2008 Woodie Awards
SGA approves SB 10, grants CoC funds
Michael Golden
Issue date: 2/19/08 Section: Other News
The Student Government Association voted Feb. 12 to pass Senate Bill 10, allocating $5,000 to the Council of Clubs by a vote of 16-2.
The bill was originally presented to SGA by freshman senator Maria Cooz and junior senator Peter Gotting on Jan. 29 and requested $7,400. The following week, the amount was changed to $5,000.
At the Feb. 7 CoC meeting, the group's board voted to pass three by-laws to cut down on what it called unnecessary spending. The first by-law states that CoC will not fund the purchase of alcohol at events; however, if a club shows that it can sufficiently fundraise the amount of money needed to purchase alcohol, CoC will consider funding the amount needed to pay for officers and servers, a requirement for events serving alcohol. The second by-law states that CoC will not fund conferences unless the conference benefits a charitable cause. Finally, the third by-law states that CoC will not fund induction ceremonies or end-of-the-year ceremonies. By-laws do no reflect official changes to the CoC constitution and will lose effect when the current chair steps down.
According to Vasquez, the extra money is needed to ensure that all the usual events that happen in the spring are properly funded. Vasquez stressed that CoC is not and was not in debt.
The four club events that most of the allocated money will be going to are the International Studies Society's I-Fest, the Student Organization of Latinos-run Cinco de Mayo event, the Black Student Union's Crawfish Boil and, in conjunction with the Research Symposium, the Tri-Beta Casino Night.
Vasquez said that she does not believe attendance will suffer at these events because of any of the changes that have been made.
"There are large numbers of people that believe that alcohol is kind of one of the things that pulls people to these events, and a bigger group of people that think that it doesn't matter if there's alcohol or not, and it's more your advertising," Vasquez said. Vasquez said she believes marketing is the most important aspect of putting on a successful event, and that she thinks anyone can put on a good event with little to no money.
Junior senator and philosophy major Joe Morton voted against the bill. He said that while he wanted the CoC to receive funds, he felt that there are some problems with the way the activity fee is spent by some clubs. "The spending is sometimes irresponsible and I wanted the matter to get more attention," he said.
The bill was originally presented to SGA by freshman senator Maria Cooz and junior senator Peter Gotting on Jan. 29 and requested $7,400. The following week, the amount was changed to $5,000.
At the Feb. 7 CoC meeting, the group's board voted to pass three by-laws to cut down on what it called unnecessary spending. The first by-law states that CoC will not fund the purchase of alcohol at events; however, if a club shows that it can sufficiently fundraise the amount of money needed to purchase alcohol, CoC will consider funding the amount needed to pay for officers and servers, a requirement for events serving alcohol. The second by-law states that CoC will not fund conferences unless the conference benefits a charitable cause. Finally, the third by-law states that CoC will not fund induction ceremonies or end-of-the-year ceremonies. By-laws do no reflect official changes to the CoC constitution and will lose effect when the current chair steps down.
According to Vasquez, the extra money is needed to ensure that all the usual events that happen in the spring are properly funded. Vasquez stressed that CoC is not and was not in debt.
The four club events that most of the allocated money will be going to are the International Studies Society's I-Fest, the Student Organization of Latinos-run Cinco de Mayo event, the Black Student Union's Crawfish Boil and, in conjunction with the Research Symposium, the Tri-Beta Casino Night.
Vasquez said that she does not believe attendance will suffer at these events because of any of the changes that have been made.
"There are large numbers of people that believe that alcohol is kind of one of the things that pulls people to these events, and a bigger group of people that think that it doesn't matter if there's alcohol or not, and it's more your advertising," Vasquez said. Vasquez said she believes marketing is the most important aspect of putting on a successful event, and that she thinks anyone can put on a good event with little to no money.
Junior senator and philosophy major Joe Morton voted against the bill. He said that while he wanted the CoC to receive funds, he felt that there are some problems with the way the activity fee is spent by some clubs. "The spending is sometimes irresponsible and I wanted the matter to get more attention," he said.