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The Daily OrangeSA | Attendance fears leave two events unfunded
By Paige Dearing
Posted: 10/23/07, 12:46 AM EST Section: News
The Student Association was presented with 11 special programming bills Monday. By the end of the night, all were passed by the assembly.
This left approximately $7,000 in funds, generated by the student activity fee, for the remainder of the semester. Three student groups were awarded zero dollars, following the Finance Board's recommendations.
Two groups had their funding requests rejected because the Finance Board feared low turnout, said Comptroller Mike Rizzolo, a senior management major. Alpha Xi Delta requested $1,455 for a Battle of the Bands competition, while Asian Students in America asked for $1,809.50 to bring cello rock group Ken Oak Band to campus. Both were unanimously denied funding.
"The Finance Board felt that the timing - a Sunday at noon - along with the other costs associated with the event, that the actual money raised would not recoup the costs that occur to put on this Battle of the Bands," Rizzolo said of Alpha Xi's Battle of the Bands. At $3 a ticket, the money could not be made back even with the maximum attendance, 300 people.
The Ken Oak Band concert would have fallen on a Wednesday night at the Schine Student Center's Underground.
Kappa Phi Lambda requested an additional $953.54 to bring graffiti artist P.Kasso for the Elements of Hip-Hop event, but was rejected because SA does not revisit budgets for events that have already been funded.
Whereas
The Finance Board added a third "whereas" clause in a bill for the first time ever Monday. Bills typically have two such clauses.
Bill 51-181 delegated $504 to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and WJPZ Radio to provide microphones and guest lodging for The New Latin Media event.
The extra "whereas" clause stated that, "the Finance Board has observed an increased frequency in defaults by the Newhouse School of Communications in regards to funding commitments to its student groups."
"I thought it was important to show that Newhouse has continually, at least more than once this semester, botched on its commitment to student groups," said Rizzolo, citing last week's Women in Communication's special programming bill.
Women in Communication requested $210 from SA's Special Programming fund to register for the 2007 Student Career Conference after the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications failed to provide it with the money.
Fox
The next SA meeting will be Nov. 5. Next week's meeting is canceled because former President of Mexico Vicente Fox will visit Syracuse that evening.
SA is co-sponsoring the event with University Union and New York Public Interest Research Group at Landmark Theatre.
This left approximately $7,000 in funds, generated by the student activity fee, for the remainder of the semester. Three student groups were awarded zero dollars, following the Finance Board's recommendations.
Two groups had their funding requests rejected because the Finance Board feared low turnout, said Comptroller Mike Rizzolo, a senior management major. Alpha Xi Delta requested $1,455 for a Battle of the Bands competition, while Asian Students in America asked for $1,809.50 to bring cello rock group Ken Oak Band to campus. Both were unanimously denied funding.
"The Finance Board felt that the timing - a Sunday at noon - along with the other costs associated with the event, that the actual money raised would not recoup the costs that occur to put on this Battle of the Bands," Rizzolo said of Alpha Xi's Battle of the Bands. At $3 a ticket, the money could not be made back even with the maximum attendance, 300 people.
The Ken Oak Band concert would have fallen on a Wednesday night at the Schine Student Center's Underground.
Kappa Phi Lambda requested an additional $953.54 to bring graffiti artist P.Kasso for the Elements of Hip-Hop event, but was rejected because SA does not revisit budgets for events that have already been funded.
Whereas
The Finance Board added a third "whereas" clause in a bill for the first time ever Monday. Bills typically have two such clauses.
Bill 51-181 delegated $504 to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and WJPZ Radio to provide microphones and guest lodging for The New Latin Media event.
The extra "whereas" clause stated that, "the Finance Board has observed an increased frequency in defaults by the Newhouse School of Communications in regards to funding commitments to its student groups."
"I thought it was important to show that Newhouse has continually, at least more than once this semester, botched on its commitment to student groups," said Rizzolo, citing last week's Women in Communication's special programming bill.
Women in Communication requested $210 from SA's Special Programming fund to register for the 2007 Student Career Conference after the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications failed to provide it with the money.
Fox
The next SA meeting will be Nov. 5. Next week's meeting is canceled because former President of Mexico Vicente Fox will visit Syracuse that evening.
SA is co-sponsoring the event with University Union and New York Public Interest Research Group at Landmark Theatre.
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