Word: fees
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Barro’s amendment specified that the council could not ask for an fee increase greater than inflation as indicated by the Consumer Price Index...
Members also voted that if the referendum fails, the council can retroactively request an increase in inflation since 2001—the last time the fee was raised...
...April 19 editorial on the Undergraduate Council and the proposed increase to the Student Activities Fee (SAF) made three assertions (“A Vote of No Confidence”). While I appreciate the seriousness of the concerns raised, I feel that each assertion was inaccurate and has the potential to cloud debate on the upcoming referendum. First, the editorial questioned the council’s capacity to maturely deliberate issues of great importance to students because of “hostility and childish antics” at council meetings. In fact (as the editorial later concedes), decorum at council...
...blatant disregard” for the will of the student body by defeating an amendment to the referendum. This claim is simply mistaken. In fact, the referendum represents the council’s full faith in the student body to decide whether or not to raise the Student Activities Fee. The amendment was voted down for a specific reason: because it would have disallowed increases according to inflation. Many council members initially favored the amendment, but when the sponsor adamantly refused to change its wording to except inflation, the rest of the council rightly rejected the proposal...
...Whitman, 47, is not just the genial host at this giant party, picking up a fee for each listing and a small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built...