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Editorial Cartoon | Feb. 24, 2010
WU announces upkeep cutbacks
Come springtime, the large supply of tulips on campus will be nipped in the bud. As a part of a plan designed to reduce the Washington University maintenance and landscaping budget by at least 5 percent, the number of tulips on campus will be cut in half. The new plan will also reduce the number of on-call maintenance employees around the Danforth Campus, thereby producing a delay in response time.
Chancellor Wrighton on endowment, ethics, race and clean coal
Student Life conducted an interview with Chancellor Mark Wrighton after the most recent quarterly meeting of the board of directors on Friday. The discussion involved a review of major events that occurred during the semester.
Wrighton, admins discuss WU finances before Edison crowd
More than 100 Washington University students, faculty and staff gathered in Edison Theatre yesterday morning to hear Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s “State of the University Address” on the fiscal circumstance of the University.
Lower funding percentage challenges some groups to raise enough money
Due to a 16-percent drop in the funding percentage the determines their budget, Category I student groups will need to do a little more fundraising this semester. The groups will receive 77 percent of the budgets they were allocated.
Although that number is higher than the 68 percent that was expected earlier this year because of [...]
SU group restructuring needs to go further
In order to address student groups dissatisfied with its budgeting process, and to improve its efficiency, Student Union (SU) has proposed to restructure the way it categorizes groups. The proposed changes include classifying executive groups as Category I groups and adding equipment and social boards. A group’s classification as an [...]
New budget scheme detailed at Treasury
Student Union Vice President of Administration Jeff Nelson presented details about plans to restructure the executive committees currently exempt from many of the rules of category student groups at the Student Union Treasury meeting on Tuesday.
SU to amend budget implementation process
The Student Union budget failed in the Senate and the Treasury last spring, spurring controversy and discontent regarding the budget proposal and implementation process. Now, Student Union (SU) is working on plans to safeguard against such failure in the futue.
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