The Club Coordination Council distributes more than $200,000 of our money to different clubs around campus. It seems only natural that we, as students, would be able to find out where all our money is going.

As officers in a club whose funding was reduced from last year with no good explanation — even through the total CCC budget went up — we wanted to know what type of club was getting all the increases. Last semester, we asked the CCC for a list of all the clubs and the fund allocations they had been given, but we were just given the runaround and told to ask an individual who, it turns out, didn't even have the authority to access such a list. He never even responded.

At the CCC Special Interest Club meeting this past Thursday, we asked Club Coordinator John Hagan directly about making a list of allocation amounts public. Hagan just said that the information was kept secret.

When several other club officers pressed for more information, he just said that we should take his word for the fact that the allocations last year had been the most objective and impartial ever. We asked, "Well, how can we know that?" Then Hagan just stated, "That doesn't matter." We said, "But we're the students!" Then we were told, "This discussion is over."

Why are they keeping things secret if it really is fair? Are they just afraid that, if they made the allocation lists public, everyone would see that the clubs whose officers sit on the CCC are getting more money than other clubs? It's our own money that they are handling, but where is the oversight? We issue a challenge to Club Coordinator John Hagan and Student Groups Coordinator Amy Geist to end this secrecy.

James L. Rockney, co-president

Alan M. Robinson, treasurer

Mock Trial

Knott Hall

Jan. 24, 2002

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