Despite being budgeted $21,629 in the 1994-95 school year, Discourse magazine, published by Associated Students, has yet to produce an issue this year.
The last issue of Discourse was published in February/March 1994, without AS funding.
Records from the AS business office show that a total of $2,451.83 has been paid out to Discourse since March 31, 1995, $2,373.13 of it in salaries.
The AS business office check register also shows that Hatem Bazian, editor in chief of Discourse magazine, was not paid any salary during the 1994-95 school year.
Members of the AS either declined to comment or were unavailable for comment on where the budgeted $21,629 went.
"I haven't done any work on it in two months," Bazian said. When asked about the future of Discourse, Bazian said he "was out of the loop." Bazian, who is currently a graduate student at UC Berkeley and not enrolled at SF State, would not comment on who else was on the staff of the magazine.
In December 1994, the Associated Students board of directors voted in its final meeting to stop funding for the magazine and ordered the magazine to vacate its office on the mezzanine level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center.
The board later reversed its decision in February, according to an article published in the Feb. 3, 1994 issue of the Golden Gater.
Speculations that the Spring 1994 Associated Students board of directors voted to discontinue the magazine are not true, according to current AS President Kenyan McCarthy.
"The former board did not vote to discontinue it," McCarthy said.
Jason Shifrin, who applied for the position of editor in chief last year, said he was disappointed but not surprised that Discourse has not published any issues.
"In my opinion, the only reason for it not getting off the ground is they didn't want it to get off the ground, Shifrin said.
Discourse was first published in December 1991 and produced five issues before editor Christa Bell resigned. The magazine did not publish again until the Unified Student Movement, formerly known as Unity, unanimously voted to give Bazian a one-year contract as editor in chief in April 1993.