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...record, it's not the termbill itself that is objectionable. In fact, Harvard students only pay the paltry sum of $20 to fund shuttles, Springfest and student groups. This amount has not been adjusted, even for inflation, since 1981. But at least 60 percent of the council's budget is granted to student groups. That wouldn't be so bad if that money was going toward a few deserving groups and events like Springfest which benefit the entire undergraduate community. But under the current system, some of the 12 dollars you spend on student groups goes to funding private fiefdoms...
...Look, let's not slash the council budget. Let's simply reallocate it in a fairer manner. How about free pizza for everyone? Or, a Springfest that highlights a couple different bands representing different music genres? And if it's really only titles that students want, some enterprising student group could make a killing auctioning them off to the highest bidder...
Council members searched for ways to exceed the $100,000 target, including taking money from the committee fund--which funds council-sponsored events like Springfest--or a special fund of money left over from two years ago when the council found $40,000 that had accumulated because of accounting oversights. That fund now totals only about...
Justin A. Barkley '02 argued against any further reductions in the committee fund, saying that activities--Springfest and the First-Year Formal among others--are "the real stuff we do in council...
...going to be able to get by. We may just have a less good band at Springfest, and less money to give to student groups," Gusmorino says...