A look at these institutions reveals that the council has been undercharging the Harvard student body for years.
Greener Pastures
62 student groups, a grant-per-group ratio considerably higher than Harvard's.
"If we only had $20 per student, we would end up cutting a lot of our programming," says Jimmy Carter, president pro temp of the Duke Student Government.
Just two stops away on the Red Line, Tufts University is another land of plenty for student groups.
Each of Tufts' 4,800 undergraduates pay a $179 mandatory fee annually to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate.
That totaled $800,000 for the senate to dole out to student groups last year, according to Ben Azoff, treasurer of the senate.
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