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(04/08/03 12:00pm)
Budget appeals were granted to the Jewish Student Union (JSU), the College Intramural and Recreation Department and The Signal by a majority vote.
The JSU requested that the budget for two programs, its Passover Seder Dinners and Shabbat Dinners, be reviewed.
Funds for the Passover Seder were not granted in the 2003-04 draft because the page was missing from the original budget proposal.
The total amount requested, $800, was granted for the Passover Seder, but no additional funds were appropriated for the Shabbat Dinners.
The Intramural and Recreation Department appealed the decision to cut its $5,500 equipment budget.
Members claimed that because the costly equipment is used by the entire student population as well as for special events that include the entire campus, the funds are essential.
The SFB accepted this claim and the organization was granted $5,651.
"I was happy about their request," Chairperson Renee Marchioni said.
"SFB gives a lot of funding to them," she added. "They stressed that the turnover rate was so high they needed to replenish it every year. It was great to see they were using the budget appropriately."
The Signal appealed for six positions to be paid that were cut from the budget last year. Funding was approved to pay two of the six requested positions in a total of $858.
The Student Government Association (SGA) was granted $2,000 of a special appropriation request of $12,000 to fund the Pick-A-Prof online evaluation system by a vote of 7-1-2.
The program is designed to allow students to provide professors with anonymous feedback at any time during the semester and to allow professors to share course-related information.
The $12,000 request included three one-year contracts.
The first, covering 2002-03 totaled $2,000, while the second and third, covering 2003-04 and 2004-05, respectively, totaled $5,000 each.
SFB granted funds for the first contract only. "We gave them the first year's funding," Marchioni said. "I think it will have potential once people hear about it."
The Black Student Union (BSU) was granted full funding of $4,835 special appropriation request for their annual Fashion Show by a vote of 9-1-0.
BSU allocated $200 of its own budget for the show, which took place on April 5.
The Society for Human Resource Management was granted its full request of $388 to attend the Area One Regional Games and Conference by a vote of 9-1-0.
Six students requested to participate in the conference, which they claimed acts as an opportunity for students to network and compete against other universities based on knowledge of human resource topics.
(03/18/03 12:00pm)
Many students were surprised when they were unable to use their meal plans after returning from Spring Break, due to a problem with the registers.
"We discovered the 'Closed for the Holiday' issue shortly after the Marketplace Convenience Store opened at noon," Steven Hugg, director of marketing for Sodexho, the College's food service provider, said.
Hugg said that signs were hung to let students know that only cash and Gold Club were being accepted.
"Whenever the ID Cards or registers are not working, we try to let students know about the situation as soon as possible," Hugg said.
"Our managers also monitor the problem so we can start accepting cards as soon as the problem is resolved," he added.
"It was really annoying," Caitlin Mara, senior English major, said.
"You don't normally bring cash with you to T/W," she said. "I wound up going off campus for food."
"I bought ice cream at Quik Check and had that for dinner," Courtney Ashe, junior history and secondary education major, said.
Hugg explained that the problem was with the register system and was not anything that Sodexho could control.
"If the cards aren't working, or if the dining plan isn't working, we have to wait for them to come back on line," Hugg said.
"It promoted the thievery of food," Matthew Everett Jacobsen, junior English major, said. "People like to spend meal plan because it is like imaginary money, as opposed to the real money in their wallet," he added.
In the past, College dining hall workers were able to take students' Social Security numbers in lieu of scanning their card. Sodexho, however, does not support this practice.
"With all the concerns about identity theft, we don't want to have liability for having a written record of someone's Social Security number," Hugg said. "Of course, it would also be hard to keep students from using someone else's Social Security number or to make sure the number was correct.
"We rely on the ID Cards just like everyone else does - and normally it works very well," Hugg added.
(03/18/03 12:00pm)
On Wednesday, Feb. 25, SGA went into closed session, meaning that the public was not given permission to attend.
According to President Chris Portera, the organization discussed personnel issues.
Under Sunshine Laws, SGA is not obligated to elaborate about what went on at the meeting.
Sunshine Laws are regulations that allow public inquiry into government affairs. Such laws also apply to student governments, such as the College's SGA.
Under N.J.'s Sunshine Laws, the public has the right to attend and record government meetings.
Information discussed at these meetings is required to go on file as public records, which are able to be inspected or copied by any person.
There are certain circumstances in which the public is not guaranteed these rights.
During meetings where termination, employment, the safety of the public or contract negotiations are discussed, public access is not guaranteed.
Meetings involving personal business, such as an individual's treatment, are also a situation where an organization, which chooses to exclude the public, are also not subjected to Sunshine laws.
- Information by http://sussex.njstatelib.org/njlib/liblaw/lwindx03.htm