RE: WJUL "Lowell SunRise"

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 09:59 PM 9/29/2003, Garrett Wollman wrote:
><<On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:07:10 -0400, Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net> said:
>
> > Rent (or its equivalent), internet, phones, utilities, custodians and
> > the dozens of other perks that many college radio stations enjoy for 
> "free"
> > are usually NOT paid for by the student activities fees,
>
>Actually, in the typical model of university accounting, they very
>much *are* paid for out of the station's budget, even though they
>never appear as a line item.  Generally, the costs of these services
>are accounted for as ``overhead'', and charged off as a percentage of
>the expenditures in every account, and the income of every paid staff
>member (for those stations which have them).

Interesting.  So is it actually "paid" out of the student activities fees 
after all?  Or are the financial wranglings too complicated to track?


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