Ohio State now has the freedom to impose a student activity fee because the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that doing so is not necessarily a violation of free speech, as long as allocations are made with a neutral viewpoint.The high court made its decision on March 22 in Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin v. Southworth, agreeing with the university’s argument that funding for all of the campus’ student groups helped promote a forum of ideas.Although OSU could now impose a student activity fee, some administrators and students still think it should be initiated and controlled by the students, while others think a fee should not exist at all.David Williams II, OSU’s vice president of Student Affairs, said that a student activity fee would be helpful and that the amount should depend on what services students want.Instead of imposing a fee, OSU would let it be controlled by the students. If students want big-budgeted activities, then they would need to pay a larger fee, he said.In the past students haven’t really wanted a fee, according to Williams. He started a committee to investigate the possibility but found that students were not really backing it, so the idea was dropped.Williams said that OSU uses the “viewpoint neutral” stance when deciding which student organizational activities receive funding under OSU’s current system.  “What we do with our money is not based on ideology,” he said. “I think the Supreme Court is right. Society is such that we don’t always use what we pay for, but it is for the common good. A fee would help us provide more variety and intellectually diverse activities.”Don Stenta, assistant director of the Office of Student Activities, said that it is difficult to say how much a student activity fee would be at OSU. A fee of $10 a quarter per undergraduate student would yield more than $1 million a year. The revenue would be even more if graduate and professional students were included.”This could radically transform the student organization support and student involvement,” Stenta said.Undergraduate Student Government President Josh Mandel said that he would support a fee as long as students decided on where the money would be allocated.”It would benefit students by improving their out-of-class experience and consequently hopefully retaining and graduating them at higher rates,” Mandel said. “That needs to be the ultimate goal and driving force behind any fee.”Dan Varn, a sophomore finance major, said that although he sees some advantages to having a student activity fee, he does not support one. He said he thinks that with a fee, there would be a dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of activities directed toward students.Yet a fee would not be advantageous because not all students are involved in student groups and charging them a fee would not be fair, Varn said.”I believe that this fee is similar to the technology fee,” he said. “They both have good intentions, but unfortunately the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”USG senator Tony Porto, a sophomore business major, said he believes that since OSU cannot raise tuition because of the cap under state law, it is coming up with additional fees that would support particular facets of the university.