But since it seems that we are already there, there are many fine accounting students at this university whom would be able to assist in presenting different options of refunds.

Although I do applaud your moving of the goal posts*, how about this as a solution if a refund to the most recent crop of fee-paying students just doesn’t satisfy your inner pedant enough: Just slash the fee $50 a student or thereabouts next year, which will use up the over-realized funds instead of adding even more to them. Is that not good enough? Should they build more solar panels instead? Maybe a big statue of Axelrod, or a very small statue of Adam Petkun?

*Akin, in its ingenuity, to the arguments of the good folks at the Discovery Institute. Being that the question of what to do with the money has been about how to materially benefit current students, suggesting that we have to go calculate the PV for every student’s contribution back to time immemorial is a particularly nice flourish.

Right now the ASUO has extracted over one million dollars from students i.e. adding $1 Million to the cost of attendance here at the UO. Does anyone in the senate think that is helping students attend college? You can now help the students senators - what is your choice?

We students own the fancy restaurant– if the prices have been too high, then we should be receiving the dividends.

What it comes down to is that the ASUO has taken far too much money from students and now doesn’t know what to do with it. The majority of students who had the cash taken from them will, almost assuredly, want it back and spend it better than the ASUO Senate ever could. As Sara Hamilton once said, “it’s hard enough as it is for students to afford to pay for school.” Why not cut them a break by giving them a refund?

If the Senate believes that the majority of students would rather their refund money be reinvested into the school, then give them the option to make that choice on their own.

Nah see if you pay $25 for a steak at some fancy restaurant does that then entitle you to say well the actual cost of the steak is 15 so give me 10 back… no it doesn’t… Granted one of the beautiful things about being a student here is that you get to help decide how your money is spent so I would definately encourage you to email the ASUO people and really give them concrete ideas. A refund is one… great do I think its feasible no but hey thats an idea…get involved know what I mean?

Sure it does. We’re the owners of the analogous restaurant. And we want the money back in our pocket, not put into expensive window dressings.

The solution is simple: take a survey of a large sample of students. See if they want ~$50 in their pocket to spend on things like food or if they want a monument to Steve Morozumi built or whatever else the ASUO Senate comes up with.

How is spending money that has been overcharged wise? Would it be wise for a restaurant to overcharge your bill and then spend the proceeds on new decor?

If the PFC has been wasteful, then why not correct their mistake? Why ensure that our money gets wasted?