OSL Caves on $40 Student Group Fee

After meeting with various Administration higher-ups, ASUC President Leybovich secured an agreement to cancel OSL's $40 student group registration fee. As of tomorrow OSL will no longer charge student groups for registration and will fully refund the sixty or so student groups that already payed the fee.

Analysis: This is a major backdown by OSL and a big victory for the new student administration.

President Leybovich had threatened to run an ad in the Daily Cal that called on student groups to stop registering with OSL; the ad would have pointed out that the ASUC could deliver the most important services, such as securing classrooms for club meetings, that OSL had traditionally provided. Leybovich was also ready to sign an executive order which would have changed the ASUC by-laws to allow student groups to be sponsored by the ASUC even if they had no OSL Registration.

These efforts along with a publicity campaign launched during Calapalooza left OSL with little choice but to back down or face irrelevancy. Email This Post!