Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Student Senate will vote tonight on a bill that would allow student groups with selective membership to advertise in the Senate space in The University Daily Kansan.
The Student Advertising Program buys a half-page of advertising space in The Kansan every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Currently, only student groups with open membership can use the free advertising space to promote events. The bill would allow student groups that require application or have selective membership, such as greek organizations, performing arts organizations and scholarship halls, to advertise events that would be open to all students.
Leslie Rhoton, Lawrence junior and president of the Panhellenic Association, said that community service was a main goal for greek organizations. She said chapters sometimes faced problems finding the money for advertising their events.
“There’s this view that Panhellenic has an expendable fund of money to fund projects,” Rhoton said.
She said the advertising space would allow organizations to promote events without a charge, which would help with the budget of their projects.
Greek organizations put on many philanthropic events throughout the year, such as hold pancake breakfasts, golf tournaments and walks to support various charities, Rhoton said.
Alex Rock, Lawrence junior and Interfraternity Council president, said that not allowing groups with selective membership to advertise events in this space didn’t make sense. He said the groups were often looking for a way to advertise a philanthropic cause.
“It cuts out of overhead that we would otherwise be able to donate to the organizations,” Rock said.
He said some of the advertising space was going unused right now. He said advertising these events would be another way for people on campus to get involved.
Emily Williams, Overland Park senior and the Panhellenic Association senator, said that having student advertising in The Kansan was a great resource and without the space it was hard to market a program to the entire campus.
“These are good programs that are put on to benefit the community,” Williams said.
Vaishali Gala is a Hays junior and an officer in AIESEC, a group that works to eliminate cultural stereotypes and has selective membership. The group facilitates internships in the U.S. for foreign students and also sends local students overseas. She said the group didn’t have enough money to buy regular advertising space.
“A lot of people don’t know what AIESEC is,” Gala said. “Advertising would really get the word out.”
Adam McGonigle, Wichita sophomore and writer of the bill, expects it to do well in Student Senate tonight. He said the issue has come up multiple times in Senate and failed each time, but that organizations have made it known that they want to be able to use the space.
When the bill was discussed last week in the finance committee, Senators voted to add an amendment that would give priority with advertising space to student organizations with open membership.
“I think there’s some concern that organizations that don’t require membership would get pushed aside,” Rock said.
— Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
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