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Show THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 2000 Calculators to be sold for discount u I v. E R s I T y -o BY LEAH HARTMANN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER After three weeks of heated debate and drastic modifications, the senate finally passed Bill #01100, entitled "y=mx+t(. on Tuesday night. SU USA Academic Vice President Steve Nelson reflected the whole of Senate members' thoughts when he said, "We've had fantastic investigation and debate on this bill." College of Business and Technology Sen. Jennifer Powell, of the investigating committee, said she reached an agreement with Texas Instruments on the purchase of 20 Tl-83 calculators at a reduced rate. Powell said Texas Instruments agreed to sell SUU 20 calculators at $65 a piece. With tax and shipping added, the total for each calculator is $68.75. She added that delivery time will take about four weeks. College of Education Sen. Brianna Baumgartner, also of the investigating committee, recommended 10 of the calculators be available for semester-long rental, and 10 of the calculators be available in the library for short-term check-out. Baumgartner also said the SUU Bookstore has agreed to buy back calculators at half the original price. The bill's sponsor, College of Science Sen. nmette McKenna, suggested amending the dollar amount of the bill to $1 ,375. She also amended the bill to specify that 1O of the calculators be rented out for $20 per semester, and 10 of them be placed in the library for students to check-out overnight. The amendment passed 14-0-1 . Before the senate voted on the bill, BT College Sen. Jessi Allen said, "I feel this is going to be a legacy bill. It took a while, but it was worth the wait." Senate Bill #011-00 passed 14-0-1. -· Donations encouraged • The yearly Sub-4-Santa event, a philanthropy that allows people to adopt needy families and children for the holiday season and purchase gifts or holiday food items tor them, was kicked off Monday. This year, like in years past, is already an immediate success for Sub-4-Santa. Within the first two hours of displaying the Sub-4Santa Angel Tree, the tree that bears the names of all families and children to be adopted, all 20 families and 50 children's names were taken off the tree and adopted by students and faculty. Currently on the Angel Tree are $10 or $20 certificates that can be taken off the tree as reminders to purchase actual food certificates during participant's next shopping trip. The food certificates can be purchased at all grocery store cash registers and will allow each family to buy the food items they need for holiday meals. For those who choose to donate food, the committee recommends the following food items: stuffing mix, canned yams, gravy mix, cranberry sauce, canned vegetables, hot cider, instant potatoes and hot chocolate. The committee will have a table in the Sharwan Smith Center on Nov. 27 and 28 where donations will be collected. Donations will also be taken at the SUUSA offices anytime before Nov. 30. -Mark Woodbury ,. |
