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...actually defeat the goal that it hopes to accomplish. As the extremely close results of the referendum show, many students are not in favor of such an increase. While many may happily support the current $35 activities fee, increasing it to $75 will likely cause many to opt out of its payment. The result would be both a sense of alienation among students and a significant decrease in council revenue. Although revenue may not decrease below its current level, the result will become highly inequitable: students who opt out of the fee will pay nothing, while those...
...waive paying it. Couple this new awareness with generally negative feelings about paying a new, higher fee, and the council could theoretically lose money next year. Free-riding will inevitably be an issue as well; we doubt students will skip a U2 concert just because they conveniently checked the opt...
...interest of making it easier to protest or support the council, we also feel that the “opt-out” system must be replaced by two check boxes: one for opting-in and one for opting-out. Thanks to the termbill referendum, many more students now know about their right to opt-out of paying the Student Activities Fee that funds the council. Nevertheless, the 65 percent of Harvard students who did not vote in the referendum deserve to exert the same discretion. The clear vote against changing the fee to mandatory implies that the student body...
What the council cannot afford is to brush off its responsibility to justify the fee increase in hopes that students will forget to opt-out next year. Although it means more work for the embattled organization, the outcome of this referendum also presents a tremendous opportunity for the council. On its shoulders rests the responsibility to prove to students that it deserves more money. If the council is successful, then students will be better served, and the council will be able to state more confidently that it has widespread support for all the activities it organizes. That kind of legitimacy...
...think that the people that continue to opt out will opt out and I think that those are some of the people that voted to keep it optional,” said Chapa. “There may be a slight decrease [in the number of students who pay the fee] next year but I expect it to return to normal by the year after...