Duke Student Government debated the Student Organization Finance Committee’s annual budget for next year at its meeting Wednesday.
The SOFC annual budget funds capital expenditures that the group needs to function and major expenditures for events outside the realm of the programming fund for chartered groups, said SOFC Chair Kat Krieger, a junior.
The budget will be finalized following a Senate body vote next week.
“Making sure that students have access to the proper funding to run their events is a crucial aspect of the role of DSG,” said sophomore Jacob Zionce, DSG vice president for residential life.
There were a total of 12 groups that appealed the amount that they had been granted. A total of 51 groups applied for funding from the budget. The groups that appealed were The Inferno, Society of Women Engineers, Black Student Alliance, Peer For You, Duke Chess Club, The Chanticleer, Duke College Republicans, Muslim Students Association, Christian Cambridge Fellowship, Duke East Asia Nexus, Consulting Club and Duke Partnership for Service.
The appeals were debated this week and will be voted on next week. Last year, two groups appealed their funding allocations.
Junior Marcus Benning, senator for Durham and regional affairs, said that it is important that SOFC maintain uniform policies for funding—if SOFC funds one group’s posters, it should fund all group’s posters.
The Senate tabled discussions on funding for Duke’s student yearbook, The Chanticleer.
“Last year, The Chanticleer comprised over one seventh of the SOFC budget and this year, SOFC line-itemized their request to decrease that cost significantly,” Krieger said. “That is the main ticket item for DSG to debate next week.”
In the past, The Chanticleer has been printed and mailed to every member of the senior class following graduation, Krieger said. There were also 900 printed and delivered to underclassmen.
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