Statistics from the Registrar's Office show the fee has not induced students to drop classes earlier than in past years.
Students still wait later in the semester to drop.
It is not really serving its purpose. Candy Young, Faculty Senate president, said the purpose of the fee was aimed to help students make serious choices and to keep them from planning to drop classes when registering. Faculty Senate could only come to a consensus on a fee increase when dealing with students' abuse of class-dropping procedures, Young said. Getting out of a course early, when the student knows they will not complete it, helps others trying to add that class, Student Senate President Danny Rotert said. Junior John Pa said the fee may actually encourage students to wait until the last possible moment.