A college campus where student groups could not celebrate African-American culture, where the interfaith council could not conduct its annual holiday food drive would lack the vitality, energy and creativity that higher education should promote.
Universities are uniquely home to vast array of opinions and ideas.
Faculty, administrators, trustees, students, staff, and others rely on university funds and resources to express themselves and their viewpoints. Inevitably, some will disagree with the opinions and activities of other members of the uniersity community. However, historically universities have promoted a marketplace of ideas and a forum of speech and thought. It would be impossible to maintain a university if each individual student could choose what aspects of the university that they wished to fund or not to fund. Student activity fees, just like tuition and other collective charges, support a marketplace of ideas and activities.