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SA "student fee" was a bigger - and older - issue than we thought

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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 [*cough* College Republicans *cough*] to fees, taxes, and the like. As per usual, The Patriot was one of the few voices for restraint on the issue.

Now, the SA is apparently taking up a similar issue. Logan Dobson, on his Inside the SA blog, writes that he is considering a proposal that will allow students to choose where some of their student fee money goes. Is this a practical idea? Maybe not, but at least it's a step in the direction of giving students more control over their SA fees.

Well anyway,
Reason magazine - where former Patriot Senior Editor Bill Flanigen is currently interning - published a feature article on student fees eight years before GW even took the issue up. It was a bigger and older issue than we thought, apparently:

"Fee Fighters: Should students be forced to subsidize campus activities?" by RiShawn Biddle (November 1999)


H/T to Bill Flanigen, the Patriot's own Journalist Extraordinaire.

Bill Flanigen in the New York Post

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Former Patriot editor Bill Flanigen had an Op-Ed published in the New York Post today about the ACLU's odd stance of both condemning the use of Federal watchlists but at the same time complying with federal regulations of screening their own employees against the lists: here.

Big congrats to Bill.

Mid-Summer News Roundup.

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  • CI: no link needed, just imagine bored apathetic freshmen rethinking their decision to come here as their once really excited parents' smiles start to fade as they realize that their $50k a year is going towards CI-themed chocolates and Columbia back-packs for a group of coked-up spazzes who could afford them anyway.
  • Blog of the summer: Spotted: DC interns. Even though I'm abroad, I'm glad that I can still read something that will fuel my fire of hatred for the most vile group of people on the planet.
 

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