Word: ficom
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...classroom facilities for the panel or granted UC dollars. So the Seneca asked the UC for a $1500 grant to help offset the cost of holding the event in the Faculty Club, which is the only venue the Seneca was able to reserve for this Saturday. The Finance Committee (FiCom) of the UC recommended two days ago to grant the event a $1000 stipend, on the condition that the Seneca drop its claims as a “host” of the event and became a simple co-sponsor. However, unless the Seneca can prove that...
...UC’s bylaws prohibits giving grants to “discriminatory” groups (although FiCom can vote to suspend the rule), and the Seneca falls into this category because it admits no men. Since the money that the UC disburses ultimately comes from the student termbill fee, it is inherently unfair to ask the entire student body to financially support the initiatives of a student group that does not admit members of a particular gender. Money is fungible. Funding any activity of a student group—even if the activity benefits the community at large?...
Although the grant had already been sent back to FiCom once for reconsideration, the UC eventually voted to send it back again...
Financial Committee (FiCom) members Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 and Parvinder S. Thiara ’07 said that the Seneca presented itself as the main sponsor of the event and that the event’s choice of the Faculty Club, a relatively small venue, is expensive and inappropriate for a campus-wide event...
Blake M. Kurisu ’07, the newly elected chair of FiCom, bemoans the fact that Nicolais will not be around to show him the ropes. “It’s been a tough week,” Kurisu said. “I mean Teo really kind of built the grants system from the ground up and to try to learn it all has been tough...