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April 1:1, 1990
Senate gives itself $4000 for banquet Robyn G. Schwartz The Metropolitan
Earth Day Aurarla atudents enjoyed aunahlne and rock and roll by "Jux County" IHI Friday afternoon at an Earth Day event sponsored by CU-Denver Events and CoPIAG. For more Earth Day details, see page 7.
The student government's award banquet is again a point of dissention among student government members. On April 11, student Sens. Kevin Miller and Joe Navarro presented a resolution to the Senate Rules Committee to cancel the awards banquet, which will be held May 4th, at the Brown Palace Hotel. Miller and Navarro protested that its approximately $4,000 pricetag is too exorbitant The committee did not a rove the resolution, but at the April 18, Senate ee e natesuspended that decision. and voted on the resolution. It was defeated. Miller said he will boycott the banquet this year, as he did last year, and other senators said they were certain Navarro would boycott also. "I have nothing against having an awards banquet, but to spend that kind of money is ridiculous," Miller said. The resolution itself stated that, "The ASMSC Student Senate failed to meet nearly all of the goals it set for itself in August of 1989; ... and the spending of$4,000 to $4,500 on a banquet is fiscally irrespoDSJble and exorbitant; and ... the senate is conducting business unprofessionally." Sens. Jeff Harnden and Jeremy Stuhl both said that they saw the point of the resolution, but that it was introduced too late in the year and that it would be more irresponsible to cancel the contracts than to go ahead and spend the money. Stuhl said that, at the time of the budget meetings, he had proposed that the cost of the banquet be reduced to $3,500 instead of the $4,500 that was eventually allocated for the banquet. He said the problem was that no one could agree on a lower price. Miller said he had been willing to agree on a $1,000 banquet, but that other senators disagreed with that figure. President Kelly Martin made most of the arrangements for the banquet Many of the senators said they thought the price for the banquet was extravagant and that they would have preferred less to be spent Hamden said that Martin had a few people help her arrange the banquet but that she made little effort to get input from the other senators. "She didn't go out of her way to get other people involved," he said. Sen. Gerri Madrid, who voted to cancel the banquet, said that Martin asked for names of those who would like to help with the arrangements, but that she never contacted anyone on the list. "It's vulgar, it's disgusting, and it's a really rude display to show students that we have control of the money," Madrid said about the expense of the banquet. Madrid said that less could have been spent on the banquet. Last year it was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Lakewocxf and it cost I~ than $3,000. m B1nquet pg. 5