Associated Students of Madison Student Council will review the General Student Services Fund budgets Wednesday night. These include budgets for Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment, the Jewish Cultural Collective and Sex Out Loud.
The mystery is how the off-campus rent policy will impact the final decisions. Although the answer to this question is complicated and still unknown, one thing everyone agrees on is the vital need for more student organization space.
ASM is involved in the organization and design of the Student Activity Center that is currently being built on the former University Square, but this project won't be completed until 2008-'09. During this interim period, the priority must be finding space for groups who reside off-campus, who may otherwise be homeless next year.
An ideal outcome of the budget process would be the continued funding of rent for off-campus groups for next year.
Because the steps toward achieving this goal are uncertain, we need to prepare alternate solutions now. ASM members and UW administrators including the Dean of Students are meeting to problem-solve and brainstorm around the space issue. I urge students with ideas or suggestions to contact me or another ASM student representative.
Dylan Rath
ASM Chair
