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...Faculty Council on Wednesday approved the student body’s vote in a referendum two weeks ago to raise the optional Student Activities Fee to $75 from its current...
...message indeed. College admissions camps simply exploit the fears of anxious parents and overachieving students to line their pockets. They portray the college admissions process as a ridiculous, high-stakes game whose solutions only they can provide—and for a preposterous fee...
Lastly, I would like to call attention to the arbitrary nature in which this fee increase proposal was decided upon by the council. Because the goal of the fee increase was to ensure that the council’s budget would be large enough for the events it wished to put on, the process should have begun with an assessment of the council’s need, with the amount of the fee corresponding to the amount of the need. However, the reverse was done: the council first chose a number (originally $100), and then discerned how many events...
...budgetary specificity on the part of the council, signal glaring problems both with the council’s ability to handle the more than doubled budget that the increase would bring and also the high likelihood that the student body will not be significantly positively impacted by the fee increase...
...these reasons that I strongly urge Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 not to endorse and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences not to approve the increase in the Student Activities Fee. While the council may be well-intentioned, the process was not sound and the student mandate is virtually nonexistent. With such a small margin of a small turnout, on an issue with such ignored complexity, the students have not spoken...