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While Princeton students must pay an Undergraduate Student Government (USG) fee of $55 each year, very little of that money ultimately finds its way to student groups due to the USG's high operating costs and visible role on campus...
...result is that only $28,000 per year is earmarked for student groups, and the USG Projects Board doles out this money on an event-by-event basis. According to USG Treasurer Rebecca Choi, the termbill fee funds about 50 of Princeton's more than 200 registered student groups...
...people think that there should be more avenues to go to and more flexible funding available," Choi says. "The Projects Board was originally a last resource for student organizations, but now it's a primary funder...
According to Choi, student groups can also apply for grants from Princeton's academic departments and the dean's office, but most organizations are self-funded--either from membership fees, alumni donations, or other revenues...
...have a mechanism by which student groups can be created on a whim, and it's a burden to kick out money to those groups," Merriweather says. "In a lot of ways, we're [also] doing what [the college] should be doing anyway," he adds, referring to the USG's shuttles and other services...