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44 BOWDOIN SUMMER 2011 HOW BOWDOIN STUDENTS DISTRIBUTE $680,000 A YEAR. BY EDGAR ALLEN BEEM PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEAN ABRAMSON
slicing the pie Why would anyone want to be a class treasurer? Kyle Dempsey ’11 knew he wanted to be his class treasurer even before he arrived at Bowdoin. In the fall of his senior year at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, Dempsey spent a weekend on campus as a prospective student. His host was the treasurer of his class, so Dempsey tagged along to an officers’ meeting. There the president of the class gave the young man from East Millinocket, Maine, a strategic piece of advice. “Be the treasurer. They’re the ones who have the final say in everything.” That may be a slight exaggeration, but class treasurers at Bowdoin do automatically sit on the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC), the treasurer of the Bowdoin Student Government chairs the SAFC, and SAFC definitely has a big say in campus life, controlling, as it does, more than two-thirds of a million dollars a year. Bowdoin student activities fees added up to $680,000 in 2010-11. That’s a small fortune that Bowdoin student leaders get to distribute in support of clubs, entertainment, and community service. The money adds richness to the life of Bowdoin and serving as a steward of that money adds measurably to a student’s Bowdoin education and experience. “There’s a lot of money involved,” says Kyle Dempsey, who has served as SAFC chair for two years. “You can have a high impact serving in this position. But the thing that has kept me involved without a doubt is not controlling the money, it’s been meeting the leaders of every organization on campus, hearing about all the events, and knowing all the great things that are going on.” ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE The weekly meeting of the SAFC takes place Monday evenings at 5:30 p.m. in a room of the Women’s Resource Center at 24 College St. The meetings used to take place in a conference room in Smith Union, but Nicole Willey ’08 moved the meetings when she was SAFC chair because “I’m a big believer in how physical spaces makes people feel and I wanted people to feel comfortable.” The eight members of the SAFC sit casually in armchairs and sofas, some with laptops on laps, as representatives of the six student organizations scheduled to make presentations this evening arrive at 10 minute intervals. The clubs have previously submitted written budget requests and are here now to make their pitches and answer questions before the SAFC decides how much money to give them. The committee will make decisions on funding after all presentations have been made and notify the organization leaders of their decisions via e-mail the following day. Bowdoin Orient co-editors Piper Grosswendt ’11 and CLASSNEWS@BOWDOIN.EDU 45
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