Student Association | Two freshmen elected to finance board
By Heath D. Williams
Posted: 3/17/08, 11:47 PM EST Section: News
Photos: Will Halsey Production: Lucas McComb
Two new members were voted to the board, while two others were rejected in a split decision during the Student Association's Finance Board elections Monday night.
Natasha Webb-Prather and Daniel Weistrop were both elected to the Finance Board, which is responsible for allocating the Student Activity Fee and other funds to student groups on campus. Both candidates stressed their desires to allocate funds more fairly and to increase the Student Activity Fee.
"A lot of groups are limited by the money they're given," said Webb-Prather, a freshman in The College of Arts and Sciences. "They don't have enough to do what they want to do."
Weistrop argued that the Student Activity Fee should be made into a percentage of Syracuse University tuition, which would allow it to automatically rise throughout time. He said the current Student Activity Fee is not large enough to allow groups to perform their desired activities, and that simply raising the fee temporarily would not be enough.
"We'd be putting a Band-Aid on a problem with flat-fee rates," he said. "I don't think raising the fee by $20 or $30 will cause many solutions."
Even the unelected candidates stressed the importance of raising the Student Activity Fee.
"Raising it a flat amount won't be sufficient," said Jonathan Leon, a freshman in Arts and Sciences. "We'll be having this conversation again in two, three years."
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Jonathan M. Taylor
posted 3/18/08 @ 9:08 AM EST
Makes a lot of sense to propose somthing that is already done! The SAF increase yearly. Per the SA Constitution:
"The Undergraduate Student Activity Fee shall increase concurrently with SU tuition not to exceed four [4] percent annually. (Continued…)
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