Student Senate Rewind: Senate passes three one funds, approves group

At the Feb. 20 Student Senate meeting, four one-funds were presented. The first was for Pre-Med Society to take about twenty of its members to see Body Worlds in Milwaukee at the Milwaukee Public Museum. The one-fund for $385 passed.

The second was brought to the senate from BSU, FUERZA, CDC, SSS, and SMAC. They wanted to bring in a presentation titled Faces of America. Senators felt that the one-fund for $2,600 was not necessary, especially when speakers of the same nature were on campus recently for MLK week. The one-fund failed.

The SAHDs presented a one-fund for an all-campus movie night. They were asking for funds to bring in a drive-in movie theater to campus to bring a new event to campus. The movies they wanted to bring in were 10 Things I Hate About You and Transformers, but to lower the cost senators struck 10 Things I Hate About You from the movies to be played. The one-fund passed.

The last one-fund was from the Senior Class Fundraising Officers. The group presented a new one-fund for the Gambler game for a lower cost of $594. After failing at the Feb. 13 meeting, it passed that night.

At the Feb. 27 meeting, Phi Beta Lambda, the collegiate version of Future Business Leaders of America, came to present their intent to organize as well as their constitution.

Questions were raised as to whether or not the organization would be like SIFE; however, Phi Beta Lambda focuses on personal competition and SIFE competes as a whole team.

The intent to organize passed as well as the constitution. The constitution will need to be passed tonight for the organization to be considered a part of CSO and recognized by the college.

The end of the meeting culminated in a discussion during open forum about the advertising for the senate executive board packets and distinguishing that the materials needed to run for special graduate trustee were in the packets.

Leila Keita, senior, came to senate to express how she had felt that there was not enough advertising of the packets that most, like her, did not know they were out.

Suggestions came from senate as to what to do this year and in the future to prevent this issue.