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From: coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Are Mandatory PIRG Fees Legal?
Message-ID: <3662@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 13:03:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 13:03:31 1986
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Here at Utah there was some controversy regarding UPIRG fees a couple of
years ago.  At that time a student who desired to pay the UPIRG fee could
check a box his/her fee card and add it in.

The UPRIG people wanted to change this to a "negative checkoff," requiring
students to check a box and subtract the fee if they didn't want to pay it.
The result would be if the student didn't know about the fee they would end
up paying it.

This never passed.  As a matter of fact, shortly afterwords the fee
totally dissappeared from the tuition card (no great loss).

I haven't heard anything about the UPIRG now for a couple years (and
hope I never do).