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Currently, the University of Wisconsin charges a mandatory fee from each student, which is channeled to student groups through a general university fund as well as through the student government. The students who sued objected to the activities of groups such as Amnesty International, the Madison AIDS Support Network and the Campus Women's Center, and they have asked for the right to withhold their support. Several right-wing law organizations, such as the Washington Legal Foundation, have submitted amicus briefs urging the Court to end the University of Wisconsin's fee system...
...politically-oriented groups. They rely on a Supreme Court decision prohibiting a government-imposed union from requiring its members to contribute dues towards the union's political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious, political, artistic and social. A union is allowed to gather dues to support collective bargaining and other activities central to its purpose and many universities see the existence of a well-used forum...
...addition, the staff overlooks the fact that the ability to withhold funds from groups or organizations is itself a powerful form of expression. An optional term bill fee would allow students to voice their disapproval of groups which they found offensive by choosing not to fund them. To deny them this opportunity is to deny them a powerful avenue of dissent...
...defined editorial position be considered political?--and conditioning the funding of groups on their political status might result in a chilling effect that would eliminate otherwise worthwhile activities. The lawyers for the students also argued that the university should not be allowed to sidestep the case by incorporating the fee as part of tuition, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed might raise questions of whether a university can teach positions with which any students disagree...
...Supreme Court's decision is unlikely to have any effect on Harvard, since the University is private and the student fee that funds the council's disbursements is voluntary. If it loses the case, the University of Wisconsin is also likely to make the fee voluntary rather than create a logistical nightmare by giving students the opportunity to pick and choose which groups they would like to support...