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...FiCom took a different approach, with chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 and vice-chair and vice-president elect Ian W. Nichols ’06 passing out beers to male members and Smirnoff Ice to female members...
After the Financial Committee (FiCom) passed a grants package, each Committee chair came up to the podium to say their thank yous, and, in some cases, goodbyes...
...issues that need to be addressed more fully, the restructuring proposals on the table generally sound solid. Under the plan Mahan proposed on Sunday, the council would become more decentralized; decisions made by the Finance Committee (FiCom), which is in charge of distributing funding to student groups, would no longer need approval by the general council. A new Grants Committee would have complete control over the grants process, making approval much more streamlined because committee decisions would no longer be subject to wasteful and unnecessary parliamentary debate in the general council. In addition, the plan to give this new Grants...
Like the expansion and specialization of FiCom, we approve of the general changes in Mahan’s proposed reform, especially the integration of the Concert Commission. But we caution the council to consider the possible pitfalls of adding student group representatives to the CLC. While we approve of the impulse to make the council more accessible and to increase coordination among student groups, student group leaders are not elected in council elections. We are concerned that those who rise through the ranks of an outside organization do not necessarily have the qualifications or the student consent to serve...
Joshua A. Barro ’05, a chair of Adams HoCo and the former chair of FiCom, said that though he agreed with the broad strokes of Mahan’s ideas, it was important not to “rush the process” by implementing legislation too soon...