But mandatory volunteerism amounts to community SERFdom, which I will never willingly submit to. The right to own property, and the right to USE it as one sees fit. It's no different than making someone who buys Reeboks also pay for a pair of Nikes, even if he never uses the latter. But I digress. Furthermore, I will demand that any credit left over at the end of the term be refunded in cash.
Money IS time, but in a frozen form, to be used later at one's convenience.
To not allow students to save their money is to pervert the meaning of money. Here I propose reducing, and ultimately eliminating, distribution requirements. In the short term, I would move to allow students to test out of distributives, either with placement or standardized scores. As a long-term goal, I seek to abolish all distribs. Some of us came here to find out what we wanted to do with our lives, and some of us came here already knowing.