Line items not present at meeting
Wednesday evening the Student Senate prepared emergency legislation for the approval of the budget for Pantherpalooza a week ahead of time.
The budget for advertising and food combined for the event came to $546.60, which comes out of Student Government’s pocket.
Initially the bill did not pass unanimously when student senator and senior political science major Kent Ohms voted against it on the grounds that the required line item numbers were not present for the budget requests.
Line item numbers are identification tags to the parts of a budget that show where the money for the event is coming from.
After Ohms raised his concern, the senate held a five-minute recess, during which the senate members took a break as well as found the exact numbers for the budget requests.
Following the recess, the Pantherpalooza budget bill passed 21-0 with one abstention.
Prior to the new senate member approvals, the student senate has 29 returning members, who were elected last year.
The names of Eastern’s newest student senate members are: Karen Armour, Justin Barrett, Christopher Deshon, Jeremy Menefee, Cristine Prince, Paul Reid, and Dorrian White.
Paul Reid, a transfer student at Eastern and a business administration graduate student, was excited to be a part of student government at Eastern.
“I like working with different people and different groups, like the faculty and staff as well as the student body,” Reid said. “It was impressive to see Ohms speak up in the meeting tonight on the line items – it shows he has experience.”
All senate members will be working on different student committees concerning campus policy that affects students, and the senate approved student chairs for each of the committees as well.
In other business, Eastern Vice President for Academic Affairs Dan Nadler, Ph.D., also greeted the senate the beginning of the meeting with a summary of the successes of the first several weeks of Eastern.
Line items not present at meeting
VP for Student Affairs, Rich Higginbotham, holds up a flyer for Pantherpalooza, Wednesday night in the Arcola/Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
