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From: jdz@wucec2.UUCP (Jason D. Zions)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Are Mandatory PIRG Fees Legal?
Message-ID: <1295@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 19:21:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 19:21:52 1986
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Reply-To: jdz@wucec2.UUCP (Jason D. Zions)
Organization: Wash. U. Center for Engineering Computing
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About 5 years ago, Washington University removed its mandatory support for
MoPIRG. It was done by student referrendum, rather than by appeal to legal
issues. For two years after that, fee cards were enclosed with tution bills
to that interested students could send their PIRG fees to MoPIRG; this was
halted when someone pointed out that if MoPIRG had this privilege, then any
organization could do the same. University legal counsel had the fee cards
removed.

Haven't heard much from MoPIRG since; they seem to have died away.  They no
longer provide legal services (they have no legal staff available for student
consultation) and don't seem to be very active. We occasionally heard from them
during the Calloway nuke plant battles, but not since. Oh, well... no loss.

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