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Under the new plan, which raises the cost of the program by $2, students are allowed to keep the Microsoft programs on their computers after they leave the university. The $2 charge brings the total fee to about $20 per student annually, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's on-line edition...
...places, where new, tentative, and outrageous ideas and activities should be given additional support and cultivation. As a matter of fact, it seems that small, startup projects are the greatest beneficiaries of the Undergraduate Council's grants process. Most students probably wouldn't want to eliminate their termbill activities fee and replace it with a market system because we believe that the dynamism of student life--even if it is some what artificial--significantly enriches our experience, and we seem to think that dynamism will not be able to flourish satisfactorily without subsidies...
Some on the council agree with this in the extreme and voted recently to hold a campus-wide referendum to be held later this month on a proposed $20 increase in the activities fee. Before we rush headlong into endorsing this increase, however, consider what exactly it gets us. Will our campus life become twice as vigorous if the council has twice the money to distribute? Or will balkanized student groups just get richer and more expansive? And if our extracurricular life becomes twice as dynamic, will our academic life correspondingly become half as significant a force in our undergraduate...
While Harvard's activities fee is currently assessed on an all-or-nothing basis, the Wisconsin students seek the opportunity to opt out of subsidizing only particular groups. Loyal readers of this page will recognize the quandary this poses as being similar to the debate launched by Daniel Choi'94 last fall over Harvard's policy of refunding the portion of student health fees that funds UHS-performed abortions...
...long as the money from activities fees in distributed fairly and without regard to the supposed ideological propriety of projects, it is clear that these fees add to the dynamism of campus life. It is uncertain whether the council's proposed fee increase would really be advantageous, but what is certain is that the sort of opt-out schemes that may result from the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling would bring chaos to termbills, all in the name of suspicious free-speech claims. I share the Wisconsin students' aversion to thought control, but the special character of university student life...