I attend a small lib­eral arts col­lege in the North­east. To be frank, our busi­ness man­ager is new and didn’t con­sult old appli­ca­tions for SGA fund­ing. Our EIC sub­mit­ted our appli­ca­tion two days late. We received zero fund­ing, and we need $10,000 per semes­ter in order to print. Unless we can raise that amount some­how, we have no news­pa­per. (We do have a great web­site thanks to cer­tain out­stand­ing, very enter­pris­ing peo­ple on our team. But we want a news­pa­per too. Most peo­ple would.)

So the prob­lem is less finan­cial depen­dence and more incom­pe­tence. I acknowl­edge that. At the same time, I was just elected EIC, and so I have to clean up this mess. I’m learn­ing about con­tin­gency fund­ing and deals we might make with our pub­lisher. But I was hop­ing to ben­e­fit from your advice and exper­tise. I apol­o­gize for not being able to be more spe­cific. Thanks for any and all help.