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Show W n ATHLETICS Westminster athletes face i CAMPUS OPINION Student receives prestigious Biracial Spiderman causes award for meaningful service negative reaction 0 LIKE US on facebook Page 4 Westminster College's Student Newspaper Since 1938 AUGUST 20, 2011 WWW.FORUMFORTNIGHTLY.COM Budget controversy VOLUME XLV ISSUE 1 Westminster on Efficacy of the ASWC budget process questioned Justina McCandless Editor-in-Chi- ef Wait... can we go back to the stipends? That the senates was delayed reaction to 2011-201- 2 ASWC budget, the said ASWC Director of Budget Sc Finance Megan Mann. This is a budget that includes, among many other components, a flat $150 stipend raise for all seven members of the executive cabinet. 10-min- ute I definitely believe that overall youre going to get better employees if you can pay them more, said Mann. ASWC Student Body President Jonathon Pierce said that one of the reasons the stipends were raised was so that the students in the ASWC Executive Cabinet wouldnt need to have second jobs. Pierce described the issues effect on the student government last year when an executive cabinet member had too many jobs and other commitments on top of ASWC. ASWC turned into the last priority and it really showed, he said. Pierce said that the stipend increase will create a secure job position for executive cabinet members. They wont need to have other commitments, and theyll be able to put more into the job than what theyre taking away. The compensation should be enough that they shouldnt have to work a second job, said Jacob Kovac, ASWC Director of Communications. ASWC The 2011-201- 2 budget consists of $409,000, $300,000 of which comes from student fees. Every Westminster student pays a $108 student activity fee, which makes up the bulk of what ASWC runs on. Mann said that this fee provides a living for seven students, and to forget that this money is going back to students is to take the issue out of context. Mann said the stipends still comparatively and are relatively and just straight (theyre) really small. Im making Residence hall construction underway j less money I did than working president working at a fast food restaurant, said Pierce. ' With the stipend increase, the president and vice president of ASWC make $950 a month. At the University of Utah, the president and vice president of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU), make $900 a month but thats not counting the perks. According to Toban Ben-nio- n, vice president of ASUU, on top of their monthly stipends the president and vice president receive tuition help which usually comes out to be about $2,500 a semester. For Utah residents who are taking 12 credit hours, semester tuition at the U comes to a little over $2,800 (from the University of Utahs online tuition calculator). The President and VP at ASUU also receive free football tickets and free campus as parking. Additionally, if theres space, the president of ASUU will receive free room and board on campus. Bennion said that these gifts are not paid for by ASUU funds, and that they come from the different departments around campus. See BUDGET CONTROVERSY on r I Page 5 Justina McCandless Editor-in-Chi- ef Theyre calling it on The at 2150 S. 13th East, the six story building will include student housing, retail, offices, and a dynamic classroom and activities As soon as this is done Westminster College is going to have the best green space of any university in Utah, Im just saying, because we (will) have sa Sugar House Park, joked Holcombe, Director of Alumni, Community, 6c Board Relations. An-nali- space. Construction began on the project this summer and its projected to be finished by Fall 2012. Westminster will be the major tenant of the building, which will be leased by Woodman Properties. Additionally, the south side of the building will open onto Parley s Trail, called The Draw at Sugar House, a trail that will go under 13th East and lead to Sugar House Park. ikVp This unit is going to have 168 beds, but that doesnt mean were necessarily going to grow the school by 168 students, said Curtis Ryan, Vice President of Finance and Administration. Ryan said theres certainly a demand for new housing. Over fifty percent of Westminsters incoming students this year are from out of state. s i We know we dont have enough housing because we get more and more freshmen every year living on campus and weve been recruiting more students from outside the greater Salt Lake area and outside of Utah, said Ryan. Holcombe said, What do you tell their parents, right? So they move here from another state and then we say, great, but we can only put them up for a year and then theyre going to have to find another place to go after that. See THEDRAWon Page 8 |