As some of you may have heard, the Student Activity Fee was voted to be voluntary in a referendum during the student elections before Spring Break. The Student Activity Fee pays for many important things on campus including Dippikill, Middle Earth, Five Quad, 80 to 90% club funding, Parkfest, Fallfest, Speakers Series and more. In the grand scheme of things $100 seems like a small amount in addition to the fees we already pay. We’ve come up with a list of things you could buy with that $100 instead of paying for the Student Activity Fee.
1. One Tiffany Earring
Why pay $100 on the Student Activity Fee when you could buy one single Tiffany earring?
2. Four Seasons of Sex and the City on DVD
2/3 of the entire series of Sex and the City is surely more important than $100 spent on student clubs and speaker series? Especially when those re-runs are on TV all the time.
3. A 1/6 of an iPhone 6
With $100 you can buy a 1/6 of an iPhone 6, even though you don’t really like the huge new size and saved up for that iPhone 5s for ages.
4. One Bailey Bow Ugg
You support Middle Earth and all the amazing things it does but surely that one Bailey Bow Ugg you’ve been wanting forever is more worth your money?
5. One Pair of American Apparel Pencil Jeans
Why not spend the $100 on some jeans or any clothes really? I mean you have been wanting that dress for 5 minutes. Shame you won’t be able to wear them to any of the great events that the student activity pays for such as Parkfest.
6. One North Face Venture Jacket
You could buy a North Face jacket with your $100, although you probably won’t be able to wear it to Dippikill anymore.
7. One Bottle of Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet
With $100 you can buy a nice bottle of perfume that you use up within a few months and have to re-buy because you like it so much.
8. Half of a GHD Classic Styler Flat Iron
With $100 you could buy half of a GHD flat iron. We’re not quite sure how that would work though as both sides are kind of necessary for it to work.
9. That One “Compulsory” Text Book
We all have that class where the professor says all text books on the list are compulsory, especially the really expensive one. But, when you rent it, you don’t actually read it and then you just give it back at the end of the year out of pocket.
10. A Few Tanks of Gas
$100 could buy you a few tanks of gas for your car when you drive to school or make emergency drives to Chipotle even though you can get a free bus to anywhere in Albany with your student card.
When comparing the $100 that you pay towards the Student Activity Fee with everyday material items that we buy on a regular basis, the money seems like a lot less. The new vote on the student activity fee will be held from April 1st at noon to April 3rd at noon. To vote for the fee to be mandatory log in to myinvolvement.org.
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