Eliminate student activity fee
March 26, 2001
The Daily forgot to include the self-promoting Government of the Student Body rule on a poster and therefore broke the bylaws of the mighty GSB.
One possible solution to this whole controversy would be to simply dissolve the student activity fee. I surely must be joking, but I’m not.
So every semester I pay $62 in activity fees of which how much goes to support the different organizations around campus.
Eliminating these fees would allow people to spend their money where and they want – a free market of sorts.
Maybe I don’t want to join a club of any kind; maybe I want to sit in my room and learn.
That’s fine; I get to keep my money.
At the same time, if I want to go sailing, or have people tie me up, that’s fine, too, and I can pay my dues to support the club of my choice.
What this allows me is freedom of choice.
I don’t have to worry about my money going to an organization that I think is unnecessary or immoral or for some other reason not justified for my money.
I think the over-stepping reign of GSB has gone on long enough.
I think it is time to turn the reins to the very able-minded student body and let them decide.
Brad Lee Bonner
Senior
Philosophy and psychology