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Finance Commission allocates $2.9 million
Nathaniel Shuda
Issue date: 11/5/07 Section: Campus News
Senator Dylan Jambrek was one of four Senate members who opposed the increase when the entire Senate voted on whether to include the raise in its budget request. He said he didn't think it was fair to other organizations to allocate more money to Senate.
"We are different; we should hold ourselves to a higher standard," Jambrek said of Senate. "We should take care of other organizations before ourselves. I think Student Senate officers can work part-time jobs like other people do."
Other members of the commission disagreed, however, saying that executive board members are spending so much time working already they don't have time for anything else. They said salaries need to become competitive with those offered to students in UW-Madison's Student Government Association.
"I know students who can't afford to be in Senate," Holtan said, calling Eau Claire's Senate "one of the most powerful student governments in the country" with the power to allocate $2.9 million of student segregated fees each year.
"We are different; we should hold ourselves to a higher standard," Jambrek said of Senate. "We should take care of other organizations before ourselves. I think Student Senate officers can work part-time jobs like other people do."
Other members of the commission disagreed, however, saying that executive board members are spending so much time working already they don't have time for anything else. They said salaries need to become competitive with those offered to students in UW-Madison's Student Government Association.
"I know students who can't afford to be in Senate," Holtan said, calling Eau Claire's Senate "one of the most powerful student governments in the country" with the power to allocate $2.9 million of student segregated fees each year.
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