Word: fee
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...March 7, the Faculty Council voted to recommend raising the optional term-bill fee that provides funding for student groups from $20 to $35. Though the hike would overturn the result of last year's student referendum, the Faculty Council's decision is a good one, and the full Faculty should implement the recommendations at its next meeting...
...last time the term-bill fee was increased was 13 years ago, in 1988. The fee is channeled through the finance committee of the Undergraduate Council and used to fund student groups, which are sorely in need of greater funding. The combined effects of inflation and the huge increase since 1988 in the number of campus student groups have eroded the value of the $20 fee. The new $15 increase will help to alleviate financial constraints on organizations that have had to survive on increasingly smaller pieces of the council pie over the past 13 years...
...effects will be immediately visible. Most undergraduates may not know where their $34,269 per year goes, especially in the context of Harvard's $19 billion-plus endowment, but they will be able to observe first-hand the results of more money for their on-campus organizations. Furthermore, the fee is optional, and students who choose not to pay it are by no means required...
...alone. While conditions in Manhattan may be extreme, many women across the U.S. are finding it increasingly difficult to schedule routine mammograms in anything less than four to eight weeks. Some major imaging centers--notably in New York and Florida--have shut their doors. Others, squeezed by fee structures set by Medicare or managed care, are curtailing services. If you have a suspicious lump or other symptoms, you will usually be seen within a few days, but if you want to spot the smallest tumors--those that give you a 90% or better chance of long-term survival...
That is changing, however, as word of their benefits spreads--and as doulas come up with creative ways of expanding their services. Stephanie Soderblom of Mesa, Ariz., has a nontraditional and nondiscriminatory fee system. She asks $450 for a birth but will do payment plans, sliding scale and even barter for services. Says Soderblom: "I'll never do a birth for free, but I've done births for a quilt, a picture frame and even homemade cookies." Her payment philosophy comes from her experiences working with young, single mothers. "I didn't want these girls to feel as if they...