:: Running from the Thought Police ::

:: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 ::

Getting More Suspicious

I managed to snag one of the pettition sheets on the bus this evening. Here's the text:

Petition For Student Referendum
by signing below you are indicating your desire for the following question to be placed on the Spring 05 ballot as a student referendum question

I support the continuation of the CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION FEE. This plan will provide for unlimited use of campus bus routes and all existing community routes, and SAFERIDES. This is a non-refundable student fee assessed per semester: $12 for Summer Session I and $21 for Summer Session II beginning in the summer of 2006 and a $38 fee for FALL and SPRING semester beginning in the Fall Semester of 2005.

After that are four columns for Signature, Printed Name, Student ID#, and email address.

There is still no mention of the referendum on the MTD website. Looking up online at OAR's site, I see that the per-semester transportation fee is currently at $33, the Summer I is $10 and Summer II is $18. All of the fees on the referendum aren't continuations, but increases. If this was previously brought before the student senate, then this is cool, but since the referendum language is deceptively worded my worry is that MTD is trying to pull a fast one over the Student Senate and the campus at large. I, unfortunately, signed the referendum before I got suspicious about it. If this is a case of MTD being underhanded, I'll submit a statement to the senate that I was not properly informed about the referendum, and that my signature on it was threfore coerced. After that, the muckraking shall begin.

UPDATE: The Student Senate is aware of this and looking into it. Meanwhile, I intend on having fun telling people not to sign the referendum petition.

:: The Squire 8:14 PM :: email this post :: ::
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