Following a lively debate at the Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday, the committee members voted against funding for the Student Tenant Resource Center.
During the debate over funding for the STRC, questions were raised about the organization's eligibility and inappropriate use of school funds under its previous name as the Student Tenant Union.
As of Sept. 18, the STU had used General Student Services Funds while not being a registered student organization.
The STU also missed key deadlines in submitting its mid-year and end-of-year reports, which had disqualified the STU from applying for fund, according to committee members.
At one point Vice Chair Michael Romenesko asked, ""If your leadership is the same and your services are the same and only your name is different, is this just an attempt skirt our financial processes and make a mockery out of this committee?""
SSFC Rep. Kyle Szarzynski, who is also the head of the STRC and lobbied for it at the meeting, admitted it was merely a name change.
The committee also raised the ethical issue of Szarzynski receiving unfair time to defend his organization due to his dual status as SSFC committee member and head of the STRC, though Szarzynski broke no rules.
The STRC was denied funding with the vote of 2-3-2.
Other organizations that did receive funding were student veteran counseling service Vets for Vets and Adventure Learning Programs.
WisChoices, a peer-to-peer counseling service, was denied funding as a majority of the committee members agreed that University Health Services already provided ""substantially equivalent services.""
The Multicultural Student Committee also gave their pitch for funding Monday, asking for $259,000 to be voted on by the committee Thursday.
