| Summary: | 4NEWS January 21, 2000 Zea Mays' funding increased for travel, uniforms Christy Ebert The Concordian The Concordia Dance Team will travel to Daytona Beach, Fla. to compete in the National Dance Alliance Dance Competition in April thanks to the student senate, which voted to pass the team's proposed budget of $4,611.91 for the trip and new uniforms. "We realize that this is a large budget," said dance team member Paula Augustin. "We are choosing to go to the national competition every other year, so we will not be asking senate for this amount of money every year." After accepting a friendly amendment to cut $854.91 from the original proposal that was des-ignated for uniforms and bring it back as a proposal from the Emergency Reserve Fund, the remaining motion to allocate $3,468.00 for the national compe-tition was passed unanimously. The proposal to allocate $854.91 from the ERF to be used for new uniforms was also passed unanimously. "We needed something to look more professional," Augustin' said. "We've been docked points for our uniforms [in the past], and we want something that looks professional and well put-togeth-er." Senate also allocated $1,365.00 from the SARF for reg-istration and fees for Concordia students who will be attending the Leaders of Today and Tomorrow conference focusing on women in politics, January 27-29. According to sophomore sena-tor Karis Thompson, the confer-ence is designed to get women involved with politics, and the students who are going are work-ing with Student Association to plan ways of bringing the knowl-edge they gain at the conference back to Concordia to share with other students. "I see this as a unique opportu-nity that probably won't happen every year," said senate chairper-son Andrew Ronnevik. The motion carried with a vote of 9-0-1. After much discussion, senate recognized both Habitat for Humanity and Social Justice as Organization of the Week, for their service project at the Great Plains Food Bank. Although it is unusual for the honor of Organization of the Week to go to more than one organization, in this case, the majority of senators felt it was appropriate. "I, for one, think it is very cool that they are coordinating as groups," said senior senator Nate Christen. "I am in favor of pre-senting it to both of them." The motion passed with a vote of 10-0-1. 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CEC still has a great deal of its programming for the year coming up, including Winter Meltdown in February and Cornstock in April. "It's far along in the year," Eckenroad said, "but CEC just started, for all general purposes." Damico said he would meet with the next commissioner to explain the projects that are cur-rently in progress but would other-wise not remain involved with the organization. Correction: In last week's issue, it was stated in "Faculty Senate com-bines phases in curriculum review" that Phase IV was orig-inally intended to be the last phase of the review. This was incorrect. There were originally five phases. The faculty senate decided to combine Phase III (Models for Our Future) and Phase IV (Decision Time), resulting in a four-phase review. The final stage of the review, which is now Phase IV, will be Legislation of the new curricu-lum. The Concordian regrets the error and any confusion it may have caused. V . " ' - * •>•"-
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