THE
WCC
volume 4 no. 1
Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC 27533-8002
February 21,1990
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Students enjoy unusually balmy weather while sittino
at a picnic table. SGA's 1989 gift to WCC. (L to R);
Danny Weeks, Mike Avcock, David Jordan. Pam McIntosh.
Taimty Pospichel. and Jamie Pate. Student Activity Coordinator.
Photo; Gary Benton
SGA funds:
where are they going?
By SCOTT FERGUSOf'J
At the beginning of the
winter quarter 2,185
students enrolled in Wayne
Commun i ty Col 1ege.
When these students paid
-for their classes, they
a1so paid a t6 dol1ar
ac t i y i ty fee .
A survey indicates that
WCC is in 1i ne wi th all the
other conmunity colleges in
the area with its activity
•fee.
At Lenoir Community
College with an enrollment
of 1,940 students, the
activity fee is determined
by the nunber of hours a
student takes during that
quarter, ^7 tor full-time
students and $2 for part-
time students.
At Johnston Technical
College, with an enrollment
of 1,582 students, the -fee
is $7 dollars for full-time
students and $5 dollars for
part-t iroe.
At Wake Techn ical
College, with an enrollment
of 4,802 students, the
■fee is $2 dol 1 ars per
quarter.
The WCC SGA's total
budget amounts to *33,000.
Where does this money'
go?
According to Jerry
Kornegay, Director of
Student Activities and
Recruiting, the majority
goes into student enter-
ta i nment.
For 1988-89, funds
totaled $10,800 for S6A-
sponsored dances and
cookouts held for the
entire year.
According to Kornegay
every time a cook-out or
cook-in is held, the SGA
has to pay $150 for the
food, depending on what is
being served.
The price continues to
increase if drinks are
brought in by Pepsi or Mt.
Dew.
Usually there are 4-5
cookouts a year, so these
account for a small portion
of SGA funds. Ice Creame
Pests and Donut Socials
also fall into this
catagory.
Dances take the largest
portion of entertainment
■funds.
A dance with a DJ starts
at around $800. H a band
is hired, the cost starts
at $2000.
These figures do not
include any extras such as
security, rent <if the
building is off campus), or
damages caused by a
student.
On-campus dances held in
the past had a low attend-
dance rate.
Dances held off campus
at clubs such as Mother's,
The Juke Box, and Bogart's
(when it was still open)
have attracted more
students.
One Homecoming Dance at
Bogarts drew in over 200
students, and the Home
comings at Mother's and The
Juke Box attracted 150 or
more.
Approximately 200 stu
dents and guests attended
this year's Homecoming
Dance at The Juke Box.
The Homeccmting and the
dance were successful
except for vandalism at the
dance.
According to Kornegay
the money to repair the
damage will come from the
Student Activities Fund .
In the area of athletics
WCC has a basketball,
yolleyball, softball, and a
goH team. Only $6500 is
alloted fran the budget to
support these teams.
Kornegay and Jamie
Pate, Student Activities
Coordinator, decide what
portion of -funds goes to
each team.
Wi th WCC's renewed
interest in sports, two new
sports were added to the
lineup last year; volley-
bal1 and basketbal1.
This past fall quarter
was the first time in the
history of WCC sports that
a volleyball team was
■formed.
According to Jamie Pate,
the Student Act i v i ty
Coordinator, the cost of
one season of volleyball is
$1200. This amount covers
everything needed and used
in and for the games such
as re-ferees, equipment, and
rental of the building.
Basketball, on the other
hand, costs WCC $2700
because of the longer
season.
The other sports fall in
line with volleyball, with
so-ftball at $1500 a season
and golf at $1000 a season.
With these two additions
the athletic account has to
be stretched in every
direction to allow enough
money to go to each sport,
Kornegay said.
Th i s means that each
sport gets one piece of
equipment when the old
wears out or breaks.
These amounts are
determined by Kornegay and
the coaches of each team.
For the last couple of
years the SGA has purchased
15 Family Y memberships for
the use of students,
totaling $1701.
To use these passes,
students must go to the
Student Activities office,
present their I. D., and
pick up the pass.
Then they present this
pass to the desk clerk at
the Fami1y Y.
The 1ine i tem 1abeled
minor equipment on the pie
graph indicates the gift of
11 picnic tables to the new
campus at a cost of $9,525.
These tables, made of
concrete and steel, weigh
more than 1000 pounds each.
FUNDS continued p. 11
School
Transportation
17%
19%
27%
SGA'5 198B-B9 budget
Credit! Scott Ferguson and Grace Lutz
Pie graph shows major components of the
of $33,000.