Senate approves budget for Frankenstein Symposium

Senate approved a budget of $4,757.94 to be allocated for an interdisciplinary trip to be taken Feb. 26 and 27 to the University of South Dakota.
The trip to USD is for the “Frankenstein 200! Symposium,” a two-day event celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
After discussion of various budget appraisals provided by Mary Jones and Kimberly Cox, professors at CSC, Senate voted to approve a budget including travel and hotel but excluding meals.
Senate currently has $105,260.69 in unallocated funds and $156,585.32 in unspent funds.
A complaint from an unnamed source was presented to Senate about funds previously allocated for Senate members to receive jackets. The source was concerned with student fees being used for said jackets. In response, Student Senate President Carly Slaght said the funds had already been allocated.
“Did you want one? You could join Senate,” Vice President of Finance Lukas Kleuber said.
Slaght continued the discussion on incentives for Senate members at Monday’s meeting.
The idea of a fee waiver was proposed as a way to encourage students to become involved in Senate.
According to Slaght, students at Wayne State College get scholarships based on their position in Senate, and this money comes from the school’s foundation.
“Instead of having a tuition waiver, because most people get scholarships of some sort that cover tuition, to do it for room and board … we talked about doing, like, maybe a fee waiver, or a waiver to cover other aspects of your cost to come to college,” Slaght said.
The Spring Daze budget of $26,450 was approved Monday.
There will be an AFB meeting next Monday, and Tuesday, Feb. 20, is the AFB workshop with CAB.
Marlys Brenning, 21, junior of Culbertson, was unanimously appointed the final Student Justice.
Course evaluations will come out between the 12th and 13th week of this semester.
“Teachers don’t get them until after your grades have been posted, so you don’t need to worry about teachers seeing a bad evaluation or a good evaluation. It won’t affect your grade at all because it won’t be seen until after [the course is over],” Slaght said.
Tonight is the Lip Sync Battle, sponsored by CAB and The Pit, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 18, is another Free Movie Night at the Eagle Theatre.
Class registration for this upcoming summer term, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 is now open for all students, including freshman.