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Student Events requests funds directly from tuition
by Lital Shair
News | 11/6/07
Posted online at 9:32 PM EST on 11/5/07
/ Last updated at 4:26 AM EST on 11/5/07
Student Events submitted a letter to Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy on Monday, Oct. 29, asking for funding directly from the Student Events Fee listed on the tuition agreement, with oversight only by the Department of Student Activities instead of the Finance board.
After Student Activities Fee changes were implemented last year, secured clubs such as Student Events and the Justice had to start making line-item requests from the F-Board for funding. Before that, all secured clubs received a certain percentage of the SAF at the beginning of the year to use at their discretion.
Student Events received $110,992.25 from the F-Board for July to December 2007, according to the budget report on the official Web site of the Student Union treasurer at Brandeis University. So far, the organization has spent $63,758.49, 57.44 percent of its allotted funds for the semester.
The Student Events Fee for Fall 2007 is $32 per student and the Student Activities Fee is $150, according to the tuition agreement. These fees are given to the F-board to allocate among all chartered and secured clubs.
The proposed change "will really just make social life better for Brandeis students," said Director of Student Events Lauren Barish '08. "This change will make it so the Student Events Fee goes directly to Student Events … Instead of going to the F-Board for that money, that money will go directly to Student Events," she said.
In the letter to Eddy, Student Events requested to receive its funds directly from the Student Events Fee on the tuition bill, the entire amount to be deposited in a separate account from the one F-Board funds, for funds not spent in one semester to be carried over to the next semester and to allocate funds received as they see fit without approval from F-Board but with oversight from the Department of Student Activities.
Eddy declined to comment about the proposal.
Union members feel strongly that this proposal, sent directly to Eddy, undermines the Student Union's system for allocating funds, as illustrated in the Student Union Constitution.
After Student Activities Fee changes were implemented last year, secured clubs such as Student Events and the Justice had to start making line-item requests from the F-Board for funding. Before that, all secured clubs received a certain percentage of the SAF at the beginning of the year to use at their discretion.
Student Events received $110,992.25 from the F-Board for July to December 2007, according to the budget report on the official Web site of the Student Union treasurer at Brandeis University. So far, the organization has spent $63,758.49, 57.44 percent of its allotted funds for the semester.
The Student Events Fee for Fall 2007 is $32 per student and the Student Activities Fee is $150, according to the tuition agreement. These fees are given to the F-board to allocate among all chartered and secured clubs.
The proposed change "will really just make social life better for Brandeis students," said Director of Student Events Lauren Barish '08. "This change will make it so the Student Events Fee goes directly to Student Events … Instead of going to the F-Board for that money, that money will go directly to Student Events," she said.
In the letter to Eddy, Student Events requested to receive its funds directly from the Student Events Fee on the tuition bill, the entire amount to be deposited in a separate account from the one F-Board funds, for funds not spent in one semester to be carried over to the next semester and to allocate funds received as they see fit without approval from F-Board but with oversight from the Department of Student Activities.
Eddy declined to comment about the proposal.
Union members feel strongly that this proposal, sent directly to Eddy, undermines the Student Union's system for allocating funds, as illustrated in the Student Union Constitution.
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random alumnus
posted 11/06/07 @ 9:04 AM EST
It is sad that the administration would even consider such a proposal, when they know full well the sort of financial mismanagement, at times approaching embezzlement, that took place before the secured organizations were made fiscally accountable to the f-board, and thereby the student body. (Continued…)
concerned alum
posted 11/11/07 @ 1:43 PM EST
It is downright dumb of Student Events to go over the head of the Union and ask the administration to violate the Union Constitution and establish a special mechanism for funding. (Continued…)
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