At last night’s meeting, the Graduate Student Council heard and approved a series of funding requests for graduate student event plans.

The most costly funding request of the entire meeting was for Fire on Fire, a multicultural barbecue scheduled to take place May 14. Hosted by on- and off-campus international student organizations, organizers of Fire on Fire requested $7,600 and received $5,000.

GSC drew from international students, constituency outreach and food funds to help Fire on Fire pay for the raw food materials and the hiring of a Colombian band for entertainment.

The council granted $3,500 to the annual Graduate Family Carnival on May 21 and approved funding for two student groups—GradQ, a pan-graduate LGBT organization for the Farm’s grad students, and Stanford Ballroom, which needed money to pay a nine-person panel to judge the 2011 Cardinal Classic Dance Competition on April 23.

A budget for the Graduate Student Programming Board social event is has yet to be determined. GSC Funding Chair Krystal St. Julien, a graduate student in biochemistry, pointed out concerns about the event’s schedule. The party, slated to be held in the Munger Courtyard, coincides with Admit Weekend, which the University has designated as a “dry weekend.”