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...formation of the independent social programming board did not substantially affect the structure and mission of FiCom...
Discussions about restructuring began last week, when the UC’s three main committees—CLC, the Finance Committee (FiCom), and the Student Affairs Committee (SAC)—discussed reform at their meetings...
...FiCom voted against the critical $2,500 grant it had given in previous years because of its own unwritten rules about funding transportation costs, which it had not previously applied to Mission Hill’s grants. In an e-mail to The Crimson, FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 explained that Mission Hill’s previous funding was due to “extraneous circumstances with past miscommunication between UC leadership and Mission Hill leadership.” While FiCom’s decision may have been consistent with its unpublished guidelines, the committee?...
...FiCom website, which contained information contradictory to its unwritten rules, did nothing to help the situation. Much of the confusion surrounding transportation and other funding could have been easily alleviated had FiCom and the UC taken the time and initiative to update, publicize, and adhere to guidelines on its site. FiCom, to its credit, updated its website yesterday with its current guidelines, but it must now publicize these new guidelines and apply them consistently...
...cannot afford to neglect the current problems in its grant process. Its lack of a streamlined and equitable funding scheme smacks of the very inefficiency for which the UC is so often criticized. Updating the grant guidelines on its website was a good first step, but now FiCom must take the time to notify all student group leaders of the new guidelines and apply them in the most consistent and fair manner possible...