Word: refundability
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While HRL has provided these cards at the Activities Fairs in the fall of past years, this week represents its first initiative to publicize the refund option in dining halls...
Harvard Right to Life (HRL) kicked off a campaign on Monday to encourage students to request a nominal refund for the portion of their Health Services fee that funds elective abortions...
...members have been tabling at dining halls every night this week to provide cards that students can use to request the refund and which HRL will send...
According to the 2002-2003 Guide to University Health Services, students can receive a refund of this fee by sending their own notes explaining that they have “strong moral objections to sharing the cost of elective abortions...
Despite the council’s wise ideological stance on this matter, the second operative part of the resolution, which establishes a process to refund student groups for lost posters, is procedurally infeasible and ineffective at promoting free speech. First, there is no way for clubs to verify the number of posters lost to vandalism. Second, even if a council committee could somehow discern legitimate claims from dubious ones, simply reimbursing recognized clubs will not alter the community’s feeling concerning the freedom of expression. The dilemma that makes this problem so urgent is not the fiscal loss...