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...council cannot currently fund every request made by campus student groups, and it should not attempt to. Among the numerous projects the Financial Committee (FiCom) rejected (or denied full funding to) in the past year can be found a $15,000 grant request of the Automotive Society for a go-kart expedition and a host of other white elephant undertakings...
...past few weeks, fee hike proponents have circulated a sexy (though misleading) figure that suggests that this year’s council has only funded 38 percent of student groups’ total grant requests. A closer examination, provided by a recent analysis of four grants packages authored by FiCom chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 (himself a proponent of the fee hike), reveals that the council in fact funds nearly 70 percent of all applicants that request less than $750. These applications account for the vast majority (86 percent) of all grant requests. These numbers hardly provide...
Council grants help fund hundreds of Harvard’s student groups. The Council’s Finance Committee (FiCom) never loses sight of the fact that every year students contribute $35 each through their student activities fee each to the collective pot. So when reviewing a grant application, FiCom bases its decision on both the impact the project will have on those directly participating and the impact it will have on the rest of the student body—because ultimately, both groups are paying for the project...
...student body, which varies widely between publications. When it comes to campus-wide appeal, the impact of any particular magazine often tends to be more restricted than anyone might initially assume. Printing several thousand copies and door-dropping the entire campus does not guarantee a proportionate amount of interest. FiCom must try to ascertain how many students will actually read a particular magazine as it decides how much of the request it can allocate from the student body’s funds...
However, beyond deploying theoretical examples to prove the point, council members should realize that despite their best intentions, FiCom speaks with its pocketbook. They already have, of course, by deciding that H Bomb ought to get its whole request while three other projects dealing with issues of sexuality or sexual violence should be scaled back. But more importantly, the council should begin realizing that its decisions to fund (or not to fund) magazines results in them being published or laying fallow...