Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hike over to the Middle East restaurant in Central to check out an afternoon show at 2 p.m. Upstairs High Society, Good Guy Mom and Force of Habit rock out, while local folkie Don White plays a benefit show for the Piano Dave Fund for the Homeless downstairs. 354-8238. $6 upstairs, $10 downstairs...
...Undergraduate Council wants a raise. When they return from spring break, students will face a referendum that will ask them to double their council term bill fee from $20 to $40. While this request is sure to be controversial, we encourage students to vote in favor of the hike...
...term bill hike is no way a reward for stellar council performance but rather a realization that student groups cannot do their work with passion alone. It is they, and not necessarily the council, who deserve a raise...
...then-hiding the fact that the council is largely impotent to do anything other than follow a procedure for giving out cash to people who ask for it. And there's even a big question in my mind as to whether student groups need more money. The term bill hike would mean, according to the council's hypothetical budget, that $180,000 would go to that purpose alone-a $100,000 increase over the current level of funding. There is something to be said for not giving every student group as much money as it claims it needs...
...short run, this may mean voting against the term bill hike in the April referendum, unless the council is prepared to reconsider (and approve) downsizing between now and then. Short of a "constitutional convention" to draft an all-new student government--not a bad idea in itself--this kind of pressure may be the only route students have to making the council accountable and legitimate. And once legitimacy is attained, even just a little legitimacy, a lot more will be possible than doling out dollars to student groups. Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House...