The Student Senate had its work cut out for it, with seven proposals under emergency legislation during Wednesday night’s meeting.

The Student Government allowed the veto of the University Board marketing proposal to stand.

The proposal was for $300 for software to aid in the making of fliers for advertisement.

The proposal originated during the Apportionment Board meeting on April 16 as additional allocations, after a misinterpreted e-mail called for $40,346 in additional allocations.

Student Body President Levi Bulgar vetoed it after last week’s meeting.

“I vetoed the bill because the (proposal) was brought up without chairs of the board being aware of the situation,” he said.

In other business, the UB proposal for new productions equipment passed with a vote of 23-1-1.

Orion Buckingham, UB productions chair, spoke to the Student Senate about the need for the equipment.

“We have done 36 events this year for 22 (Registered Student Organizations) on campus, and that is not including any of the events we do for UB,” he said.

Last week, the Student Senate members voted to send the proposal back to committee for the AB to look at again. The AB approved the proposal after adjustments had been made, and it was sent back to the Student Senate.

The senate approved the $6,253, including the funding for new Public Address speakers, six radios and a CD player.

To allow Student Senate to advance its technological ability, the Student Senate passed three proposals for a scanner and hard drive, a camcorder, and nine flash drives. The scanner and hard drive proposal passed at $498 with a vote of 22-3-0.

The members of Student Government hope to use this equipment to save the pieces of legislature stored in the Student Activities Center as digital copies.

With hopes of filming meetings and lectures, the camcorder and tripod proposal for $225 was passed 12-8-5.

Senate member Isaac Sandidge said he was against this because they should take advantage of the technology they have now, such as the Web site, before they try to take on something new.

A proposal for nine flash drives to be used by the nine committees of the Student Government was also passed. This will cost about $90.

The University Development and Recycling Committee asked for $150 to plant a Japanese maple tree on campus.

The committee plants a tree every year.

The proposal passed 24-0-1.

Student Senate also passed a proposal for 1,000 promotional pens for $965. This passed with a vote of 23-1-0.

While many students will be taking off for the summer, Eric Wilber, student executive vice president, will still make a few trips to Springfield to push for the Renewable Energy Center in front of a committee in the House of Representatives.

Wilber said of the 20 representatives that Senate members talked to last Wednesday, 11 of them had signed in favor of the bill.

Wilber and the Student Action Team plan to go back to Springfield May 6 for the committee hearing. He said he plans to testify and explain the benefits of the plant being on campus.

The Student Senate passed a proposal 23-0-1 to refund the cost of his trips to Springfield for $167.

Kayleigh Zyskowski can be reached at 581- or at kzyskowski@eiu.edu.

Student Body President Levi Bulgar gives his State of the University address at Wednesday night’s Student Senate meeting in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. (Erin Matheny/The Daily Eastern News)

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