The Student Services Fees Appeals Committee released its recommendations Sunday, granting two of seven appeals that student groups and administrative units requested for their funding next year.

The committee gave Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow about $82,500 for next academic year, more than four times what it was allocated in the SSFC’s final recommendations, citing “misconduct” and “misapplication of a rule” as reasons for the committee’s initial decision.

The Minnesota Daily received an additional $100,000 to its recommendation because the SSFC said it made a clerical error in its previous recommendation.

CFACT was originally going to receive a 91 percent cut to its $188,000 request because the fees committee said the group plagiarized another group’s application. But the appeals committee granted a lesser cut because the original recommendation was “a bit harsh,” said appeals committee Chair Bradley Sprangers.

The appeals committee also erred by not giving CFACT’s follow-up application materials enough consideration, its rationale said.

CFACT’s plagiarism isn’t necessarily illegal, Sprangers said, so the appeals committee decided to keep the penalties consistent with those of other groups.

Sprangers said CFACT claimed during its fees presentation that its application was “modeled” after another group, which CFACT said doesn’t fit the Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity’s definition for plagiarism.

“The committee felt that it is more of a common sense or common courtesy type thing to not copy other groups,” he said.

Next year, the SSFC plans to add guidelines that discourage groups from plagiarizing in the future, Sprangers said. The committee’s current policy makes these rules unclear.

The appeals committee recommended that the Minnesota Daily receive additional funding due to a clerical error in the SSFC’s final recommendations, bringing the newspaper’s current fees allocation to $497,425 with a balance sweep of $100,000.

Sprangers said the error was straightforward and the Daily didn’t need to schedule a meeting time to discuss the appeal.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s appeal was one of five student group appeals that were rejected. GAPSA’s funding increased from the initial to final recommendations, but its appeal wasn’t accepted because, Sprangers said, the assembly submitted documents that weren’t considered a formal appeal.

In addition, the appeals committee’s rationales said one student brought concerns to the committee that alleged financial mismanagement among GAPSA leadership.

Sprangers said he and the appeals committee decided to consider these concerns but couldn’t justify further changes to the group’s budget without hard evidence.

Other groups with rejected appeals were the Al-Madinah Cultural Center, the Campus Crusaders for Christ, the Pokémon League and the American Medical Student Association-Pre Med.

Written appeals to the final recommendations are due to Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young on Friday.