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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Are PIRG Fees Legal?
Message-ID: <401@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 14:13:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 14:13:28 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 05:19:22 EST
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Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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In article <2900004@orstcs.UUCP> boyd@orstcs.UUCP (boyd) writes:
>Currently a fight is brewing on the Oregon State University Campus over
>how the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) should be
>funded. Currently, this group is funded through mandatory fees at a rate of
>$45,000 a year. Since this group actively advances partisan political
.
.
Are you sure the fees are mandatory, and not simply automatic unless the
student actively elects not to pay? At various times over the last 10 years,
at Colby College (Maine) and UMass PIRG has tried to stick a funding fee
onto college tuition bills. PIRG simply claimed that any student who didnt
want to pay would elect to remove the fee from the bill.
Of course, I thought they were simply hoping to stick it to the parents
who were paying the whole thing anyway ( :==> ).


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