Word: fees
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...same week that a majority of undergraduate voters rejected a mandatory student activities fee, hundreds of juniors willingly paid a mandatory fee to have their photos included in next year’s yearbook. They had little choice: for $10, they could have their photos taken by McGrath Studios; for $50, they could provide their own photos to the yearbook. If students refused to pay, neither their photo nor any of their information would appear in the yearbook...
Harvard Yearbook Publications (HYP) is abusing the absolute monopoly it has over the yearbook. It should eliminate the $10 fee, which together with the $50 fee helps to discourage about 200 students each year from getting their photo taken to appear in the yearbook. Lost revenue could be made up through increased sales and a better contract with the studio. If HYP strove to earn money in other ways, everyone could afford to be included in the yearbook...
This combination of fees is both unfair and bad for business. It is unfair because it is not in exchange for a good or service that normally costs money. It would be like charging athletes for the privilege of being covered in The Crimson’s sports pages—clearly a preposterous idea. HYP leaders argue that in fact the $10 fee is a necessary part of their revenue. But this should be a free service, as it is at HYP’s archrival, the Yale Banner...
...fee is also bad for business, because it discourages students from sitting for pictures. Each year, 1400 students pay the $10 fee, which buys the right to have a photo in the yearbook. But a full two hundred students opt out of being included in the yearbook each year, doubtless in large part because of this fee. Students who refuse to pay either of the two fees are excluded from the yearbook, which greatly decreases their likelihood of buying one. By eliminating the $10 fee and allowing all students to have their photos in the yearbook, HYP would give...
Gurcheran Gill, the manager of Tommy’s Pizza on Mt. Auburn St., says that he also finds the program to be prohibitively expensive. According to Gill, HUDS offered to extend the program to Tommy’s for an initial $400 plus an 8 percent fee on every transaction. Tommy’s would also have to pay $570 for a Crimson Cash machine, says Gill...