EDITORIAL: The Right Direction

and Blue and adopting a revised set of guidelines, SAC has taken a positive step toward unbiased management of funds. __________________________ One month ago, the Student Activities Council voted not to fund The Red and Blue and revoked the magazine's right to apply for future funding based on the content of the publication. SAC's censorship of The Red and Blue outraged much of campus. Tuesday night, however, SAC took a step toward rectifying its mistake by adopting a revised set of guidelines for funding political organizations and voting to restore The Red and Blue's funding eligibility. We are encouraged by SAC's recent actions and hope the group will consider funding The Red and Blue at its next meeting. But these measures do not do enough to solve the funding biases in the organization. The most difficult decisions are still to come -- SAC must now apply its new guidelines equally to all member organizations. If SAC truly seeks fairness and uniformity, the organization's members must re-examine every SAC- funded group using the new guidelines. And, as a result, SAC may have to revoke funding from groups currently receiving money, or fund other groups that have been denied in the past. Only through fairness can SAC truly justify its funding decisions. The University community cannot accept the hypocrisy that has existed in SAC's past, funding some political groups and not others. Tuesday's meeting has laid the groundwork for positive movement toward true equity. Now it is up to SAC's leadership to ensure that every group applying for funding is looked upon with the same equal standards.