The editor-in-chief of UNBC’s student newspaper believes a referendum this week on whether to give it autonomy from the university will pass, though it will come at an extra cost to students.
They will vote Monday and Tuesday yes or no to forking over $5 per semester to support Over the Edge, which wants to separate itself from the Northern Undergraduate Student Society (NUGSS) after a flap over an article published in September. Students currently pay $2 of their $32 student fee to the newspaper through NUGSS.
“I do think it will pass,” Burkholder said Thursday. “I think the students will be supportive. They feel this is really important.”