Word: checkoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major objection to the PIRG petitioning in the houses was the so-called "negative checkoff" provision, which adds a fee of $5 per semester to each undergraduate's term bill unless the student checks a box which exempts him from payment...
Stephen J. Morgan '70, executive director of Massachusetts PIRG, said last week that a positive checkoff provision would not be substituted for the negative one if the current petition fails to attract the necessary number of signatures, since a positive checkoff would create administrative difficulties for the PIRG staff...
...means of financing the government would depend on its purpose, but most delegates support some form of term-bill checkoff. In addition, the Leverett House delegation's position paper calls for the election of a fundraising officer, independent of the student government's treasurer, who would try to make the government financially self-sufficient...
...those of you who escaped the flood of PIRG propaganda, PIRG is a system of student-run, professionally-staffed public interest lobbies. I assume that their methods and goals are honorable and generally beneficial. However, I vehemently object to their proposed $3 dues checkoff on the term bill. Under the PIRG plan, it is assumed that a student wishes to donate to PIRG (and will be billed accordingly) unless the student checks off to the contrary. Donating to PIRG would be an act of omission and the burden would be incumbent upon those who do not believe PIRG...
...have heard that other services within the University community already have a negative checkoff status, for example the abortion premium on University health insurance. I have heard that we don't even have a choice in supporting, say the Institute of Politics. Perhaps those analogies can be challenged; but my reply here is that past 'infringements' do not justify future ones...