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...party this year will cost about $5,000-$6,000, Morris says. Ticket sales and a grant from the Undergraduate Council will help Mather break even...
Once we realized that we were struggling to respond to student group grant requests and complaints about social life, we began looking at our peer institutions and realized that our student activities fee is far lower than those at other schools. While every college structures its activities fee differently, in each case most of the money is disbursed by students for student groups, social life and services. Boston University (BU), for example, has a mandatory $414 yearly fee with $128 devoted to student groups and $82 to campus events. So even though BU’s fee covers a broader...
...Nights, UC Boxes, concerts and Loker Nights all consistently sell out, while less successful ventures—the UCard for example—have been abandoned. The council also recognizes that there is a huge unmet demand for student group funding. This year we have received nearly 1,000 grant requests. While we have been able to adequately fund many grant requests under $250, larger requests generally receive only a fraction of the funding needed. For example, grant requests ranging from $750 to $1000 have received only 40 percent funding on average. According to an analysis by Finance Committee chair...
Their fever is spreading. Last semester the Eliot House Committee awarded the IM Athlete of the Week grant so the two could give ten dollar John Harvard’s or Pinocchio’s gift certificates to the player who has made a significant impact...
Even if we did agree that the council should fund nearly every dollar of every student group grant and host far more of its own projects, we doubt that the current council structure would allow them to do so efficiently. Already, council members’ time is spread so thin that mistakes of judgment and administration frequently happen regarding major projects. Just in the past couple months, the council has lost a cashbox, underestimated the popularity of its keg-return service turning what could be a money-making enterprise into a financial liability and raised eyebrows with the on-site...