Student Activities Council has received an increased budget for the semester.
SAC is in charge of activities like Homecoming and Free Movie Nights.
The increase in their budget enables them to put more money toward the events that bring the campus together, such as Midnight Breakfast, which is from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Wednesday.
SAC’s budget for the semester is $30,250, and the biggest allocation is for Homecoming with $11,500. Officials were uncertain of the amount of last year’s budget, but knew this year’s was more.
The budget already is being managed in new ways by Shannon Beshears, SAC vice president.
Beshears, who has led SAC since March 2016, doubled SAC’s tailgate budget to $2,000 per semester, intending to use it to benefit and plan more events with the athletics department.
Beshears said she delegates and organizes committees with specific people reserved for specific events. By doing this, the labor of SAC is broken down into individual processes managed by multiple minds.
“The more people that you have looking over an event, the more ideas that can spawn from that,” Beshears said. “More perspectives on an idea always tend to make it better.”
The council also gears their activities toward the student body’s needs.
“People were concerned that there was only one Homecoming game that people might miss, so we created three different Homecoming games,” Beshears said. “Students found kickoff to be little uneventful, so we’re doing a carnival.
“We’re just trying to spice up things.”
Ultimately, the future of SAC rests in the smaller organizations of campus. By becoming involved with already established institutions, SAC aims to secure more connections to the other bodies of campus, rather than act as a remote, detached body in itself. This is greatly through the use of OrgSync, an online network system that connects students to the organizations and programs on college campuses.
“OrgSync makes it easy for groups to connect with their members as well as get information out easily,” said Callie Dewees, acting sophomore. “It just helps groups run smoother.”
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