In a new post at See Thru Edu, George Leef explains what many of those student fee dollars are used for.

How College “Student Fees” Fund Propaganda

The fees that college students often are required to pay creates a large fund of money that attract all kinds of people and organizations that like spending other people’s money on whatever interests them. For activists, going after student fee money is something like the minor leagues for their later efforts at diverting taxpayer money into their coffers.

In a new article published by the Pope Center, Jenna Ashley Robinson exposes the misuse of student fees at the University of North Carolina, in particular the “health services fee.”

One extremely questionable use of this money is to support Interactive Theatre Carolina, which we read on UNC’s website, “uses scripted and improvisational performances to promote discussions about health, wellness and social justice.”

Whenever you see the term “social justice,” you can be absolutely certain that the point of the exercise is to push leftist ideas about the reasons for the world’s ills and how we can cure them with more government intrusion. So, instead of paying money directly for their own health, students (and their families) are shelling out money so a few “progressive” zealots can get paid to propagandize.

Another use of the health fee was a campus event entitled “Orgasm? Yes, Please” billed as “a fun, educational look at sexual health, relationships, and pleasure!” Excuse me, but I doubt that even one student at UNC would otherwise not know about those subjects if it weren’t for that event.

Most of the student health fee money actually is spent on actual health services for UNC students, but, owing to the “Affordable Care Act” students wind up paying doubly for whatever services they might need. That is because UNC requires students to purchase an insurance plan from North Carolina Blue Cross/Blue Shield unless they submit proof of other coverage. Their plans qualify as “Gold” plans under the ACA.