Welcome to the first of a theoretically-infinite-part series! For those of you who are unsure about the raison d'être of this kind of post, know this: the Technician is attempting to bring to public light that knowledge which has been retained in the various facets of the Kettering Student Government like so many bits of matter attempting to escape the clutches of a black hole. Onto business:
The Finance Council is about to modify its operation policies, and in those revisions is something that could drastically alter the financial security of the Technician and the Reflector. According to these revisions (which are not final), both of these entities would no longer be covered under the current fundraising policy. The way it currently works is that advertisements are printed in the Technician and Reflector, and money is made: 25% goes to the organization that printed said advertisement, and the other 75% is battled in the Battle of the Bucks. If 75% seems like a bit of a hefty figure, do keep in mind that the Finance Council pays for the printing of both the Technician and Reflector. To obtain this 25% post-revision, the Technician and Reflector would have to fill out a line item transfer to their accounts. The reason for this new level of complexity is an attempt to curb what is deemed “unnecessary spending” by the Finance Council.
On a somewhat less serious note, a new club is about to make it onto the Kettering scene. For those of you who are fans of such illustrious entities as those behind the OpenOffice.org suite, then this may come as a rather pleasant surprise: the Open Source Club is officially in the wings. So what do they plan on doing, anyway? As the name may suggest, the club plans on promoting awareness of – what else? - open-source software (OSS), so by association, anyone who's even remotely interested in the multifarious Linux distributions may want to check it out. If you're also a history buff to some extent and are also interested in OSS, then you may take solace in the fact that there appears to be an overview of OSS's history as part of the Open Source Club's activity.
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