Word: ficom
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Council grants help fund hundreds of Harvard’s student groups. The Council’s Finance Committee (FiCom) never loses sight of the fact that every year students contribute $35 each through their student activities fee each to the collective pot. So when reviewing a grant application, FiCom bases its decision on both the impact the project will have on those directly participating and the impact it will have on the rest of the student body—because ultimately, both groups are paying for the project...
...student body, which varies widely between publications. When it comes to campus-wide appeal, the impact of any particular magazine often tends to be more restricted than anyone might initially assume. Printing several thousand copies and door-dropping the entire campus does not guarantee a proportionate amount of interest. FiCom must try to ascertain how many students will actually read a particular magazine as it decides how much of the request it can allocate from the student body’s funds...
Council proponents have established an idea that those projects which have a “high 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 And certainly, in judging H Bomb by its yet-unpublished cover, Nicolais is right.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...
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...
Barro, who chaired FiCom last semester, suggested that H Bomb will reach a much larger audience than other on-campus magazines. He suggested a “conservative estimate” of readership at 4,000 people...