Student Government AssociationStudent Government Association will be conducting elections for the positions of President, Vice President, and Senators from 5/2/12 to 5/4/12 for the 2012 to 2013 school year. Candidate information and nomination papers are due 4/20/12 at 5pm to the Student Government Office (CC 359) or the Student Government mailbox located next to the Student Life Office.
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Fellow Senators, It is with great pleasure that we present to you the budget of the Milwaukee School of Engineering Student Government Association for academic year 2011-2012. The senate’s 2011-2012 budget grand total stands at eight thousand seven hundred twenty-five. This budget is a good faith representation of the funding required for the dutiful operation of the senate over the coming academic year. Over the past three weeks the Funding Committee has met with thirteen student organizations. We were pleased at the thoughtfulness and ambition that went into each organizations budget proposal.
Operating under a new constitution the Funding Committee has faithfully executed its constitutional duties. The past three weeks were spent in meetings with the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s student organizations. In each meeting, funding recommendations were made based upon the degree of alignment between each organization’s prospective budget, and the stated goals in the mission statement of the Student Government Association Funding Committee.
The funding committee’s mission is based upon the senate of 2011-2012 goal of increasing the involvement of student organizations on campus. In this budget no student organization received a cutback in the first quarter. This is good news because, due to the funding committee’s twenty five percent rule, each organization that received cutbacks in the second and third quarter has the ability to recover most of their cutbacks by the dutiful execution of their first semester’s budget. – For greater detail on the twenty five percent rule please see line item fourteen on page seven of this document. – This budget also provides each new organization the funding they require to start, with the controls to cut funding in the future, if their budgeted money was spent irresponsibly.
This budget is in firm alignment with the Funding Committee’s mission statement to, “Incentivize an Exceptional MSOE Experience.” The Student Government Association Funding Committee firmly believes that the budget outlined below will incentivize a higher quality in Milwaukee School of Engineering campus life by incentivizing student body involvement. In so doing, this budget will be a key instrument in supporting the goals set forth by the senate of 2011-2012.
Click HERE for a PDF copy of the budget.
On Behalf of the Funding Committee,
Dylan Heun | Chairman
Jared Hoffmann, Chad Bohl, and Kenny Albrecht
Line Items:
Under the new rules, the Student Government Association funding committee must set aside twenty five percent of the total Student Organization Budget for the funding contract provisions. Under the funding contract student organizations will be incentivized to spend their money wisely, as promised in their budget proposals to receive a twenty five percent increase. However, a twenty five percent decrease is also possible if funds have not been spent as promised.
This rule will incentivize every organization to carry through on their budgetary promises. This year’s budget necessitated nine hundred twenty-six dollars be set-aside for this purpose.
According to the bylaws of the Milwaukee School of Engineering Student Government Association, five percent of the total academic budget for student organizations must be set aside for supplemental organization funding. This means organization which form during the course of the year will have access to upstart funding for their organization. This year’s budget required three hundred twenty-four dollars be set aside for the use of supplemental organization funding.
The President of the Student Government Association has requested that five hundred dollars be set aside for events, which the SGA either sponsors, or co-sponsors throughout the year.
The president of the Student Government Association has requested that five hundred dollars be set aside for the constitutionally required presidential discretionary fund. These funds will be spent for the purposes of SGA promotion and improvement on campus.
MSOE Student Government Association will be organizing a cleanup of the storage room during the first two Saturdays of the second quarter (December 3rd, 10th). If your organization currently has materials in CC-348, we request that you take the time to clean out and organize your area.
There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the SGA office door within the coming week so you may reserve a suitable time to have it verified by a member of the Org Review Committee. Failure to clean your area and have it verified with Org Review can result in loss of storage privileges
Thank you for your cooperation!
Students Going After the Facts
College Dining Goes Upscale
Food matters to students
About 44% of college students polled in a national trends report released in August indicated that their school’s dining program was at least somewhat important in deciding where to enroll. However, only 32% said their school does a good job of making sure students are pleased with the overall dining experience.
Sixty-two percent of college and university students purchase food or beverages from on-campus food service at least once a week, and 20% do so at least once a day, according to the report by Technomic, a Chicago-based food industry research firm. The nation’s 16 million college and university students command more than $300 billion in spending power, the report says.
Universities try to capture as much as they can by keeping dining facilities open much of the day, and by offering options late into the night for those who grab a fourth meal of the day after 7 p.m. (Breakfast still is the least popular meal for students.)
A new sushi bar in the Union Café at UWM has students lining up to buy create-your-own sushi rolls. Students choose the protein (tuna, smoked salmon, bulgogi Korean-style marinated beef, imitation crab or tofu) and vegetables (shredded carrot, spinach, pickled radish, cucumber) to build a $4.95 roll. It’s made fresh, right in front of them.
“It’s cool to have a sushi bar here,” said Levi Miles, a sophomore from Black River Falls. “Now we don’t have to leave campus for sushi” – something Miles said he did often last year.
Miles moved off campus this year but remembers the challenge of deciding what to eat in the dorm with so much food available. “I really like junk food, so I have to be careful.”
Fighting ‘Freshman 15′
Twenty-one percent of America’s college students are overweight, and nearly 12% are obese, according to a 2010 National College Health Assessment by the American College Health Association.
Freshmen living away from home for the first time still face the legendary Freshman 15. That’s the amount of weight commonly believed to be gained during the first year of college due to lack of exercise, eating late at night, eating carbohydrate-rich cafeteria-style and fast food, and drinking alcohol in excess while maintaining a hectic, stressful schedule.
Recent studies show that on average, most freshmen gain five pounds, not 15, according to www.freshman15.com”>www.freshman15.com, a website devoted to preventing the Freshman 15.
Miles said he actually lost weight as a freshman because he has high metabolism.
“You do a lot of walking on campus,” said Michaeleen Wilmsen, a UWM senior from Appleton, who acknowledged she had to be careful about weight gain freshman year. “My advice to freshmen is if you’re going to drink a lot of beer, cut down on the carbs.”
Concordia freshman Zach Fohr of Plymouth said he grew up eating healthy food at home. He was happy with a salad he recently assembled for lunch at a new salad bar in a central dining hall, dubbing it “awesome.”
Universities offer advice to students on nutrition, and much of that advice is accessed through the Internet. Concordia emails its students a regular student life newsletter, readsh101.com/cuw.html”>readsh101.com/cuw.html.
Concordia has seen a 7% drop in soda consumption in the past year, said Gary Quinn, general manager of Sodexo at Concordia, a national food service company that also has a contract for dining services at Marquette.
Flavored water, vitamin-enhanced water and juices are now the popular beverages of choice, Quinn said, though milk is holding steady.
Read the whole story at the following link: http://www.jsonline.com/features/food/130196748.html
So what do you think?
Remember, your opinion matters, so let your voice be heard!
What is your opinion of the dining choices offered at YOUR institution. Well, the Community Action Committee would like to encourage you to let them know. Contact information for the committee is provided below.
This email is provided as a service from the Community Action Committee, a committee within SGA, which seeks to promote awareness about prominent issues, concerns, etc., that affect students, MSOE, and the surrounding community. If there is an issue that you would like to see addressed or discussed, please contact the Community Action Committee. Contact information is provided below: