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After weeks of intense debate, students narrowly approved increasing the Student Activities Fee from $35 to $75 in a referendum vote held this week...
...percent margin, students rejected a proposal to make the fee mandatory. The result of the split decision is that the fee is likely not to be covered by financial aid, as it will not be considered one of Harvard’s mandatory fees...
...students, or 35 percent of the campus, who voted in the election, 53.2 percent voted in favor of the increase, while 46.8 percent voted against it. On the question of whether to make the fee, which is currently optional, mandatory, 44.4 percent approved the measure, while 55.6 percent voted it down...
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...
...large increase in funds can rest assured that along with a doubled budget will come more than doubled enthusiasm, energy and creativity to make good use of it—a plant does not grow before it is watered. Let it grow. Vote to increase the student activities fee so that we can live up to our moniker of the College...