PASSED PROPOSALS

• After discussing a proposal for $2,248 of additional funding — at least half of which was to be spent on Sprinkles cupcakes — for the Spring Banquet, the senate partially passed senior AS social events coordinator Michelle Orgill’s proposal for a total of $1,985. Sophomore south Horton Hall senator Brady Brewster motioned for the $263 cut from the original proposal, which will be achieved by procuring non-Sprinkles cupcakes. This was after a motion by sophomore Emerson Hall senator Evan McGee to extract all cupcake funding was largely opposed.

INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

• Vice president junior Laura Cook said that delivery of the New York Times subscription, renewed at the senate's Feb. 14 meeting, will begin Monday, Feb. 25.

• Cook mentioned an upcoming collaborative event called Converge on Saturday when student leaders from five California Christian universities will visit Biola. During the three-hour meeting, the AS executive board will have breakfast in the Collegium with leaders from various schools, including Fresno Pacific University, Azusa Pacific University, Vanguard University, Westmont College and California Baptist University, Cook said.

• The senators previewed a rendering of this year’s senior class gift, which Cook said president Barry Corey will reveal publicly on Monday, Feb. 25.

• Laura Igram-Edwards, AS adviser, reminded the senators that they were expected to attend the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation Saturday, Feb. 23 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. AS members will attend the morning session as a group and then branch out into workshop sessions afterward, Igram-Edwards said.

She noted that only those three hours on Saturday are mandatory for AS members, since in total each will receive three hours’ pay for their SCORR participation.

“All student leaders at Biola for the first time are required to go,” Igram-Edwards said. “RAs [resident assistants] are required to go to pretty much the whole thing.”

• Office manager Amy Howard, a senior, explained how AS will go about finding and instating senators for six positions without candidates in the election. It will be a process of open application and hiring, Howard said.

• The Horton Hall broomball event on Thursday, Feb. 28, for which the senate approved funding earlier this month, will now officially be “university-wide,” vice president of programming and events junior Jennifer Essig said.

Internally proposed events, like broomball, must be for all students, Essig said. Advertisements for events proposed externally can still be limited and targeted, according to Essig and Cook. Essig stressed, though, that students wanting to attend must be received regardless of their residency.

“I think the point is that it’s open,” Cook said, “and I don’t think marketing towards a certain demographic is a problem; I think that’s okay.”