The Student Services Finance Committee granted eligibility to the Student Leadership Program and the Tenant Resource Center Sunday, allowing them to receive funding through segregated fees.
The SLP, which offers training and leadership services to UW-Madison students, passed by a 9-1 vote, while the Tenant Resources Center, a student tenant advocacy group, passed unanimously.
The SSFC also approved the criteria by which funding was denied for the UW-Madison InfoShop and the UW-Madison Labor Center last week. Specifically, the committee said, both organizations failed to demonstrate that a substantially equivalent service is not being provided elsewhere at UW-Madison, and that each group's services are of specific and identifiable educational benefit.
Faith Kurtyka, a UW-Madison junior, was the sole SSFC member to vote against the criteria for denial. She voted last week to grant both groups eligibility.
\I feel the members took their own viewpoints into consideration,"" she said. ""The reasons on that paper are not the reasons those groups were denied.""
The SSFC also heard eligibility proposals Sunday from the Committee for a Conservative Tomorrow, the Indigenous Law Students Association, Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment and the State Langdon Neighborhood Association. Student funding eligibility decisions for these organizations will be decided by the SSFC Monday.
