Just got off the phone with Michigan State University’s Student Life office. Apparently Campus Conservatives, which claims to be an authorized student group, never filed their final signed paperwork this year. They applied online, listing Nicholas Kowaski as president and journalism professor Fred Fico as their faculty adviser. However, they did not file the paper that is required before they are issued the formal letter from the university verifying that they are an approved group.
So my question is how the group was able to reserve Case Hall if they are not an approved group?
Their website also says that they use university facilities for their regular meetings. When I asked the young woman at the desk who asked us to sign in last night how many members the group has, she said somewhere between 10 to 20 students come to meetings. Aren’t conservatives supposed to be good about following rules?
Well, we all know the answer to your last question!
They clearly are a campus group since they are listed on the msu.edu website under groups, which means they are approved by the University. Are you really so low that you try to descredit a legitimate student group over a minor paperwork error? Your posts on this website are so biased and one sided I feel bad for anyone in the Lansing area that has to depend on you for news! In the future I will definitely tell people to steer clear of this website.
No, I discussed this with the MSU Student Life office today. They were an authorized group last year. This year they did not complete their paperwork.
You mean a student group made a mistake filing paperwork. Did you ask MSU student life about every group on campus to make sure they all had their paperwork filled properly? I’m sure you can find lots of student groups that made paperwork errors that does not discredit the groups themselves. Its interesting that you only go after a group you personally don’t like. I guess I should not be surprised by your bias.
If you read the article, you would see that groups are not authorized until or unless they are issued a formal letter from MSU after they return their signed paperwork to the Student Life office. This group did not do that. The article is accurate.
I did not claim it was inaccurate I claimed you are singling out one group for a minor error that is irrelevant to the group itself. I imagine their are several groups that have made mistakes when filing their paperwork but you only asked about one that you don’t like to try to discredit the group over a clerical error. If all journalists do these days is look for clerical errors I am right to not trust the media.
It’s not a “clerical error.” As the head of an organization myself, I know you cannot reserve rooms under a group that is not registered and your adviser can get in trouble for letting you do that. It’s possible that they reserved the room under a separate group but they are not allowed to advertise solely as “Campus Conservatives” if that group is not registered. In other words, they (apparently) did not have the university’s permission to have the room. That’s the real issue.
I have personally witnessed another group reserve a room on campus before they were registered as a student group. Not only that they had never been registered before as opposed to this case where they seemed to have missed turning a form this semester which is easily fixed. This article is petty plain and simple.