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This week, Harvard Right to Life (HRL) encouraged students to assert their opposition to elective abortion by opting out of a portion of their health services fee. The student group sent cards to each first-year and tabled in House dining halls, urging students to make a symbolic statement regarding their aversion to the practice by requesting a $1 refund from University Health Services (UHS). To criticize HRL’s annual campaign, which started in 1998, on the grounds that it causes any discernible harm would be petty; it has never led more than 101 students to opt...
...recently told The Crimson: “I don’t feel that people should have to spend their hard earned money on something that they oppose.” But if the University were to follow that logic, students would be allowed to opt out of myriad policies with which they feel moral conflict. Those against modern medical practices could opt out of the health services fee entirely. Vegetarian students would be allowed to abstain from portions of their meal plan fees, ensuring that their hard earned dollars were not going towards the purchase of meat. These abstentions...
Chan, one of the founders of the lobster advocacy group, has proposed implementing a $10 opt-out fee for students to fund the “monumental college experience...we’ll always look back...
...record turnout of nearly 4,000 undergraduates, 82 percent of voters supported a $10 fee to fund renewable energy at the College. Seventy-six percent voted for the fee to be optional and 59 percent chose for it to be opt-out, which means that the default is to pay for wind power...
...referendum to buy wind power also passed. The proposal would be funded by a $10 opt-out termbill...