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Election Reform

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

15. When did student government positions start paying $7k stipends?

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 07:07 PM

Dec 2013

That seems like a pretty high amount.

Yes, the time they spend on student government work takes away from time they could spend on some paying job, but that's true of any such extracurricular activity. Am I retroactively owed a stipend for being president of the chess club as an undergrad?

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