Word: ficom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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?...
...Women and Tenure, an impressive roster of student groups have signed on as co-sponsors to the event, including the Black Students Association, the Radcliffe Union of Students, and numerous undergraduate advocacy groups. Nevertheless, until FiCom outlined the stipulations of its recommendations, the Seneca persisted in advertising itself as a “host” of the event—rightfully so considering the large amount of work its members put in compared to co-sponsors. However, we are still worried that FiCom is ignoring the Seneca’s obvious heavy involvement in the project. If the coalition...
Advocating that FiCom use such discretion between truly inclusive student group coalitions and token ones presents FiCom’s members with a delicate and potentially difficult task. When FiCom believes that an event will bring benefit to the community, it should not deny funding simply because one co-sponsor of the group prohibits members of the opposite sex from joining. But it should not fund such an event when one such group is clearly the lead organizer, and it should not smash open the piggy bank to fund Faculty Club extravagance simply because an organization declined to use reasonable...
Although the grant had already been sent back to FiCom once for reconsideration, the UC eventually voted to send it back again...