Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates December 1999 No. 9 Vol. 2
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al

Funding University Clubs

Mandatory Student Activity Fees and Campus Politics

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al

Petitioners

Susan K. Ullman, Counsel of RecorfDuring the 1995-96 academic year, University of Wisconsin students were required to pay a mandatory student activities fee of $166.75 a semester. A small portion of these funds was made available for the student government, with the oversight of the 17-member Board of Regents, to allocate to individual student groups on a viewpoint-neutral basis. It is the allocation of these funds that is the subject of the Southworth lawsuit. Susan K. Ullman has been an assistant attorney general with the Wisconsin Department of Justice since 1993. Prior to that, she was an associate at the…

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