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Eddy speaks out about SE decision
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 1/29/08
Posted online at 12:17 AM EST on 1/29/08
The administration's new policy of directly allocating money to Student Events won't result in money being taken away from students, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy said in an interview with the Justice last Tuesday.
Eddy called for further restructuring of the process for allocating the Student Activities Fee, equal to 1 percent of every student's tuition bill. She denied the Student Union's allegations that her actions are unconstitutional and that she removed SAF funds from student control. Eddy said Student Events is still planning and deciding how the money should be spent.
Student Events used to receive 17 percent of the SAF from the Student Union Finance Board. Under the accepted proposal this money will go directly to the Department of Student Activities, which will allocate it to Student Events.
Last December students protested in front of the Bernstein-Marcus and Gryzmish administrationl buildings against Eddy's approval of Student Events' proposal to receive its funding directly from the Department of Student Activities.
Eddy said Tuesday that her decision to change the allocation of Student Events' money is part of her desire to improve social life on campus and spend unspent portions of the SAF, which she said added up to "hundreds of thousands of dollars." Eddy said she considered club's fundraising as part of this money, although she said this was only a small portion of the unspent funds. The Student Union maintains that fundraising money belongs to clubs.
Neither Eddy's office nor Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha '08 would provide exact amounts of the funds in question.
Eddy said that Union officials told her that clubs overestimated their funding needs or had forgotten to spend the money, causing unspent funds to accumulate. She emphasized that it was important to spend SAF money promptly to ensure that students received the benefit from them while still enrolled at Brandeis. She also noted that surplus funds still existed even while the number of clubs on campus had grown in the last two to three years.
Eddy called for further restructuring of the process for allocating the Student Activities Fee, equal to 1 percent of every student's tuition bill. She denied the Student Union's allegations that her actions are unconstitutional and that she removed SAF funds from student control. Eddy said Student Events is still planning and deciding how the money should be spent.
Student Events used to receive 17 percent of the SAF from the Student Union Finance Board. Under the accepted proposal this money will go directly to the Department of Student Activities, which will allocate it to Student Events.
Last December students protested in front of the Bernstein-Marcus and Gryzmish administrationl buildings against Eddy's approval of Student Events' proposal to receive its funding directly from the Department of Student Activities.
Eddy said Tuesday that her decision to change the allocation of Student Events' money is part of her desire to improve social life on campus and spend unspent portions of the SAF, which she said added up to "hundreds of thousands of dollars." Eddy said she considered club's fundraising as part of this money, although she said this was only a small portion of the unspent funds. The Student Union maintains that fundraising money belongs to clubs.
Neither Eddy's office nor Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha '08 would provide exact amounts of the funds in question.
Eddy said that Union officials told her that clubs overestimated their funding needs or had forgotten to spend the money, causing unspent funds to accumulate. She emphasized that it was important to spend SAF money promptly to ensure that students received the benefit from them while still enrolled at Brandeis. She also noted that surplus funds still existed even while the number of clubs on campus had grown in the last two to three years.
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Worst. Interview. Ever.
posted 1/29/08 @ 12:56 PM EST
There are three quotes in this entire article. Hardly speaking out. Huzzah for substantive journalism!
Fiscal Responsibility
posted 1/31/08 @ 11:48 AM EST
Let me get this straight: Jean Eddy is outraged that because of F-Board oversight clubs are being fiscally responsible and not blowing all their money every semester?
Isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't we be happy that clubs aren't scrounging for money and cancelling events because they can't afford them?
According to Jean Eddy, saving is a bad thing. (Continued…)
James Sanders
posted 1/31/08 @ 3:51 PM EST
While what Jean Eddy says maybe true, it does not give her authority to do what she's doing. She needs that from the board of trustees.
The problem with saving money as someone mentioned earlier as a good thing is that Brandeis is a non profit and cannot make a profit thus all money needs to be spent from year to year. (Continued…)
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