Should the council as a whole approve the resolution, it would then go to a referendum before being sent on to the Committee on College Life, a student-Faculty committee that also includes top College administrators. Finally, the Faculty Council and then the Faculty as a whole must approve or reject the change.

Lurie said that while he does support the plan to raise the termbill fee, he was concerned that an increase in funding could actually decrease the fiscal accountability of the council’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), which is responsible for planning many of the council’s campus-wide events.

“If there’s no limit on the amount of money that CLC events can lose, there will be no incentive to run cost-neutral events or to justify money-losing events as having a large impact for their cost,” Lurie wrote in an e-mail.

Council member Joshua A. Barro ’05 called the bill “ridiculous”—a sentiment he said he believes will be shared by most students.

“The UC doesn’t need to triple its budget to serve students well,” he said.

“In fact, I can’t imagine how we would reasonably spend so much money. I expect that students will soundly reject the proposed increase, because they will recognize what it is—a huge and unnecessary tax hike.”

—Staff writer Jeffrey C. Aguero can be reached at aguero@fas.harvard.edu.