Shouting, singing, and riotous cheering drowned out Wednesday night’s meeting of the Student Services Finance Committee.

The proceedings, which set the budgets for student groups Wunk Sheek, the Campus Women’s Center and the College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Student Council, were frequently drowned out by Homecoming festivities happening in and around Memorial Union.

Wunk Sheek, a Native American group, faced the biggest cuts from its request when SSFC representative Aaron Werner proposed dropping the amount allocated to programming supplies from $40,000 to $30,000.

“The cut would definitely take down on the spring powwow. We might have to eliminate one of our events,” Wunk Sheek co-president Casey Brown protested.

Rep. Gladys Reyes agreed.

“There’s no other organization that does this sort of programming,” Reyes said.

However, with the support of representatives Ryan Nichols and Cate Dobyns, Werner’s amendment was passed.

With other cuts to advertising and travel, Wunk Sheek’s budget was finally approved unanimously at $80,378.

The Campus Women’s Center also faced cuts to its budget requests, including $7,200 set aside for surplus employment hours.

The cut was proposed by Nichols, who said the line item was “a slush fund of dollars that are going to go to ‘something.'”

As compensation, the group received more work-week hours and a slight extension of their working year.

“Any cuts could dramatically impact who we are able to serve,” Vicki Bomben, a representative of CWC, said.

The Women’s Center budget was approved at $65,865.

CALS Student Council’s budget request received the smallest cut of the night but much debate. A proposal by Rep. Nichols to lower the group’s request for postage centered on the need for feedback cards at the group’s child-related events.

“We don’t want to see what a second-grader thinks about the university,” said Nichols.

Rep. Rob Welygan disagreed.

“I think feedback is pretty key for a service that works with kids,” he said.

The $30 cut failed in voting, and CALS Student Council was finally approved at $10,001.

The SSFC’s open forum session was extended by about 15 minutes to hear the supporters of the Asian Pacific Americans Council and WISPIRG, whose budget requests will be decided next Monday.

APAC, represented by members Henry Ton and Katie Roller, is an umbrella group for 16 other organizations, including Korean, Hmong, and Laotian groups. The group stressed that its request for additional programming and staff were two essential things. “One without the other is just not going to do it,” Roller said.

WISPIRG, represented by Megan Fitzgerald, cited its record in environmental legislation and leadership support to individual students as main reasons for its budget increases.