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...April referendum. After a contentious campaign, undergraduates voted to increase the Student Activities Fee—an optional termbill charge that makes up the bulk of the council’s revenue—by an unprecedented and excessive 114 percent. Undergraduate voters refused, however, to make the fee mandatory on student termbills...
...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...
...President Matthew A. Steinert ‘06 tried to justify the fee in an e-mail by blaming McGrath Studios. “In order to eliminate the $10 fee we would need to be willing to find a photographer to take pictures for FREE,” he wrote. In fact, owner Bob McGrath has said he would be happy to provide free photo sittings, as he does at Boston College and Harvard Law School...
Though McGrath Studios collects the fee, it in fact goes back to the yearbook in the form of a kickback for being the exclusive senior portrait provider to Harvard undergraduates. McGrath Studios charges students $10 and then pays the yearbook $25. (They call it a “rebate.”) In effect, the yearbook charges each student $10 just to be included. McGrath pays HYP a net $15 per student for the exclusive rights to the 1400 senior portraits...
Steinert naively thinks that the two hundred students who do not appear in the yearbook are avoiding photos for some other reason. “If a student can’t pay the fee we haven’t heard anything of it,” he said. If this is the case, students who oppose the fee must show it. Undergraduates should reject this fee just as they rejected a mandatory student activities fee, and show their opinions by emailing yearbook@hcs.harvard.edu...