Although the Residential Student Association is an independent body governed by its own constitution and student leaders, the constituents are unhappy. The problem? Money is consistently being funneled to the organization and is not being spent by RSA – an organization that is kept afloat by students.

RSA charges $18 per quarter for every student living on campus, and the fee cannot be waived. This one student group receives approximately $300,000 to $400,000 annually according to the President of RSA Daniel Loveman and SGA’s Vice President for Financial Affairs Michael Benson.

Though the Resident Student fee was justly set in the early 1980s, it is not, however, being justly spent. This statement is not fabricated, it has been reciprocated to The News. Residents are not happy.

If RSA intends on increasing its residential fee, it also needs to increase its commitment to students. If the student group needs to bicker back and forth with SGA to attain control of its programming and fees, then so be it, but as it stands residents are dissatisfied with what their $18 is being put towards – an autonomous student group with overall power over their money.