NEWS BRIEF
Pepsi money up for grabs
for student groups
EMU Food Service Director John
Costello is encouraging student
groups to take advantage of $3,000
in unused funds from cola giant Pep
siCo Inc.
The funds were previously dedicat
ed for the University College Bowl —
where teams of players answered
questions on topics ranging from his
tory to science to current events —
which has been discontinued for the
past several years.
"It would be a shame if the student
population didn't take advantage of
the opportunity," Costello said.
PepsiCo s three-year contract with
renewable options provides the Uni
versity with beverage services, includ
ing more than 100 on-campus vend
ing machines. Pepsico agreed in an
August 2002 contract with the Univer
sity to donate $3,500 in product sup
port and scholarship funds, including
$5,000 for the University Presidential
Scholarship program and $25,000 for
the Pepsi Scholarship.
"Pepsi will not just write the EMU
Food Service department a check for
$3,000," Costello said. "It is impor
tant for student groups to submit writ
ten proposals to Pepsi through the
EMU Food Service Office to access the
unused funds."
Costello said the Student Affiliates of
the American Chemical Society is using
a portion of the funds to organize
its April 23 Earth Day event, and the
ASUO Women's Center is putting the
funds toward its second-annual Venus
Festival running April 2-4.
"Getting the funds from Pepsi was
incredibly easy," said Briana Faris,
ASUO Health and Women's Advocate
and organizer of the Venus Festival. "I
made the request on Monday, and on
Wednesday I received them. There
were no promotional strings attached,
and they were very easy to deal with."
University Literary Society Execu
tive Director Taraneh Foster said she
was happy to receive an e-mail about
the available Pepsi funds.
"We are coming out with our yearly
journal, Timberline, in week seven,
and fundraising is always such a chal
lenge," she said. "We were happy to
hear about the available money with
out any strings attached to it."
— Jeremy Berrington
ASUO may change rules
for student group finances
The ASUO Student Senate referred
proposed changes to student group
accounting practices to its rules com
mittee and released funds for the
Hong Kong Student Association's
April 25 cultural night at a meeting
Wednesday night.
Student Senate President Ben
Strawn presented his proposal for a
new accounting system for student
groups that would help ensure the
revenues from student group events
match their expenditures, he said.
Under the current system, student
groups spend money from multiple
accounts, such as food and entertain
ment, to put on events.
"That makes it extremely hard to
track what gets spent on a particular
event," Strawn said. "We need a way
to consolidate all of that."
The new system would set up activ
ity codes to identify where different
funds would go. In effect, it would di
vide the hinds on the basis of events,
rather than specific uses. This would
make it easier for groups to report
profits from events, Strawn said.
Also, the new language would cap
event profits at 20 percent of the total
event cost, with any excess rolling over
into a surplus account the group
couldn't touch. The Senate wanted to
remove the profit incentive for groups
because the rules committee is cur
rently drafting language that would
allow student groups to charge stu
dents to enter events, Strawn said.
The proposed changes will be ham
mered out at the next rules committee
meeting. The meeting date has not
been set.
Suet Ping Chan, from the Hong
Kong Student Association, appeared
at Wednesday night's meeting to ask
the Senate for the release of $200 to
allow the group to serve a traditional
Chinese dinner at the its Hong Kong
Night celebration.
Strawn told the group they must
provide a free ticket to any student
who requests one, in accordance with
current ASUO Green Tape Notebook
rules. The motion to release the $200
passed 14-0.
— Jared Paben
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