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I would like to offer a belated thanks to the many members of the 
community that helped the Syracuse Debate Team last year by writing 
letters in support of more stable funding for the Debate program.  The 
efforts of the squad and your letters truly payed off.  Those combined 
efforts helped us to make our funding problems a major issue on campus 
(it was a front page story in our daily campus newspaper for about a 
week) and as a result, the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs has come 
through with additional travel money for us.  We put in a budget request 
and actually had the full amount approved by the Office for Academic 
Affairs (something even I didn't think would happen).  We even received 
a little increase over last years budget (something else that I didn't 
really think would happen).  HOWEVER, in our on-going struggle to make 
the financial allocations to the Debate program more "consistent" in 
terms of how the team is funded, the Vice-Chancellor of the University 
has asked me to provide him with information that I currently do not 
have.  You see, our money is allocated to us by: 1) Departmental Funds 
allocated by our College, 2) The Student Government Association, and now 
3) The Vice-Chancellors office.  What the Vice-Chancellor wants to know 
is how much money other debate teams receive from their student 
governments so that he can bring those findings to the Faculty Senate 
and the financial board of the student government in an effort to have 
the student government come up with a more "consistent" amount of 
funding for the debate team.  The reason for this is so he can come up 
with a fixed amount that he will allocate to us out of his personal 
budget each year.  This year, we told him how much we needed (it's still 
not as much as we would have liked but it's better than I would have 
envisioned) and how much we've received from our other sources (the Dean 
of our college & Student Government), and he covered the rest.  In order 
for us to become a line item in his budget, he wants an estimate as to 
how much S.G.A. will be giving us each year so he can budget for us 
accordingly.  Thus, the information I need which I hope that some of you 
can pass along to me is:

1) Do you receive funding from your Student Government Association?
2) If so, is it a pretty consistent amount of funding or does it 
fluctuate from year to year?
3) If it is a consistent amount, how much do you receive annually and if 
it is a fluctuating amount, what is the normal range?
4) Are there any stipulations as to how you can spend the money?
5) Specifically, are you allowed to use the money for travel?  You see, 
our S.G.A. will give us money but none of it can be used for travel.  So 
what we are trying to prove is that other Student Government groups 
allocate money to their Universities Debate Teams that can be used for 
travel.

Sorry for both the clutter and the hassle.  I know this is a busy time 
of year for everyone but your help would be greatly appreciated and will 
hopefully enable us to resolve this issue once and for all.  Thank You.

Sincerely,

Frank Irizarry
Director of Forensics 
Syracuse University

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