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...Sunday night the Undergraduate Council voted down a recommendation by its president Noah Z. Seton '00 to ask the Dean of the College and the Faculty for an increase in the term bill fee from $20 to $50. Last March, we encouraged students to support the council's referendum on the issue and agree to the term bill increase, conditional on the council's cutting its size. Eight months later, after poor turnout for the referendum and no sign that the council will be thinning its ranks, we cannot support Seton's recommendation. The council was right not to pass...
...Seton's proposal to increase student group funding has merit. We are glad that the council is seeking student opinion, but we simply need guarantees that the money will go to student groups and that the council itself will be reformed before we can support the proposal...
Rollert said Seton's willingness to admit that he was wrong demonstrates a maturity that ought to be applauded...
...Seton] decided not to go out with guns blazing. He realized that the better point had been brought forward," Rollert said...
...Despite Seton's promise to campaign against any candidate who does not support the increase, and the general support for the increase among council representatives, some candidates may work a disapproval of the increase into their platforms in the hopes of winning over voters disenchanted with the council and its role on campus...