University nixes Campus Cash
Administrators cite negative publicity surrounding similar programs at other schools
Students dependent on Flex points for off-campus eating will have to learn to love Yorkside Pizza and Restaurant — Bulldog Bucks, the latest proposed incarnation of Campus Cash, will not become a reality any time soon.
Earlier this month, officials within Yale Student Financial and Administrative Services informed the Yale College Council that the University had decided not to move forward with the Bulldog Bucks program, which would have allowed students to use their ID cards to spend money at several local restaurants and on-campus locations using funds from the same University...
No Wu Can't?
Good for the University, for standing up for its students well-fare, and not giving in to predatory lending institutions.
This isn't a question of babying students. We all have, or can get, our own debit or credit cards — by virtue of being students, no questions asked. If you don't have one, take a stroll down to any of the local banks. It will cost 20 minutes, but not a penny.
You want to know why its so popular though? It's because students with either wealthy or unconcerned parents, who pay their children's bursar bills, no questions asked, were hoping that G-Heav, A-1, and maybe even J-Crew expenditures might not have to come from out of pocket.
But Rich is right to push for the other options. Unlike restaurants, our laundry machines don't take debit cards. And printing is a scholastic cost that students should have the option of putting on their bill, along with classes and room and board. This is convenience where it counts.
At the least, one plea: laundry machines accept debit cards in addition to cash. Please. Especially now. How many of us just had to waste a $20 on the last day of term, just to get our clothes washed and packed. Plus, carrying cash is simply annoying, and perhaps dangerous, though likely not in small amounts.
Implied exchange rate was a pathetic rip-off in any case (in fact, one could likely make a usury case out of it); no big loss.
"How many of us just had to waste a $20 on the last day of term, just to get our clothes washed and packed."
Aha. You speak the pain of millions. (Well, at least, me.)
"How many of us just had to waste a $20 on the last day of term, just to get our clothes washed and packed."
Aha. The pain of being unable to break a $20.
Need Change for $20? Vote Obama for Change.
I will. (But there are a lot better reasons to vote Obama than "change.")
this is why i don't vote in ycc elections. what an embarrassment for them. all the time and effort that they put into the program was gone in an instant with the word of an administrator. we should either have a student government that can EFFECTIVELY push our agenda forward or have none at all.
And how exactly would a more effective student government have handled this? Do you have some magical way to create more student leverage against the administration? Because I'm sure the YCC would love to hear about it. But you're right, they should have learned by now not to even attempt projects that require so much supervision and funding from the administration. The plug can get pulled at any moment. Why even bother?
Yeah, like "hope"
"Daniel Seifert ’09 said he felt let down by the University's decision."
Has anybody asked how much commission was Danny slated to make on this deal?
Follow the money...