Senate Approves New Clubs, Funds Club Projects
Nancy Asiamah
Issue date: 10/23/09 Section: News
Many organizations were approved and funded at the Utica College Student Senate meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Circle K International, a community service group that was on the UC campus three years ago, is being brought back by a group of freshmen, who were involved with this organization in high school.
CKI, which was approved by Senate, promotes leadership and community service and has over 13,250 members worldwide. They do activities like painting new parks, fundraising for the homeless and more.
Their goal on the UC campus is to make a difference that no other organization has made yet. So far, 30 people have signed up and 15 attended the first meeting.
The second organization that was approved by Senate was the UC TV Club. Five members proposed this organization for free advertising of any upcoming events or organization shown on channels 2 and 3.
STAND, a genocide awareness group on campus, was approved for $1400 for a conference in Washington.
Pledge to Protect, the name of the conference, will have Hillary Clinton as a guest speaker and hold workshops, teachings and training to help people inform others about genocide.
Their overall trip will cost them $3,440 but they only requested $1400, for registration fees, gas and hotel. The rest of the amount will be fundraised or come out of pocket from the 12 members attending this conference, on Nov. 6 through the 8.
SCJ, WIND and RHA are hosting the UC haunted house this Halloween. The theme for this year's haunted house will be Haunted Woodbury Asylum.
They requested $600 dollars for construction and other materials to set up the place. This haunted house will be free to UC students and the public at the library concourse on Oct. 30th from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
The Inter Greek Council was approved for $3000 dollars to be shared among Greeks. Each Greek organization will receive $300 dollars for their upcoming events, such as pledging.
This issue became a bit personal when some Greek members in Senate said that organizations with fewer members should get less money than those with more members.
Chief Justice Ashlie Torres, who proposed this idea, explained that organizations are recognized not by the amount of members they have but by what they do as a team on the campus.
The next UC Student Senate meeting will be on November 4 at 3p.m. in the Bell Hall Conference Center.
Circle K International, a community service group that was on the UC campus three years ago, is being brought back by a group of freshmen, who were involved with this organization in high school.
CKI, which was approved by Senate, promotes leadership and community service and has over 13,250 members worldwide. They do activities like painting new parks, fundraising for the homeless and more.
Their goal on the UC campus is to make a difference that no other organization has made yet. So far, 30 people have signed up and 15 attended the first meeting.
The second organization that was approved by Senate was the UC TV Club. Five members proposed this organization for free advertising of any upcoming events or organization shown on channels 2 and 3.
STAND, a genocide awareness group on campus, was approved for $1400 for a conference in Washington.
Pledge to Protect, the name of the conference, will have Hillary Clinton as a guest speaker and hold workshops, teachings and training to help people inform others about genocide.
Their overall trip will cost them $3,440 but they only requested $1400, for registration fees, gas and hotel. The rest of the amount will be fundraised or come out of pocket from the 12 members attending this conference, on Nov. 6 through the 8.
SCJ, WIND and RHA are hosting the UC haunted house this Halloween. The theme for this year's haunted house will be Haunted Woodbury Asylum.
They requested $600 dollars for construction and other materials to set up the place. This haunted house will be free to UC students and the public at the library concourse on Oct. 30th from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
The Inter Greek Council was approved for $3000 dollars to be shared among Greeks. Each Greek organization will receive $300 dollars for their upcoming events, such as pledging.
This issue became a bit personal when some Greek members in Senate said that organizations with fewer members should get less money than those with more members.
Chief Justice Ashlie Torres, who proposed this idea, explained that organizations are recognized not by the amount of members they have but by what they do as a team on the campus.
The next UC Student Senate meeting will be on November 4 at 3p.m. in the Bell Hall Conference Center.
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