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...UC??s advocacy for reforms comes on the heels of a mental health survey, which was administered to about 1000 undergraduates in dining halls on March 21 in the hopes of guiding UC efforts to tackle calendar reform...
...Last week, however, Mather House UC Representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 asked for the legislation to be retroactively amended, citing negative feedback from his constituents. Greenfield said he received an e-mail from a former UC representative who was embarrassed over the UC??s “whimsical spending.” Despite such criticism, Hadfield said he remained confident that the success of the program would quash initial concerns. “I’m looking forward to boasting how many people are using the service after break,” he said...
Lori M. Adelman ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House. She was chair of the UC??s Finance Committee...
Some critics of this procedure argue that handing out such a large portion of funds early in the year is fiscally irresponsible, and in many ways has been interpreted as being indicative of mismanagement of the UC??s funds by UC leadership. These critics argue that the UC should simply budget at the beginning of the year so as to spread out the grants fund evenly across each week that it makes a grants package. Simple math, these critics say—dividing the UC??s total student group budget by the number of grants packages...
However, some differences can be deduced between the two cuts that make the UC??s current practice seem more 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...