On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:40:10PM -0400, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote: > I would generally be in favor of untying the hands of the officers, but > somehow I find it hard to believe that SGA recognition is something that > an organization would be better off without. I don't see how #1 and #2 > are reasons not to join the SGA; if SGA money isn't useful, UMLUG could > just submit a $0 budget. As for #3, what special status of a > non-SGA-recognized UMLUG would allow it to make campus reservations for > free, or can anyone do that?
It is my recollection that the clause requiring SGA recognition was placed into the constitution for a lot of very similar reasons. To wit, they were to promote the LUG, to make sure it got into whatever "official" lists were running around, to help make sure that it wouldn't get left out of campus events like the First Look Fair, and generally to ensure that it got a fair chance in the weird weird world of SGA politics and didn't somehow get forcibly kicked off of campus and prevented from operating because it wasn't somehow legitimate. As a consequence of this, SGA funding was a possible benefit as well, because we naively thought that we might ever get any. (Incidentally, this last happened more than never, if I recall correctly, but was basically impossible in practical terms to plan for or actually get on a consistent basis. However, I thought there were other, possibly equally specious, reasons for getting "official" SGA recognition.) Anyone else who was there at the time is welcome to correct me. Ben -- Ben Stern This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener.
