The Student Senate met the 28th of October and decided club grants for five out of the fifteen applicants. This included Model UN, Art Club, Speech, Thrift Club, and Amnesty. Not all need the same amount of money, though.
“Model UN does like one big competition, it’s at UNI,” Toe Collins ‘26, co-president and a member of Model UN, said. “We have to travel out there, put us up for a hotel. It’s a reasonably big club.”
Other clubs require less, like Art Club, which requested $250, while others need more, like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which requested $400, or like the Amnesty Club, which also requested $400. To decide on whether or not to grant these requests, the Senate takes a vote.
“We’ll do a vote, and we typically have like three categories,” advisor Steve Tygrett said. “No funding, full funding, or partial, and we come back to the partial ones later on. “
An interesting issue came up with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, however. Being a religious club, the Senate has to limit what FCA can spend the grant money on since a public school can’t sponsor a religion.
“We can give them money, but they can only spend it on secular things,” Tygrett said, “They can’t purchase Bibles, and can’t purchase religious artifacts.”
