The Tartan Budget

In a single academic year, The Tartan brings in about $70,000 in advertising sales. However, The Tartan is not always able to collect all of its sales revenue, so the amount of revenue brought in is dependent on that year's collections rate and any outstanding collections recovered from the last academic year.

Although an alumni network exists, The Tartan does not typically receive donations.

Tearsheets and invoices to advertisers and clients. This pays for postage.

Local and national calls to advertisers. This amount is based on actual costs from previous years.

Office supplies. Includes pens, pencils, highlighters, dry-erase markers, whiteboard erasers, Clorox disinfecting wipes, Scotch tape, scissors, tissues, whiteboard cleaner. Office supplies are replenished on an as-needed basis.

Paper to restock the printer for the year. Last year The Tartan spent $102.92 on paper.

Insert for our April Fool's Day issue once a year.

Printing for proofs, split among seven sections of the paper. This comprises 120 reams of varied printer paper. This amount is based on actual costs from previous years.

Dossier, The Tartan's literary and art magazine, prints once a semester. Thanks to strong leadership of the magazine by contributing editors this semester, The Tartan expects to print Dossier both semesters during the upcoming academic year. Printing costs per semester add up to roughly $2500.

Based on spending in past years, The Tartan requests $75,000 to print 28 issues in the upcoming academic year.

Lodging to the Associated Collegiate Press National Conference for six members. In October, The Tartan spent $496 on lodging for three nights for two members attending the ACP conference.

6 members; 3 nights; 2 rooms

Travel to the Associated Collegiate Press National Conference in the spring for three members. This is a leadership training experience for those who attend, and is also an opportunity for The Tartan to compete and collaborate with other American college newspapers. The information these staff members bring back from conference workshops translates into valuable, numerous, and diverse workshops in writing, design, and advertising, among other topics. The requested amount assumes an approximate roundtrip rate of $400 per person (the location of the conference has yet to be announced), plus $100 to account for rises in cost between now and the purchase date.

Travel to the Associated Collegiate Press National Conference in October in Philadelphia for three members. The requested amount covers Amtrak train fare at $51 each way.

This $200.00 cost will cover reimbursement for taxi fares that staff members traveling to the ACP conference can expect to pay out of pocket on an as-needed basis.

ACP conference registration for six members. The most up-to-date information on the conference website cites $95 per person for a group of 1-3 members as the current registration rate.

Each year, The Tartan must pay a fee to renew its membership as an ACP-authorized newspaper.

Food for staff training sessions, including new-writer lectures and workshops on interviewing techniques, news writing, sourcing, copy editing, and more. On average, a pizza order for 30 members costs $50-$60 per purchase.

Every November, The Tartan hosts a four- to five-hour-long elections meeting to elect its incoming editorial staff. This amount will fund food to nourish staff members who come to the meeting.

Binding the year's issues for The Tartan archives.

Printing signs to advertise events, our tip line, recruitment, workshops, weekly ideas, and other features.

Tartan Gala is an award ceremony and reception for all staff members and guests to celebrate the hark work and accomplishments of the semester.

ACP was a higher priority

For Tartan coffee events, three per semester. The Tartan occasionally passes out copies of the paper with a free cup of iced coffee outside Doherty Hall on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as a way to engage with the student body and raise awareness of its special issues. It costs roughly $60 to purchase over 200 plastic cups, 3 bags of ice, and vanilla iced coffee. The Tartan would like to do this three times a semester for special issues, such as the April Fool's issue, the Housing issue, and the Carnival review this semester.

The Tartan would like to order new T-shirts for staff members to wear at recruitment events, Tartan coffee events, and the Activities Fair, and to generally promote The Tartan on campus. This amount would fund shirts for 50 active staff members at approximately $15 per shirt. The last order of T-shirts came in several years ago, so this would not be a yearly expense.

jfc will fund 25%

Salaries for advertising and business staff. 10% commission from revenue is split between six total staff members.

Members of the editorial staff work from 11 a.m. until 3 a.m. on Sunday to produce a newspaper for the student body. Bagels, catered through CulinArt, cost $36.60 per purchase, multiplied by the 28 Sundays that the newspaper is in production this year.

Amazon S3 backup database for thetartan.org. This hosts our website backups for articles, images, etc.

HP Color LaserJet CB401A print cartridges for our LaserJet 5200TN printer. This printer is used for printing proofs during Sunday production. The printer runs out of ink about twice a year.

Print cartridges for our secondary printer, used for business and advertising purposes.

HE-Q7516A toner for our LaserJet 5200TN printer. The printer runs out of toner about once a year.

This amount will go toward deficit repayment. This was instituted by the JFC last year, and The Tartan is renewing its request to ensure the debt is paid back. At the beginning of the year, this money will automatically be deposited into The Tartan's debt account.

Storefront credit card transactions fees.

Appealed amount

GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition. Small HD video camera to allow The Tartan to produce video content for online consumption. Also useful for getting HQ images from hard to reach and dangerous places.

The Tartan would like to request a new Nikon D7000 SLR camera body to replace one of its existing ones, both of which are nearing nine years in age.

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 GPU. Upgrade for the aging 2009 Mac Pro the photo staff uses to edit photos. This will enable The Tartan to handle the increasingly large file sizes produced by modern cameras.

General items include 2x 8gb CF memory cards ($13) to replace lost and broken memory cards; SanDisk card reader to replace The Tartan's broken one ($25); LensPen, Giottos Air Blaster, Microfiber Cloths ($25 total) as cleaning supplies, of which The Tartan currently has none; Gaffer's Tape ($20) for maintaining photography equipment; lens filter and hood ($25 total) to protect The Tartan's lenses; and baskets and cabinet liner as organizational items for The Tartan's photo equipment cabinet.