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Show t 1. E THE -87_T_H _YEAR; - .- . -N UMB--E -R -60-----1,,,.,,.,u,,,,,,.,,.,,•• ,,,,.,1Mt1~----M -O _ND_A _Y.-M -A _Y_24-. -199-3 Rodeo ropes in big bucks Local resident Steve Gilbert offers incentive to Senate BY JASON NORTH of the Thunderbird Scaff How to allot the money collected through student fees has been the subject of spring quarter's SUUSA Senate meetings. Senators have been looking for ways to reduce the overall amount of fees paid by each student per quarter. However, in Wednesday's meeting senators raised the allotment for the rodeo dub in partial compliance with a request from a private donor who offered ro substantially increase his financial support of the club. To accommodate the increase for the rodeo club, cuts have been made in other areas, most notably cheerleading. After a previous senate meeting where senators discussed cutting the rodeo club's line item from 50 cents to 30 cents per SUU student per quarter, the motion was tabled for more investigation. Suzanne Pett, science senator and a member of the investigation committee, reported Wednesday that the rodeo club did need the estimated $5,000 generated through a 50-cent allocation from student fees in order to sponsor an annual rodeo here in Cedar City and also for travel expenses to the other nine rodeos hdd in the region. She suggested that the senate vote to approve and maintain the 50-cent line item. Education Senator Eddy Rawlings said that if the line item was to be cut and the money returned to the senate's general fund, "the dub wilJ just approach us with a bill requesting the rest of the funds they need." The purpose in reducing line items is to encourage campus organizations to plan efficient a.nd economical budgets and then petition the i;ena.te fur additional funds, sena.rors have sa.id. With the senate now ready to maintain the line item, tempmtion was thrown into the ring to raise the allocation to 60 cents. Steve Gilbert, a local citizen, told the senators, "If you raise it to 60 cents for the next two years, I'll write out a check for $20,000 to the rodeo club today. You can make money on the rodeo; all it needs is your support and more advertising." Gilbert told h.ow the rodeo had given him experiences that school didn't teach him."( started rodeo when l was 12 yea.rs old. I learned self~teem, self.reliance, and practical experience. I can tdl you that riding bucking horses and bulls is definitdy the school of hard knocks." FriaaJ's luau, spo,uored b, tM SUU Pol~ian Club and Mulr:icuu'Mcral Center, f~ml a Hawaiian. /t.aJt, mMSic, dancing, and tM Samoan. fireknife dance. Cindy Gilbert, Steve's wife and a former SUSC student government leader, also commented, "You lthe senators] have a responsibility ID fund activities Like the rodeo, because that may be the only thing that those people are involved in. Your support of activities such as this can make a big difference in people's lives.• After a five.minute recess to discuss raising the line item by IO cents in order to receive Gilbert's donation for the club, the senators voted to raise the line item by only five cents, because "when you raise one !allocation] then you have to take money from someone else to do it," said Sen. Daniel Jackson (Bus./Comm/ Tech.). Science Senator Michael Gentile also poinred out that the. senate can only .male decisions for the I 99J.'94 academic year and cannot guarantee that the next senate would maintain the 10-cent or even a 5-cent increase. Each fiv«:ent increase would bring an estimated $200 to the club per quarter. "Now I ain't too smart," said Gilbert, "but if someone was offering me $20,000 for $200, I'd sure take it" He responded by cutting his offer in half to $10,000. "I'll put the other half into an escrow account to see what next year's senate decides." When SUUSA President Jason White saw that the senators were unwilling to kick in the extra five cents suggested by Gilbert, then White offered to take money out o( his own president's budget to make up the difference. Gilbert said, "Now there's a man who's been to a rodeo." The senate also listened to a report by Arts -------~Ell-------------' l ain't too smart, but if someone offered me $20,000 for $200,' says Steve Gilbert, 'l'd sure take it.' -------·Ell--------and Letters Sen. Matt Lopez concerning the $4 student fee allocated for student publications (i.e. The Thunderbird), the senators voted to sustain the $4 allocation but stipulated that the newspaper adviser prepare more detailed budget reports and submit copies to the senate each quarter. Two weeks earliec, the se_nators rescinded the line item's agency status giving the senators power to reduce or increase the amount of the allotment A motion by Sen. Drew Moren (Bus./Comm./fech.) to restore agency status for the student publications line item was voted down. Of the 12 line items in the student fees budget, the current senate has retained the agency status of only four-open recreation ($2); drama ($1); student body fee ($8.25); and student body 'scholarship ($1 ). All changes i0n the amount of student fees allocated to different purposes will take effect fall quarter. Out of the senate's general fund an estimated $12.60 was spent on refreshments for the student government officials attending the meeting. More than $3,(X)() remains in senate cofferi;, probably to be allocated at the next meeting for two bills-a $2,000 n,quest for Phi Beta Lambda members to attend d::leir national competition in Washington, D.C. and $1,000 for a replacement typcCUtrr for KGSU Thunder 91. |