Senate grants $500 for Peru State relief efforts

Senate voted unanimously to allocate $500 for purchasing bottled water and three water purifiers for Peru State College, Monday.

Student Trustee Dawson Brunswick, senior of McCook, pitched the idea to Senate after reporting that Peru is “only using bottled water because they are on a boil order”, limiting their access to water. Because their water restrictions will likely last into spring, water purifiers were suggested to provide larger amounts of clean water.

According to Nebraska News Channel’s Hunter Arterburn, Peru’s municipal water use is highly restricted and residents advised against everything from bathing to washing dishes with the city’s water.

“The city issued an order to discontinue all use of municipal water until further notice. Residents are advised to not drink, bathe, wash dishes, do laundry, etc. until the issue is resolved,” Arterburn said.

Vice President Konery Klueber, junior of Rapid City, South Dakota, showed Senate the MiniWorks EX Microfilter, the proposed water purifier to send to Peru, noting that the purifier filters “up to one liter per minute” and “is good up to 2,000 years.” The retail price for one purifier is $89.95.

“That’s quite a bit of water that could be purified for students,” Klueber said.

Brunswick and student trustee-elect Sam Klammer, junior of Juanita, will deliver the bottled water when they go to the Board of Trustees meeting in Nebraska City today.

President Lukas Klueber, junior of Rapid City, announced that he was creating a donation-based initiative to increase the amount of books in the library’s textbook reserves. Working with Outreach Librarian Shawn Hartman, Klueber said that “roughly 30 percent” of courses have their books in the textbook reserve. Klueber plans to get exact numbers later in the week, but he plans to bump up those numbers with his initiative.

“I’m going to go through and make a list of all the courses and try to check off one by one to see if we can’t get that number up above 50 percent, and then 75, and then 100 hopefully,” Klueber said.

Klueber also announced that due to the Bylaw Revision Committee’s obligations with budget hearings NPAC bylaw revision voting will be pushed back to next Monday.

Senator Aaron Jones, sophomore of Custer, South Dakota, reported that Coffee with Senators brought up a request for more cultural events on campus. In response to this, Jones is hosting a Rap Club at 8 p.m. tonight in the basement of the library. Jones called this event a “precursor” to a full-fledged club and encouraged all students to attend.

International best-selling author and Positive Life Company founder Amy Dix will be speaking at CSC from 5-8 p.m., tonight, in the Student Center Ballroom. Adviser Deena Kennell encouraged students to attend, calling it a “good opportunity to see a quality speaker.”

Hydrogeologist Joe Reedy is also scheduled to talk at 5 p.m. tonight in the Sandoz Center Atrium. Reedy was scheduled to talk last Thursday, but due to weather will now speak tonight.

Resident Advisor applications are due tomorrow, March 22. 

Senate has $10,431.91 in unallocated funds.