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Six groups net $30,000 in awards for 2007-08
By Jonathan Munson
Committee seeks clarification before approving
requests for funding next year.
approved by the committee.
Raffle fundraisers organized by the group are expected to
provide an additional $2,000 to help offset the trip’s original cost
of $17,600.
The committee approved $10,000 for 10 members of the SAC
Drama Club to travel to London, England, next spring break.
The club will pay $12,860, which will come from student fund-
raising money; and each student attending will be required to pay
$1,000 out of their pocket.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance will contribute $208 and student
life Director Jorge Posadas is providing them with $331 to attend
GALA’S Queer Texas Conference in Austin.
Only three members were able to attend the conference April
13-15, said GALA President Isaac Brown, a graphic arts sopho-
more.
GALA was also approved to receive $2,200, to have pop-artist
and actor Jade Estrada come and speak at this college. GALA will
contribute $670 of their own funds, and the theatre program is
also going to assist in preparation for the event, Brown said.
The group only requested that the student activity fee cover
the cost of having Estrada visit, and plan to take care of any event
preparation themselves.
Dental assisting sophomore Tricia Chapa’s requested $989 to
represent this college at the Skills USA National Conference in
Kansas City, Mo., June 25-29. Chapa placed first at a March 23
statewide competition. Her request was approved.
The Teaching Academy Program Peers requested $1,625.71
At its April 5 meeting, the Student Activity Fee Committee
awarded six student organizations a total of $30,745.71, and
received an ambitious request for more than twice that amount
from the Global Ambassadors Club.
Its request for $67,000 was returned to them by the committee,
who asked that they re-submit a budget limited to $20,000 and to
include fewer students on the trip.
The requested funds were for a humanitarian service trip to
China. Speech communication instructor and GAC adviser Karin
Wilking said that the request was resubmitted yesterday and will
be considered at the May 3 committee meeting.
The size of the club’s request is not large considering the num-
ber of students who are in the club, Wilking said.
Thirty-five students were included on the request to par-
ticipate in the event, but the group had to be cut by almost half
— something Wilking believes is contrary to the Student Activity
Fee Committee’s goal of impacting a larger student population
with the events they fund.
“It’s a shame that we have to turn away students,” she said.
The committee also requested clarification from the Students
in Free Enterprise because their budget did not add up for both
the April and May conferences in 2008.
The Public Administration Club’s request for $15,600 for a for their recognition ceremony, recruitment and book fair
spring Global Leadership Asian Event in Kumamoto, Japan, was supplies.
April 20, 2007 • 23
By Rennie Murrell
Modern culture themes
focus of conference
Ever wonder why the people of one society fear and loathe other
societies and cultures?
The answers may be found at the 13th annual Multicultural
Conference TYiesday through Thursday sponsored by the English
department, library and media services, enrollment management,
student life office and Cappy’s La Fonda on Main.
The theme is “Fear and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern
Culture,” based upon the recurring idea of certain ethnic groups in
politics and literature which have allegedly created a sense of fear
within different ethnic groups and cultures because of ethnocen-
trism, the belief that one ethnic group, nation or culture is superior
to all others, English Professor Laurie Coleman said Monday.
“This form of ethnocentrism can be equated to the fear and
demonic labeling of the KKK, the glorification of violence in popular
media or certain ethnic groups, which have enlisted an ideology to
build a wall between Mexico and the United States,” Coleman said.
Dr. Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, the first Mexican-American to earn
a doctorate in English from the University of New Mexico, will be
honored during a reception from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Utesday in the Fiesta
Room of Loftin Student Center.
Ortego y Gasca is being honored for his writings and contri-
butions to Chicano literature, which assisted in the initiation of
dialogue between Chicano scholars during the early period of the
Chicano literary movement, Coleman said.
“Today his theoretical philosophy of ‘Chicano Renaissance’
continues to influence scholars and students of Chicano literature,”
Coleman said.
Traditional conjunto music will be performed by Acordedn y
Bajo Sexto with Juan and Armando Tejeda, in Loftin during opening
ceremonies.
All events except a luncheon are free and open to the public.
Reservations for the luncheon at 12:15 p.m. Thursday at La
Fonda on Main must be made before 5 p.m. today. Call 733-0621
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Paulsen, Chuck Taylor Moumin Quazi Daniel San Miguel Jr.,
Nephtah De Leon, Carol Reposa and Claudio San Miguel from
6.30-9 p.m.
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Two faculty and 10 students from the Student Art Guild
will travel to New York City May 15-19 to visit museums on a
trip that is funded by the student activity fee.
said the committee did not offer many
details to them in the first place.
The club, however, remains posi-
tive.
Elections were conducted recently
for new officers in the group.
They are psychology freshman
Adrian Hernandez, president; library
science graduate Loree Morgan, vice
president; math sophomore Sara Gabel,
treasurer; human resource manage-
ment sophomore Diana Herrera, sec-
retary; liberal arts sophomore Salvador
Valverde, historian; computer science
freshman Andrew Sandoval, in charge
of public relations, and pre-med sopho-
more Zane Plemmons as PR commis-
sioner.
Donated gift certificates served as
door prizes, and food was laid out on a
table in the disability support services
office in Chance Academic Center.
The group also had 300 custom pens
created for their organization, as well
as a banner that is much larger than
their previous one.
The sanction situation is one that
the group wants to get past, PEOPLE
Club President Adam Roig said.
“It was just a lack of communica-
tion,” he said. “They apologized and
we apologized.”
Details as to why the activity fee com-
mittee considered their Thanksgiving
party a misappropriation of student
funds were not given, and in fact, Roig
a presentation to the committee, which approved $19,236.40
for a trip to Rome.
The guild chose not to take the trip to Rome because it
couldn’t take the number of members it originally wanted,
Posadas said.
The club then changed its proposal to the New York trip, and
it was approved by the Student Activity Fee Committee Feb. 2.
The committee’s meetings are closed to the public.
The guild is going to New York so all
members who contributed to the club dur-
ing the year can benefit from their hard
work, Hoover said.
“Seeing real art by famous artists stu-
dents have been talking about in class can
lead to a life-changing experience,” Hoover
said.
While in New York, the guild plans
to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of
American Art and The Museum of Modern Art.
The Museum of Modern Art, host to the world’s largest
and most inclusive collection of modern paintings and sculp-
tures, houses some 3,200 works.
The guild also plans to visit various studios and galleries
in the Chelsea area, a hot spot for art in New York.
Fine arts Instructor Rebecca Deitz also will accompany
the students.
Discrepancies regarding a
Thanksgiving party sponsored by the
PEOPLE Club last semester led to the
Student Activity Fee Committee passing
sanctions on the group.
PEOPLE stands for People Enhancing
Opportunities for All People to Live
Equally.
The group was not allowed to make
any requests for the duration of the fall
semester, but still managed to have an
April 13 party using money from their
own fundraising, as well as donations
from Wal-Mart, H-E-B and Starbucks.
They even received a $1,000 grant
from Wal-Mart.
The group is receiving $12,000
approved by the Student Activity Fee
Committee, student life Director Jorge
Posadas said Tuesday.
The student life Web site, which posts
the expenditure of the funds that students
pay when registering, says the group is
receiving $19,236.40.
“I haven’t received a new copy of the
budget information,” Ronald Smith, Webmaster for student
life, said.
The guild’s 10 members contributed $1,440 to the trip
through fundraising events, including selling food and drinks
during breakfast hours; participating in Stress-Out Day, Fun
Fest and other activities around campus and selling arts and
crafts at First Friday.
In the fall, the group submitted a proposal to the office of
student life seeking $28,603 for a trip to Rome.
Student life asked them to cut costs, and the guild made
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