The Asian Pacific American Council isn’t just asking SSFC for an unreasonable budget, it is asking for over a quarter-million dollars ? a 42 percent increase over last year’s budget. But, of course, this money is going to provide you, the average student, with a wonderful service, right? Try again, unless of course you are one of the 27 students APAC chooses to employ.

That was not a typo. A student organization wants 27 student staffers, including three full-time summer employees and at least six other summer employees. So what will these 27 students cost the rest of us if SSFC does not make drastic cuts in the APAC budget? A whopping $160,337. This leaves $93,900 in their budget for “services.”

Of course, in their budget request, APAC has decided it needs to spend $5,000 of your student taxes on office supplies and furniture. Apparently the $9,436.77 spent or available to be spent over the past two years wasn’t nearly enough. Who is their interior decorator?

APAC is requesting $83,000 combined for printing and programming. While this amount seems excessive, we do applaud APAC for at least making some effort to be more service-oriented rather than lobby-oriented.

We urge SSFC to look closely at this budget as well as other budgets that are and will be coming before them this month. Thus far, SSFC has been a rubber stamp. We hope this will not continue.