Senate approves $4,000 request for MLK Day.

After a lengthy discussion, senate passed a unanimous 11-0 vote to approve  $4,000 for the social science club to bring rapper Ali Tomineek to campus as a part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  

Originally, AFB recommended $625 to cover the movie rights and prizes for the event, however, the social science club was looking for support to bring Tomineek since he would be the focal point of the event.  

“It would be huge for Chadron to bring someone like that for black culture on campus,” Social Science club  member Cody madrigan, junior of Lincoln. 

The social science club stated that Tomineek would hold a concert that day as well as giving a keynote speech in the Student Center Ballroom. The senate executive board was hesitant at first to allocate such a large amount of money at this time in the semester, but other senators spoke out in support of it.  

I think that, for diversity sake, people are going to show up for this event and comment on it because it is something we haven’t seen on campus in a while,” Senator of Andrews Hall Isioma Akwanamnye said.  

In other business: 

> Senate allocated $420 to the education club to help it get back up and running since it was not given a club budget. 

> Two club’s budgets were cut for lack of CAB meeting attendance. The Newman House received a 10 percent cut to its budget and United received a five percent cut. 

> Senate set aside $10,000 of the remaining budget to help fund Spring Days. 

> Senate has an unspent budget of $21,363.05 and unspent trip budget of $13,799.65.