All but two student groups on the ballot received special fees in last week’s ASSU elections.

In a surprise to the crowd gathered at the CoHo Friday afternoon, the Stanford News Readership Program’s request for funds to deliver The New York Times and San Jose Mercury News to students was rejected.

The Comedy Club, a graduate student activity group that brings professional comics to campus every week, failed narrowly with 48.4 percent support.

The two measures on the ballot for graduate students failed to pass, even though they were supported by majorities. The GO-Pass advisory referendum would have continued a controversial program to pay for off-campus graduate students’ transportation. Its failure to win a super majority likely means the end of the program.

The Daily received its special fees request for $49,000, with more than 80 percent of undergraduates and 62 percent of the entire student body supporting the request. Among the 45 groups requesting undergraduate special fees, only Student Initiated Courses and Sexual Health Peer Resources Center garnered more support.

The groups with the shakiest majorities included The Stanford Progressive, the Stanford Chapparal, the Cardinal Broadcasting Network and the Axe Committee. All received less than 55 percent of the vote.

Measure A, the constitutional amendment that will make it harder for groups requesting both undergraduate and graduate special fees to do so successfully, passed with almost 90 percent of the vote. The undergraduate and graduate populations must now independently approve a joint special fees request for it to pass.

The News Readership Program received 54 percent support from students but failed to pass because it received less than 15 percent of overall support from the entire student body — a largely unknown requirement for groups that ask for money from graduate and undergraduate students.