Word: hike
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...increase was first proposed at a general meeting in early April, a heated debate resulted in the issue being tabled. The following week, during the April 12 meeting, council members approved by a 39-5 vote, with one abstention, a referendum that would let students vote on the fee hike...
...while, the opposition was active in challenging the hike, and both sides have fought each other at nearly every turn...
...remains unclear whether or not the Faculty will take up the issue at its May meeting. Mahan says it is more likely that if the referendum passes, the Faculty will decide on the fee hike next year, meaning the proposed change would not be implemented until 2004-2005 school year...
...students to agree to a more than 100 percent increase in the student fees the council currently receives. The second question asks voters to make this fee which students can currently opt out of, mandatory. Students should vote “no” on both questions. The fee hike represents an unjustifiably large, and poorly thought-out, increase—one which the council is not institutionally equipped to handle and, we fear, might be squandered on projects Harvard students aren’t truly interested...
Over the past few weeks, fee hike proponents have circulated a sexy (though misleading) figure that suggests that this year’s council has only funded 38 percent of student groups’ total grant requests. A closer examination, provided by a recent analysis of four grants packages authored by FiCom chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 (himself a proponent of the fee hike), reveals that the council in fact funds nearly 70 percent of all applicants that request less than $750. These applications account for the vast majority (86 percent) of all grant requests. These numbers...