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There has been lately a lot of talk about this “opting” business. The idea of “opting,” a phrase I once used casually to say whether or not I’d like to do something, has recently taken on some serious new intonations. I’m not exactly sure where it began, but at least since the Undergraduate Council termbill tax hike last year, it seems that I have come to define myself and those around me in a new dimension: as opt-inners or opt-outers. It?...
...opt-in or to opt-out has been the question for the council, who gave us the opt-option on the termbill hike last semester and on the initiative to establish student funding for wind power last week. Incidentally, we chose to pass the hike and pass wind, and to be given the chance to opt-out of both of them. Other groups have been doing this opting thing on the sly for some time: Harvard Right to Life (HRL) helps students opt-out of the portion of their student health bills that can be used to pay for abortions...
...reaction to all this opting has already begun. There has been considerable consternation about the perils of opting out. Libertarian students collectively cursed current council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 this summer when they had to go through so much trouble to opt-out of their termbill fees. Students and deans alike have griped that the wind power initiative will further the trend in termbill opting, leading to 18 pages of opt-options each year asking students to be “in” or “out” on everything from providing retractable...
Last year’s UKA agreement between Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and the Masters’ Council allowed housemasters to selectively “opt-out” if they desired. To varying degrees Lowell, Dunster and Pforzheimer Houses have chosen this option...
...course, there was also the suggestion by Kevin K. Chan ’07, one of the founders of thefacebook.com’s lobster advocacy group, of a $10 opt-out fee for students to fund the feast, which he calls a “monumental college experience.” But, unlike the recently passed wind energy initiative, we don’t condone the use of opt-out fee referenda—however effective—ad nauseam. If either a Lobster Fund or Mercer doesn’t come through, we would rather trust HUDS?...