Word: fees
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...Undergraduate Council presidential hopefuls weren’t the only ones with white knuckles of anxiety last Thursday night. But when the votes had been tallied, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC)—who sponsored the proposed addition of a wind energy fee to next year’s termbill—had as much cause to celebrate as anyone...
...percent of the nearly 4,000 students who cast ballots in last week’s election favored adding the proposed fee to the termbill, signaling campus support for at least giving individuals the opportunity to choose to contribute funding towards wind power (76 percent of voters preferred the fee remain optional). However, despite having garnered proof of their significant student backing, the EAC and its supporters now face the most significant obstacle to making the fee a reality: the Faculty Council...
Fitzsimmons said past numbers point to a 70 percent chance that applicants requesting fee waivers would also qualify for a new financial aid initiative Summers launched last February. The program waives all parental contributions for students from families with annual incomes of less than $40,000, and reduces payments for families earning less than $60,000 per year...
...Harvard is committed to efficient and sustainable energy, and will invest in this on a substantial scale, but we don’t believe that it is appropriate to use an optional check-off fee as a mechanism for supporting those investments,” Summers said...
...course, there was also the suggestion by Kevin K. Chan ’07, one of the founders of thefacebook.com’s lobster advocacy group, of a $10 opt-out fee for students to fund the feast, which he calls a “monumental college experience.” But, unlike the recently passed wind energy initiative, we don’t condone the use of opt-out fee referenda—however effective—ad nauseam. If either a Lobster Fund or Mercer doesn’t come through, we would rather trust HUDS?...