Word: refundable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another proposed "reform" was the council's attempt to make it more difficult for students to get refunds of their "contribution." Students can currently obtain a refund of most of their contribution by checking off a box on their term bill. But following in the effort to bring the red tape of Washington to Harvard, the council to created a bureaucracy of its own for distributing refunds...
...term bill was just too simple for the council. Instead, our representatives voted to require all students to navigate through a maze of bureaucracies; the Undergraduate Council, the Term Will office, and the Dean of Students' office. In the words of Vice-President Joshua D. Liston '96, this circuitous refund process was designed solely to make it more difficult" for students to reclaim their dollars...
...final result, as one may have guessed, is that getting a refund has recently become virtually impossible. In fact; council contributions have been as "voluntary" as social security contributions...
After the council voted to increase the council fee and eliminate the option of getting refund on the term bill, students, decided that enough was enough. It was time to stop the madness. Anjalee Davis '96 and many other students across the campus organized a petition drive to hold a referendum on repealing these, and other, council votes...
Instead of assuming that everyone is going to pore over the term bill to find the council refund box, the council should be required to enclose a cover letter with every term bill explaining their activities and requesting financial support. Students should be presented with the option of checking either a "yes" or "no" box. The council should receive the money only if the student checks the "yes" box. This measure would remove the underhandedness of the current process...