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After weeks of intense debate, students narrowly approved increasing the Student Activities Fee from $35 to $75 in a referendum vote held this week...
...experience over these important years is inseparable from the campus surrounding us—a campus for which we all too often disavow responsibility. This is why, when you go to vote in the Undergraduate Council’s Student Activities Fee referendum this week, I ask you to vote “yes” on both questions and invest in our home, for our benefit and that of future classes...
Should the referendum pass after the votes are tallied on Saturday afternoon, the issue will next go to the Faculty Council and then the general Faculty meeting for a final decision...
...remains unclear whether or not the Faculty will take up the issue at its May meeting. Mahan says it is more likely that if the referendum passes, the Faculty will decide on the fee hike next year, meaning the proposed change would not be implemented until 2004-2005 school year...
...vote that the council has, in a recent reversal, promised to take as binding—representatives will still have the option of increasing fees in a much more responsible way, to account for past years’ inflation. The architect of the amendment that made the present referendum binding, Joshua A. Barro ’05, estimates that a fee increase to account for past years’ inflation would represent a justifiable and modest 12 percent increase, to about $42. This is exactly the type of modest increase that’s needed—not the pipe...