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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...
According to USG President Spencer Merriweather, the USG brings an outside band to campus for about $40,000 each semester, prints an annual course guide, and runs shuttle buses to local malls and movie theaters. The USG also has three paid office staff members...
...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...
...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...
International Relations Council, Board of Directors, Board of Auditors; Harvard Model United Nations, USG Business, Sec-Gen.; Harvard Advocate Magazine, Exec. Board; PBH, Julie's Family Learning Program...