Discuss “Bring secret funding process into the light”

The people who dole out the student activities fee have been keeping secrets from you and from the press. The Joint Funding Committee (JFC), the arm of Student Senate charged with the task of distributing your student activities fee for next year, has banned non-JFC students from the meetings on two occasions. Students were not allowed in, not even as silent observers. This exclusion deprived the student body of its right to both know how the activities fee money is being allocated and verify that it is a fair and unbiased process.

The process has been a bit confusing. Nicolette Louissaint, chair of the JFC, voted to close at least one of the meetings while encouraging the committee?s representatives to fully discuss what goes on inside these...