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...Anello says the additional funding would allow the council to respond better to student demands through more adequately funding grant requests made by student groups...
...position paper, the proponents of the hike say that grant requests are funded at, on average, 38 percent and that an increase would allow the council to more than double that amount...
...council cannot currently fund every request made by campus student groups, and it should not attempt to. Among the numerous projects the Financial Committee (FiCom) rejected (or denied full funding to) in the past year can be found a $15,000 grant request of the Automotive Society for a go-kart expedition and a host of other white elephant undertakings...
Over the past few weeks, fee hike proponents have circulated a sexy (though misleading) figure that suggests that this year’s council has only funded 38 percent of student groups’ total grant requests. A closer examination, provided by a recent analysis of four grants packages authored by FiCom chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 (himself a proponent of the fee hike), reveals that the council in fact funds nearly 70 percent of all applicants that request less than $750. These applications account for the vast majority (86 percent) of all grant requests. These numbers...
...Ph.D. in anthropology, Farmer, 44, is a professor at Harvard Medical School who spends most of his time at a charity hospital in Haiti that provides treatment each year for 340,000 poor patients suffering from such diseases as tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria. He has a MacArthur genius grant. The organization he founded, Partners in Health, has pioneered the treatment of HIV/AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in resource-poor settings, a fact I copied directly from Harvard's website because I don't understand it. Farmer recently upgraded from living in a church rectory in Boston to a college dorm...