the student body is receptive to the idea of a new termbill fee. About 69 percent of the more than 2,000 undergraduates surveyed said they would be “willing” to pay an extra $25 in room and board to allow for one-fifth of their residence’s energy to come from renewable sources...
...naysayers have objected to the fee on other grounds altogether. They have worried that the renewable energy fee might make people less likely to pay the student activities fee, which funds the council’s budget. Others have stated reservations about opening the floodgates to all kinds of new fees for worthy initiatives. But we dismiss both concerns as unwarranted. We are confident that helping Harvard become a greener energy consumer is of unique and singular importance, and it is one that has nothing to do with student’s desires to fund the council. The student body...