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DECISIONS MADE FOR SBC APPEALS

With 22 letters revealing the outcome of appeals for funding from the Student Budget Committee in the mail, the long wait is almost over for student organizations on campus.

“It’s just been really frustrating in waiting for the letter,” said Steven Collins, treasurer of Vision, one of 22 groups who appealed SBC’s original funding decision. “We don’t really expect to get much out of the appeal [process], we’re just waiting to get it.”

Groups will most likely be disappointed by the results, given that in a year where more than $1 million was requested– with a $610, 862 budget for SBC– approximately $10,000 was available for appeals, Overland said.

Student organizations who appealed include: University Activities Organization, Graduate Student Senate, Vision, WFAL, WBGU, Dry Dock, the Black Student Union and University Ambassadors.

“I used all the money available for appeals, but it certainly was not enough to fit the requests,” Overland said.

But the overall theme behind the appeals wasn’t against anything SBC did or didn’t do in the decision process, said Overland, who is responsible for reviewing each appeal and making the final decisions.

“Essentially the theme was ‘we’d like more money,'” she said. “People proposed budgets that there just wasn’t the money for [this year]. I didn’t get the sense that SBC did a bad job. [Student organizations] just wanted to get more funds.”

Meeting with staff members of the Office of Campus Involvement many student leaders, like Treasurer of Vision Steven Collins, realized that the funding issue runs deeper than just SBC.

“We discovered it wasn’t just [SBC] being stickLers with their money,” he said.

This realization, for some, is hard to swallow.

“I think it’s very disappointing that the University is not supporting SBC with funds for everyone,” said Kelly Fink, general manager of WFAL. “I’m not pointing the finger at anyone, but not everyone’s needs can be met when not enough money is being given to SBC.”

According to Fink, the cuts that were made to their budget this year are “detrimental” to their health as an organization. WFAL saw cuts to their annual conference, money for promotional items and giveaways and received no funding to hold events on or off-campus.

“We’d like to see an increase, but not because we feel like we’re the best organization on campus,” she said. “We feel that all of our requests are justified to survive as an organization.”

Unlike other organizations, WFAL wasn’t asked to prioritize their own budget in front of SBC to help in determining what areas could be cut. But if they had been asked, according to Fink, there would be no room for cuts in their budget.

“If there was any place to [make cuts], there wouldn’t be any cuts,” she said.

Below are the requests of various student organizations (arranged in alphabetical order) and the funding amount recommended by SBC for the 2004-2005 academic year. These figures do not represent changes with appeals. Final decisions on appeals, submitted by 22 student organizations, were mailed to groups yesterday.

Organization Amount Requested Amount Allotted

Academic Quiz Team $2,000 $1,820

Actuarial Science Society $1,000 $385

African Amer. Grad. Stu. Assoc. $6, 060 $5, 060

African Brain Gain $3, 450 $1,800

African People’s Association $18, 500 $2,000

Alpha Eta Rho $4,320 $1, 437

Alpha Phi Omega $7, 742 $3, 712

American Chemical Society $1, 831 $1, 536

American Inst. of Architecture $2,200 $2, 520

American Marketing Assoc. $4, 200 $4, 200

American Society for Quality $2, 850 $1, 470

Anime $900 $900

Arnold Air Society $3, 100 $ 2, 350

Asian Communities United $5, 420 $4, 877

Assoc. for Computing Mach. $510 $200

BACCHUS/GAMMA $4, 900 $4, 850

Ballroom Dance Society $2,000 $1, 500

BAMN $4,000 $2, 275

BG 24 News $30, 000 $21, 350

BG Radio News $10, 295 $9, 595

BG Radio Sports $7,110 $5, 200

BG TECA $3, 052 $2, 313

BGSDA $1, 330 $1,330

Biology Grad. Student Assoc. $10, 631 $2, 000

Black Intellects Group $2, 000 $0

Black Student Union $23,277 $10, 167

Carribean Association $5, 700 $4, 250

Ceramics Organization $2, 000 $1, 500

Chess Club $3, 112 $940

Chinese Club $520 $519

Chinese Student Scholars $9, 400 $8, 260

Clarinet Studio 1054 $2, 000 $2, 000

Club Baseball $2, 000 $2, 000

Club Espanol $990 $750

College Democrats $2, 785 $2, 385

College of Tech Ambassadors $2, 000 $985

College Republicans $7, 250 $5, 250

Computer Art Club $8, 115 $3, 905

Creative Minds Movement $8,331 $6,000

Criminal Justice Organization $270 $270

Cru $51,522 $12,000

Dance Marathon $23,390 $5,338

Dry Dock $27,950 $0

Economics Club $1,305 $955

English Grad. Student Org. $1,190 $790

Environmental Action Grp. $7,100 $2,990

Environ. Health Student Grp. $1,910 $1,560

Falcons For Life $937 $405

Fencing Club $7, 515 $5,265

Fighting Falcon Battalion $23,156 $15,540

Fighting Falcon Squadron $2,200 $2,200

Financial Management Assoc. $3,696 $1,771

For Your Intertainment $2,000 $0

French Club $2,380 $935

German Club $3,200 $2,253

Gospel Choir $16,544 $12,515

Grad. Art Organization $6,000 $4,000

Grad. Student Senate $30,758 $15,805

Graphic Design Club $2,590 $1,740

Habitat for Humanity $3,505 $200

Higher Ed Doctoral Students $2,000 $1,900

Hillel $ 1,444 $ 874

History Society $ 3,502 $ 2,651

Honors Student Association $17,905 $7,645

India Student Association $12,650 $5,270

International Business $2,490 $0

International Relations $1,705 $705

Interpersonal Communications %2,000 $1,715

Intramural Advisory Board $2,035 $2,000

Japanese Club $3,286 $2,471

Juntos $6,610 $0

Kenya 5K Run Club $7,000 $2,000

Key Yearbook $9,775 $5,880

Kinesiology Club $810 $60

Latino Cultural Arts Committee $3,800$3,100

Latino Student Union $24,850 $18,365

Latter Day Saints $230 $230

Law Society $1,000 $1,000

Marine Biology Association $1,125 $1,125

MBA Association $2,000 $1,698

Men’s Club Volleyball $2,500 $2,500

Men’s Ice Hockey $5,000 $5,000

Men’s Lacrosse $2,000 $2,000

Men’s Rugby $4,525 $4,465

Men’s Track and Field $4,600 $0

Musician’s Guild $3,000 $2,600

NAACP $2,296 $1,996

National Student Speech and Hearing $2,000$1,670

Native American Unity Council $7,265$4,475

Organization for Women’s Issues $4,025$3,525

Outdoor Program Adventure Club $2,240$2,000

Phi Beta Sigma $7,200$4,352

Phi Sigma Pi $1990$1,220

Philosophy Club $1,945$1,305

Pi Kappa Delta $1,000 $200

Precept $1,97541,975

Public Relations $2,025$2,000

Real Life $4,000$2,000

Russian Club $1,726 $895

Society for Success and Leadership $5,250$4,000

Society of Human Resource Mgmt. $3,083$2,000

Sociology Graduate Student $5,900$5,900

Sport Management Alliance $1,650 $0

Student Information Tech $1,350$1,250

Synchronized Skating $2,000$2,000

Theta Alpha Phi $8,195$6,645

TINT Magazine $1,000$1,000

Tri-Beta $1,050 $340

Ultimate Frisbee $1,260$1,260

Undergraduate Gerontology $1,675 $945

Undergraduate Student Government $26,945 $25,388

University Activities Organization $234,345 $145,793

University Ambassadors $6,475 $5,825

University Dance Alliance $2,240$2,240

University Film Organization $2,125 $650

Uplift $2,900$1,595 Videobank $1,930$1,327

Vision $19,640 $11,220

Visual Communications Tech $3,000$2,705

Volunteers in Progress $2,900$2,900

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