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...question, which will appear on the online ballot for council president, will ask students if they support a new clean energy fee on their termbill and if so, whether the $10 yearly charge should be opt-in, opt-out or mandatory...
...Harvard produces. If the proposal is passed, the council will place a referendum on next week’s presidential ballot which would ask students two questions: first, whether they support placing a $10 renewable energy fee on termbills and second, whether the charge should be “opt-in,” “opt-out,” or mandatory. We emphatically urge the council to pass the legislation, and we hope students will approve the fee on an “opt-out” basis...
...that very important reason that we feel this fee should be optional—so as to provide the EAC with a mandate to sway the administration. But the question of whether to make the fee “opt-out” or “opt-in” is more complicated. The proposal’s backers called for an opt-out charge, arguing that an opt-in fee would under-represent students who support the initiative since only those students who noticed to check the box would do so. On the other hand, making...
...must throw our support behind the opt-out side and urge voters to do so as well. Given that students must already opt-out of the student activities fee, and given that the Student Receivables Office has vowed to make the opt-out mechanism for online bills simpler and more straight-forward, the objections about coercing added support seem misplaced. If the issue is simply that too many students’ parents skip over the fine print, we think it better to err on the side of more support rather than less. The issue of climate control is simply...
...choice is the best choice because we believe that students should have a choice over whether they support renewables,” said Allison I. Rogers ’04, who now works for the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. “We’re positive that the opt-out method would be the most successful and the campaign now needs to educate the campus on why the opt-out method is best...