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Another proposed "reform" was the council's attempt to make it more difficult for students to get refunds of their "contribution." Students can currently obtain a refund of most of their contribution by checking off a box on their term bill. But following in the effort to bring the red tape of Washington to Harvard, the council to created a bureaucracy of its own for distributing refunds...
...Students would have a chance to reflect on their work and how it related to the issues studied in class. It sounded rather touchyfeely, perhaps more appropriate for FOP trips or roommate procrastochats. But, since many other colleges have put these methods into practice, the PBHA Board attempted to obtain some ideas and suggestions from them...
...myself think that [other programs] are welcome to apply for membership as a committee and to obtain votes and resources like any other committee," he said. "But there's a limit to what we can do without further resources--and those resources are vehicles, funding, staffing and space...
...never participate in [council]-sponsored activities and did not even know I was paying for them," says Sung H. Nam '95. "Now I have wasted money and it is really a [expletive deleted] hassle to get it back." Making it difficult to obtain the refund of a hidden tax is certainly not in the true spirit of what student government should be doing. "The current refund system is a pain in the neck," says Mark C. Alonge '96. "They make you write a letter and then never get back...
...this weren't bad enough, Nero defied the revocation on July 16, when she drove a van without permission to obtain first-aid kits for a planned program sleepover, hardly the life-threatening situation stipulated. Finally, Nero allegedly authorized an uncertified counselor to drive a PBHA van and blatantly disregarded PBHA's insurance policy...