Word: refundability
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...proposal? To eliminate the possibility of receiving a refund of the council fee charged to every student's term bill. The council wants to force all students who want their tax refunded to go through the hassle or writing to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
While this may not seem like such a terrible requirement, it has two significant flaws. First, of it is passed, almost all students would be unable to obtain a refund of their council "contribution." And second, the council would receive a windfall with which it could do as it pleased, thereby encouraging profligate spending...
...painfully aware of just how difficult it is. I have been trying to secure a refund from the council for more than four months now. Despite all the time and effort, the check still hasn't come...
...comparison with other schools, even a $30 term bill fee is small. The average fee for both the Ivy League and the major Boston area school is about $75. Princeton and Northeastern are the lowest at about $35. In almost none of these cases can you get a refund, even with a letter to the Dean. Even with an increase to just $30, the council will be proportionately less funded than any of these other schools. The results, however, would be felt positively by all students...
...real change would be that students would lose their check-Off option and would have to write to get their $30 refund. The budding IRS agents in the UC figure that although Harvard students love to write intellectualized polemics, they don't love to write anything so blandly "useful" as a request for a few dollars...