Cross-country networking might get a little easier for Auburn student media in the future.
The Auburn Student Government Association's Senate Council addressed funding a conference trip for members of Eagle Eye in Las Vegas and an eventual restructuring of all media-related conference trips in the future.
"There is not enough money in this current travel expense line item for all four different parts of the student media portfolio to go to a conference every single year," said Richmond Gunter, senator, College of Business. "The reason for this document is it will alert next year's senate that the way we do conference travel for student media needs to really be examined and looked at."
Eagle Eye is set to represent Auburn at the National Association of Broadcasters, a converging of media and entertainment professionals, to exchange skills, knowledge and network with industry veterans from April 5-10 in the Las Vegas Convention center.
Funding for the trip is slated for approval at next week's senate council and was culled from the SGA reserve fund. But, as senator Gunter pointed out, the current reserve fund for student media conference trips is not enough to allow all four university funded media outlets (the Circle, the Glomerata, WEGL and Eagle Eye) to attend conference trips every year.
By addressing the issue ahead of elections the discussion will continue into the next administration and hopefully be resolved, Gunter said.
The most immediate order of business addressed at Monday's meeting was the reversal of a bill passed in the fall semester of 2013 that called for the randomization of ballot positions and obscuring of campaign colors during SGA elections.
The Bill, passed by Senator Gunter and Senator Rob Garcia, is still slated to go into effect by the next election, but must be delayed for this election in order to make the results valid.
"It turns out that its going to take a little longer than we expected and a little longer than they expected," said Garcia, senator, College of Business. "We need to make sure that we change it back so that the code of laws reflect un-randomized ballot positions in order for this election to be valid, [but] we hope to change the wording back after this election process in order to randomize ballot positions for future elections."
Gordon Stone, cofounder of Home Energy Matters and a management consultant for major businesses for over 30 years, will be a featured guest speaker at the next SGA senate council meeting on February 3.
The SGA presidential debates will be held in place of the senate council meeting on Feb. 10 and all are welcome to attend.
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