Word: ficom
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Nichols, as vice-chair of the Finance Committee (FiCom), signed on to run for vice president at the last minute with UC-outsider Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06. In their campaign, Moore and Nichols billed themselves as a potent combination of an outsider in touch with student needs and an insider with the experience to make them reality...
...experience on the council, grants packages are usually amended because somebody has a friend on a student group who thinks that they didn’t get what they deserved,” said Financial Committee (FiCom) member Justin R. Chapa...
Extensive proposed changes to FiCom were postponed for the next meeting due to low attendance...
...Blickstead ’05—a former member of the Campus Life Committee (CLC)—they were mistaken. The difference in backgrounds between Blickstead and Nichols—Nichols had been elevated to VP from his position as Vice Chair of the Finance Committee (FiCom)—meant that the two differed widely in their specialties and their basic understandings of the role of the UC Vice President...
Nichols’ more fiscally conservative perspective could have been a valuable, balancing addition to the leadership of the UC. Indeed, when we endorsed him last December for Vice President, we believed that the unique skill set he brought to the table might help reform the FiCom grants process and empower UC representatives to be more responsible with students’ money. Nichols’ conflict with the rest of the Executive Board was to be expected to some extent. But Nichols widened this conflict through his own actions. He failed to communicate effectively or forge common ground with...