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An Increase In SAF
Is Needed
When the annual budget was through being passed by
the Budget committee, the Senate and approved by the
SGA president, Ike McRee there were several shocked
and disappointed faces seen around the campus. With
the limited fimds that were available almost all clubs
and organizations found there budget proposals cut in
half or more.
Being on the Budget committee is one of the least
popular positions that can be found on this cainpus.
It must decide who gets what money and then ex
plain it to every club that thought they snouia nave
received more. I would like to send my appreciation to
this years’ committee for having the perseverance to sur
vive the budget meetings.
Bill
Lide
Where the Budget committee sends the money is not
the main problem that the clubs have. The biggest con
cern should be how to increase the student activities fee
and why it has not been raised yet.
Every year $65 is taken from the tuition of every full
time student and used for student related activities. A
student must take a full load in both the Fall and Spring
semesters in order to be considered a full-time student
and part of the FTE, or Full-Time Equivalency.
Once the FTE figure is computed, then the student ac
tivities fee is also computed and broken down according
to the guidelines made by earlier students and faculty.
Out of the $65, $12 goes to the Lamp & Shield and $3
goes go the Lance. The remaining funds are given to the
SGA and Senate, where they figure out how to disperse
the money to the clubs.
Through past years mismanagement and bad book
keeping, some of the clubs have incurred large debts
that must be payed. The current student organizations’
debt is above $20,000. In order to relieve the debt the
SGA has created a Debt Relief Fund that takes a deter
mined sum out of the student activities fee before it is
given to the clubs and organizations.
The total working budget for this year was $34,200.
When the DRF was subtracted from this figure the total
came to be $32,690. This figure was a substantial
decrease from last years figure and all the clubs and
organizations felt the pinch.
There have been proposals to increase the FTE, but
the rising expenses of college life have not made it possi
ble. Well, I believe we need to make such an increase
possible.
With the tuition up as much as it has been in the past
few years there should also be an increase in the student
activities fee. In order for the clubs to be appealing to
students and prospective students there must be enough
funds to allow those clubs to operate with some im
agination.
The money for the clubs can not rest completely on
the SGA; and it has not in the past or the present
because all of the clubs have created ways of making
money. My question is that if the tuition is going to in
crease then why doesn’t the student activities fee in
crease with it?
In order for the SAF to be increased the proper chan
nels must be taken, so let your student representatives
know that the SGA needs to find ways to get the SAF in
creased.
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