Word: fees
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Despite the defeat of the proposal to make the fee mandatory, Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said he was happy with the results of the referendum...
...council members who opposed the measure questioned the fact that less than one-fifth of the student body voted in favor of increasing the fee...
...similar referendum held in 1999 which asked students to double the then-$20 fee drew only 369 students or 5.9 percent to the polls, resulting in the vote counting as only “advisory” per the council’s constitution. Another referendum held in December of that year on the same ballot as the presidential election was defeated by 149 votes, in a 1583 to 1434 decision...
Joshua A. Barro ’05—who led the opposition against the increase—predicted that the increased fee as well as the increased publicity about its optional nature may result in a declining participation rate. Currently, 92 percent of students pay the optional $35 fee...
...that the people that continue to opt out will opt out and I think that those are some of the people that voted to keep it optional,” said Chapa. “There may be a slight decrease [in the number of students who pay the fee] next year but I expect it to return to normal by the year after...