SAB Plans Ahead for Campus Activities, Black History Month

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   The Student Activities Board voted on different activities to host on campus next semester and discussed ways to celebrate Black History Month in its last meeting of the semester Tuesday, Dec. 2.

   Michael Reynolds II, SAB president, said Crystal Images Laser Imaging wanted to come to campus next semester. The company takes pictures and puts the image into a keepsake crystal. He said SAB had the option of choosing to have the company on campus for one day at $4, 750 or two days for $7,000. 

   Some students asked what the budget for SAB would be next semester. Mindy Holcomb, director of Student Programs and Activities, said the budget would not be released until the 11th day of school because it comes from students’ activity fees. She said on average, the budget is around $40,000 and the rollover from this semester would include about $2,000.

   SAB voted to spend $7,000 to have Crystal Images on campus Tuesday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 29. The activity will be free to all students on campus.

   SAB also discussed bringing back Movie Makers next semester. The company provides costumes and lets students create their own movie. Movie Makers said it would be in the area and could come Friday, Jan. 30. Movie Makers charges $2, 750 per day. The motion to bring them to campus failed because SAB felt it would lose money since so many students go home for the weekend.

   SAB discussed different activities to celebrate Black History Month. Reynolds suggested doing game show trivia like Family Feud and give out cash prizes. Holcomb suggested the best way to do that would be to give each student a raffle ticket, and if their ticket were pulled, they would get to compete. She said the person who does the trivia charges $4, 500.

   Some students asked if the NAACP chapter on campus could do the trivia for free, leaving more money for cash prizes. Sandy Herring, a sophomore nursing major, suggested the SAB committee get together a list of activities for Black History Month to be voted on at the first meeting in January.

   Ron Forte, a sophomore psychology major, asked if SAB could do something to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Herring suggested the committee come up with proposals for that day as well.

   In new business, Zack Tucker, a political science major, asked for $100 to put on a parliamentary procedure workshop Jan. 20 in the Caucus Room from 6 to 8 p.m. The workshop is open to any student wanting to learn about parliamentary procedure. He said the $100 would help by refreshments, print out packets and buy a copy of Roberts Rules of Order, Revised to give as a door prize. SAB voted to give him $200 in order to buy more copies of Roberts Rules of Order, Revised to give away.

   Some students suggested seeing if Aramark would donate refreshments for the workshop. If that is the case, Tucker will use the money to buy more books for door prizes.

   For more information about SAB, contact Holcomb at 460-1396 or holcomb@uamont.edu.

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