Yesterday, the SA held a special election in hopes of giving student orgs more money by increasing the student fee. The proposed referendum failed by a small margin - 51.85% opposed and 48.14% were in favor with only 7.3% of the student body voting.
The current fee was established around 1990 when GW still had a large commuter population. As GW has evolved and its student population has grown, many felt that the student body had outgrown the fee of $1 per credit per semester for all undergraduate, graduate, and summer students. The SA proposed to increase the fee for all future students with undergraduates paying $30 a semester, graduate students paying $20 a semester and summer students paying $12 for the summer semester.
The bill was sponsored by Nathan Brill, GWSB-U, Finance Committee member during Former SA President Lamar Thorpe’s term. There is hope among the Senate that the bill could be restructured and voted on again in the future.
- Jared Fox
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