Monday, November 21, 2005
Got a problem? Raise fees!
Hey, look, another fee increase. I'm sure it'll pass, because students are dumb like that.
This time, the Career Center apparently needs $5 million or so to move a few blocks up Bancroft. Students will be paying for all of it, but it'll be completely under the control of the university, it seems.
A tentative plan would involve a fee referendum, a student vote to raise fees an average of $13 per student each semester for the next ten years.
The fee, which would be subject to removal or renewal by the student body, would increase each year, starting with $10 and ending with $16.
Okay, the first paragraph implies an increase of $13 each semester, for a total increase of $260, and an average fee somewhere around $135 a semester. But we can pass that off as just bad writing.
But since approximately 20 to 25 percent of undergraduates go on to pursue degrees at the graduate and doctoral levels, the move would allow students to use more services, [Center Director Tom Devlin] said.
What? If, say, 10 percent, or 50 percent, did so, would the move allow fewer students to use more services? More students to use fewer services?
On the plus side, at least we'll be getting a service that future generations will have to pay for, as opposed to the "cry over Temina Madon's suicidal pal" fee increase of last semester.
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