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...favorable. The end-of-the-year cut is preferable because the amount of funding that students will request on a week-to-week basis is incredibly unpredictable. Figures from week three of the spring of 2004-05, 2005-06, and this school year, for example, all show drastically different grant requests and awards: $20,671.21, $6,048.23, and $9,870.46, respectively. The absolute unpredictability of student group funding requests makes week-to-week budgeting both impractical and unfair...
Furthermore, even if the UC did choose to budget on a tighter schedule despite the great variance in grant requests, the fact would still remain that some events would be arbitrarily refused funded simply because of their date of occurrence. Weekly budgeting would simply mean that events will not happen during the school year, rather than at the end of the year. How can one make the judgment that one is better or worse than the other...
...additional factor to be taken into consideration is the new institution of upfront funding, which was implemented in the fall of this school year. This new mechanism allows student groups to apply ahead of time for grants which they plan to pursue, which allows events that are closer to the end of the year to be funded any time during the semester, regardless of the actual date of their event. Many student groups have taken advantage of this feature, and events in April and May have been funded in the $256,000 of grant-giving...
Harvard found its way to the center of several debates during the meeting, including the perpetually recurring row over a white ash tree toppled by Harvard construction crews while building graduate housing at Cowperthwaite and Grant Streets last September...
...Councillors Craig A. Kelley and Henrietta Davis said that the Grant Street ash cast a pall on the claim that the city’s tree safety measures were working...