Word: ficom
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...parties was “casual” and not assigned, the UC this semester abandoned a short-lived policy of visiting sponsored parties to make sure that they were adhering to UC party grant terms—including that the event provide some food and non-alcoholic beverages. FiCom Chair Zander N. Li ’08, also a Crimson editorial editor, said the change came because the UC now disbursed its party grants by reimbursing receipts, not paying up front. The DAPA grant program was piloted during Harvard-Yale weekend, according to Director of the Office of Alcohol...
...first hour of the 90-minute UC session was dominated by heated debates over the Financial Committee’s (FiCom) grants packages. Representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club were present to lobby against the UC’s decision to fund less than a third of the grant requested for the 2007 Bipartisan Paintball Brawl. After discussion over the role of precedents in granting UC funding, and whether or not the UC should fund entertainment activities, the council voted to grant the full amount requested by the organizers of the event...
...FiCom has a tough process balancing the need for satisfying student expectations for grant funding while maintaining fiscal responsibility,” Petersen said after the meeting. He added that FiCom wants to be “more transparent” to student groups about what grants will and will not be funded...
...enough to allay the concerns of the bill’s doubters. “We’re already on a very tight budget,” Jon T. Staff V ’10, a vice chair of the UC’s Financial Committee (FiCom), said, adding that the money earmarked for newspapers “will not go to cultural events” or “political rallies.” Despite the bill’s demise, Rosier, who in the aftermath of a New York Times-funded trial period earlier this year received...
...generally trust FiCom and I think they do a fine job, so I don’t think we’ll be reforming FiCom,” said Sundquist...