Let's get some ideas for entertainment going. Peter and Jeff to drive out Thursday night for supplies, Rich to order the keg from EV1. Richard reported on a recent conversation with George about UPass. CTA has become much more willing to deal with subgroups of a university rather than forcing the entire student body to sign on with the programme. This concept seems to be the logical course avenue to pursue, but cost remains the sticking point.
Many students never pay cheques to the university at all since they're on some sort of support.
It would be a real fight to get all the students in any given department to agree that they should pay for a programme that they might never use themselves. Not only that, but it would probably come up as a grievance every year . It is unclear how to proceed on this issue, although a good place to start would be to find a specific department deemed most likely to react favourably to these models and to gauge their opinion on them. Push where it looks like the wall might give. Everybody with an interest is invited, including students, faculty and staff.