Word: fee
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...There is no remarkable difference in the number of students waiving the [council] fee from last year to this year,” Keaney said...
Because of the small change in students opting out of the charge, the $25 fee increase will result in a council budget of $331,200 this year, as opposed to a $193,550 budget last year...
Last May, the council passed a bill to increase the fee from $35 to $60 during the 2004-2005 year and then to $75 the next year after a student body referendum and approval from the Faculty Council. Thirty-five percent of students voted in the referendum. Of those undergraduates, 53.2 percent supported the proposed fee hike that would provide more money for student groups and campus social events...
...former council representative Joshua A. Barro ’05 attributed the low opt-out rate to confusion over the electronic termbill. On the paper termbill, the default option was to pay the fee and on the new electronic version—first issued this summer—there was no place to opt out of paying the fee...
...electronic termbill had no option to opt out and didn’t even tell you that you could opt out,” said Barro, who was a primary opponent of the fee increase and resigned from the council immediately after the referendum. “Students shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to opt out of [the fee...