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...projected student impact,” in the words of Financial Committee (FiCom) Chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06, are the most reasonable requests to fund. It’s a seemingly logical way out of a tight budget of $180,000. And certainly, in judging H Bomb by its yet-unpublished cover, Nicolais is right. Oodles of people will read H Bomb—but will they because it contains a “serious discussion of sexuality,” as College Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71 was hoping for? Or will they...
...sure, neither the aforementioned Doctors Without Borders panel nor Take Back the Night are as interesting as H Bomb. No one’s going to be hoping for a glimpse of a nude colleague at those events. But are they more worthwhile...
...Students for the Confederacy apply for a grant for a “Confederate Flag Day,” or worse, in order to arrive at a suggestion the council would rebuff because of content. (Incidentally, I imagine such an event would have, for many of the reasons H Bomb will, a “high projected student impact...
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...
...able to realize on their own that there’s a place on campus for a conservative and a liberal magazine, and that each deserves equal funding. And these are also the people who should have realized that regardless of how big a splash it will make, H Bomb is undeserving of this year’s second-largest council grant...