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...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...
This week, the Undergraduate Council has put forward a proposal to increase the student activities fee from $35 to $75 in order to fund more of the events we complain there aren’t enough of. Detractors, understand this: the only organization that has the ability to influence campus life on a large scale is the Undergraduate Council—University Hall is not directly accountable to students and never will cater to their desires. Moreover, campus life will not spontaneously improve by the force of our complaints; the need for the council to take on a larger role...
Some have argued that the proposed fee increase is too much, too fast. But compared to peer institutions’ student governments, the council is drastically under-funded. While our council’s budget hovers near $200,000, the Undergraduate Assembly (UA) at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school of comparable size, controls a budget of more than $1.1 million. Those advocating a gradual increase in council funds, linked to an index of inflation, fail to realize the supreme inadequacy of the council’s current budget. At even the highest proposed annual rate of increase...