The aim was to create a system with a widely bought but reasonably priced pass in order to have a “bigger and better” Welcome Week.īut despite the ample cash and months for all of the parties to report back, the finances remain unclear. And the students chose to implement the $110 mandatory fee for Welcome Week for new first-years. Because it had the required 601 students, all votes passed were binding. In a campaign led by then-MSU president Matt Dillon-Leitch, the 2012 annual general assembly met its quorum of three percent of the student body for the first time in 17 years. In the past, incoming first-years had to register and pay for a MacPass, allowing them entry for the week’s events they no longer have to, and are instead automatically charged fees. The report comes in the wake of last year’s changes to orientation fees. But the MSU and its partners are looking even further ahead: to Welcome Week.Īs faculty societies begin to gear up for another year of planning for the incoming first-years, the Student Success Centre (SSC) and the MSU, as part of the Welcome Week Review subcommittee of the Student Services Committee, have just compiled their financial report from Welcome Week 2012. In the midst of second semester, summer might be the furthest thing from students’ minds. What a welcome costs: $110 MacPass fee spending released