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Last week’s terrifyingly long Undergraduate Council (UC) general meeting rehashed an all–too-familiar—and all-too-important—issue: funding for student groups. The UC, in a bold move, ignored the recommendation of its Finance Committee (FiCom) and awarded $2,000 to the Mission Hill After School Program, a tutoring and mentoring outreach group affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). The extended debate highlighted the need for clear, consistent, and well-publicized standards for funding of student groups...
...awarded a $2,000 grant to the Mission Hill After School Program last night in a controversial meeting that lasted almost four hours and prompted charges that the move would set a precedent of fiscal irresponsibility. The UC overruled a recommendation from the council’s Finance Committee (FiCom), which had voted not to award Mission Hill any of the $2,500 that the group had requested for vans. Mission Hill sends volunteers to housing developments in Roxbury four afternoons a week to tutor and mentor children ages five to 13. More than 80 Mission Hill supporters attended last...
Former UC Treasurer Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 asked the council to send back or “recommit” to the Finance Committee (FiCom) for reconsideration several grants over $1,000. After the meeting, he said he had done so in order to “raise the awareness of the implications of our financial irresponsibility...
...There’s really nothing abnormal or unusual about the grants package we passed,” FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 said after the meeting. She said that because this was the first grants package to be considered since Reading Period, there were more grants submitted than usual. Adelman also mentioned that the Council had yet to solicit unclaimed checks from student groups and that doing so would bring additional money–up to $10,000 in past years–to the UC’s budget...
...will be chaired by Sopen B. Shah ’08, and Lori M. Adelman ’08 will head FiCom...