The Oswegonian 11-14-19

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Look Inside: A3 Oswego students prepare for the winter season

Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 VOLUME LXXXIV ISSUE XV SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com

Club softball members verbally harassed during practice

SA considers bill to limit expenses

Legislation would limit clubs’ ability to use budgets for food

Julia Tilley Asst. News Editor jtilley@oswegonian.com On Nov. 12, Student Association Vice President Matthew O’Donnell proposed a bill he wrote alongside Student Association Director of Finance Ryan Green. The bill, SLE.55.17: Too Much Pizza, lays out both O’Donnell’s and Green’s desire to cut back on clubs and organizations spending money unnecessarily. This proposed bill is one of two or three more to follow, cutting spending in areas like organization apparel. An exception would be club sports, who are required to have certain apparel. What would happen in this situation, should that bill be passed, is jerseys would be nonpersonalized and returned to SA

after graduation. “We believe that the student association fee, which comes into the student association budget, is not helping students; it’s helping individual organizations,” O’Donnell said. According to both O’Donnell and Green, they found multiple clubs spending leftover funds, especially at the end of a school year, on food for members of their organization. Many clubs and organizations use this leftover money out of fear that they will lose any funds they did not use when requesting a budget for the next year. Any funds not used go back into the SA reserve. Currently, there is not a lot of funds in the reserve, causing difficulties with SA, which has been trying to give campus life jurisdiction over club sports. However, they need money to run these sports, which

would have to be given by SA, according to O’Donnell. O’Donnell explained that there are two sides to SA: an advocacy side, and a financial side. While this administration is focusing on the finances, others before focused mainly on advocacy, contributing to the severe debt SA finds themselves in. Should SA not fix this deficit, they may lose all funding, and be unable to help and provide for clubs as they currently do. Considering that SA is in debt, some senators are very on-board with the proposed bill. “Many clubs feel if they provide food for their members, that gives them the incentive to attend meetings,” said SA senator and rules and judiciary chair Maryjay Olalekan. “That is not the way we want our clubs to run, we want them to grow

See LEGISLATION, A4

Photo provided by Jade Laplante Students were alerted days after the club softball team faced harassment during a practice.

Stephen Novak Asst. Laker Review Editor snovak@oswegonian.com On Nov. 7 a campus-wide email was sent out detailing an instance of harassment against the Oswego State club softball team. The email in question was in response to two in men who had reportedly bothered the players by gawking at them and calling out to them, even asking if they could join in the club’s game. Another incident was also reported which centered around three to five men in a car driving past and jeering at the team. It is unknown if these men were students of Oswego State. These incidents are considered harassment under the Oswego State student handbook code of conduct, which states that harassment is anything that “interferes with or is disruptive to the learning environment, College process or activities, and/or educational interests and mission of the College,” Vice President of Student Affairs Jerri How-

land said to anyone who finds themselves in an instance of harassment should immediately contact University Police. Softball club President Katrina Johnson elaborated further, claiming that the men had remained nearby and were prompted by the team to leave, before coming back later that night, bothering the team further. “We went back and forth for a little while, I let them know that they were making people uncomfortable,” Johnson said. Johnson said she has experienced harassment as a member of the club softball team. She said that ever since she joined the club in 2016, she has had people bother her. “A lot of the time its people screaming catcalls at us from cars,” Johnson said. “That’s happened to me when we were there to practice, that’s happened to me when I’m talking to my friends, it’s even happened to me outside of practice when I’m playing softball with friends outside

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