CORRECTION APPENDED (see bottom)In the wake of reforms to the club funding system that were passed by student vote last semester, WBRS, the campus radio station, has seen its budget cut by about 41 percent.

Hadar Sayfan '07, WBRS' general manager, was astonished at the dip in funding her group has experienced.

"We got cut more than we were expecting, which came as an unpleasant surprise," Sayfan wrote in an e-mail to the Justice. Sayfan said that during initial meetings with then-president Jenny Feinberg '07, who spearheaded last semester's reforms, she had been told WBRS would lose 10-15 percent of its budget.

"We ended up losing 40 percent of our budget," wrote Sayfan.

The Student Union last semester proposed an amendment to its constitution-part of which stipulates distribution of almost $1-million in funding to student clubs-in an attempt to make club funding fairer and more efficient, while placing more accountability on secured groups, like WBRS, which had previously received set amounts of money every semester.

The amendment forces groups like WBRS to have their expenses approved by the Finance Board on an item-by-item basis.

WBRS, which asked for a budget of $63,544 this year, according to the Union's Director of Executive Affairs Adam Gartner '07, received around $51,000. Before passage of last semester's legislation, WBRS received about $87,000, Gartner said.

Feinberg had singled out WBRS?as a group that received a disproportionate amount of money during the SAF reform process.

Alex Spigelman '07, WBRS' business director, said his biggest complaint was that the group's co-sponsorship budget was eliminated.

The co-sponsorship budget allowed other clubs to receive WBRS resources.

"This removes a major source of publicity for us and a major way in which we supported the Brandeis community," Spigelman wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.

But Gartner said eliminating co-sponsorship spending was a central goal of the legislation because it makes the F-Board the lone source for event sponsorship.

"[This] will improve the social life on campus," Gartner said.

Sayfan said that she did not mind the "fiscal responsibility" or the "transparency aspects" of F-board oversight, but said, "It's difficult to explain the importance of some of our line items to people who don't do radio. Things get lost in translation."

Gartner insisted that the Union fairly allocated money to WBRS. He said the allocation was made after an analysis of the last years' budget, as well as a comparison with the budgets of radio stations of similar colleges like Tufts University and Brown University.

Corrections: Because of an editing error, this article incorrectly stated that Sayfan said cuts to WBRS had hurt social life. Also because of an editing error, the article incorrectly stated that Sayfan had refused requests for interviews by phone and in-person. The Justice regrets the errors.