Students walk through campus Thursday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.Student organizations at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga may see their funding reduced by $43,000 this year, thanks to fallout over “Sex Week” at the university’s main campus in Knoxville.
Conservative state lawmakers, outraged earlier this year that the weeklong event in Knoxville featured such events as a drag show, a poetry reading by a lesbian bondage expert and a talk titled “getting laid,” weighed such options as prohibiting speakers on University of Tennessee campuses.
Legislators finally decided in March to let students pick between two options:
Option one allocates a portion of a $120-per-semester fee to programming by student organizations.
Option two puts the student fee money into a pot that each campus’ vice chancellor for student development will decide how to spend.