Northwestern is expensive. Why would anyone want to pay more? Well, the Associated Student Government wants you to.
Tacked on to every undergraduate’s quarterly tuition is a $40 Student Activities Fee. Most of this money is handed over to an ASG sub-committee called the Student Activities Finance Board. The SAFB divvies up the funds and gives them out to all the student groups who meet certain eligibility requirements. Those groups are known as A-status in ASG jargon.