Senate Meeting: 4/1/08 At the AS Senate’s weekly Tuesday meetings senators give audience to parties requesting money, vote on pending proposals and discuss finances. Here is an outlined summary of the most recent senate meeting, which was held April 1.

NEW PROPOSALS

John 3:16 Challenge (China Studies Program)–$3,535

1. To be held on Wednesday April 16, as a part of the missions conference
2. Take up to 500 Biola students to as many as 50 high schools to survey and engage students with the gospel
3. Through this experience, we want to give Biola students to have proactive, hands on, and cross-cultural missions experience.
4. We provide training, and they need 5,000 tracks, ($1,500) which are extremely important because it provides visual aid and they can look at it later
5. They also need Bibles, for students to go home to (500 for $1,500)
6. They want to give out surveys to Biola students
7. They want to make church or club info cards—they want to be able to provide information for the high school students
8. Advertising: $75. They want to have flyers and posters
9. Pizzas for debrief meeting. Totally essential because they want people to be able to share stories and encourage one another—fellowship.

Reallocation of money from concert to bowling (Emilee Sutherland and Phil Martin)—a little under $1,000

1. Emilee is putting out an event, and instead of her making money, she is going to donate the money to 5 different SMU trips
2. Russia, China, Indonesia, Zambia, Maui
3. Bowling night is for May 1st

Atheist Perspective Event (Eric Weaver)–$250

1. It shows that Biola is open to other beliefs, as they are inviting people in
2. They want what Biola stands for to be evident
3. Dr. Guyvit is coming in to speak

2nd Annual Senators Ball for the We-T-Li apartments—$2,990

1. A Yacht cruise in Long Beach on April 12, 7pm-12pm
2. The boat is called The Christopher
3. They expect 149 tickets to sell

VOTING (on proposals from the previous week)

1. MacBook Contest Giveaway—DENIED 0. The other shows don’t have any funding, so it’s a little unfair—a nice idea, but a little impractical

2. Hawaii Club Luau—PASSED for $825

1. If we give them the whole amount, we would hope that they won’t come back next year, but they probably will.
2. AS is in favor of the event, but not the amount

3. New vacuums for Alpha—TABLED

4. Social Board Proposal—PASSED

5. Senator Cruise—PASSED for the full amount

1. This is a popular idea with the constituents

VP of Finance Update: Our total contingency is $63,390 plus $26 minus whatever is spent today.

MISCELLANEOUS

1) This Saturday they will be going down to the Union Rescue Missions to deliver shoes – They have about 2,000 pairs of shoes to give out

2) The night of April 2 are the presidential debates in the Moats Business Auditorium—150 seats

Senate Open Forum:

1) The Café is now open until 7:30pm!!!!!!!!!

2) Café focus group tomorrow night at 7 in the cafeteria—they will be talking about extending hours permanently, and everything else that we have been wanting for a very long time.

3) We need to do something to make our system more standard in the future, so we can support student projects such as El Rincon.

4) Orange Week is coming up this week

5) Gospel Choir will be having the Gospel Fest this Friday at 7pm

More details from each week's senate meeting can be found at as.biola.edu