Money is tight for your typical college student. Tuition is high, rent is expensive and credit card debt threatens to affect us for years. The blame for tuition increases can be pinned on state government and their haphazard raids into University of Wisconsin system coffers, but students on campus like to find their own local scapegoat.
A popular target at Madison is the Student Services Finance Committee, which makes decisions on how segregated fees are spent to fund student organizations. It is the easiest way for a concerned student to directly affect their tuition. However, many students decide that rather than providing their input to committee members or taking the unthinkable step of actually getting involved in student government, they would rather place the blame on Associated Students of Madison without examining the realities of segregated fee allocation.