Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes as planned for Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00, undergraduates will soon pay a $50 term-bill fee a year instead of the $20 each student currently contributes to the council's budget...
Seton says the increase is necessary because of the recent proliferation of student groups on campus. The council spends most of its budget on grants it awards to student groups. With more organizations clamoring for council funding, individual slices of the budget pie are getting smaller and smaller...
...shortage of funds is not a new issue for the council. In early October, when the council approved its budget, Seton and Treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01 recognized that the increase of student groups requesting funds from the council had strained its budget to the breaking point...
...caught a preview screening of the new Tim Burton movie, Sleepy Hollow, this past week and totally expected a watered-down, commercialized version of the Ichabod Crane anti-fairy tale. After all, the last Tim Burton movie was Mars Attacks, a big-budget indie movie that flopped miserably. What's the chance of studios giving him his way again? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Sleepy Hollow isn't watered down, predictable or commercial at all. Reminiscent of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy...
Where does the money go? At the beginning of each year, the council formulates its budget. We are mandated to spend at least 60 percent of the money on our grants fund, and this year, we chose to allocate about $100,000 to student group grants. That's 67.5 percent of this year's budget plus any rollover from grants that weren't picked up last year...