Maybe it’s time to let students vote on how their fees are used. Or perhaps the fees could be voluntary?

FOX News reports.

UNC-Chapel Hill student health fee paid for ‘sexperts,’ skits on sex topics

CHAPEL HILL, N.C – Trustees at North Carolina’s flagship university are reviewing the amount of a health fee paid by thousands of students and how it is spent after officials questioned the money’s use for sex counseling and stage performances addressing sexual topics and social advocacy.

Campus and statewide university system leaders agreed this spring to cut $20 from the $436 health fee charged each student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this year. The cut taking effect in August comes after members of the state university system’s governing board questioned why the health fee was used for sexual advice “sexperts” and employees working on “diversity initiatives.”

The fees used to pay for stage theater skits about racism, homophobia and sexual assault — including one titled “Orgasm? Yes, Please!” — were to cover student health needs and not promote diversity or social advocacy, said Steven Long, a Raleigh tax attorney appointed to the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors last year.

“If you look at the total picture of everything, you come away with the conclusion there’s no restraint in that division of the amounts that are charged students, the amounts that are spent, or how the funds are spent,” he said.


 
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