A number of student groups and student leaders sent another open letter to the Student Activities Commission regarding the funding guideline process for clubs.

The letter—sent shortly before the Georgetown University Student Association FinApp Summit where SAC’s budget is determined—asks that SAC put its new funding guidelines up to a vote among the student clubs that are a part of SAC.

“Club leaders have had no opportunity to participate in or even observe the revision of the funding guidelines,” the letter claims.

The letter also argues that the recently instituted programming arcs inhibit creativity and undermine new boards of clubs, as the arc must be submitted the semester before the funds are allocated.

Several groups and leaders have signed on since the original letter was sent.

Read the full letter after the jump.

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In an open letter sent Friday afternoon to members of the Student Activities Commission, a number of student clubs and student leaders called on SAC to allow clubs to provide “constructive criticism” about the club funding guidelines.

The letter notes that student groups have not been afforded the opportunity to give input on the funding guidelines that affect their groups.

“If the SAC does not solicit club leadership feedback, the Funding Guidelines will continue to remain obstructive to event organization and program development,” the letter states.

Three of the candidates for the Georgetown University Student Association presidency—Mike Meaney (SFS ’12), Ace Factor (COL ’12), and Charlie Joyce (COL ’12)—signed on to the letter along with current GUSA President Calen Angert (MSB ’11).

Full text of the open letter to SAC after the jump.

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Recently, in an effort to make North Kehoe a better environment for athletic competitions, the field was decorated with new banners. However, just two weeks after the banners were put up, three of them have been stolen. Brian Wiese and Dave Nolan, the coaches for the Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams respectively, are pretty upset about the theft.

Both their teams play on the field and helped raise money for the banners. The coaches are so irritated that they have released the following open letter to the Georgetown community:

Dave and I write to you today with a real sense of disappointment. I’ve coached the men’s soccer program here at Georgetown for the past four years, Dave has coached the women’s soccer program for six years and we’ve always appreciated the support shown for our teams. The Georgetown students have been great – vocal, enthusiastic and involved and it has been a major factor in the success we’ve enjoyed. So why are we disappointed?

Within two weeks of decorating the field, three banners have been stolen from North Kehoe. Two 6X10 banners (Jack and the Georgetown G) as well as an 8×68 foot windscreen proclaiming “North Kehoe Field, Home of the Hoyas”.

Dave and I and the members of both our teams were involved in fundraising to pay for those banners in order to dress up our home field, hoping to both make a better environment for competition and to give recruits a better impression of Georgetown. We hoped to capitalize upon and add to student spirit as they root for the Hoyas. Now somebody has taken them. I don’t know if it was a joke, but nobody’s laughing. I don’t know if it was a prank, but nobody here is enjoying it. I don’t know if it was supposed to be cool, but it is not.

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To: info@facebook.com
From: Mike Stewart
Subject: DisgraceBook

To Whom It May Concern:

I’m sure you have received many e-mails this morning. I’m also sure you were prepared for that—people naturally resist change, after all, and even during the Revolutionary War a sizeable portion of the population remained Loyalists to the British crown. And those people were so wrong as to resist the foundation of the greatest country the world has ever known! So a little resistance, and un-American resistance at that, is no reason to cower before the Facebook’s sudden facelift, right?

No, fascist. The American Revolution was a glorious uprising in favor of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not a huge invasion of personal privacy, a Big-Brotherish look into the personal lives of random acquaintances, or just downright creepy. Really, why not just change the site name to 1984.net or Room101.gov? Hell, why should I even have conversations with my friends anymore when I can find out who they slept with last night via your one-stop stalker shop?

I’m sure my high school friends who just ended 3+ year relationships were thrilled to have their dirty laundry aired on all their friends’ facebook homepages this morning. And believe me, I needed nothing more this early afternoon than to find that Person X is no longer in the group “syphilis isn’t so bad,” while so-and-so joined “thong wearers anonymous.” Really, I didn’t think they even let guys in that group.

I’ve long wondered what purpose Facebook served, and now I think the answer is clear: to be creepy. What’s that, I already used the word “creepy?” That’s because it’s the only word I’ve heard anyone use to describe these changes. What’s next, a detailed list of every profile I looked at in the past day? Digital projections of what I must look like naked? Streaming video of a friend’s latest colonoscopy?

Sure, Facebook has served some limited purpose in the past, almost exclusively when there was someone I needed to get in touch with on short notice. I would say 48 hours is a legitimate window for y’all to fix your act before I erase my account and encourage everyone I know to do the same. There’s a reason McDonald’s doesn’t sell foie gras: the practice is cruel. But more importantly, McDonald’s is gross, can’t be trusted, and knows it should stick to things that can only make people moderately ill, like partially white meat chicken. Just give us our partially white meat chicken back, Facebook, and we can learn to peaceably coexist. And the less healthy among us can remain addicted.

Yours,
Mike Stewart

Posted by Mike Stewart, Feature Editor