Pantherpalooza will receive funding that it needs to provide free food to students and gift cards for prizes.

The Student Senate voted 26-1 on passing the bill Sept. 6. The legislation allocates $605 for Panterpalooza, which will be held Sept. 13.

The only dissenting vote was from senior physical education major Shawn Ready.

“I didn’t like how it was being run,” Ready said. “It just went to old business, granted that’s how it (has) to be done, but if it were to come last week into new business, it would have been a different deal.”

Senate bill 06-07-02 was tabled until the next meeting. It will allocate $68.25 to cover the costs of food from the Student Senate orientation.

Speaker of the Senate and junior Kent Ohms discussed with the senate that $300 was originally budgeted for the orientation food.

Eastern football coach Bob Spoo will receive a get-well card from the senate, which was covered under resolution 06-07-01. The resolution was passed unanimously.

The meeting took less than an hour and there was little discussion over most business.

“I thought it went pretty good,” said senate member and junior Kenney Kozik of the meeting. “I would have liked a little more discussion, but I don’t think there were too many questions.”

Newly appointed senate member Matt Forcum also resigned from his seat.

Forcum, a junior political science major, cited being on the Stewardson-Strasburg Board of Education as a reason for resigning. In his letter he said he had “severe concerns” and that the Student Senate was a “swell little club.”

“Applications will be taken until Wednesday, (Sept. 13,)” Ohms said of the vacancy.

An appointment to the vacant seat is to be made within the next two weeks.

During audience participation, senior history major Mark Feimer addressed the senate representing a small group of students unhappy about turnitin.com, a plagiarism prevention service Eastern subscribes to.

He said that the service harms classroom environment, forces business interest on the student and encourages laziness on everyone’s part, including professors who repeat the same assignment.

The next meeting for the Student Senate is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Arcola-Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.