Friday, February 8, 2008
Student Senate committees met last night after rescheduling because of the snow day. Legislation moves through committees before being presented at full Senate, which will meet next Wednesday.
Groups may be given free advertising
The finance committee passed a bill that, if passed in Senate, will allow student organizations that have selective membership to advertise events open to all students in Senate’s space in the University Daily Kansan.
Senate’s Student Advertising Program purchases advertising space three times a week. Currently, only groups that allow membership of all students can advertise in this space. Groups that require an application process, auditions or have selective admissions - like performing arts organizations, scholarship halls and Greek organizations - would be allowed to advertise events they are hosting that are open to all students.
Adam McGonigle, the bill’s author and Wichita sophomore, said the advertising space was being underutilized. He said some groups are running multiple ads to fill the space.
“If we’re paying for the space, we should be using it,” McGonigle said.
Finance committee members voted to attach an amendment to the bill that would give student organizations that are open to all students priority over selective membership groups, if the advertising space is full. There are 16 available spots in the ad.
Bill would help ease KU on Wheels debt
The finance committee tabled a bill written by transportation coordinator May Davis, Clay Center sophomore, that would reallocate campus transportation fees to help with KU on Wheels’ budget deficit.
Currently, students pay $20 in bus acquisition fees and $18.70 in bus operations fees yearly. The bill would lower the bus acquisition fee to $17 and raise the bus operations fee to $21.70. This fee adjustment would only be for this fiscal year.
The shift in fees would slow down the bus acquisition process by one year, but the current rate of purchasing buses would continue until the final year. Repositioning $3 to the bus operations fee would allow KU on Wheels to pay off $135,000 of its debt.
The bill was tabled until the next finance committee meeting on Feb. 20, when more information regarding the budget would be available.
Funds may be allocated to Conference
The finance committee voted to fund the Blueprints Leadership Conference. If passed in full Senate, the bill would fund the conference’s speaker with $1,325.
Peter Curzon, ExCEL winner and Phoenix, Ariz., senior, said this would be the 23rd annual leadership conference.
“We will be developing skills for emerging leaders and honing the skills of existing ones,” Curzon said.
The conference is expected to have 70 to 100 attendees. Dr. Amy Schmisseur will be the opening speaker who will set the theme of the conference. Different leadership activities will follow her speech.
The conference is 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 in the Kansas Union. Applications are due by Feb. 15.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
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