The Student Union Club Support Committee plans to send an e-mail to over 30 club leaders threatening to decharter their respective clubs if they do not report their activities to the Senate, Sung Lo Yoon '09, chair of the Club Support Committee said.The committee said it is still finalizing the list of clubs it would e-mail and thus would not publish the list.

Each of the clubs on the list has not approached the Finance Board for funds in the last two semesters, Yoon said. They said they plan to send the letters this week.

The e-mail states, "It has come to our attention that your club has not requested any [Finance Board Allocations Fund] funds over the past two semesters. In order to maintain an efficient use of our limited resources and a vibrant club community, we need to make sure that your club is still active."

The e-mail also tells the clubs that in order to maintain chartered status, they must respond with "a description of the recent activities of your club and the reasons for your recent lack of funding requests."

Terrence Johnson, senator for the Transitional Year Program and a member of the Club Support Committee, said that the committee made the list as a result of the dual-purpose rule in the Student Union Constitution.

"If people lose interest in these clubs and they dissolve, but someone wants to start a similar club, they will be unable to do so if the [original] clubs are not dechartered. Through this list, we are able to check on clubs to see if they still exist," Eric Alterman, senator for the class of 2009 and a member of the Club Support Committee, explained.

The majority of clubs on the list are chartered clubs, which are clubs that are able to receive funding from the Finance Board. The rest of the clubs are recognized clubs that do not receive funding from F- Board regardless.

Article VI, Section 2 of the Student Union Constitution states, "Only Chartered and Secured Organizations shall be eligible to receive funding from the Finance Board Allocations Fund, as hereafter defined, in accordance with this Constitution and its Bylaws."

Nathan Goldstein '09, senator for off-campus students, said, "While [the Union] will definitely decharter one or two [clubs], the rest are up in the air," since the Union does not know the situation of the clubs' finances.

He said this procedure is "routine and done every spring," and that last year 15 to 20 clubs were dechartered.

However, Yoon said he hoped to decharter 90 percent of the clubs on the list, since he believes that "they are most likely defunct."

The committee members do not believe that placing these clubs on the list would anger club leaders.

"If a club no longer exists, we will obviously not receive any response from them at any time, but we certainly do not expect any clubs to be angry with us," Alterman said.