If the revised recommended student fees allocations are passed, Mikrokosmos, Wichita State’s literary journal, would receive $2,000 of the $6,000 it requested from student fees.

Originally, the magazine was slated to receive no the committee funding, when the first recommended allocations were presented to Student Government Association on March 9, and rejected by Senate.

While Mikrokosmos would have preferred to receive the full $6,000, getting $2,000 would be better than nothing, said Kayla Haas, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

“With $2,000, we should be able to at least print, though it does put future editors into a tight position to have to run this journal,” Haas said. “We’re going to have to rethink a lot.”

During Wednesday’s SGA meeting, treasurer Mariah Smith read the revised recommended allocations to Senate. The allocations will be debated and voted on at the next Senate meeting April 6.

Another change to the allocations is allocating more than $9,000 to the Baja SAE engineering group, which would have received no student fees funding under the original proposal. The total recommended allocations for the student fees budget for fiscal year 2017 is $9,203,284.

Another change proposed is removing student fees funding for Shocker Sound, the university’s pep band for Shocker basketball.

Smith said during the student fees Committee’s four-hour deliberation on the revised proposal, there was a lot of discussion about how to handle Shocker Sound.

“The big thing we talked about was moving Shocker Sound over to Athletics completely, or what to do with that,” Smith said.

Smith and Student Body President Joseph Shepard said the committee received confirmation from “higher-ups” that Shocker Sound would receive funding if it was shifted over to Athletics, and that the program would not dissolve.

Smith and Shepard said the committee, which they are both a part of, felt much better about the revised proposal than it did about the original proposal.

“The student fees committee felt really great about this new budget,” Smith said. “We made some changes, we did it with a little bit more information that was given to us after the original proposal.”

Senators asked a handful of questions during Wednesday’s meeting, but not many. The meeting was able to conclude within 75 minutes. Shepard said he thinks this means senators would rather debate than ask questions.

“I think that that’s good,” he said. “I think that at this point, senators may be going back and utilizing this next week to get more information to help their debate and help their case.”

If Senate rejects the revised proposal during the next meeting, Shepard said the committee is prepared to go back to the drawing board again.

“We’re not afraid of the recommendations being rejected,” he said. “And that just means we need to be more innovative when we get back into the committee meeting and make sure that we’re doing the right thing that benefits the greater good for Wichita State University.”