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...Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) endorsed one of the most significant proposals in the council’s history. The measure—which was never mentioned in any of the presidential candidates’ campaign platforms—sought to change the student activities fee the council charges to termbills from an optional $35 to a mandatory $100. Proponents may be right that by effectively tripling its budget, the council could radically expand and improve services. Yet more money could just mean more waste and inefficiency in an organization already marked by a penchant...
Proponents of the bill argued that the increased fee would allow the council to fund groups more generously...
Should the new fee be approved, the council’s budget would triple, rising to nearly...
Compared to other colleges, Harvard’s Undergraduate Council fee falls well below the norm. Stanford University, Northeastern University and Boston College all have fees near the $100 mark, while Boston University and Dartmouth College have fees of $414 and $540, respectively, according to council data...
Lurie said that while he does support the plan to raise the termbill fee, he was concerned that an increase in funding could actually decrease the fiscal accountability of the council’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), which is responsible for planning many of the council’s campus-wide events...