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...former UC Representative Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08 both said they feared that taking this function away from the UC would render the body completely useless in the eyes of students, many of whom they think see party grant allocations as the UC??s only purpose...
...Unlike the UC party grants, however, the DAPA grants do not stipulate that the parties need to be widely publicized or open to the entire student body. The new program’s supporters said this was because of a concern for privacy, but the representative who oversees the UC??s party fund saw a possible pitfall in the policy. “Because you are not making it open to everybody, you’re more able to keep money for yourself,” Margaret M. Wang ’09, party fund director...
...first hour of the 90-minute UC session was dominated by heated debates over the Financial Committee’s (FiCom) grants packages. Representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club were present to lobby against the UC??s decision to fund less than a third of the grant requested for the 2007 Bipartisan Paintball Brawl. After discussion over the role of precedents in granting UC funding, and whether or not the UC should fund entertainment activities, the council voted to grant the full amount requested by the organizers of the event...
...have received eighty newspapers for ten weeks for just over $1,700 dollars, amounting to just 40 cents a copy (the Times sells for a dollar on newsstands). The UC chose not to fund copies of The Times partly in order to have more funds for student groups. The UC??s annual budget is about $410,000, which, after setting aside money for House Committees (HoCos), the party fund, and operations leaves about $290,000 to be given out to student groups in the form of grants. As of last Sunday, only $62,000 remained, although once unspent...
...UC??s track record of waste and mismanagement is not something soon to be forgotten. Its present unwillingness to put undergraduates’ money to work for them is, however, the greatest waste...