SGAseeksmoremoneyforbetterentertainment

by Dina M. Tartaglia assistant copy editor who

In order to increase the quality and quantity of campus events, including popular bands and comedians, the Student Government Association has recently submitted a proposal to Robert Bonfiglio, vice president for student development, to ask for more money,.

according tp Andy Burke, president of SGA.

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Burke is hoping to increase the portion of $25, which he receives each year from a student's general fee, to $50. Burke feels this would enable him to allocate more money to the CAP board so they can increase events with more popular people performing on campus.

Other colleges the size of. Cabrini vary in the amount their CAP board and SGA receives. For example, Wesley College receives $50 exam p 1e, Andrew Burke, SGA president Better Than per student

Ezra, 7 Mary 3, Cyprus Hill, Goo Goo Dolls, Joan Osborne and Toad the Wet Sprocketall would cost $25,000 each to entertain the campus, according to National Concerts Network. The cost of booking one of these bands is equivalent to the total SGA budget for a fiscal year.

Since there are approximately 1,000 full-time students attending Cabrini, the budget for SGA is $25,000. Of this amount, $17,000 is used by the Campus Activities Programming board. The CAP board is responsible for scheduling events and appearances, such as Mohammed Bilal, per year.

On the other hand, Penn State Mont Alto allocates $14 per student. Burke said it greatly depends on the amount of commuter students compared to resident students. At Neumann College, which at this point is still a commuter college, the SGA and CAP board receive $8 per student, while those organizations at Cedar Crest College receive $50.

"We are trying to get what students deserve and what other colleges are getting," Burke said.

Burke also said while the college is trying to tum more region-

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Wesley

Penn State Mont Alto

Nazareth

Neumann

Susquehanna

Cedar Crest

Clarkson

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West Chester al, the SGA budget is not increasing proportionally.

The SGA will receive an automatic $5,000 increase next year, but Burke said it is not enough.

Right now the CAP board is hoping to get a well-known band to visit Cabrini, according to John Lindsay, CAP board chair. Burke said if the budget does increase to about $50,000, the SGA could afford one big band a year.

"Even if the budget increased to $75,000, we could only get two bands to come," Burke said.

Burke said he would like to give more money to the CAP

1,000 $25,000

900 $45,000

900 $14,000

1,300 $100,000

1,300 $10,000

1,500 $100,000

1,700 $84,000

2,300 $80,000

2,400 $88,000

2,700 $300,000

5,800 $68,000

6,000 $120,000

10,000 $140,000

10,500 $290,000 board, but he has already made sacrifices, such as giving up attending the National Conference of Student Services, which occurred last year, in order to give more money to the board.

He said it is important for him to attend such conferences in order to gain knowledge about other student governments and how they work.

Larger colleges and universities, such as Rowan, Villanova and West Chester, have thousands of students and only a small portion of money per student is allocated to the SGA and CAP board.

In fact, some colleges, like Nazareth College, have two different budgets for the SGA and the CAP board, each having their own separate budget unlike Cabrini.

However, the proposal is also asking for there to be three separate lines of the SGA: executive board line, CAP board line, and academic board line.

However, if the budget proposal does not go th1-ough, the SGA and CAP board are brainstorming for different ideas in order to raise more money for events.

Residentlife to deliverlate damage slips to residents

by Kevin Scott assistant copy editor

Due to a backlog of work in the resident life office, the monthly bills that state how much money is being withdrawn from student's deposits due to damage have yet to be distributed.

The resident life staff is, however, currently working on the bills, which should be in students' hands within the week.

Each bill will break down how much money was withdrawn from the deposit in each of the four months during the Fall semester.

At the beginning of each year, resident students pay a $250 security deposit, which guarantees a room.

This deposit is then used to pay for any damages that occur in the room during the year.

If money remains in the account at the end of the year, it goes back to the students.

Over the past three years, vandalism of the residence halls has dropped significantly. This not only makes the residence halls a better place to live, it also helps to save students money.

According to figures obtained from the resident life office, the cost of this damage has consistently gone down since the fall 1994 semester.

In the fall of 1994, there was $6,403.16 worth of damage done to the residence halls. That figure dropped by a whopping 91 percent the next year to $3,341.

Last semester it fell once again, to $2,657.25, which was a 20 percent decrease.

Why the drop?

According to Catherine Caulfield, director of resident life, the answer is simple.

Students are less tolerant of other students who do damage, Caulfield said. This is an important fact for those who live on campus because they are the ones who have to pay for the repairs if nobody takes responsibility for the damage. l

Everyone is affected, however, if damage is done to an area within thf.fesidence halls and nobody takes.responsibility.

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If damage is done in a lounge or a main area, everyone would share the payment, Caulfield said. Or if it is done on a particular floor or quad, only those who live on that floor or quad wou~ share the payment.

"We try to isolate it (the pa~ents) where it happened," Caulfield said.

If this encouraging trend continues, students will have some extra money to spend at the end of the school year.