University must increase SAC funding - The Message
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on rising student-group demand for funding and a call for a larger Student Activities Committee budget.
- The News-Letter reported that student groups had expanded sharply while SAC funding had not received a substantial increase.
- The paper reported that the 2006 budget included about $180,000 for annual group budgets, $100,000 for supplemental funding and $125,000 for student council groups, totaling about $415,000.
- The article says the Student Activities Committee had been conserving funding for case-by-case requests during the next school year.
- The reporter writes that the article presents stricter funding rules or increased funding as the two solutions, while arguing that stricter rules would hurt student activities.
- The article adds that raising the total allotment from $415,000 to $500,000 would require about $21 more in tuition per undergraduate, based on a calculation involving 4,000 undergraduates.