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By Amelia Vorpahl
Friday, November 16, 2007 2:33 a.m.

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Associated Students of Madison's main funding arm approved budgets for several large student organizations Thursday evening at their meeting at Union South.

The MultiCultural Student Coalition joined the Campus Women's Center and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Student Council awaiting a decision on their proposed budgets by the Student Services Finance Committee.

MCSC was granted approximately $345,000 for the 2007-08 academic school year, according to SSFC chair Alex Gallagher — the largest of any group that receives student segregated funds.

Among the issues discussed was MCSC's request for funds to be used for semester staff training and a program called "Dating, Mating and Relating," which addresses issues individuals may be face while in an interracial relationship.

Also discussed last night was the budget decision for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences' Student Council.

The committee approved funding for a program for graduate students to mentor undergraduate students who are involved in the school.

Tanya Zimmerman, president of the CALS Student Council, said receiving funding for this program was a huge step for them and will greatly improve the CALS program.

"The main interests that we asked for this year is for graduate students to help facilitate communication between different groups of students interested in agricultural and really all over the sciences," Zimmerman said. "So [it is] kind of serving as a central point for collecting new opportunities and collaborative efforts."

Zimmerman said her organization did lose some leadership programming for the next year, but was able "to retain and add some movements for programming for this year."

SSFC also discussed 2007-08 budget decisions for the Student Leadership Program, Vets for Vets and the Campus Women’s Center. Those budgets will be decided at SSFC's next meeting.

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