Student fees, obstacle courses, trips come before SGA

Student fees, obstacle courses, trips come before SGA

By David Ryan Palmer

Associate Editor

Student Government President Davante Lewis told the Senate on Wednesday that each of the fees that were approved in the fall will now go before the University of Louisiana system board.

“The Board sets a timeline of how early we can have our election,” Lewis said.

“We have made a tentative schedule.  We would like to have the election on the timeline that the board requires,” he continued.

Lewis did not give out a date for the fee election, saying that the date they’ve been looking towards would need to be approved by the UL Board.

“Hopefully by the next meeting we’ll have a date,” Lewis said. 

5k could cost $100k

Students looking for a Wipeout style experience could have their chance on McNeese campus, according to Senate Pro Tempore A’reneica Mumford.

It’s called a ‘Hit and Run 5K,’ a kind of obstacle course slash race.  “It’s something that I really want to see come to the University,” Mumford said.  

That is, if the college can come up $100,000.

“We would have to put down a payment of $25,000, and then have registration.  $75, 000 is too much to raise if we could get the community involved,” Mumford said.

Other Senate business

Kay Julian with Alpha Kappa Alpha presented S14-01, a bill asking to fund a portion of a trip to the sorority’s 82^nd Regional Conference in Dallas. 

“This will give us a chance to unite with several of our chapters in different regions, and a chance to learn how to empower young women and ourselves as better leaders in our community,” Julian said.  

Alpha Kappa Alpha is hoping to send eleven members to the conference, for a total cost of $2,359.  The bill would fund half of that, at $1144.  The Senate voted to send the bill to the Financial Budget Committee for further review.

The McNeese chapter of the NAACP presented S14-02, a bill that looks to fund a trip to for the organization to Washington D.C.  NAACP President Tony Antoine presented the bill. 

“The chapter will be traveling to Washington D.C. at the end of this month.  We have been invited to the Woodrow Wilson Academy,” Antoine said.

The total cost of the trip, Antoine indicated, would be $3929.  The bill is requesting $1929. 

There was a motion to suspend the rules to approve the bill in full, bypassing the Financial Budget Committee’s review process.  However, that motion failed to pass a Yay or Nay vote.  The bill was passed to FBC for review.