http://www.statenews.com Several of MSU’s tax-collecting student groups are questioning a draft of an administrative ruling that defines financial practices groups must follow to continue collecting student taxes. en-us Foundry4 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:47:20 -0500 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:21:30 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15064/view I’m surprised that these rules were not in place earlier — they have been in the manual for business procedures for the rest of the university for years… It is good practice to require bids or at least three options for any large amount of money.. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:19:21 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15064/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15108/view Nick: These groups already have competitive bidding and almost all of the other policies in place. The concern is the veto power given to the university to stop the groups from taking almost any major action as well as the new definition of the relationship in a negative way which is a bit too complicated to get into here. Basically this would allow the university to prevent any of these organizations that are supposed to represent students from supporting a position that students like but the administration doesn’t. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:21:30 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15108/view