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.?