MONTREAL (CUP) — he administration may e denying it but Concor- ia students say that they re not being fully informed bout a fee they are paying o fund the school’s future ibraries.

The $1 er credit charge, described s a voluntary contribution, s automatically charged to tudents when they regis- er. Those who want to opt ut can get refunded if they ign a special waiver form.

Members of the stu- ent council say however hat the school is trying to iscourage people from opt- g out by hiding the exis-

VOLUNTARY FEE IS NOT SO AT CONCORDIA

new students.

According to former council co-president Karen Takacs, this year the uni- versity did not send the waiver forms it usually sends in the. package it sends to new students. She also mentioned that infor- mation booths, where the forms were also available during registration, were set out of the way.

“I think that not send- ing out the notices is disgusting,” said Takacs. “They probably think that the best way to get students to contribute is not to tell them anything.”

Takacs said the univer- sity is trying to make it more difficult to opt out because a lot of students asked for refunds last year.

“Considering the amount of money they gave, it’s unfair that they’re not being informed,” said Takacs. “They're being abused.”

The so-called voluntary fee has a controversial his- tory. Shortly after its in- troduction in 1985, an ex- ecutive of the student coun- cil was urged by school of- ficials to make the refund process “‘as bureaucratic as possible” to discourage re- quests for refunds. Last

year, over 30 percent of Concordia undergraduates opted out. The remaining students contributed over $250,000 to the funding campaign. University official Gary Richards denied the univer- sity was trying to withhold information, saying that in- formation letters about the funding campaign were in- cluded with the package sent to new students. But Richards, who is working

on the campaign, said that -'

it would be “illogical” to in- clude the waiver forms.

“If I was promoting a campaign, I wouldn’t tell you how to get out of it,”

he said.

Richards added _ that the booths were placed far away from registration ta- bles because “there would have been a huge crowd” if they had been any closer.

At UPEI, a $5 volun- tary fee is being charged this year as a student con- tribution to the Challenge of the Eighties Fund Rais- ing Program. While the administration has not con- cealed it, neither has it publicized the fact that any student may receive a re- fund of this fee by applying to the UPEISU Office. 2

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