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From: wjjordan@watdragon.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Are Mandatory PIRG Fees Legal?
Message-ID: <273@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 15:01:07 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.273
Posted: Fri Jan 24 15:01:07 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 03:29:50 EST
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Reply-To: wjjordan@watdragon.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Waterloo's approach to the problem of collecting fees is like this:
Some fees, like tuition, co-op fee, dumb computer fee, supplementary
health insurance and the athletic fee are required for registration.
Other fees such as the Federation of Students, faculty student society,
campus paper, campus radio station and PIRG are refundable.  Students may
cross these off the fee statement when they pay their tuition (frowned
upon by the Financial Services office), or they may pay them and ask
for a refund from the appropriate organisation (that way the University
itself doesn't have to be involved with it) during the first three
weeks of lectures if they do not wish to support the service.
Students withdrawing their Federation or faculty society fee lose all
privileges that they would hold as members (cheaper admission to concerts,
pubs, etc., the Legal Resource Office and other services).  Students
withdrawing their PIRG, campus paper or campus radio fee should not
partake of their activities and products in good conscience, but there's
nothing to monitor that.

As far as I know, Waterloo is the only Canadian university with
refundable incidental fees.  Perhaps you could propose something similar
at OSU.

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			W. Jim Jordan
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