Comments on: Activities budget: Newspaper stands return, $250k for club sports

By: Vox Populi » GUSA FinApp updates proposed budget

Vox Populi » GUSA FinApp updates proposed budget — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:01:49 +0000

[...] version of the Fiscal Year 2012 Student Activities Budget based on the appeals of three groups that did not receive the full allocation they asked for from the [...]

By: ^^^@JustSaying

^^^@JustSaying — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:09:08 +0000

*selling short

By: ^^^@JustSaying

^^^@JustSaying — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:11:47 +0000

I think it still is to be seen whether GUSA allocated the funds efficiently. A 300% increase to SAC has the potential to fund some great new student programs and events, but it also has the potential to be wasted by groups that are recklessly spending just because the money is there to spend.

I don’t think the Hoya and the Voice were selling shot the “creativity, ingenuity, and activism of Georgetown students” as much as they were trying to make sure that they money was going towards these worthy goals instead of $65,000 worth of pizza parties…

By: JustSaying

JustSaying — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:56:38 +0000

“Furthermore, GUSA never demonstrated that the needs Georgetown’s clubs necessitated a fee increase. There are now legitimate questions as to whether GUSA, which appropriates the money from the fee, will allocate the influx of new funds according to students’ best interest. The organization of the referendum has not inspired confidence in GUSA senators’ ability to best represent the students who elected them.”
-Georgetown Voice Editorial Board, 12/9/10

The media was quite harsh in attacking SAFE Reform, suggesting there was no indication that student activities required such an increase in funds. Clearly it did. (I’m sure the Media Board, under which The Hoya and The Voice operate, was quite glad to receive the additional funds.) I hope our media doesn’t sell the creativity, ingenuity, and activism of Georgetown students so short in the future.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:26:31 +0000

Also I love that they included a cover page for a draft that has 5 total pages…sweet. Maybe they’ll set aside some budget $$$ to have a few copies professionally bound for posterity.

By: typical

typical — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:52:06 +0000

@ Ben Sinister – Uhhhh, Bill McCoy?

Also, Student Publications fall under Media Board, not SAC.

By: @Hoya/Voice Fan

@Hoya/Voice Fan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:03:06 +0000

SAC has no control over the budgets received by publications, or by sports, or by any community service activities. Those all have separate advisory boards (media board, club sports and APSO, respectively). GUSA allocates budgets to all of these advisory boards, of which SAC is simply one.

By: Ben Sinister

Ben Sinister — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:45:57 +0000

Can anyone think of an student activities administrator or three whose salary would be better spent on actual student activities?

Or is their input really all that valuable?

By: for the record...

for the record... — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:27:07 +0000

@Hoya/Voice Fan (Alum)

GUSA made this budget not SAC…I believe FinApp needed reasons to justify why everyone’s budget had to be cut. They received 1.6 million in requests for a 800k budget.

By: Hoya/Voice Fan (Alum)

Hoya/Voice Fan (Alum) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:23:06 +0000

I love when SAC, comprised of students who have never in their lives worked for one of Georgetown’s publications or the radio station or even GUTV, decides when a camera — a SPECIFIC ITEM — is or is not necessary. The Media Board is hard enough to convince that a specific upgrade is important, so when they finally come around, it’s just truly outstanding that SAC has provided that oh-so-necessary check on spending.

SAC and GUSA always complain about their dissatisfaction with the student media…well maybe if SAC got out of the business of setting media policy, and instead left that to the people who pour countless hours into actually working on those projects, then journalism/media at Georgetown could actually flourish.