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...Cope With Death,” “Mama I’m a Thug” and “The Big Abandoned Refrigerator Adventure.” Approach with caution and a strong stomach; once you’ve paid the admission fee, you’ll feel obligated to sit through even the most shudder-inducing clips. Tickets $9. Fridays and Saturdays, midnight. Runs through May 22. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline...
After weeks of intense debate, students narrowly approved increasing the Student Activities Fee from $35 to $75 in a referendum vote held this week...
Once we realized that we were struggling to respond to student group grant requests and complaints about social life, we began looking at our peer institutions and realized that our student activities fee is far lower than those at other schools. While every college structures its activities fee differently, in each case most of the money is disbursed by students for student groups, social life and services. Boston University (BU), for example, has a mandatory $414 yearly fee with $128 devoted to student groups and $82 to campus events. So even though BU’s fee covers a broader...
Although Harvard’s fee is currently $35, my predecessor’s administration set the council budget at $47 per student as it attempted to keep pace with demand by spending past rollover. The reality is that while the campus has become accustomed to consuming council grants, events, and services at $47 per student, the next fiscal budget will have to return to the $35 per student level, meaning smaller grants and fewer events and services. This decline would be less serious if the reality were not that other top campuses are already easily spending a few times...
Finally, if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) makes the activities fee mandatory, it will become part of tuition and therefore part of the “cost of attendance” in the Financial Aid Office’s calculation—the mandatory fee would be eligible for tuition aid. As long as the fee remains opt-out, it is not specifically taken into account when setting aid packages. If FAS decides to delay aid coverage for a mandatory fee, I will personally lobby to delay the switch to mandatory until such coverage is secured...