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Issues

Insuffi cient or mismanaged?

Artlets societies, organizations

experience funding problems

By RANDOLPH B. LEONGSON and CHRISTIAN CARL E. NARIZ
Several societi es in the Faculty of Arts and Lett ers (Artlets) experienced shortage of funds during the fi rst
semester even if the Student Acti vity Fund (SAF) is made available by the administrati on. The SAF, which is
allocated by the University from the tuiti on paid by students upon enrolment, serves as the lifeblood that
funds student acti viti es organized by societi es and organizati ons. In the University-wide scale, Artlets is
among those with low SAF allocati on amounti ng to P175.00 per student. Here, the questi on looms:
Is it a case of budget mismanagement or shortage?

CCORDING to the SAF breakdown Soc), Concilium Philosophae,
obtained by the Flame from the UST and Literary Society (Lit Soc).
AAccounti ng Offi ce, the Artlets is one Meanwhile, newly-added
of those with low budget allocati on when courses English Language Stud-
it comes to the SAF—a far cry from the ies and History are yet to create
other faculti es and colleges namely, the their own society, but Artlets
Faculty of Civil Law (P660), Conservatory Dean Michael An-
of Music (P637.20), Faculty of Medicine thony Vasco said that
and Surgery (P550), College of Architec- if they decide to cre-
ture (P320), and the College of Reha- ate a soci-
bilitati on Sciences (P300). ety for
Other colleges
that have low- er
SAFs than the
Artlets are the
College of Sci-
ence (P150), Col-
lege of Commerce
and Business Admin-
istrati on (P110), and
the Faculty of Engineering
(P110).
The SAF, which is included
in the “other fees” paid by students
during enrolment, is used to fund
the respecti ve organizati ons’ and
societi es’ projects
throughout the
academic year.
In the case of
the Artlets, the
amount of SAF e a c h
society gets depends on the
number of students enrolled in a
major.
Communicati on Arts Students
Associati on (CASA), the society
with the largest student popu-
lati on in Artlets, has the biggest
share of the fund. It is followed by
the Legal Management So-
ciety (LM Soc), The Politi cal
Science Forum (TPSF), Jour- EDILBERTO LORENZO R. MORELOS, JR.
nalism Society (Journ Soc),
Behavioral Science Society (Bes Soc), Asian their major, the administrati on is willing to amount of the SAF is not enti rely distrib-
Studies Society (Asian Soc), Economics So- dole out the SAF. uted to diff erent Artlets societi es but will
ciety (Eco Soc), Sociological Socety (Socio Likewise, Vasco said that the total be fi rst shared to other college-based or-
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