The Student Services Finance Committee approved funding decreases for Sex Out Loud, the Working Class Student Union (WCSU) and Badger Catholic.
Sex education and activism group Sex Out Loud was approved for a budget of $84,737 with only minor cuts.
The budget for WCSU—a student group representing working class, first-generation and other non-traditional students—was approved without cuts at $55,449 for 2011-12.
Badger Catholic's budget was approved at $117,750, a $5,817 decrease from their original request.
The committee voted to zero-fund Badger Catholic's food and supplies, and to make multiple cuts to the group's leadership training and travel costs.
The committee's final budget hearing of the season was for the Multicultural Student Coalition (MCSC).
Student social justice organization MCSC requested a 2011-12 budget of $225,787.
Although MCSC's proposed budget included several spending increases, the overall request represented a $5,000 decrease from their 2010-11 allocation.
MCSC's budget presenters were accompanied by around two dozen supporters, several of whom made speeches and gave spoken word performance to support the group during open forum.
Among the speakers was SSFC representative and MCSC staff member Jair Alvarez.
Alvarez said he considered this year's MCSC budget—on which he collaborated—to be ""the most comprehensively financially responsible in years.""
Any cuts made by the SSFC, said Alvarez, would ""slash"" MCSC's ability to provide its direct services to students.
SSFC Secretary Jason Smathers said decisions on cuts would be made once committee members spoke with the group.
""On the whole, this budget is a lot more fiscally responsible than [MCSC] has posited in the past,"" Smathers said. ""That being said, we'll see what has to be cut in lobby meetings.""
Following Thursday's meeting, the committee will break for a week before moving into internal budget session.
