Discuss “Executive Privilege”

Last year, student government allocated $2.70 from each student’s semesterly fee to The Tartan. Not a bad deal for 14 issues.

Around 8500 undergraduate and graduate students pay $82 per semester into the student activities fee, most of which ends up in an account of about $1 million for student organizations. By this Friday at midnight, every funded student organization will submit its request to get a chunk of that change.

But there’s an interesting dimension to this funding process, a facet which I came to be aware of by accident.

In December 2004, I was elected to the post of Executive Officer, now called Publisher, after a period of many years when The Tartan had neglected the business side of its responsibilities. There was no business...