Tonight’s the night Student Senate votes on student fees
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Wednesday night, Wichita State Student Senate will vote on the student fees budget proposed by the Student Fees Committee.
The senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Santa Fe Room of the Rhatigan Student Center (233). The meeting will begin with a public forum where the members of the public are allowed to speak for three minutes.
Here’s a look at what different organizations received this year in student fees and their requests and recommended allocations for next year:
FIXED-LINE ITEMS
Educational Opportunity Fund
2018 allocation: $260,041
2019 requested: $257,586
2019 recommended: $257,586 (100 percent)
Student Affairs
2018 allocation: $2,761,340
2019 requested: $2,876,059
2019 recommended: $2,871,059
99.8 percent
Rhatigan Student Center
2018 allocation: $4,849,000
2019 requested: $5,004,750
2019 recommended: $5,004,750 (100 percent)
The Sunflower
2018 allocation: $105,000
2019 requested: $158,000
2019 recommended: $80,000 (50.6 percent)
Campus Recreation
2018 allocation: $1,040,337
2019 requested: $1,043,550
2019 recommended: $1,027,412 (98.5 percent)
Student Government Association
2018 allocation: $281,197
2019 requested: $258,207
2019 recommended: $258,207 (100 percent)
Total Fixed Line Items
2018 allocation: $9,461,915
2019 requested: $9,598,152
2019 recommended: $9,497,014 (98.9 percent)
NON-FIXED-LINE ITEMS
Baja SAE
2018 allocation: $15,000
2019 requested: $14,250
2019 recommended: $11,250 (79 percent)
Formula Team
2018 allocation: $66,066
2019 requested: $70,000
2019 recommended: $49,550 (71 percent)
CSG Visiting Artist
2018 allocation: $5,200
2019 requested: $5,200
2019 recommended: $5,200 (100 percent)
Mikrokosmos
2018 allocation: $2,000
2019 requested: $3,710
2019 recommended: $1,855 (50 percent)
Model UN
2018 allocation: $20,000
2019 requested: $20,000
2019 recommended: $20,000 (100 percent)
Shift Space Gallery
2018 allocation: $67,067
2019 requested: $67,067
2019 recommended: $67,067 (100 percent)
College of Fine Arts Programming
2018 allocation: $35,000
2019 requested: $45,000
2019 recommended: $40,000 (89 percent)
ICAA – Eck Stadium Turf Replacement (NEW)
2019 requested: $165,000
2019 recommended: $0 (0 percent)
Graduate Student Association (NEW)
2019 requested: $10,818
2019 recommended: $0 (0 percent)
Graduate School (NEW)
2019 requested: $20,000
2019 recommended: $10,000 (50 percent)
Chance Swaim was the Editor in Chief of The Sunflower from fall 2017 to spring 2018.
Swaim was a graduate student in the English Department working...
