Remember the GW Student Association’s bright idea to increase the student fee in 2007-08? Most major student orgs came out in support of it, despite ideological aversions to fees, taxes, and the like. As per usual, The Patriot was one of the few voices for restraint on the issue. Now,...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Fee Increase ’
SA "student fee" was a bigger – and older – issue than we thought
A Look Ahead: My Reaction To The Fee Increase
So fiscal restraint didn’t win, oh well. Trying to win on a platform of limiting funding is a tough task, and given our limited resources I think we faired well. So what does this mean? Obviously I won’t be affected, but it’s too bad for the freshman who had no say in the matter....
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The Daily Colonial and The Fee Increase
Below, an anonymous commenter links to the Daily Colonial‘s editorial on the fee increase. Refreshingly, GW’s less-read newspaper voices skepticism along many of the same lines as have some of us at the GW Patriot: Until the SA does more to educate students about the financial allotment process, we cannot support the student fee...
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President Capp Doesn’t Support the Fee Increase?
Nicole Capp, Student Association President will apparently join any group that she is invited to. Today, the Editors The Patriot created a Facebook “Students Against the Fee Increase” in order to help combat the “fee” (read: tax) increase that the Student Association is attempting to levy up all incoming students who start in the...
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The Hatchet Supports a Fee Increase
Having already editorialized in favor of past (and failed) fee increase proposals, today the GW Hatchet editorial page sang the praises of the latest fee increase proposal: Life at an urban college can be intimidating and present fewer opportunities for involvement in student organizations. This is especially true when smaller organizations are left the...
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More Choice Is Needed in Student Organization Funding, NOT A Fee Increase
Matthew Cohen (SoB-U) says he wants to be a “good steward,” but who can be a better steward than the students themselves? I think back to a good friend of mine, Jason Lah, who ran for a spot on the SA two years ago. He argued it would be far more beneficial to have...
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We’ve made it!
I’ve always said you’re not big until you get on the TV, well here we are! The SA is answering our questions about the Student Fee Increase. http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/tv/upfront
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More on the SA Fee Increase and University Spending
Well, the Hatchet won’t let it die, so neither will I. In an editorial, the staff declared that allocations to student groups are unfairly slanted toward graduate organizations–with 40% of funding for organizations going towards the Student Bar Association, the GSEHD Student Association, and the Medical Center Student Council. Legitimately, the Hatchet worries that...
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Poo-Pooing the Fee Increase Rejection
As if this surprises anyone, the GW Hatchet has given their ever-so-relevant “Thumbs Down” to the rejection by the student body of the proposed Student Association fee increase. The paper also ran an article today titled “Leaders irked at failure of fee increase” (causing one to wonder if leaders have ever not been irked...
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