To the editor:

Being a Huron student for the first two years of my career at Western, I rarely was on main campus. When I was, I was in the University Community Centre for short periods of time, never leaving the main floor.

Last week, however, I found myself wandering around UCC’s third floor, noting the presence of an office for PrideWestern and EnviroWestern. I found it quite odd that two University Students’ Council clubs would have full time access to their own offices, so I investigated further only to learn that these were not clubs, but USC-sponsored “services.”

During Western’s Clubs Week, I get to wander around looking at the wide array of clubs and pay for those with which I would like to pursue a relationship, not the other ones.

Yet with PrideWestern and EnviroWestern being classified as “services,” I am being charged for their operations and upkeep, yet not receiving any of the benefits from these clubs — nor do I want them. So, this begs the question, why are students being forced to fund special interest groups against their will?

— Andrew Lawton
Political Science III