Student leaders stood by their decision Thursday to limit the Multicultural Student Coalition's budget to $250,000, although the group requested upwards of $1.5 million.
The Student Services Finance Committee refused to make an exception for MCSC, who turned in their waiver form 48 minutes past deadline to qualify for over $250,000 in funding.
In the waiver, MCSC said they have ""been critical for student mobilization, education, and healing"" in light of recent issues challenging diversity efforts on campus.
MCSC administrative staffer Nneka Acubeze told SSFC the group is still determining how to rework their budget to fit within the $250,000 limit.
""We're kind of doing some debriefing within our own organization and what that means for all the hard work that was put into the budget,"" Acubeze said.
In the waiver, MCSC said SSFC's request to list the group's expenses according to importance was ""drenched with white privilege and is dripping with the audacity of self-given and unearned power.""
The group said they ""refuse to do the impossible task of itemizing [their] oppression,"" which they said they would be forced to do when choosing which programs to fund.
SSFC's request for them to do this ""is a mirror of the campus climate [they] exist in as marginalized students,"" the group said.
SSFC Rep. David Vines said while the language in the waiver MCSC sent might have appeared as if they felt targeted, members of the group said they understood the ruling was not made out of spite.
""I don't think it was necessary to include that language in the waiver, but that was their prerogative and I take no offense to it,"" Vines said.
SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said the ruling would have been the same for any student group.
""I adhere to my deadline policy just like I adhere to every deadline policy,"" Neibart said. ""I don't think we targeted this group in any instance at all.""
MCSC declined to comment on the matter.
MCSC's initial budget will be due on October 17 and the final budget on October 31.
