The Student Senate’s Agenda
  By Christopher Cavanaugh

If you were going to create a garden you would probably spend hundreds of dollars on it, not $5000. The Student Senate thinks otherwise. Your Student Senate wishes to waste your money on a memorial garden, a garden for the deceased Senator Demuzio, and faculty and staff who have recently passed away. It is a kind gesture to the families that have lost those good people who would be honored, but I feel it is unnecessary.

Those who have passed have already being honored in the departments they once worked in. Furthermore, Senator Demuzio already has a building and a piece of a highway named after him. The garden is simply overkill. What the Senate should do with the money is fix the meal card plan, which will cost aproximately $4000. They should use the money to update the system so students an get food when they need it, not only at the specified times created by Ameriserve.

There are many students on this campus who can’t go to breakfast, lunch, or dinner because of work or class. These students end up paying for meals that they can not receive or redeem. The system is flawed and needs updating.
You get locked out of the system if you try to get a meal anytime before or after the designated times created by Ameriserve. You also get locked out if you try to eat more than three meals; sometimes everyone craves a late night snack.

This issue has come up in the Senate, but according to Senator Zack Holder “it [updating the meal card plan] is a proposal that Student Senate President Will Hogsett won’t allow on the agenda, and if allowed it is a discussion that is tabled for a later meeting.”

Although there is nothing wrong with creating a garden for the deceased, there’s just no need to waste so much money on it. Instead the Senate should be using that money to fix the problems on our campus, like the out-dated meal card system.