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...Democrats also presented on behalf of their grants. In creating the inital grants package, FiCom acted as they have in past years, allocating money as if they had unlimited funds and funding all groups based on what they were eligible for, according to Finance Committee (FiCom) Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08. Afterwards, FiCom reduced all awarded grants proportionally by 45 percent in order to accomodate the approximately $20,000 total available to student groups. Last year, FiCom had to reduce all grants by 35 percent. “We wanted to treat all student groups fairly...
...despite the group’s constitution which stipulates that its executive board members be Christian. The UC’s current policy is to grant funding to student groups that comply with the council’s anti-discrimination guidelines. According to Finance Committee (FiCom) Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08, “the College has a lower threshold for discrimination than the UC’s policy does.” Greenfield said the legislation and an accompanying proposal amending the council’s discrimination policy were passed in the UC?...
...FiCom voted against the critical $2,500 grant it had given in previous years because of its own unwritten rules about funding transportation costs, which it had not previously applied to Mission Hill’s grants. In an e-mail to The Crimson, FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 explained that Mission Hill’s previous funding was due to “extraneous circumstances with past miscommunication between UC leadership and Mission Hill leadership.” While FiCom’s decision may have been consistent with its unpublished guidelines, the committee?...
...they said that creating an exception to this policy could jeopardize FiCom’s financial sustainability. “There’s no question that to fund this would essentially be the death of FiCom,” the committee’s chair, Lori M. Adelman ’08, told the council. “We would have no more money.” Adelman said more than 20 other groups that, like Mission Hill, are affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association, could seek UC funding to rent vans. “If we funded...
...There’s really nothing abnormal or unusual about the grants package we passed,” FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 said after the meeting. She said that because this was the first grants package to be considered since Reading Period, there were more grants submitted than usual. Adelman also mentioned that the Council had yet to solicit unclaimed checks from student groups and that doing so would bring additional money–up to $10,000 in past years–to the UC’s budget...