Soc-Sci. club amends $2,000 request to $900

The Social Science Club Secretary Aaron Eagle came requesting money for a voting conference to be hosted Oct. 4. The idea is to have speakers come to discuss various topics about the upcoming election. The speakers are said to not campaign for any politician, but will just give information about each party and the process.
Eagle asked for $2,000, but due to miscommunication between club committee members and Eagle, that amount requested was incorrect, Conference Planning Committee Member Mauro Ovando said. Ovando contacted The Eagle about 6 p.m. Monday to make note of the correction. The correct amount was supposed to be $900 for a luncheon for 100-150 people. Social Science club is taking care of the rest of the funding. Eagle was a substitute for the original Social Sciences representative because that representative was ill.
Senate decided to wait to vote on the allocation until next week so senators could talk to their constituents and could discuss the allocation at the open forum at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Social Science Club has since contacted Senate President Katrina Hurley about the mistake and asked for Hurley to send out the correct information to all the senators.
Due to issues with copyrights, outdoor movie nights are temporarily postponed. Swank Motion Pictures contacted the school and informed them that in order to play movies outside of residence halls, the school has to pay for the copyright to that movie. Senate planned to show “Space Jam” at a movie night this weekend, but senators want to look into the copyright costs more, so it is postponed until further notice.
The copyright for “Space Jam” would cost $575 and the average cost for a copyright to any movie would be between $500 and $600.
Hurley already spent $68.42 of the $200 allocated for the movie night on the DVD and Gatorades.
CAB was approved $14,196 for events for the rest of the semester. This number is revised from last week when the budget was proposed to reflect the $2,232 that was voted on and allocated Friday for Free Movie Night last Sunday.
The breakdown in the budget is as follows: $6,696 for three Free Movie Nights, $1,000 for 10 Friday night activities, $2,000 for club co-sponsored events, $500 for Homecoming activities, and $4,000 for one or two large events.
Alyssa Bauer, athletics graduate student worker, said that she has only gotten one request in the past two weeks for events to be added to the Guidebook app.
“I am not getting anything, so it’s kind of a waste of money if you ask me,” Bauer said. She said the emails for the app come straight to her and it’s easy to upload them to the app, but she can’t do it if she doesn’t get emails about events.
There was a complaint brought to Senator Carly Slaught about not having feminine product machines in all the bathrooms on campus. Hurley said they would take that issue to the Campus Improvement Committee.
Katie Tobin, senator of E.H.P.C.P.S.W., resigned her position. Tobin did not respond to emails from The Eagle by press time.
Lukas Kleuber and Konery Klueber were voted in as Brooks Hall and E.H.P.C.P.S.W. senators, respectively.
Student Senate Vice President of Finance Curtis Stevens reported $110,764.10 in unallocated funds. Stevens noted that last week his notes were inaccurate and he should have reported $112,996.10 last week instead of the $114,376.10 that was reported.
Hurley reminded senators that if they want to go on the Senate Peru trip, they need to submit three paragraphs about why they should go on the trip by 8 p.m. Sept. 30. The senators will travel to Peru State College on Oct. 27-28 to meet with Peru State and Wayne State’s Student Senate to discuss how they can improve their respective Senates.
Senators were asked to sign up for a week to be in charge of collecting recycling from all the buildings on campus. Senators will sort the recycling and then take it to the recycling bin downtown.
The Constitutional Review Committee reported that they will begin meeting on Saturday mornings to break down the bylaws and get through them quicker.