Word: hike
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dice. Bush essentially told them to take a hike...
Marked by hostility and childish antics, recent meetings of the Undergraduate Council have left an unsettling impression of the council’s capacity to maturely deliberate issues of great importance to students—namely, the proposed termbill hike that would raise the current optional fee of $35 to a compulsory (and revised figure of) $75. To be fair, the decorum at last night’s meeting returned to normal. But before the student body votes on the fee hike in a referendum later this semester, the council should consider whether its recent behavior imparts confidence...
...common council concern is that students will not take the time to adequately educate themselves on the benefits of a termbill hike. Instead, students will make a knee-jerk response to the proposed costs, never considering its advantages. Many council members point to the myriad benefits that a hike could undoubtedly provide—better grants funding, bigger campus-wide events, top name bands; but, the council should remember that the onus is on them to convince the student body that the hike is necessary. They cannot rely on the excuse that students are apathetic and that, therefore, the council...
...effectively handicapped the council by not ever allowing for a termbill increase to compensate for inflation. However, it seems that the only thing draconian about the current legislation is its insistence on disregarding the wishes of the student body. The council has already tried to ram through the fee hike, which was initially an increase from $35 to $100, without ever holding a referendum—a measure that would have severely delegitimized the efforts of the council...
University policy, however, offers little weaponry to combat this large-scale apathy towards making the hike to take in a game...