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by Carolyn Potts
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Roman Catholic Foundation of the University of Wisconsin will head back to the Student Services Finance Committee to ask for another eligibility hearing tonight, Student Judiciary decided Sunday.
RCF-UW, which was denied General Student Service Funds last September, will go in front of SSFC for the third time to ask for another chance to be granted funding.
The group had been granted funding by SSFC upon their initial eligibility hearing but was denied $39,000 to be used for items to be used in prayer and worship. RCF-UW was then granted the chance to go before a panel that would review an appeal the group filed.
RCF-UW Vice Chair Craig Griffie said the group is appealing the first decision made in September to deny the group eligibility for GSSF.
SSFC Chair Alex Gallagher requested the finance committee require RCF-UW to file a complaint against the SSFC instead of an appeal before he has to defend the committee in a hearing. Gallagher said the appeal filed was not a complaint against SSFC.
“I would be happy to entertain a complaint against SSFC but, as it stands, there are certain criteria that are necessary to file an appeal, which are very different from the criteria it takes to file a complaint,” Gallagher said.
Gallagher added the appeal deals with interactions that RCF-UW had with UW Legal before the eligibility hearing in front of SSFC, about which he said he doesn’t “feel it would be appropriate to represent any decision that UW Legal made.”
SJ suggested RCF-UW narrow down exactly what it is appealing and offer SSFC the option to reconsider them for funding eligibility before there is a trial.
“I just want the next step, which would be another hearing with SSFC,” Griffie said. “If we get another hearing, either way it goes, we will be happy.”
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 7:09am):
Anyone want to join my student club? I believe that Santa Claus is real and I'm going to get $39,000 to send letters to the North Pole.
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 9:15am):
Umm... Did I miss something? I was at this meeting last night and 1) SJ did not remand RCF's eligibility to SSFC for tonight's meeting, 2) SJ decided to await a complaint by RCF before making any further action, and 3) the $39,000 withheld by the University is not the issue, it is RCF's eligibility.
Fact check.
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 2:09pm):
Here is my plan to fund a new student org:
-Ask the SSFC for $1 million
-Get regected by the SSFC
-Litigate the hell out of it
-Negotiate a $500,000 settlment
-Use $250,000 to pay the legal fees
-Net a profit of $250,000
-Repeat next year
I know it isn't exactly an original idea, but hey, it works.
Anonymous (February 11, 2008 @ 8:06pm):
Like it really matters? Unless RCF gets everything they want, whether they qualify for it or not, they're just going to file another lawsuit.
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