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When the dust settled on the Undergraduate Council’s termbill referendum, neither side received exactly what it wanted. After a divisive debate that polarized students into “yes-yes” and “no-no” factions, students voted for the termbill fee increase to $75 but voted against making the fee mandatory...
...possible outcomes of the referendum, this one has the potential to be the worst. Although the fee increase passed, students are now more aware of their right to waive paying it. Couple this new awareness with generally negative feelings about paying a new, higher fee, and the council could theoretically lose money next year. Free-riding will inevitably be an issue as well; we doubt students will skip a U2 concert just because they conveniently checked...
...Advocate requested a 50-year lease with Harvard. Though the University would not agree to that deal, the two parties instead settled on a 15-year lease, expiring in 2011, for an agreed $1-per-year fee...
...that the people that continue to opt out will opt out and I think that those are some of the people that voted to keep it optional,” said Chapa. “There may be a slight decrease [in the number of students who pay the fee] next year but I expect it to return to normal by the year after...
...group is still at what Ury calls "the level of experiments" as organizers figure out how best to harness email, web chats and intranets to serve members, several hundred lawmakers have already signed on, representing countries from Brazil to India. Nonlegislators can join a related forum, paying a fee that depends on the size of their organization. The goal: to devise common solutions to common challenges. Collective problem solving makes sense, says Dunlop, the body's secretary-general: "If you were a management consultant advising legislators, you wouldn't say, 'Divide up into 130 groups and solve a problem...