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When students select their pick for Undergraduate Council president in one week, voters will also be able to decide whether to raise the student activities fee on a termbill unchanged since...
...bill would attach the referendum to the presidential ballot later this month, along with a referendum to increase the council's term bill fee. For the referendum to be binding, at least as many students as voted in the first election of the school year must vote...
...Bank of America fired back by closing their ATMs to nondepositors in Santa Monica and threatening to do the same in San Francisco when its law takes effect in December--all of which made cardholders even angrier. A federal judge sided with the banks by blocking the anti-fee laws until a full trial can determine their constitutionality. Says Santa Monica council member Michael Feinstein: "The electorate's response to the ordinance has been overwhelmingly positive...
...surcharges are particularly galling to pols and consumer groups because they seem to amount to blatant double dipping. For example, a nondepositor who pays $1.50 for ATM cash often pays his own bank a $1-to-$2 fee for the same transaction. Such fees more than cover the cost of the transaction, which opponents put at 27[cents] per withdrawal. Says Santa Monica's Feinstein: "The banks say there is no free lunch for a service, when in fact they are asking us to pay twice for lunch...
...requires you to sign up for a little-known option provided by most local phone companies called call forward on busy. This means that if your phone is busy, an incoming call is automatically forwarded to another number--for $1 to $3 a month, plus a one-time activation fee. (In Manhattan it's $16 plus $1.60 a month--hardly free.) With Callwave, callers are forwarded to an 800 number that plays a canned greeting telling people you're online and inviting them to leave a brief message. Like magic (or so it seemed to me the first time...