The Daily Tar Heel reports:
University officials have quietly intensified their scrutiny of spending by the UNC-system Association of Student Governments, part of a broader effort to impose tighter oversight of the group.
For the first time, all spending by the student-run association will be screened by a representative of the UNC-system academic affairs office before funds are allocated. …
Administrators have grown increasingly frustrated by a series of crises within the ASG and have shown a greater willingness to intervene in the student-led group.
Last semester, the group’s president was forced to resign after being convicted of misdemeanor assault. And in each of the past few years, the 17 campuses that comprise the association have squabbled publicly about how to spend tens of thousands of dollars in discretionary funds.
The ASG did not begin receiving the student fee money – $1 paid by every student in the UNC system – until 2002. … [M]ore than $86,000 is discretionary. Much of it is spent on salaries for student officers and monthly meetings of ASG delegates.
It’s about time the UNC system stepped, although it’s not enough. I’ve reported on this ridiculous set-up since at least 2002, when I put this as No. 7 on the list of the “Top Ten Nuttiest Campus Events of 2002.”
