Student Senate allocates $30,000 to concert

CSC’s annual home rodeo will have a new attraction in 2021 following senate’s 9-4 vote to approve concert funds.

The concert will be sponsored by the Wildlife Club and the Farm Bureau, but the funds will come from fall semester students fees. 

“Most rodeos, if you go to one anytime in the summer, typically have events similar to this,” Student Trustee Konery Klueber said. “Of all of our activities on campus, rodeo is one we could definitely get behind and help support. I don’t think it’s a bad thought to consider.”

After talking with students about the potential for a concert next fall, senators reported that some students expressed concerns over how much money Student Senate was allocating because of other projects. Others reported that students thought that the concert was a good idea after the pandemic.   

Tickets for the concert will be available to CSC students first and anything left over would be sold to the public and other schools that would be participating in the rodeo. Tickets for community members would be around $25 and students from other schools would get a discounted price if they showed their student IDs, a member of the Wildlife Club said. They also said that 25% of the funds raised from ticket sales would go to the rodeo team and 75% would go back to Student Senate. 

The money for the concert was not the only large allocation made that night. 

Chief Justice Nathan Cronin requested senators hear his request for $6,100 to send the court justices on a trip to Washington D.C. in October to watch Supreme Court arguments and lectures and attend law lectures at nearby universities.  

Cronin said AFB wouldn’t hear the request until next fall because the trip is next semester.  

“In my opinion, I don’t think it is necessarily fair to wait until fall,” Cronin said. 

Because background checks need to be done on the students by the FBI and Secret Service before they can visit the Supreme Court, Cronin said that they needed Senate approval so he can begin making arrangements. 

 “It’ll benefit the court,” Cronin said. “If this year has been any inclination, we’ve had more court pieces in this year alone than almost the last four years combined. So, we’ve been setting a precedent that has never been set before. This would be more of education of learning for myself and our court.” 

Senators voted unanimously to approve the full amount. 

“We also have to keep in mind that this is benefitting CSC students too,” Klueber said. “Recognizing that, yes it’s not the entire 22 hundred population, but these are still students that would gain something from that money.” 

In other news: 

> Student Senate approved a $2,500 allocation to bring motivational speaker Nick Scott to campus next fall. 

> Student Senate allocated $200 for Estabon Bozeman and another student to attend the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in June.  

> Student Senate has $26,088 in unallocated funds and $30,000 in unallocated trip funds.