Student activist Malcolm Harris posted the university’s budget online earlier today, doing an end-around the administration, which had refused recent requests from students to do so.

Harris, a Diamondback columnist who ran for the Student Government Association presidency last semester, posted the document on his blog, 24 Percent. In a blog post, he said SGA Legislator Kenton Stadler, who ran on the Student Power Party ticket with Harris, obtained the actual document.

Earlier this week, students had pressed Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie and university President Dan Mote to post the budget online during a town hall meeting. This is what Wylie told The Diamondback’s Carrie Wells in an interview after the meeting:

“I’m not going to take the time to post it online to the world… I don’t feel that it’s my responsibility to put it online, to put our people’s salaries all over the nation. Why do I have to? I have no obligation to publish it.”

It’s safe to guess the administration won’t be happy about this.

Here’s a link to the actual budget document, which is in PDF format.

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