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...events, culminating in a $30,000 cancellation fee for last fall’s Wyclef Jean (non-)concert. After that debacle, the Council effectively un-funded the CLC, divvying up some of what was left of its $100,000 budget among House Committees (HoCos) and party funds. Then the UC lopped off the CLC and left campus-wide social programming to the new College Events Board, which has a $200,000 budget from the College Dean’s office...
...UC still receives all of the money once spent on the CLC. As the new Council takes office this week, it is imperative that it publicly discuss how it will spend the money originally attained with a mandate to organize campus-wide social events...
...HoCos often work together to plan (or enhance) large-scale campus events, such as the annual Harvard-Yale tailgate. An increased party fund is also a worthy use of some of the funds, too—and last year, some CLC money was spent there—since the UC requires its funded parties to be on campus and open to all undergraduates...
...increased HoCo and party funding accounts for a bit more than half of the old CLC budget, and the UC must consider where to put the rest—which amounts to about $50,000, or a little over 10 percent of the Council’s total budget. (Last year, $30,000 was lost with Wyclef, and the rest was divided between First Year Social Committee grants, a few stein clubs, subsidized shuttle busses, and a few other projects.) What the UC should not do is simply pour the balance into its general grants fund for student groups. While...
...where to spend the money? One possibility is to fund creative, large-scale social events that might not be organized by any particular student group. Currently, groups of students not affiliated with any particular student organization cannot receive UC funding, even if they have grand plans for a large-scale event. This sort of funding would assist ideas like last year’s Junior Class Commission’s dance in Annenberg, and other ideas that are fun, creative, and not limited to specific, existing student groups. The emphasis should remain on events with a wide appeal in order...