Word: refundability
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Since the council fee is supposedly an optional charge, the current refund process is clearly unfair--indeed, shamefully so. The council taxes students systematically, often without their knowledge. Unless students carefully read their term bill, they end up paying the fee without even noticing...
Since the council fee is supposedly optional, the current refund process is unfair...
Once students spend some time on campus and realize the various ways the council mismanages their money, their attempts to get a full refund of the fee are thwarted at every turn by unfulfilled promises and unanswered letters...
...never participate in [council]-sponsored activities and did not even know I was paying for them," says Sung H. Nam '95. "Now I have wasted money and it is really a [expletive deleted] hassle to get it back." Making it difficult to obtain the refund of a hidden tax is certainly not in the true spirit of what student government should be doing. "The current refund system is a pain in the neck," says Mark C. Alonge '96. "They make you write a letter and then never get back...
After four semesters of seeking a way to foil the council's "optional" tax scheme, I recently stumbled across one. It is possible, I have learned, to get around the ridiculous refund procedure and finally reclaim your money from the incompetent and deceitful council...