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Mary Jo Keaney, a supervisor at the Student Receivables Office (SRO), said that last year 6,659 undergraduates were billed and 1,129 opted out of the $35 fee, while so far this year, 1,046 out of 6,566 students have chosen not to pay the higher $60 fee...
...There is no remarkable difference in the number of students waiving the [council] fee from last year to this year,” Keaney said...
Because of the small change in students opting out of the charge, the $25 fee increase will result in a council budget of $331,200 this year, as opposed to a $193,550 budget last year...
Last May, the council passed a bill to increase the fee from $35 to $60 during the 2004-2005 year and then to $75 the next year after a student body referendum and approval from the Faculty Council. Thirty-five percent of students voted in the referendum. Of those undergraduates, 53.2 percent supported the proposed fee hike that would provide more money for student groups and campus social events...
...former council representative Joshua A. Barro ’05 attributed the low opt-out rate to confusion over the electronic termbill. On the paper termbill, the default option was to pay the fee and on the new electronic version—first issued this summer—there was no place to opt out of paying the fee...