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From: garry@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Are PIRG Fees Legal?
Message-ID: <272@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 23:15:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 23:15:47 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:14:29 EST
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With respect to required "political" student fees -

A quick opposing viewpoint: I have myself paid the U of Oregon PIRG
fee.  PIRG seems very politically innocuous, the student body as a 
group is pleased to spend money on it, and it appeared to be my duty
to lend token support too since I did voluntarily join that body. Same
principal as Homecoming fees.

I'd really rather not have the government, in the form of the university
administration or the courts, messing around with and second-guessing 
student assembly decisions for a matter as picayune as this. There is
already a political method for redress - get the student assembly to
change its mind.  

Courts are cruel weapons. Large numbers of human beings and large amounts
of human effort are required to feed them. Are you really so self-righteous?

garry wiegand
garry%geology@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
RD 1, Trumansburg NY 14886