2008 Woodie Awards
Low budgets worry clubs, leaders
Michael Golden
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: Other News
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Hanus, a senior mathematics major, said he plans to propose a bill raising the student activity fee for the spring '08 semester. Such a bill would not require a vote from the student body; as long as the senate passed the bill, and UST President Robert Ivany approved, the fee would be raised. According to Hanus, the bill will be proposed in the next month or so. He also said that the senate should prepare a long-term plan to keep the student activity fee at an appropriate level in the future.
"We also want to enact another bill that will increase the student activity fee percentage-wise and in unison with the tuition increase and that way there should never be this problem again," Hanus said.
This type of bill would raise the student activity fee every time the tuition was raised, and would require a vote by the student body. Hanus said he expects that if such a bill is proposed, it would be voted on at the same time as the spring elections.
SGA currently has about $13,000 left in its agency account. The agency account is money generated from the student activity fee to fund the SOC organizations-Council of Clubs, Sport Clubs Association, Student Activities Board, Graduate Student Association, and SGA. The $13,000 is the money left after initial SOC allocations, which were done at the end of last school year, and the sub-ledger, which is 10 percent of the projected student activity fee set aside in cases of emergency.
SGA President Josh Gautreau, a graduate MBA student, said that the account is down from last year because SGA no longer funds Student Affairs events.
The change can be traced back to Senate Bill 31, which was passed at the end of last semester. The bill split up the Student Activity Fee into three separate fees: the Student Activity Fee, the Publications Fee, and the Office of Student Affairs Fee. Gautreau said that, although last year's senate had a lot more money to work with, most of that money would be used for activities that are now funded by the Office of Student Affairs fee.