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According to a Crimson straw poll of 200 students yesterday, 34 percent of students said they were undecided about their picks for president and vice-president, while 37 percent said they were unlikely to vote at all.
When students select their pick for Undergraduate Council president in one week, voters will also be able to decide whether to raise the student activities fee on a termbill unchanged since 1988.
According to council President Noah Z. Seton '00, student groups will be the greatest beneficiaries of the fee increase. Last year, the council gave about $109,000 in grants to more than 170 student groups, and spent about $50,000 on campus events like Springfest and general operating costs, such...
"If we only had $20 per student, we would end up cutting a lot of our programming," says Jimmy Carter, president pro temp of the Duke Student Government.
According to USG President Spencer Merriweather, the USG brings an outside band to campus for about $40,000 each semester, prints an annual course guide, and runs shuttle buses to local malls and movie theaters. The USG also has three paid office staff members.