Students’ Association Fee
Sir, —It has been proposed that the University of Canterbury Students’ Association fee be raised from £6 to £l6, to provide £35.000 for the salaries of additional staff. This proposal, to be discussed in September, raises some interesting constitutional problems. Is the raising of money to pay the salaries of academic staff a proper purpose for this fee? If it is, is there I any limit to which the fee may be raised? At present, the university compels every student, with a few negligible exceptions, to pay the I fee of £6. If a majority of the few hundred at the genleral meeting in September endorse the proposal to raise the fee, will the calendar for 1964 read that £l6 is “payable by every student”? Might it not be better if the university authorities told the .students now to mind their own business?—Yours, etc., GRADUATE. August 15, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30211, 16 August 1963, Page 3
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