Controversy Over Funding Denial For Christian Concert At University of Arizona

A decision last week by the Student Senate at the University of Arizona has created controversy. The organization refused to fund a Christian concert, already scheduled by Priority Campus Ministries, a student group. The concert, "Overflow", had been funded for the last seven years, but a recent change in the bylaws of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona was applied to deny funding this year. The bylaws now exclude funding for events that exclude some students, involve proselytizing and worship, are expressly political, or are merely for entertainment or commercial benefit. The concert went on with funding from local churches. An editorial in yesterday's Arizona Daily Wildcat reviews the controversy.